Hello Blog

What the heck happened? Last time I posted it was almost Halloween! I have thought about posting several times - to share my little valentine's day paintings or photos from a trip to SF, but for some reason I lost my photo management system on on computer and I just have not figured out Photoshop... I'm so lame. Who has time to learn something new like that these days! :)

Things here have been quite busy. I have been traveling quite a bit with work and I am so tired of it. Hopefully, something will work itself out soon - before I am so burned out I am past the point of no return.

We have our fingers crossed that we will be able to move to Seattle this summer. There is a good chance that something will open up for me with my job and Craig is applying and interviewing at some of the community colleges there. Keep your fingers crossed.

Ok, I'm off to download some pictures.... maybe. If I can I will share some.

Busy, busy...

Last Friday was the Fall Festival at Ella's school. It was her first chance to wear her Halloween bat costume that we made together. It turned out pretty cute, if I do say so myself! I just love fall!

I've also been putting the art shed to good use lately. Christmas presents, anyone?

Stress Relief

Life is so stressful right now. Seems a lot of things are just up in the air for us right now.

Another good day in the art shed

It's still hot here, so I got out to the shed early this morning and stayed there until about noon. It was so nice to spend some time there. I got my encaustic stuff all fired up and for the first time in the shed I goofed around with the wax! I just love this stuff! I created this little Crow King and started another one of a jellyfish that is looking pretty good so far.

Last night I was watching an episode of "So You Think You Can Dance" that was saved on the DVR (I know, say what you want, I like this show. I also like "Project Runway".... Unlike "America's Got Talent"and "Dancing With the Stars" these people are true artists and really do have talent. Say what you like about that..) and this kid who was trying out had on these really awful pants (if you watched you know the one's I mean).... it seems this is his his thing, looking for and wearing what he called "bad pants". I just thought that was such a funny thing. I thought, what a great idea for some little collage pieces. Bad Pants! These ones are acrylic paint, paper, buttons, paint marker and pen. More to come, they were quick, and fun and look so funky and much better in person.

One in, one out

I just love the weekends. Yesterday was a busy day, but busy in a good way... not like that craziness during the week. We did some shopping - I love new clothes. I got to do some scrapbooking - I worked on getting some pages done from our trip to Michigan and Chicago this summer. Here are a couple I managed to get done:

The dogs got haircuts:

Ella LOST a tooth

and, we found Honey Crisp apples at Whole Foods - they're organic and so, so yummy.

Good Thing

Tomorrow is dog haircut day. But, isn't Fred cute anyway?

Ah, there it is

Well, the tooth finally came through this week. Ella lost her two front teeth right around Christmas (I know your singing the song now....) and they have been gone ever since. It seemed seriously strange that her teeth were missing for so long. I even took her to the dentist and told them "some thing's wrong". They took some xrays and said "look, lady, your kid is just fine.... see, you can see them there, just below the gums. They'll poke out soon." And, sure enough there they were on the film (and they were HUGE!).

So, there it was, this Wednesday, finally making its appearance.