Grateful?

Yes - I am grateful that I have been able to keep up with two 15 year olds at Disney World and that I can do all the crazy rollercoaster rides with them!

My feet on the other hands - oh boy, the dogs are barkin'!!

More fun tomorrow and Monday AM.

A mini vacation

I am going with my two nephews and their mom to Disney World for a few days. I remember taking the kids when they were 6 years old and vowing never to go back...but never say never! This time they are old enough to be on their own so that when my dogs start barking loudly, I can sit by the pool and have them check in periodically. Should be an interesting and fun/relaxing week.

100 things - morning collage

I thought I would take one of the ideas and do a morning collage. I think I can still call it that but it morphed into an all day collage, so I may not count it towards the 100. I have been fascinated with glazes recently after seeing a demonstration. I wanted to give it a try, and my first try was an unqualified disaster. Even my art teacher said "hmmmm". So I tried it again with no focal point, no goal and I really like the way it came out as a background. So now...what to add as a feature, or focal point or whatever it's called. I tried one of those lugubrious Victorian ladies, but that is not my cup of tea.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

100 things and 1,000,000 pieces of stuff

ElizT left a very true comment recently about unused stuff. I am in the process of cleaning out my basement studio - we had additional electrical outlets put in (I only had one down there) so in the process, I had to clean up and out. What junk I have collected! In my defense, I knew nothing about what I was getting myself into and first went completely down the craft road. So I have tons of little stickies and paper and weird paint. And little bits of paper and pictures. Way too much for one person. So I am categorizing, and cleaning and finding out what I actually have and then...what to do with the good stuff that I don't need anymore. Someone else could use it. There is an artist trading site, but I don't want anything new. So, I will cast about and see if anyone needs a million little mermaid pictures, or stamps, or whatever. Let me know if you have a place that you know could use some stuff.

100 things

Kerstin and I are doing the 100 things-to-do as mentioned in an earlier post. In order to start, I felt I needed to do action number 3 and buy myself a nice watercolor notebook and my favorite pen. Funnily enough, Kerstin started out with the exact same action and got herself a beautiful red covered journal and pencil set. Do we know how to shop or what? Additionally I made myself a copy of the list in a more ordered format and am going to paste it in the front of the notebook - all this before I saw what Kerstin did. It will be interesting to see how similar our other actions are.

Illustration Friday - November 2nd

Hats! My first thought was crazy hats on somber men and women - but that's been done to death. Last night I was picking up around the house, and put my coat on the hat rack and thought about how I never really look to see what is on that rack, and how surprised I might be if I dug thru the layers to see what is hanging around. Got me thinking about what I would find...hence this little drawing.

The caption is "The Smiths finally realized that Dick really was a Christmas Elf"

More stuff from the antique store.

You can tell by now that this was a bonanza trip.

This picture was one that I had to buy for a measly $3.00. This photo was about 10X14 - hand colored. A picture of the family dog, in hand colored glory, in it's own frame - I just felt that it had to be rescued. Someone really must have loved this pooch, with his little feisty look and standing up ears. It would have broken my heart to have left it behind.

I named him Sparky.