another week gone by...

well, it's friday night and all day i've been thinking it was thursday?! lol so much for me keeping track of time huh? i've done nothing creative this week, nothing at all, haven't had time or energy for it. school officially started full force for our son this week (was suppose to be last week but his login and password info for his virtual school courses didn't make it's way to us till this week) and we've spent the week working our patooties off to get things figured out, organized, started and caught up to date! we've got two of three subjects up to date, and this weekend we will work on the third. now, i don't mean that i am doing any of the work, he is doing the work, but i am right along with him because he has a hard time with reading comprehension/finding the answers within text, keeping things organized, and getting his thoughts down on paper or into a word documents. if it was all oral/spoken, then that would be a snap for him! but we are doing well and he is making great strides in his academic endeavers. so everybody's happy!

i have my work cut out for me this weekend. i have to clean cages (four of them), clean the litter box (just one! thank goodness!), and take pics of some stuff i am going to post to our local craigslist to sell. we are tryint to weed out stuff that is just taking up space and not getting used. and i STILL have to get my art studio finished! i have it partially done, but there is stuff spread all over the place! lol and of course i am the only one that can do it because nobody else knows what half the stuff is for or where i want it... so it's all up to me! which i really don't mind, i just have to get the spare time to do it! lol

i cannot believe how fast this month is going by! it's almost the first of september! before you know it we'll be dealing with halloween, thanksgiving, christmas, new years... yikes! a whole nother year gone by!!! wow. it's amazing how time can fly by sometimes. but it's never dull around here, something always going on, something happening, etc. so at least i'm not vegging in a chair watching soaps or news all the time. i don't read the paper, i use it to line the bottoms of cage trays. and i don't watch the news, i get the highlights from my mother who DOES watch the news. lol if there's anything noteworthy, i figure i'll hear about it eventually or see it online at some point! lol i'm horrible aren't i? the news is just so depressing! i can't do that to myself every day or mulitiple times a day. i have enough to deal with on my own.

well, i suppose i should attempt to go to sleep now. i took a nap this afternoon, which of course made me not so tired tonight! i'm hoping i can get a good nights sleep. good night and happy creating!

omg, how many days have i lost???

well, i'm taking my medicine the way the dr said i have to, but it doesn't leave me much time that i am awake and coherant! i mean, rest is good and all that, but things really do have to be done and i certainly can't do any of it if i'm sleeping! the pain is better than it was, so that is under control, which is excellent! only 4 more days till my ortho appt! yay!

it's finally time to mail out the RR book i worked on during july. it's been done for weeks and i've been chomping at the bit to get busy on another one! i've been told that the next RR book is in route to me now, so i should get it in the next few days. now i just have two other projects to get in the mail; the fat book pages for one of my groups and also the altered board book for my other group. but i HAVE to remember to get pictures of all of them before i mail them off!

i've made some headway in organizing my studio/craft room. there's still a ways to go, but it does look promising! i never thought i'd have an entire room devoted to creating art. what an awesome thing! i'm really anxious to get my sewing area set up so i can do things as the thought strikes me and not be held back by not having enough room.

i am thoroughly enjoying working on all the projects that have been started in the groups i'm a part of. each one of them offers new insight, new ideas, new techniques, etc. i love learning new things and i love collaborating with other artists.

well, it's time to go take care of furbabies and get things ready to settle down for the night. i can't believe it, but it's not even 8pm and i'm ready for bed already! maybe going to bed early will give me an early start to tomorrow. you never know... until next time... keep creating!

oh my achin' back...

well, just when i thought my back was going to settle down and give me a break... psych!... it doesn't! i feel like i'm gonna die and i'm afraid i won't! pain meds and muscle relaxers can only do so much, and when they don't work on what the problem is, it just ends up making you groggy and out of it. so, i just deal most of the time. what else can ya do? and i have to do thing here at home, there's no way around it. everybody else is helping me and being very considerate and all, but there are still things that i have to do and even those small things are really getting to where they hurt. i can't wait for the 25th to get here so i can go see the orthopedic surgeon and see what he says! i'm gonna call them on monday and see if they have any other cancellations!

my tattoo is healing nicely, it hasn't been that bad at all. sometime in september i will go in and have him touch up/add more color to it. i'm still really glad i got it. and i STILL haven't showed it to my mother! LOL yep, still chicken! i'll show her soon, i think part of it is that i want to keep the good feelings about it, you know? it feels good that i got it, it's something i've been looking forward to... and she's going to gripe and nag about it and i just don't want the negative feelings that will come my way. so if anyone is planning on "outing my tattoo" to my mom, DON'T! LOL

school starts next week for alex, he does school at home through a virtual school online. it's an extension of a kansas public school and they provide everything and keep track of all the grading and credits and stuff. it's also a college prep course of study, so it is definately challenging, but that is good for alex. he's a smart cookie. especially in math!!! wow! this year will be a bit more involved for both of us. we'll have to figure out the new "rhythem" of the new school year subjects and then we'll be good to go. the first few weeks is the hardest.

i've got to knuckle down and get some pics taken tomorrow. some of some art pieces, some of my tattoo, some of the puppy, etc. i keep getting distracted and forget about taking them. *sigh*

until next time...

i just love this stuff!!!

i finished some pages for a fat book swap that i recently joined and i am so pleased with them! i cannot wait to get the finished book back, but it won't be for a couple months yet! lol it's a book for halloween! lol what can i say, i was stressing a bit and it kept me occupied! lol anyway, it was a lovely little project and now i can move on to another one! i'll have to get some pics of the pages i did and post them, i forgot to do that! that's about it for now. i'm off to bed... early, i know... lol... but i have to get up early in the morning for a school thing we have to go to. off to dreamland!

