"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."

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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Award! Award! Award!


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I have been blogging for many years, I have never seen this type of excitement among the art blogs. I call it Punctuated Equilibrium with Sustained Momentum.
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Bella Sinclair's Flower Girls Series:
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13 illustrations
8 posts
675 comments and counting...
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countless laughter
immeasurable joy
Best Illustration Series
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Bella Sinclair's Flower Girls Series
Posted by Ces at 3:52 PM Labels:

63 comments:

  1. Yeah! Happy Mother's Day to you!

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  2. Wow, looks just great.
    Superb award!

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  3. Pieter, go check Bella's Flower Girls Series. It's wonderful!

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  4. oh wow indeed!!! I love her series....

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  5. Yes, it's awesome! How do we get her to publish it?

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  6. Thanks for the Mother's Day wishes, Ces. Thanks to for sharing the Flower Girls

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  7. Awesome Ces WOWOWOWOWOW!!!! Bella so deserves this.
    Thanks for your wonderful compliment.
    Happy Mother's day Ces,
    Hugs,
    Marie

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  8. Well deserved award. Very cute indeed. Happy Mother's day!

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  9. WHAT THE --!!!!! BAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! Oh, you little WEASEL!

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  10. Hahahaha!

    Oh, good grief.

    And you know half those comments were you, me, and Renee talking about....things!

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  11. Not necessarily. Maybe I had 10 comments out of 136!

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  12. You have a hard time accepting compliments, no?!

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  13. You are an imp.

    But I love you anyway.

    Thank you, sweetness.

    xoxoxoxo

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  14. OOOH! That was lucky 13! BOOO-YAAA!

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  15. Do you see what I see?
    Do you see what I see?
    Do you see what my friends at work and I see? Why we are so agog with delight and joy? Look at them! I hate that teacher. Why is she getting that. There, it's out in the open. I am jealous!!!
    Why can't we buy a Bella Sinclair Flower Girls Book?

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  16. "I hate that teacher."

    HAHAHAHA!! You are hysterical.

    Lest we not forget the Illustrated Abecedarian, or the Leaves, or the Acorns, or -- oh good heavens -- the SEASONS! You make me faint!

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  17. We are talking about the Flower Girls, not the IAS, not acorns, not Seasons...

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  18. wowowie! cutie patutie! i wish i colud draw like Bella Sinclaire.she deserves the award!

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  19. Well, Buckram and Bembo, let me tell you I adopted her already so she is my sister now.

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  20. Ces, the award is so beautiful, but I am speechless at the beauty of Bella's art!
    Happy Mothers'Day my dear. I finally penned a tribute to mine just now.

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  21. Arija, it is my great honor to introduce Bella Sinclair to you!
    Happy Mother's Day to you too!

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  22. Wow, these were great, I really enjoyed seeing them. What talent!

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  23. Ces it is such a gift to all of us to have you lay out Bella's work like that.

    I forgot how beautiful they all are.

    Amazing.

    I love them.

    Bella is so fantastic, but the pictures together are incredible.

    I know about the teacher, totally ridiculous. Shit Bella, Ces and I will fly to Japan tomorrow and teach both your sweet girls if we can get a flower girl series.

    I love it.

    Love Renee xoxo

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  24. Changing the subject a bit, I have to go ask Bella about your risque picture on the right. Like that lady has a hell of a lot of pubic hair.

    Love Renee xoxo

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  25. Sandy, yes, aren't they lovely?

    Renee, you see what I see? Arggh. It's hard to convince her.

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  26. First of all, to Ces's loyal visitors, thank you all so much for your kind, kind words. But really now. Take a look at Ces's series. don't they just blow everything else out of the water?!

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    RENEEEEEEE! OMG, you are wicked! Hahahaha! I did not see it that way before. Oh, geez, Renee. Only you. :D

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  27. Perhaps she is waiting for a Brazilian?

    A Brazilian man, that is.

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  28. No Ces not at all. I just love it and then after seeing the naked bathing lady, I was like holy shit Ces could cover me and Bella and her as if it was a blanket.

    har har.

    Love you.

    Bella's work though is so gorgous all together like that, isn't it?

    How was Em's dancing tonight.

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  29. You two. I don't remember drawing any pubic hair on these women. What are you talking about?

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  30. NO NO NO NOT this topic on Bella's Cute Little Flower Gilrs. I am changing the damn header now!

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  31. Ces can you believe it, I am agreeing with you.

    I know. I even thought of that when I commented but I wanted Bella to see it. har har.

    I am pathetic.

    Put the banner back up it was beautiful.

    Love Renee xoxo

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  32. Awww, CRUD! Put the banner back up, Ces!

    I've seen each of those separately. I think this is the first time I've seen them all pieced together like that. It really is peaceful and relaxing. Must be the negative ions.

    Put it back! Please!

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  33. BWAHAHAHHAHAHA! I am laughing like a lunatic and my family is looking at me like I lost my mind!

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  34. Must be Renee's eyes.

    No, scratch that. It's Renee's brain.

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  35. Bella help me, you know that Ces listens to you the most.

    She is playing a old Bette Davis movie scene on me 'Hush hush sweet charlotte' where she drives her sister crazy.

