Val Gal

ITs the time of the season to hope and dream. So you will enjoy this portrait of grace and beauty with the video featuring Lindsey Stirling - Carol of the Bells at

Someone in my house came back from all night mass this morning. She said outside is was breathtakingly beautiful and so silent. It reminds me of the wistful strains of the melody and the city in the following music.

Well, I am back from lunch out. The Brazilian resto was closed. I stopped at the Pastry shop for some pastries but the lunch counter was closed. Luckily my coffee shop came through and I had a great Sante Fe salad with walnuts, grilled eggplant, and cheese. The great part of the meal was my delicious Americanos decaf. I enjoyed two. ITs a beautiful snowy day in Montreal. Much different than the landscape in this dreamy Holiday season video featuring the lovely Lindsey Stirling. It is sooo romantic. Check it out.

Here is another lovely tape with some great Christmas imagery. Featuring Sia.

Well the laundry's done. I have two pairs of kicky pajama bottoms waiting to be worn now. We are talking pink leopard and monkeys on a purple background. The dishwasher is out for a couple of days now and we have been eating on paper plates so I am going to look for a nice place to have my lunch today. I have a selection of three restos in mine: French, Brazilian and a coffee with a winning menu.  After that, I am going to go pick up a couple of pastries for tonight and f or Christmas morning. Talking about the French resto, they have some beautiful, decorative pastries. I only hope they are open. Meanwhile, this being the 24th I am going to go back to bed for a bit before I get dressed to search our sustenance.  Meanwhile, why not pick up some Christmas images from Bieber. By the way, what does shawty mean? He says that a lot in the song.

I think this music video is so great. So right on and real. I can really see this woman saying this.

I didn't much relate to that last Christmas playlist (see the blog post before). Let's see if I can find something more to my taste. I found something. It doesn't exactly have much to do with Christmas. But it is about finding your direction. I enjoy it and I hope you will like it. It was originally written and sung by Adele. but This group does a sexcellent good version of it. Check it out

Update: 2018-01-13 This is a letter I had that I received from a lady from Sénégal.  She was wearing a very severe habit as befits a very devout nun.  Sometimes the impoverished will wear these clothes.  Sometimes women hide the reason they wear the habit. Suffice it to say, I didn't know anything about her and her ways of thinking., only that she was originally from Senegal. As is my custom, upon the occasion of some sort, I gave the lady a present.  It was something made of silver, as I recall. I am very used to people scorning such things from me.  I believe that this stems from the belief that trinkets made of silver or jewelry are useless and even accepting such presents, distracts one from fulfilling really important things: such as building parks and municipal buildings and supporting the high arts and the like.  (Since these people are to be dressed and live a life as austere and impoverished as possible it sometimes occurs...

After lunch, I went straight down to the archives to do a little tidying up. It's funny but the way I have been relaxing from a lot of Christmas-focused activities was to do some other, but more, work. They said that if you are working in the far north there is often nothing for you to do but work. So you are doing a double shift, and triple shift no problem. That way you can have a really long time off in the big city with lots of money to spend.  I guess you can say I am doing double and triple shifts no problem. However, still no money. That's something that weighs heavy on my mind.

I also winterized the Facebook Art Fabian Company page at   https://www.facebook.com/TheArtFabianCompany/ .  Actually it's not specifically for winter. The jewel featured in the image is part of my personal collection and was acquired in a little sale put on by the Franciscans. I really liked the work but it focused on religious symbols. I am not into symbols at this time so we had it removed.  I have to admit, it looked better with the symbol but eventually, I hope to replace the little charm with one of my own choosing.

I have winterized is my personal Facebook page incorporating a jewel from my collection. It's just for the Holiday season. (I don't know how I am ever going to keep up with all my pages and the right season and stuff!). However, I think it's pretty successful. If you enjoy it, please like the image or the page. Go to  https://www.facebook.com/K.V.Fabian7

How about a little modern classical. Xmas I mean.

