Jeanne d' Arc Handmade Tags

Good morning everyone, it is Dec 29th already and 2012 is just creeping in around the corner! Scary for some and exhilarating for others!!! So what better way to herald the new year than finding inspirations for our year ahead! Here @ moXieantiquestoo, our sister store .... (moXieantiques is our flagship store for european statues and home decor).... we were inspired to create two original handmade tags of one of our favorite saints Jeanne d' Arc or St. Joan of Arc. We wanted to share them... they are for sale at moxieantiquestoo. Please click on the images and they will bring you directly to the listings!!! We hope you love them! Happy New Year and may you be just as inspired as we are! We are pleased with how they turn out! Stay tuned for more of our creative outbursts that can happen at any time! xoxo

Green Tara Tibetan Ancient Thangka Sacred Art Artist Feature

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! With the New Year fast approaching, we wanted to follow up on our earlier blogpost on Green Tara, the divine feminine of Tibetan Buddhism. We have received much interest on learning more about Green Tara and so we wanted to share our journey with everyone. Such a journey always leads to learning more than we plan on so hang on your seats and travel with me!

I have had the good fortune of getting to know talented artist and glassblower (retired) Colin Boone, who reside in the United Kingdom. Over this blogpost, I will be sharing original artwork by Colin Boone of Green Tara, White Tara and Avalokitesvara. Colin had spent 3 years learning the strict doctrine of thangka art painting from masters in Nepal. It took him at least a decade to learn it! It is with pleasure that we feature his lovely "thangka" art for the world to appreciate and enjoy. We thank Colin for his kind generosity and allowing us to enjoy his treasures! As Colin shared with us, true blue thangka painting can only be achieved by all who choose to study its only methods.

Let us start with Green Tara as it is through Her that all this interest and learning came about. 

All knowledge of Tara below was provided by Colin Boone.

Please support Colin's shop at

http://www.rubylane.com/shop/classyglassantiques

If you mention to Colin that you were sent by moXieantiques through this blogpost, he will automatically provide you with a 10% discount at his store!!!

And of course you can contact him if you are interested in purchasing any of his original artwork, art prints or antiques ...



Both Green and White Tara, came from each eye of the tears wept by Avalokiteshvara.

White Tara from the tears of the left eye. Green Tara from the tears of the right. 

Both Tara are also the consort of Avalokiteshvara.

They represent also, night or day.

Green Tara represents the night

and White Tara, the day.

This is shown by them dressed or holding either lotus flowers in FULL BLOOM, during day or HALF-OPEN lotus, at night.

Their characteristics are also different, for Green Tara embodies activity and though she is the fiercer form of the two,

she is also a goddess of compassion and saviour, whereas White Tara, has grace & serenity with her displays.

BUT together, both Tara, are the very compassion, unending, who labour to rid of us suffering during day & night.

The colour Green suggests action, accomplishment and activity, just as believed of Green Tara to have been.

Her posture is one of ease, with her left leg folded, whilst her right leg is stretched-out and ready for action.

Her hands serve as granting gestures and refuge,

her lotus flowers are sometime closed to signify power, purity and the very jewels of a bodhisattva.

She is the saviouress, and has ability to overcome the most difficult of situations, such as anxiety, fear and danger.

Om Mani Padme Hum 

We will continue to share more on our next blogpost as we think that is enough to contemplate on for now and just a wonderful introduction to the world of Tibetan sacred art .... We will share more about how to distinguish between Green and White Tara and other interesting facts and pictures as we find or receive them... There is so much and we want you to love it so we will not overload you!!!

 Stay tuned to our features on Tibetan sacred art here @ moxieantiques

If there are specific areas of thangka art or tibetan sacred art that you are interested in learning about, please feel free to send us an email and we would be glad to take your suggestions!

We love comments ... pls leave us your thoughts or a message so we know you are out there looking at this somewhere out there in this vast wide universe! Smiles! Blessings! Peace!

xoxo and enjoy ....

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Our French Victorian Silk Painting Blog

Thanks to Karen for featuring one of our listings on her blog!!! xoxo.. Merry Christmas !!!

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Angel Wings and Statues

Nothing creates the wonder of Christmas as nicely as angel wings and madonna statues .... Just a reminder that we still have pink, white angel wings with lovely french madonnas from Jeanne d' Arc Living on sale ....
Please contact us directly @ moxie.antiques@gmail.com for items below... They are not on our store on etsy.... http://www.moxieantiques.etsy.com/ which focus on antique and vintage home decor!
These products shown below are original and handmade from Denmark... from the pioneers of French Nordic home decor style... Jeanne d' Arc Living .... moXieantiques is a US authorized reseller of Jeanne d' Arc Living...

Magical!

Purely Whimsical

French Madonna

Another French Madonna

xoxo

French Sculptures

I am starting to get comfortable sharing in blogland after "A Virgin A Day" which ended yesterday! Already missing my new friends made on blogland... but know they are only a blog away...  hope we all stay connected as kindred spirits are just precious!  Treasure the connections we made in these 12 days!

Today... moXieantiques has a new look on etsy .... we look forward to sharing our learning and love for french sculptures over the coming posts! Please stay tuned .....



Jeanne d'Arc écoutant ses voix (Joan of Arc listening to her voices) by François Rude

François Rude
4 January 1784 - 3 November 1855
Born in Dijon
a pupil of Pierre Cartellier

Day 12 A Virgin A Day

Today... we have reached the last of our offering for Our A Virgin A Day experience... this is where we share with one another for 12 days... To see more wonderful posts from participants ... pls visit Rebecca's blog ... Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe... and we have all learnt so much from one another in a spirit of love and understanding...
I end today with a memory from younger days .... My literature teacher, Alan Davis had made a comment that stuck in my head to this day .... We were reading the book "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster and he had casually mentioned that he thought he had seen the Virgin Mary as one of the figures on the Hindu mosque ...  with this, we end with more contemplation of the vast universe we live in... as I have learnt from wonderful "YOU" ... Namaste