    First she tells me that the angels don't have boners. Then that they do if they eat oats. Then they don't. Then they don't. Then they have nothing but extremities. But I thought a boner was an extremity.

    Then she would whisper to the angel and he would get a boner. And then I said she will make it cry and then she won't be attracted to the angel anymore and yell at the angel 'Hey, angel you big pussy.'

    Bella you are too young for that old movie. But Ces is trying to make me forget my own name. And if I am not careful our darling little Ces will carry me to the beach (all 217 pounds) and lay me on the sand until I die. While at the same time brushing my hair all over my face like a lunatic.

    Oh yeah, Ces remember when she gets her an ice cream cone, just after she fed her sister her dead parakeet.

    ha ha ha hahah so funny that I can remember that shit.

    Can you guys tell that I am so fucking tired I am totally rambling?

    xoxo

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  36. Oh dear. And then you can ask her to brush your short and curlies as well.

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  37. ha ha

    Love you right back.

    Okay, Bella's little flower girls, please close your eyes.

    Now I love that the banner is back up and please leave it because I need Bella to see that the same lady in the right hand corner is moving her left hand south.

    Ouch......

    Love you. xoxoxo

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  38. Oh my God Bella I forgot to tell you at some point in time that my short and curlies fell out in the first year in chemo and never came back.

    ha ha ha.

    xoxoxo

    No need to comb them Ces.

    hahhhahhahr ahr har har
    xoxo

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  39. OH GAWD! BWAHAHAHAHHAHA HAHAHAHH HAHAHAHAH> I think my family is seriously thinking of committing me to an institution fro hebephrenia. GAWD I CAN"T STOP LAUGHING> HAHAHAHAhahahah... Haaaa! Renee and Bella - I love you so much!!! HAHAHAHA. Ask me for anything. HAHAHAHAHHA HA!

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  40. DAMN, it's hard to keep a straight face here in front of my kids.

    Renee, there should be no OUCH in that southward motion if you do it right.

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  41. Unless you're into that sort of thing.

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  42. Oh sorry Bella I forgot.....

    oooooowwwwwwww

    And don't forget I shared a bed with two other sisters, there was no doing that and I am Catholic.

    My daughters do not believe that I didn't do that at all.

    I think the first time I ever did I was about 47. har ha.

    If this a true confession magazine. Seriously my problem is that I am an open book.

    Love Renee xoxo

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  43. Oh Bella! ARARRAGH HAHAHAHAHAHHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA. Oh God, this is better than -e-. HAHAHAHAHAH!

    I think I need to take some medication to stop me from laughing.

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  44. That's it. I have lost all credibility with my sisters, my co-workers, my friends. They will never belive that I am a proper woman. HAHAHAHAH!

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  45. Ces with me and Bella in your corner (right hand corner that is) you will never need to be lonely. Sad yes, we all are sometimes, but lonely. NEVER.

    xoxoox

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  46. Well Ces, come off it, credibility went out the window ages ago. I mean look at the right hand corner for pete's sake.

    xoxox

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  47. OMG The things you see! I need to send you those files so you can see the women are proper and they are just bathing and lounging among the rocks.

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  48. Ces and Bella I have a question for you guys.

    Now in the banner, top right corner, lady with very long and lots of pubic hair, with left hand going south; I notice that her right hand is by her head. I notice that pose in movies. Is it real?

    The question is that pose real?

    For me for example, I usually use that hand to either a) press his hand harder and or b) help in placement.

    Thanks for the laughs dear friends.

    And because I am nothing, if not reverant, Happy Mother's Day.

    xoxo

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  49. Don't you worry about any comments are sounding like a lunatic.

    You wrote for me and Bella and we wrote for you.

    Good night, God bless you.

    Love Renee xoxo

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  50. Hahahahaha! Crazy women!hahaha I am missing a lot. And you update frequently, has it reached a hundred already? Must read everything!hahaha

    And I couldn't agree more with you for giving this award to Bella. Very inspiring illustrations indeed. And yes, happy mother's day to you mama tita Ces!:)

    xoxo
    Björnik

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  51. Terrific award!
    Happy Mother's day!

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  52. Bjornik! Thank you very much for the happy mama tita's day wishes. Crazy talaga!

    Hi Manon, thank you and a happy Mother's day to you too!

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  53. happy mother's day my dear friend! hope it is a beautiful one for u!!!xoxoxlinda

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  54. Enjoy the family today Ces and Happy Mother's Day.

    Love Renee xoxo

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  55. Happy Mother's Day Beautiful!!! right back at you!!!

    HUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    Diana

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  56. Happy Mother's Day. Lovely award for Bella and her little Flower Girls. It's the most wonderful series and I' sure I'm not the only one to be sad it's finished :( - and totally envious of the teacher!!!

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  58. Thanks for the Mother's Day wishes. As gfor Bella's flower Girls Series - the best!

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  59. I agree. she is the BEST!

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  60. Hooray for Bella, well deserved indeed!!

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  61. Yes! The teacher is the lucky winner! Very lucky! Very very lucky!

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  62. Really cool work. Thanks for bringing this out. I've never seen Bella!

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  63. Bella is a legend and her Flower Girls series is beyond the realms of the simply brilliant - it is flippin' CELESTIAL! Seriously.

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