I draw a mean stick person

I have this thing, I really have no artistic talent.  I never learned.  Somewhere from the brain to the hand it all gets lost.  My art teachers LOVED me in school though because I could guide others and use such good descriptions I could make others really "see" what I wanted to get a cross.  Yet another way I skated through my schooling...  Sadly LD has picked up that trait from his father also, I say that because there's just no way he got that from me.  I don't fault him for not digging the whole artsy-fartsy drawing thing.  But I decided since he was in school last week to buy a sketch pad and what I swore on a stack of bibles were supposed to be colored pencils.  They weren't, they were oil pastels.  Do you have any idea how hard it is to use those on sketch paper?  I wanted to show Little Dude that it could be fun, I dragged out a old easel thing we had in the crawl space, once again proving that I can find damn near anything in that place.

Tuesday, I did "Walk in the Park."  it is an abstract of a nameless faceless man walking through a nameless faceless park anywhere and the things he would see along the way.

Next on Thursday, I did "Autumn Leaf Print."  It was to be a textured leaf picture of a blanket of leafs on the ground in the fall.  The leafs didn't exactly work like I had hoped, but the idea was there, and I liked the pallet I had used.

Lastly I drew "Burn" yesterday.  It was first going to be a swirly cloudy sky, but turned into a multi leveled picture with images within the flames.  I blame the song by Collective Soul, "Burn" as it was in my head the whole evening when I did the flames and switched the focus of the paining.  Because it is far easier to blame it on a music group, and their song then come out and say I'm a pyro.  :-)  "Baby want to burn with me?"

So here is what I have been doing the last week of my life.  All my works from here are up on RedBubble.com if you want to see what else I do.  Most of it is photographs, I got into the site because of my good friend Marsha who has AMAZING works there.  Her art is really worth a look!

School is now back in session and my classes are all new and challenging.  Wish me luck.  I will check in when I can.  If I get a TMOT up, it will be later in the evening as I am booked solid from 7PM-8PM tomorrow.  I know woe is me, right?

1/2 birthday bags are done!

You know it's a big enough pain in the arse to get a birthday party and favors done. Now with preschool celebrating his 1/2 birthday gives me a whole new ulcer. He wanted Imagination Movers for his theme for school. Fine, that will be easy, so I thought. They sold goodie bags right on the website. That was of course, till I went to the site and saw really how little you got in the goodie bags. We have all the Cd's we really need. And there are 15 in his class, making it so we would have 5 extra bags(or they were willing to give me a cd). I am not spanding 40 bucks on bags filled with a sticker, and a poster. I instead made gift bags. Happy Birthday bags from the Dollar Tree (1 dollar), 3 packages of 6 twirly drums (3bucks), Guitar pick neclase craft (5 bucks for the picks, 2 bucks for beads, 3 bucks for connectors, and 2 bucks for the string), Crayon packages (3.50), made our own stickers at snapfish (onsale with shipping 4.50), and printable coloring pages of The Movers from Disney Online. 25 dollars all together, not 40! All there is left to do is to now is go to Eileens and have them design a "GearHead" monster flavored cookie for the kiddos. All will cost the price of the gift bags from The Movers alone. I'm am not really saying my bags our better, but they are a better deal!

Imagination Movers Party Pack

Create a Movers-themed Party Bag with Imagination Movers supplies!

Party Pack includes:
10 Movers Blue Party Favor Bags
10 Posters as shown in the Party Pack Image
10 Movers Stickers
1 Collector's Item Vinyl Record 'Numbers in a Bag'
1 Autographed Postcard for the Birthday Boy / Girl

The Party Packs were designed in response to requests for party favors. We do not currently have a full range of party supplies.

$20.00
price includes shipping and handling

Got my new jacket today

I checked on the order yesterday in Kearney and they said next Thursday. Corey checked his email this morning and it was at Cabela's. We went and got it. I love it. It is large enough to layer when needed, since it didn't come with a hat, it is a must for me. I slipped it on and even though it is not real fur, or leather, I liken it to slipping into a feather. Or like eating a piece of Dove Milk chaocolate! Needless to say, I like it.

I also bought the beads, and meterial for the guitar pick necklases for Logan's 1/2 birthday goodie bags. So last night I poked holes in 16 picks, and placed connector on them. Now I have to bag them all up, sort beads out, write simple instructions for them, and bag them up.

I will start my yoga this evening, after a break from working out yesterday. Then when I drop off Logan in the mornng for school, I will either swim laps or be off to the hamster wheel they call a track at the Y and do my 2-3 miles. I am with you Alisha, and will keep it up.

Here is the pyrmid craft that FF will be getting from Logan...

I finally took these off my camera, I know WHAT a slacker I am. I will try to be better with the pictures and such...this one had a King Tut bust in it. It was wonderful, it took almost an hour to do.