As you see from the title of my Facebook event (facing the Holidays Solo at https://www.facebook.com/events/317495455431238 ), I am facing the holidays pretty solo. I have had some people drop by the Rose studio, my living working space. And now I am taking time to tidy up. I bought myself one great big present to put under the tree. It took a lot of courage and thought before I chose it. ANd there it stays on my holiday display waiting for Christmas morning to unwrap. And I have been raiding the thrift shops for holiday season stuff. It is at this time I find all sorts of great colors and fabrics that I can wear during the year. As an artist color, texture and pattern are very important to me. My funds are meagre so I have to get stuff from vintage sources because the stuff I like, if it was bought new, would, for the most part, be very expensive. thank goodness people don't like to throw out quality merchandise. (I don't). And thank god people like to celebrate with ...

It's not only the holiday season it's the beginning of winter as well. I am now in the process of updating my social networks site to make them appropriate for the season. I invite you to check out my site on Pinterest. There are a few posters for you to download and hang up in your living space to celebrate the season. They feature jewels from my collection. I use jewels as a symbol of ambition, hope and of course, affluence. Check it out. https://www.pinterest.ca/ArtFabianCo/the-ambition-jewelry-collection/

Note: I don<t know if this video will be on 24/7 after the season but I will keep the article so you can get a general idea of the mood in the Rose Studio at this time. I listening to the CBC classical music station and the sound is really quite beautiful early in the morning. But later I will be going to Facebook and Youtube to find music. I prefer videos to playlists. Sometimes I like stories but sometimes I enjoy a roaring fire like the one I attached. It goes 24/7. which means I always have it greeting me when I return to my solitary room.

I don't know what it is about Christmas but to me, one of the most important things about is the high quality of the music. Right now on the radio, you can find all kinds of soulful moving melodies. It's early in the morning in the residence and usually, I don't have the music on. And if I do I put on the headphones. But I have a rather unruly neighbour with a noise problem and I have been advised when she starts to bother me, put on the music. It's actually a funny feeling because until now I have been firmly told to stop making noise. However, my neighbour has had free rein for years. So picture this. It's in the middle of the night and it's black outside. All of a sudden the lady starts to do her take on wailing and I fumble for the clicker to turn on the radio. In the black of night strands of classic music surround me. And the lady's noise is not so important. Now I have had many people complaining about music and noise. So despite the...

As I look at the songs in the two posts before I realize that children have a lot to do with the theme. Yes, I was working with children a long time ago.  Let's tip a hat to those who deal with children both administrators and parents. It's not easy to keep yourself and kids alive and happy. (and yourself). I, however, am pretty child-free at this moment and prefer it that way. The reason this came to mind is that right away when you create an event they ask it its child-friendly. Hmm. Maybe not. I don"t know. Actually, its best to watch out since I don't know what is going to happen when I start to philosophize and go on my musical journey.

So I am pretty much alone and hitting the end of middle age. It's not the most idealist time. SO I am not much for sci-fi movies of this kind but the music hits the spot. It hit it when I heard it years ago and it still holds an important place in my heart. Here, listen to Tina Turner and We don't need another hero.

Note: I am now in the process of a Facebook event and I thought that the best way I can refer back to it is to incorporate it into this blog.  Besides, some people might be interested to refer to it as well. (either as it is going or later. So for the next little while, I will be posting the articles, pretty the same way they are on the event on this blog. The Facebook event is called "Facing the Season Solo" and it will go on from now until the begiining of January.  You are welcome to join it at  https://www.facebook.com/events/317495455431238/?active_tab=discussion Good morning to all. I hope you are having a good one. It's really early here in Montreal. I have been preparing for the holiday season and just crashed out after supper last night. I woke up pretty early today and started this event.  This year, I am facing the holiday season pretty solo. No family. No close friends.  Yesterday I found myself pretty lost and then I thought, well there's ...

2017-08-19 Dear Pinterest, Thank you very much for your discrete letter informing me about you removing a pin due to Copyright issues.  I would rather a pin with copyright issues be removed as quickly as possible so that I will not have to be subjected to the unpleasantness related to being sued for such issues.  Right now, I use only my own images to develop (I am an artist) as well as images free to use, modify and share commercial according to the Bing creative copyright filter.  I also use images under the public domain.  I did not know How to find out about copyright issues before I got to Bing filter so right now I have some images that I developed before in which I do not know how to check this problem out. They are actually in my archives. I must state, for the records, that sometimes I find all this research confusing and I get mixed up and might use the wrong image. Anyways, I am very grateful you removed the offending image  I lost a huge a...