REAL Texas Snow

ok, so here is the real thing-first we had the 'tease' on mon night then this afternoon got the real thing...the puppies loved it-their first snow.

Texas Snow

OK-anyone up north reading this-don't laugh. We had 75 degree weather this wkend, then snow mon night. This snow. Today is clear and pleasant out, while snow is predicted again thurs night. They did get more out west of here, but hey, snow is snow.

Picture finally

Here is one of the wooden hearts i made for our last art meeting. I drew it, cut it out of wood, sanded it down and painted/added paper

Life In Joyland

Had intentions of putting photos up-but can't til gary shows me the "new" way. My dad called me sun and said my grandmother fell down the deck stairs sat. She hit her skull by her good eye. Bled of course and she couldn't see. bruised too-gramp took her to springfield to the hospital-they said it might be a skull fracture, but since she was a "walk-in" they wouldn't keep her for observation (something to do w/medicare in Missouri or something) what a crock of shit. He drove her back to their city, she's in their nursing home until MON when the Dr will actually be there. Still waiting to hear what is going on.
NOTE: heard that she can't see because she is bandaged up-dad left that part out. nursing home because she was still a bit out of it-better on mon-)
I'm going to get something to eat-now that the numbness has worn off from today's dental visit. (be glad i don't post pictures of that!) then it's time to work on ATC's for artfest~

A Blog to Check Out

You know how you get on the computer, decide to check out a blog (or two) then you start perusing their links, then THOSE links and so on and next thing you know it's the next day?
I think that is how i found this one...
Fabric Bliss
Be sure to check it out if you like/love fabric and all that goes with it. What timing since i've
started my fabric book cover this week.

Time Flies

So it's been 2 wks-guess time got away from me and posting.
Had a fun start to the wk-after working on fatbook pages for artfest, a little puppy decided to
try to eat a few-13 actually. ripped out the eyelet/ribbon on them before i caught him. Got them re-done and mailed and will post a picture this wkend.
Mon i had to go to the dentist for an unexpected root canal. Actually i should have expected it-broke a tooth a while back and since there was no pain, put it off-until pain hit and i found a new dentist on our plan...nothing like penicillin and vicodin to start your wk right!
Went for dinner mon night w/gary's family for he and his brothers' b-days. Lunch w/his mom and son on tues and dinner w/my parents tues night-got in all the bday celebrating for Gary-
happy birthday hon~
will try to get some pictures up this wkend on what i'm working on.

And the Winner Is...

I had 113 comments, so i numbered 1-113 put them all in a bowl and drew a number...
Number 57- "DEELIGHT" is the recipient of my give-a-way, so if you see this, you can email me your address!
and thanks to all who stopped by my blog-come back any time!

Giveaway

Since i'll be leaving the house by 6 am thurs, i'll draw the name when i get home in the afternoon and post the winner here~good luck and thanks for stopping by. I plan to really look at some of the many new blogs i've discovered from this~

The NEst

Just realized i never added the picture of the nest(s) i did for our art swap in january.
Made 5 of them-4 for the swap and one to keep-they were all actually different sizes-i made the others taller so i could "smoosh" them down, but they didn't smoosh too easily. i like this
size/shaped one the best.

Artfest Shoes

I've had some canvas shoes sitting around forever. painted them once and hated them so painted them black and there they sat.
Now they are pink and black and ready for me to wear at least once while at Artfest this yr~

Blogs and life

What fun it's been entering drawings and checking out lots of new blogs-next wk i hope to be able to really peruse these-this week has been too busy.
here is nathan's sprained ankle from soccer-that's what happens when you haven't played in a few yrs AND you smoke...not in shape :) he is going to try to play on it tonight-i'm not going to the game-have to work this wkend and i'm just too tired. At least it's indoor-i'll go next wk. hopefully i'll do some art on mon and have something new to post.

One World ONE Heart Give-a-way Event

What IS ONE World-ONE Heart?

It is a blog-wide giveaway event. The original idea behind this was to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet. It closes the gap of the blog community and enables us to interact, discover new and wonderful people, and in the process possibly win a prize or many prizes along the way. Last years event had nearly 100 participants and many connections were made because of it......friendships that are still going strong.
Leave a comment to be entered in the drawing-
and check out all the other drawings here.

Drawing for my offering will be on Feb 14th~a random drawing from those who leave a comment.

If you would like to participate and have a giveaway in this event PLEASE click HERE and read all about it! It's NOT too late to come aboard and in the process meet new bloggers from all over the world!! AND there is a full list of all the participants there so even if you don't have a giveaway you can still enter all of them!
LET THE FUN BEGIN AND GO SPREAD THE LOVE AND JOY THROUGH BLOGLANDIA!!!

78 degrees in Feb...must be TX

Can't get the camera to upload again-will have to re-install the program so for now, just a post.
Made some artfest shoes this wkend. Had a pr of canvas tennies that i painted black and never did anything with-so now they are decorated with pink-they say "art fest" in front and " '08" in back.
Went to see Addison fri-she is smiling and holding her head up-will smile and stick her tongue out if you stick yours out. such a cutie.
Went to watch Nathan play indoor soccer sat night-first time he's played in a few yrs. (now he knows what no exercise and smoking will do) He went into the boards w/another player and twisted his ankle pretty bad-
pictures will follow-but that is the latest around here.

Fabric: Before and After

Here is some fabric i bought for my project for our swap on sun.
The bottom is the original, the top is the tea dyed-still wet look.
the next photo shows how it looked once it dried. (along w/riley's foot) Our swap theme is "nest"...here is a sneak at mine. I will post a picture sun of the finished project as i don't want any of the girls to see it before hand.

Sadness

Nathan found out yesterday afternoon that a friend of his died in the morning. He hit a disabled car on the highway-roads were wet yesterday. Unfortunately, he wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the truck. WHY won't people wear their seatbelts? He was only 21-

Yikes

Been awhile since i've posted. Been sick with the "crud" going around-then back to work to a busy week-will post pictures of what i have done soon...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Gary & i went to a movie yesterday~can't remember the last one we saw together.
We saw Mr Depp in Sweeney Todd

The cinemetography was fabulous-
I've heard a rumor that they want to make a movie of Dark Shadows with Johnny playing barnabas collins. Guess i better check that out.
I've been trying to work on the artroom-I've gone through 10 yrs! of somerset mags to keep the articles i'm interested in and purge the rest-never thought i would be able to bring myself to do so, but i did. The saved parts are in sheet protectors and will go into notebooks. More later~

Check out my Slide Show!

Merry Christmas!

Tried to post yesterday, but had problems, so i'm a day late.

here are a few pictures from our celebration-Went to mom's Christmas Eve for

dinner and gifts. Will post addison's picture when i figure how to get rid of the red eyes!

Today's Faux Pas

Gary drove me to walmart-i had been their earlier and when i got home a bag of canned
goods were missing. He dropped me off front so i could just go it. I got my business taken
care of and came outside to leave. I walked up to the car-yanked on the door and looked in the window since it was locked-THAT was when i saw some stranager pointing across the way to MY car...
yes, i felt stupid all right. Can't imagine what that other guy thought...