Home Again

I left town again on Nov 1st, thinking i would be gone about 6 days.  It turned into 16-however my grandfather
now has 24/7 care until they find an assisted living facility for him to stay in.  It will be one heck of a battle
to get him there, but that is what he needs at this point in his life.  He is 94 and did pretty well to be in
his home as long as he has-sadly with the short term memory loss, it's hard to get him to understand what he
needs to do.  I'm glad to finally be home-it was beautiful up there-autumn colors were in full glory until the rain
and wind blew all the leaves off the trees.  I forgot my camera so all i had was the phone to take pictures-will
try to get them on here later. 

The Pulse

On sunday, i'll have a link on Seth Apters Blog along with several other bloggers
be sure to check in to see what technique/tool i can't live with out right now.

Go Texas Rangers!!!!

One win away from our first World Series...let's hope they can keep playing like they have all year!

Missouri and Back

 I went to Missouri Oct 15 with my dad-my aunt was there too.  More issues with my grandfather.  Hard to see the deterioration of his health.  Got home thurs night (20)

Gramp and Donna

Dad, Gramp (Harry) and Me (donna) 3 generations

Today was my art meeting-this was one of the trades i received-thanks Patti, it's my only outdoor decor this year!

Creepy Doll 2011

 Made another creepy doll this year.  This one is realllly ugly so if you don't like gross, don't look any farther...  Started with a soft bodied doll.  Plaster, glue and layers of paint later

Pumpkins

It's October and that means the pumpkin patches are now open.  It's actually a little cooler this week-

fingers crossed that the days of 100 are over now.  Went with my sister and her daughter to a local patch tonight and got some pictures.

Paper Stacks

Seth Apter has come up with another project for bloggers to see-Paper Stacks.
It goes live on wed. He will link up all the participants (70+) for you to peruse.  This image is a stack of journals-including the "big ass pink and black" one on the bottom (and yes, that is the name i gave it when i made it for artfest one year)

 

 I decided to add more pictures to this post after seeing the first 20 participants.  Originally didn't want to "clog up" this post since we have lots to go look at-but i like seeing all the other photo's that others have posted that I decided "why not?"  So you can look at some of my book collections-I keep saying I don't need anymore-but then I see one I can't resist :)  Thanks for stopping by-i try to answer all comments, but in case I don't-do know that i read and appreciate them all!

Art Day

Sunday was my art group's meeting.  We made these adorable little stuffed kitties compliments

of Traci Mine isn't quite finished, but will look similar to this one (her sample) She sells these and other stuffies on etsy and local art fairs.

We Did It!!

By it, i mean broke the record of 1980~officially now have had 70 days of 100 degrees or higher.
Today  to break that record we had a balmy 107!
We Texans are tough like that...

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10 Years Later...We Will Never Forget

Many words have been written and spoken about this day-A day that changed us all. 10 years later we still cry when we see the footage.  Today as we see the images again and the memorials, we remember  And we will never forget...

Halloween Images

Couldn't Pass up on Passing this on :)

women are Angels.
And when someone breaks our wings,
we simply continue to fly....on a broomstick.
We are flexible like that

Playing with Oil and Wax

Decided to try playing around with acrylics/then oil paint over it.
Today i added the wax.  Not thrilled w/the the image, but figure if i heat
her again, i'll mess it up worse.  So for now, this is how it will stay.

detail of left corner

Another Giveaway in Blogland~

If you go to this site 

~you can read all the details on a chance to win a piece of art from Patti

Unexpected Trip

Got a call thursday (aug 18) did i want to accompany my dad to Missouri to help deal with my grandfather and help with the drive there.  I agreed to go and we left friday morning.  At this point in the summer, anything to get away from this unrelenting heat wave. ( Actually it would be good to spend time with gramp and my aunt Linda since she would be there too.)
  Grandpa had fallen-no injuries, but he didn't want us to know.  Thankfully he has neighbors that look out for
him and let us know things like this.  He's had some equilibrium issues along with short-term memory loss, so his kids decided they needed to check things out.  We spent the week dealing with dr calls, home healthcare-which has already been stopped. (i have a very stubborn, independent grandfather) and errands.  Still some things that need to be taken care of, but those can be done on the phone.  He was also told to stop driving-he's 94 and that will be a huge adjustment as he started driving around the age of 10-he grew up in the country in a different time.
   My morning view from the deck looked like this most days.  (2nd photo) can't get this to line up and tired of trying.  I remembered some old photos that were on the lower level that my aunt hadn't seen so i got those out-then found a bonus-Old photo's from my grandmother's side of the family that no one had ever seen before-They are written in croation so we'll have to translate, but what a find!
  It was hard to leave grandpa-lots of changes in his life right now-only time will tell how he will deal with them.

our resident spider had a web every morning

The woman in plaid is my great-grandmother

Gramp and Dad at college of the Ozarks after lunch

Me and Grandpa (S of the O) after lunch

Linda and Grandpa after lunch

Birthday celebration (few days early) for dad

Time to say Good-Bye

Croation on back of photo

Dad cooked one night