Contact Info:
Stacie @ DaisyDeZignsArtStudio.com
443-783-9518

Bio:  See the following sections listed below.

Favorite Quotes
Breast Cancer
Adoption
Favorite Places

Favorite Quotes:

"Everything happens for a reason" - Unknown

"Dream ~ Believe ~ Succeed" - Christine Miller of Swirlygirl

"It is not the destination, but the journey" - Unknown

"Count your blessings & give thanks!" - Unknown

"You are what you think" - Me!

"Don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, because what the world needs is people how have come alive!" - Howard Thurman

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
- Henry Ward Beecher

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." - Twyla Tharp

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." - Stella Adler

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist" Schumann

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." 
- George Bernard Shaw

"Art is Man's nature.  Nature is God's art."  James Bailey

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are.  If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
- Oscar Wilde

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
- Andre Gide

"As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life." - John Lubbock

* The following are from students at Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

* "Art is the colors and tuextures of your imagination."  Meghan

* "Art is a personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page." Sara

* "Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking . . . a small glimpse of what they old inside.  Little secrets, regrets, joys . . . every line has its own meaning." - Sarah

* "Art is pictures straight from the heart." - Ben

"Art is triumph over chaos." - John Cheever

"Everything is creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale till its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keeffe

"As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself.  What is the use of giving explanations?"
- Pablo Picasso




Breast Cancer:

I am a two time breast cancer survivor.  I have learned so much from my journey and I am so much stronger.

www.makingmemories.org
Adoption:

I am an adoptee, this is a summary of the book I am writing: 

Adoption Roller Coaster

Joys & Tears thru the Years

An adoptee's memoirs on her life as an adopted child that grows up yearning to know her birth-mother that gave her up.  She begins her amazing search filled with "joys & tears thru the years" .  At 29  she petitions the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to open her adoption files since her search has brought her so close but short of victory.  The court orders counseling, she chooses a priest and ends up in a disgusting sexual encounter.  At 34 she has found her birth-parents, both have refused contact.  She finds herself battling Breast Cancer ~ something her birth-mother passed on to her.  Many exciting, miraculous synchronicities begin to occur as the mysteries are solved.  Find out how a 2 time Breast Cancer SURVIVOR battles her demons and triumphs over and over again!  Also note the significance of March 17^{th, St. Patrick’s Day} thru her life.

Favorite Places 

Ireland - the beautiful rolling green hills, the sheep, the cows, the castle ruins, it is such a mysitcal magical island.

Egypt - The gods, the myths, the ancient culture make this a very magical place as well.