THE LORD MADE THEM
acrylic paint over collage papers on 18×24 cradled board
©Teresa Kogut
This is the latest painting to date…..I love her sweet face! This photo is only showing a partial of the original in which she has a long white dress on and the scripture verse will be on her dress in block letters…..I have yet to paint the text….hopefully today. The text you see here was typed in photoshop.
This verse speaks volumes and what a different world it would be if we all lived it. We are ALL children of God and He loves us equally. Whether young or old, man or woman, rich or poor, God made us all in His image!
I hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day yesterday! Mine started out with a walk around the property with my dogs (I am an early riser, so everyone else was asleep). I then went into the studio and started to go through all the photos on my computer for Ryan’s 8th grade graduation coming up in a couple of weeks…..I laughed, I cried, I laughed again……So many great times we’ve had together as a family! Almost EVERY picture of Ryan was of him being silly and making funny faces! He had no idea these pictures could be in his classmates slideshow at the end of 8th grade! teehee
I teared up a bit because the pictures brought floods of memories back and I remember taking each photo as if it happened yesterday. The kids have grown soooo fast and when I stop and realize how fast time goes it disturbs me a bit and makes me want to spend every possible moment enjoying my family.
I had only gotten through year 2005 when the intercom went off…..it was Ryan….he had made me a Mother’s Day breakfast and was calling me up to the house to eat 🙂 It was a wonderful and delicious surprise!
After breakfast we went to mass, then spent the rest of the afternoon at my parents house for a cookout and outdoor games. A perfect day! Sunny, in the 70s with a nice breeze and best of all we were all together!
Kyle 19, Me, Ryan 14
My wonderful Mother 🙂
Kyle, Kevin, Me and Ryan
Ryan, Dad, Kyle and Mom
Kevin planted red Dianthus for Mom
Ryan and Dad
Ryans toss
Kevin and I took a walk around the property when we returned home….what a beautiful warm evening….and so still. You can see by the stillness of the pond below. A perfect end to a perfect day!
Wildflowers behind the spruce trees at the back of our property
The view of our house from across Kogut pond……
Wishing you all a fantastic week!!! and remember….
God never creates anything mediocre….you were born for greatness!
SANTA’S TREE & SNOWMAN PUNCH RUGS
Rug patterns now available! Spent most of today setting up the patterns on my new google site. It’s gettin’ there folks! A few more to add next week and hopefully get some handmade one-of-a-kinds up next week too…..oh, and maybe some more original paintings …but I don’t want to push it. I’m happy with the way it is turning out and I am grateful that technology has brought us far enough that any individual (without html knowledge) can set up and manage their own website! Can you say control freak?? teehee
Click here to see the patterns I have available.
Hope you have a fun weekend and wishing all you wonderful Mothers a Happy Mother’s Day!
I worked late last night to get the punchneedle patterns on the site! Check it out here or click on above "punchneedle patterns" tab.
I think this will frame better with the border….still an 8×10 for easy to find frames……what do you think?
AMERICANA
acrylic on antique board
©Teresa Kogut
I have been working many hours this week getting to know wordpress…I am figuring it out slowly. I finally, by the grace of God, figured out how to get my domain name teresakogut.com to come here to this site. I am not computer savvy at all and don’t know html in the least but I keep pressin’ on and it is coming together. So excited!
One thing I did decide to do for now is keep my blog over at blogger. It is more like a personal journal of my life’s happenings and a fun place to share recipes, photos of special occasions and random thoughts I want to share/discuss. Here I will tend to keep it more about my art, inspiration for my art, licensing ventures, new product releases and new pattern releases.
Hope you enjoy looking around……love my new bio page, hope you do too!
“Without Ceasing”
©Teresa Kogut
8×10 print
Win this 8×10 print just by entering a comment below. I am thinking of creating a “mat” around this print so when it is framed the frame won’t cut off any of the image…..what are your thoughts?
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CONGRATULATIONS
Andrea Martin of West Virginia
you are the April give away winner! I will send you, free of charge, the angel lace wall hanging by Heritage Lace!!!! Only four people entered this drawing so your odds were amazing!!! So happy for you, Andrea 🙂
“AMERICANA”
(detail)
acrylic over antique board
©Teresa Kogut
I have wanted to have my blog and website all at one site for a few years now……I started the process yesterday and now I have a MESS!!! My blog is ok but my website is inaccessible now…..so the pressure is on to get the new one rolling!! Even though I LOVE blogger….I am creating my new site on wordpress. My understanding is that wordpress blogs are for businesses, not just for journaling. I was up way past my bedtime last night getting a start on the new blog. You can view it
here.
Eventually you will be able to type in www.teresakogut.com and the front page will be my blog and I will have a separate pages for biography, photos, and e-commerce pages for original art, calendars & other licensed products, punch needle patterns, prints and wholesale punch needle patterns (accounts will need a password to purchase wholesale). EVERYTHING in one spot!!! I am so excited about this but a little nervous and overwhelmed too. So I keep telling myself…….patience, Teresa, patience……..
Please be patient with me…….I am just starting this new blog in hopes to have it replace my website and existing blog….but this is more than I bargained for and I am feeling a little overwhelmed……there will be quite a learning curve.
However, I do want you to check out American Artists for some of the most talented folk artists in the USA!
"America"
acrylic over antique board
©Teresa Kogut, all rights reserved
“Joy of the Lord”
acrylic over collage paper
©Teresa Kogut
If you had a choice would you rather be happy or joyful?…….what is the difference anyway???? This is a topic we discussed with our Edge youth group a couple months ago and it really stuck with me…to be honest, I never really thought about there being a difference between the two……
Happy – c. 1205 means lucky, favored by fortune, prosperous, chance.
Basically it is a feeling we get when something good happens to us. It can be fleeting…..very fleeting….as soon as something doesn’t go our way, we are no longer “happy”.
However, joy is another story. Joy is rooted deeper….it comes from within…..even when something has gone wrong, joy remains in us…..why? Because joy comes from faith; a confident trust in God. Faith is essential to joy because it wards off worry, doubt and fear.
I know from my own personal experience, I would not be joyful without my faith…..our family has faced some tough financial difficulties but I do not let that situation or happenstance (a chance circumstance) bring me down. I continue to pray, work hard, move forward and trust God. We always pull through or I should say, God always provides.
As Nehemiah told Israel:
“The Joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Neh 8:10
