Well we are in the midst of a big move from a big home to an apartment called a Garden Home and it is right on the lake where I walk the dogs.  I am so excited to be downsizing and getting rid of all the extra I have accumulated over the years.  My ceramics will all be gone but the second bedroom will be my studio so I can still do my mixed media, watercolour, acrylics and oils...I am so looking forward to this.

Isn't her dress breathtaking.

Receiving her award for Most Outstanding Student

She has such a beautiful smile and in this picture she is a carbon copy of her Mom...

Brother Jacob and Nicole...he will be granduating from high school next year and off to University.

Here is the card I made for my granddaughter's graduation.....

this is the painting I did with Flora Bowley in her online class.  I had a lot of fun with it and just kept adding layers until I was finished I was happy with it.

I call this Hidden Meanings because there is a lot of things I put in there that meant something to me and got partly or completely covered up with more layers of paint....

I was doing grunge pages yesterday, in my journal and decided to stencil on some leaves.  I sometimes save the negative spaces from die cuts on my big shot so this is a piece I was going to stencil; however, when I laid the stencil down on the page I really liked the colours it showed in the leaves. Glued it down on the page. I can always make another stencil...lol.....

Today I am ready to do the band of the canvas I am working on and it is called finished.  My hubby likes it and told me to get it framed!! He is my biggest critic and I count on him for his honesty in my work. So it will go up on here probably tomorrow.  I did the Flora Bowley online course and quite liked it...it gave me some new "free" ideas and I felt comfortable with what I was doing since her art is the type of art I like to do.  It was a lot of fun and I would let it sit for days until I saw something else I wanted to do...ongoing process but well worth it...I am itching already to start another....

Did this card yesterday.  I think it is one of my favourites of all times....I just let "her" (you know who I am talking about) take over and off she went.....Of course I love my birds.........this card is for a girlfriend's B'day.

My beautiful girls.  My daughter and granddaughter.  This is at Nicole's Grad. Mass last week.  She will be going to high school come fall.  Oh that song "Turn around and you're tiny, turn around and you're grown," that song applies here.... I miss my little Tomboy but I must admit, like her Mom before her she emerged in to a beautiful butterfly.  The time goes so fast...this picture makes me smile everytime I look at it (which is many times a day I might add)...

I am here once again.  I keep making up my mind to blog every day and the days slip past.  I will make a harder try at it this time.  I peruse so many blogs and they have so much to say on them; I do too until I go to blog...duh...

I have been cleaning and organizing my studio; getting rid of many things (mostly ceramic related) that I don't use anymore.
I am keeping a few of my favourite molds and small kiln, you know, "just in case."  

I have been working on cards.  You can put me in front of a canvas, journal etc and in a short time off I go but for some reason I struggle with cards...I decide on something and my muse (stubborn she is) goes in another direction and I never know what I am going to end up with.  Now it is okay she does this with my art and I am quite used to it and so just let her go however cards are a little more precise and I expect her to let me lead...I guess that is not going to be the case.

Here are a few cards my "muse" decided to make....

it is Saturday morning now and I am still trying to get my old blog up with my new posts...it just isn't working (big sigh)...I like this new name they gave my blog so I might just keep it and start this as another blog...yikes I get frustrated with this stuff!!! Now I will see if this shows up.

MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013

Here I am again....finally....I have been so bad not posting and I aplogize...I have had a lot going on since my last post and just didn't feel like posting but now I am back to my creative world and eager to share and get going again.

Since my last post we have adopted a little dog by the name of Pepito.  Poor little man was caged for 7 years in a puppy mill and didn't know how to walk on a leash or even go up and down stairs.  He was badly abused and although he came to us (his forever home Thanksgiving weekend ) he still has a long way to go.  He is eating from our hands (he loves treats) and sitting on the floor between my hubby and myself (we are on the sofa of course)...and he'll come up and kiss us on the hand and the back of our legs when we are standing still.

He still won't let anyone pat him or pick him up if he can get away; but these are things that will take time and he will overcome I'm sure...he is adorable and we love him to death.  He has learned a lot from following our granddog Tucker as Tucker comes over to spend every day with us when Mom and Dad are at work and Pepito follows him around and just loves him...our cats? well he tolerates them...