OK, I spent way too much time wrapping this baby gift for a shower tomorrow and making this little embelly, but it is so cute. I used one of those little 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" Bazzill chips and paper, paint, gesso, transparency, stamp, diamond glaze...she better not throw it away!!! LOL!

Snapshots from the backyard

This summer started out with such rain...everyday...like 15 days straight. I thought we were going to have to start looking for Noah to build us an ark...that much rain! It was making me really depressed. But now our weather has settled down and is regular Florida summertime weather. "Regular" for us is a sun shower or thunderstorm usually every afternoon around 4pm. Today and yesterday has been blistering hot in the 90's. I got outside to capture these photos before noon. The sun was already hot on my back as I got up close for the shots.

I almost caught the resident cardinal going for the birdfeeder, but I wasn't quick enough. Then there was the couple of bees that were pollinating the flowers on the trees...but they were too quick, as well. It was fun to watch them do their thing and be able to be up close and not be afraid of being stung. I was less than a foot away from the bees.

Happy summertime! Enjoy your weekend. :D

I HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED!!!!

I am flippin' out!

Yesterday I received the Summer 2009 issue of Somerset Studio Gallery in the mail. Well, I don't subscribe to that magazine...but I do subscribe to just about every other Stampington mag there is. I know that if you are published in a Stampington publication that they will send you a free issue in the mag that you are pubbed in. So that was my first and only thought as I ripped the plastic off the mag!

So off I was in search of one of the seven mixed media projects I had sent in this past October. There it was on page 12 on the top right! Now I am screaming and my dog is flipping out! So I keep flipping through the mag and find not one, not two , or three, but FOUR of my projects have been published!! I scream at the top of my lungs as I find each of them in the mag.

They are all (except one) from my Mixed Media I class that I teach at My Creative Classroom. Check out page 12 top right, page 88 top, page 108 top left, page 170 top left.

Now, I feel I have accomplished a great goal and am a "real" artist!!

Grey's Anatomy Season Finale

I don't know about you, but I am dying over the Grey's Anatomy Season Finale from this past Thursday. Over on FaceBook we've been hashing out all our angst over what will happen next Season, what 007 is all about, the meaning behing Izzy's prom dress and the elevator...all of it.

You can go to abc.go.com and see the whole final episode. But what I want to leave you with is what Meredith Grey said during the final scenes:

Did you say it? "I love you"..."I don't ever want to live without you"..."You changed my life". Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it. But every now and then...look around. Drink it in. 'Cause...this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow.

New online class!!

I am teaching another online crafting class at My Creative Classroom that begins on Thursday, April 30 called "Altered Frames, Many Styles". This is a super cool 3-D wall hanging technique and project class creating interconnecting frames to put your pix on the wall. You've got to see it. This picture in the description only shows one style.

Go to www.mycreativeclassroom.com and scroll to the Home Dec category. You'll flip over the projects and techniques!

Bring some friends along with you and have a crafting "party"! I can just see it: lunch...some sangria...some crafting...everyone getting into their groove...taking pix and posting them in the classroom gallery. I'm lovin' it. Get on over there and sign up.

Can't wait to "see" you in class! :D

Words

I was cruising around blogworld this morning and went to one of my favorite blogs of my favorite artists...Rebecca Sower. Here's a poem she wrote that I adore. I kind of like anything she does...

today...
i want the path in front of me to be clear
i don't want to stumble over
be distracted by
stones that shouldn't be there.
today...
i want to reach up
and grab the warm sky
and wrap it around me
like an old, soft quilt.
today...
i want to work
and pray
and trust
and love...
all at the same time.

more mixed media fun!

Here's another fun piece I made a few weeks back from an old photo of two of my boys and one of my nephews. Everytime I see this pix I die laughing. It is from #1DS's birthday...these guys are so goofy-looking. Looks like nephew on the right is picking his nose. I call the photo, "The nose-picking bunch". Gotta love it!