New Scarf design!

I am very excited about my new scarf design I just listed on Etsy. I have made several for gifts and now I have finally finished one that isn't a gift or promised to anyone. I hope someone loves it as much as people have commented on the one I have been wearing. They are a lot of fun to make. I enjoy making them when I am watching TV at night with the family.. They don't like me you be a recluse upstairs. So it is nice to have a project I can work at on the floor in the den. I can only do a few of the designs and then wait till they dry a bit. I like that because my back gives out about the time I get 4 or 5 finished.... Getting old sucks!http://www.etsy.com/listing/90801255/tie-dye-circles?utm_source=OpenGraph&utm_medium=PageTools&utm_campaign=Share LOL

Summer is flying by!

Well I have two weeks of summer break left... I had big plans for my summer and I have not accomplished them.  I have had fun at the beach and at the St. Johns River on vacation. I have relaxed and recuperated from the long school year. Today, I even cleaned my studio and started decorating a stool for my classroom. It is going to be a very colorful place for me to perch. Speaking of perching, my finchs are doing well they have had two eggs hatch and Esher, Georgia and the babies are living in their new avairy. I built it out of an old gun cabinet. I have been thinking about ideas for my classroom door and my friend Lee's door. We are going to do a Pete the Cat and the Blue Dog theme. Possibly the theme in art this year will be artist who worked with a lot of blue.  I also have some really cool art ideas in my head. Paintings I want to create and I guess I should be up stairs painting right now. Only I was feeling guilty about not blogging, so here I am. I dream of getting more stuff on my Etsy shop and putting some framed prints in a friend of mines shop in town. Oh if there were two of me! One could clean and do laundry and the other could do the art! Well as it is one of the two things goes undone and lately it has been the art. I haven't had a lot of success on getting everthing clean either so I guess I could just go paint and forget the rest. HAHA then I could be on one of those TV shows about messy houses. That way I would get lots of exposure and I could sell lots of art work! HAHAHa!!!

I did IT!

I did it, I really did it! Painted a triptych, photographed it and listed it on etsy all in one day... I call that success! Now if I could sell it by midnight! Boy that would really rock... LOL!

It's a New Year already?

Wow! How time flies over the holidays. This was one of the best Christmas' in Tyler history.  Devan made sure of that. She made me so happy being at home with us. Ethan and all his smarticals got all A's for the first  semester of 10th Grade and that made me super happy as well. He is 9th in a class of 128 and still rising. Bazzinga  Ethan you rock!!! He and Dale have been duck hunting and deer hunting a lot. Last night, Ethan went with some friends and their parents "Coon" hunting with dogs! It was high tech because they had GPS collars on the dogs and tracked them instead of just listening for the Baroo wooo wooo! of the hounds... This week Dale flies for the first time to Kansas (yes it is 19 degrees there today) to pheasant hunt for the first time. I hope it is a fun trip for him and he stays well unlike last years duck hunting trip!!!
Well I made a lot of gifts with my art work this year and they were all loved by the recipients. But as for being ready to do a big show in the spring I don't think I will be ready yet... I am working on my art stuff but I think that goal is a little to big to reach so fast. Especially with school. I want to have everything looking right and not jippie so It is going to take a bit longer... Gotta go Hopefully it will not be so long between posts this time!

New To Blogging!

A Blog! WOW! I am excited to think about sharing my creative life... my spiritual walk and my enthusiasm for all things creative. Not to mention, the nuances of being a hunter's wife and Mom of teens, plus the musings of getting to live in the same house with the cutest pup, kitty and finches ever. I hope this walk is as exciting for my followers as it is for me. I love living the creative life and teaching art to k-5th graders. When I am able to steal away a free moment, I love to paint and draw with all of the Prismacolor pencils... sometimes I even get the joy of  bead making with clay and lamp work glass. It is so hard to limit myself to one medium. I do work on things in spurts though.

Looking In

This is the time for Arts and crafts shows so I am in eye-candy heaven. Mom, Darling Daughter Devan and I spent the day at Calico arts and crafts show in Moultrie, Georgia last Saturday. It was so much fun... I saw a lot of cool, new inspiration. I haven't started doing the craft show circuit but I am hoping to start in the spring. I have a lot of work to do to get ready though. Prints to make,  bookmarks, trivits, t-shirts, framed art, and affirmations. Well thats a start... It makes me tired just thinking about it. Guess I will need to make a plan and set goals. Sounds like I've given myself an assignment... better get to work!