another day, another design...

hello .... blog... lol... exhausting day today. running from here to there and doing appointments and such. no time for art. *sigh* got home LATE but pulled some art stuff out to play with while i watch "the closer" that we dvr'd earlier. figured out a new thing to do and it's really awesome, can't wait to get started with it tomorrow. i'm going to need something to do while i'm sitting and resting my back. ugh. i've done way more driving then i should be doing, but what are you gonna do? i don't have a chauffer... chaufer... oh hell... i don't have a DRIVER! lol now it is off to bed to get some much needed rest. ooops, no, not just yet. have to go feek the furbabies first. THEN to bed. tomorrow is another day and on with another design! i love it!

just another day...???

well, tomorrow is my birthday... i have no problem with my age, i will be 48 yrs old, young, whatever you want to call it! doesn't really "feel" like my birthday though. i don't know, just seems like another day. i have no feeling of "crisis" with each year i get older. if anything, i'm always quite surprised when i think about how old i am and compare that to other people who are that age or who are younger or whatever. i don't feel like i'm almost 50... but then again, maybe i don't know what "almost 50" feels like! lol i'm just glad that i am here with some family around me to help me celebrate the day i entered into this world as a seperate human being (instead of hitch hiking inside my mom's belly! lol).

right now, life is good. it has it's moments when it totally sucks, when it's unfair, when i totally wish it were different. but for the most part, i'm ok with it. it certainly has it's daily challenges, that's for sure! but i'll keep kickin as long as i can keep kickin!

i saw a sign the other day that i wanted... couldn't afford to buy it at the time, but i'm determined to make one of my own... it said:

"There will be no crisis this week... my schedule is full!"

don't ya love it?! i may change the sign to read "no crisis today" lol... might fit better around here sometimes! lol

well, i'm hungry and sitting here typing isn't helping that matter any at all! so i'm off!

Ok, so it's not done yet!

ok ok ok... i haven't gotten my studio/workroom done yet! sue me! lol it's been a long and exhausting week and i'm just now getting around to working in there tomorrow. i have been "thinking" about doing it, so does that count just a little bit??? lol hope so, cause that's as good as it got this week! tomorrow (well, today actually, but it's still dark outside so to me it isn't tomorrow just yet. lol) i have two errands to run, cages to clean for the fur babies, and then the rest of the day (and weekend as far as i'm concerned!) shall be devoted to nothing but organizing and working in my studio and doing art. i have several projects that i am working on and need to complete, some pictures to take of some art, and some brainstorming to do about an upcoming project. i just love the whole process of "creating"... it's so satisfying when everything comes together and the project is completed.

well, it's late, i'm tired, so i'm out of here. will be back later in the weekend to report progress made! have a wonderful weekend!

art done and waiting, art in the works, and art waiting to happen...

well, i'm at an interesting point... i have some projects finished and sent off, i have some that are finished and just waiting till the mailing date gets here... i have some that i am just starting on... and i have some projects that i can't start on yet but i'm dying to! lol but i guess, for an artist, that's a good place to be, because it speaks of productivity? accomplishment? well, that's my story and i'm sticking to it! lol

one thing i haven't done justice to is getting my studio in order! man, it so needs attention, and i know i am lucky as #&%$ to have a whole room to devote to my art and "stuff" (i won't use the word that ann uses to describe all my "stuff"... cause there IS alot of it! lol). life has just been a bit scattered of late and just haven't gotten back to it yet. well, to be honest, it doesn't help that it is the hottest room in the house! lol it is the sunroom, which means one whole wall basically is a bay window... and their really aren't any air conditioning vents in that room (trying to think of where they are if there are any at all...) so it's always a bit stuff and warm. i don't do well when i'm warm, much less when i'm hot and sweaty. but i really want to get the room finished and organized and all that so that as the weather cools off, as it is always going to do come fall, i will have a wonderful place to retreat to on those cold rainy or snowy days to wallow in art and be creative! and i know, that will make it the coldest room in the house then! lol BUT , there is a franklin stove/gas fireplace in there that will be so cozy! what a wonderful winter i invision! ok, so this is giving me insentive and a bit of a push to go and work on it some more! but not today, i have other stuff i have to attend to for now. no, that isn't my poor impression of scarlett from "gone with the wind"... lol... i really WILL work on it this week. ok, i'll make a deal... i'll work on my room this week, and a week from tomorrow, i will post pictures of it here on my blog! how bout that for insentive! lol i surely don't want to have to post pics of it in total chaos and disarray! if God could create the world in less than 7 days, i should be able to get my studio together in 7 days or less... dont' you think? hmmmmmmmm... quite the challenge! but we're on!

ok, off to do more laundry... ugh... NOT one of my favorite things... but totally necessary!

not my art, but it is on my body...

this is my new tattoo... it is on the back of my right calf. this has alot of significance for me because it is the fairy image that my daughter had on her computer, the fairy that she wanted to get a tattoo of when she turned 18. however, she didn't get that chance. she passed away in nov 2005 at the age of 16. she had cancer. my birthday is coming up this month, aug 10th, and ann got me this tattoo for my birthday. she knows how much i've wanted to get it. it's only the second tattoo i've ever gotten, and by far the most painful! but i'm so glad i was finally able to get it done. i love it. it will look alot better once it is less irritated and a bit more color is added. plus i will get better pics of it... this one i took myself... not easy to do when it's on the back of my calf! lol anyway, wanted to share. makes me happy.