Cooper after knee surgery

My poor little baby-home from the vet after having knee surgery.  Poor baby  :(

My littlest baby, Cooper, is having knee surgery today.  God bless you baby.

Too Busy...

I haven't been posting much lately-always at Christmas I get a little overwhelmed.  I don't do well with deadlines and dates!  Just trying to keep my head screwed on these days!

ALL THINGS GROW WITH LOVE

This one I just finished this morning...ALL THINGS GROW WITH LOVE
8 x 10
acrylic, ink, collage, wax
December 2009

My baby girl turns 17 today....

Happy Birthday my sweet girl...my best friend!

My baby boy is home sweet home...

So happy having Jacob home for the Christmas break.  It feels better when he is here.  :)

Lisa Kaus Original

I found the perfect place to display my Lisa Kaus Original!  But probably after the holidays it will find it's home in my studio so it can inspire me on a daily basis!

Coopers Heart...

He really didn't care for me taking his picture from behind, can you tell by his ears?!  Coopers little mark can look just like a heart sometimes.  Makes sense to me cuz he IS the love of my life!

An Intense movie...

The other night my Payten and I watched the movie TAKEN.  It was really intense.  I cried myself to sleep.  I just don't understand howthere can be such evil in this world.  This movie was about a daughter being kidnapped and put into the sex slave overseas scene.  It is so awful.  I prayed and prayed for those that have to suffer.  It is just overwhelming what human beings can do to each other.  It makes me feel confused about life and why we are here.  I'm having trouble getting this movie out of my head.  How do parents live through such tragedies?  My heart goes out to those who suffer.  God please bless them and give them some peace.

HAPPY NEW YEAR CAKE

I just finished this one this morning.  I'm sure having fun "baking" these cakes!  Now, back to the Christmas season I go!

HAPPY NEW YEAR CAKE

9 x 12

acrylic, ink, collage, wax

December 2009

Burrrrrr...Cold Sunday....

Sooooo cold and windy today.  Feeling like winter for sure.

Face lift for my blog...

 I just put up a new background for my blog.  I love it!  I think it will be more complimentary to my artwork, and I think it is just more calming and pretty.  I just love the free blog stuff at Itkupili, free blog stuff.  It was fun remaking my blog tonight.  I am easily entertained!  haha

OUR TREE...

Posting some pretty pictures I took last night to help get us all in the Christmas spirit-hope you enjoy!

Etsy sales are picking up.  It's so fun to get an order!  :)

CHRISTMAS CAKE

Just finished this one today.  Guess the Scrooge in me is going away  :)

CHRISTMAS CAKE
8 x 10
acrylic, ink, collage, wax
November 2009

Meeting Lisa Kaus

Today was a great day.  Actually it started kind of blue, but turned out awsome.  I went to a store in Sellwood, OR, called THE JEALOUS GARDNER.  This is a beautiful store with garden type decor and some plants and flowers.  It is always an inspiration to go there during ANY holiday because you go home and just want to decorate your whole house...Anyway...LISA KAUS was there today having a trunk show.  She had some original work there as well as some of her prints and gift items.  I love her work so much.  She and Kelly Rae Roberts are my two favorite mixed media artists, and I admire their work so much.  Lisa's is the class I had signed up for at the ART AND SOUL event, that I was so excited about and ended up missing.  Ugh...that was a heart break!  Anyway....I met her today and she was lovely and sweet and I bought one of her originals!  Merry Xmas to me!!!!  I had my husband take our picture, so her we are...

p.s.  Lisa, if you happen to see this, I hope I didn't come off as a stalker!  I just was really excited to meet you as I really love your work and admire your style and free spirit.  It was really great to meet you!

CHRISTMAS ROSIE

Ok, back to the Christmas season.  Don't really know where the pastel cake came from.  Maybe I'll do a Christmas cake next.
This is Christmas Rosie, a little x-mas elf...hope you like her.

Christmas Rosie
8 x 10
acrylic, ink, collage, wax
November 2009

Cake...

I guess I'm craving sweets.  What a great cake though- ZERO calories!

Winter Joy...

Winter Joy
8 x 10
acrylic, ink, collage, wax
November 2009

Stuff on my shelves...

and in my art studio-  I love all my little treasures and junk!

Simple Sweetness...

With lots of xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox's

Mind baffeling!!!!

How can my baby boy be turning 19?   Mind baffeling!

Each day...

Live each day like it may be your last.  Say I love you!

Sparkles...

I love sparkly things!  Everything is better with sparkles!

sleepy...

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.

Pedicure....

My sparkly blue toes!

A nice Sunday...

Today was dark and rainy, but I had a nice day anyway.  Said goodbye to Jacob (who stopped by for another visit), shopped with my honey, downtown in Portland, had a nice lunch, and cleaned and organized my art studio!  I always feel like I won the battle, when I make it happily through a dark, rainy day!  Hurray!  I won today!

I got this beautiful award this morning!  What a great way to start my day!  Thank you Barbara at A Bird in My Hand.  Barbara is a writer of romance novels, and I can't wait to sink my teeth into one of her books!  You should check out her blog, as all of her posts are very fun to read!

So as a recipient of this award, I am supposed to let you in on 7 facts about myself that you may not have known...So here goes.

1.  When I was growing up, all I wanted to be was a Mom.

2.  I love painting my toenails in fun colors, like blues and purples and sparkly anything.

3.  I lived in South Korea for 3 1/2 years.

4.   I lived in Taiwan for 2 1/2 years.

5.  I am totally deaf on my left side, after having brain surgery in 2007.

6.  I change my hair color way too much!

7.  My intuition has never lead me wrong...I just have to be sure to listen.

Now...I need to pass this on to some of my favorite blog friends!

I would like to pass this award on to four different people that inspire me in different ways.
To Renee at Circling My Head.  She is the most beautiful and graceful soul and I learn from every post that she writes.

To Carrie at Carrie Joy Art who paints the most lovely and touching paintings of angels that they will make you want to cry.

To Sherry at Everyday Possibilities who's posts always are from the heart and full of words of wisdom. Thank you for sharing those words.

To Darla at Artistic Accents by Darla who makes beautiful artwork and recently shared such a touching story and asked for all of our prayers.  I was honored to pray.

Drum roll please....

Welcome to the unveiling of LOVE-THE NATIVITY SCENE...Drum roll please....

LOVE-THE NATIVITY SCENE
24 x 30
Acrylic, Ink, collage, wax
November 2009

Sneak Peek

Here is a little "sneak peek".  I have it all finished, but I need some natural light to get a good photograph, so I will have to wait till morning.  I'm really happy with how it turned out.  I only want to show a little peek because it's not that good of a photo and I want you to get the full effect when you see the whole thing!  I'll post all of it tomorrow!