February 9, My Jacquelyn's Happy 7th birthday!

Happy 7th Birthday to my Jacquelyn Rose! It is so hard to believe that she is already 7 years old - doesn't seem that long ago that we were in the hospital waiting for her! She is a smart sweet little girl and so cute - ok so I'm a little biased. (Very proud Nana, too!)

This was really a lucky day too! I'm on a roll! I took a guess on Jean Bernard's new scultp/art work on her group site and I won! Just thinking about the possibilities of the materials used by Jean really got my mind moving. LOL. I have lots of ideas - for different things - some for bases for my art dolls! I'm working on a figure now for a challenge on BPCAG and have been trying to think of how to seat him. Wonder what I'll put together now? LOL. If you'd like to see Jean's new sculpt - this is the link to her blog: http://www.jeanbernardv.blogspot.com/ Jean has some good classes too - that will open your mind to lots of possibilites - here is a link to lisa's heaven where Jean's classes are: http://www.classheaven.com/ Enjoy!

I've started working on a website. It shouldn't be too difficult - but boy is it time consuming and I jut don't have enough hours to spend. LOL. This may be the longest set up time of any website. I will try to perservere.

It has been snowing all day today and now it's raining. Tomorrow is supposed to be very cold. I am so glad that the groundhog didn't see his shadow - come on spring!

Take care now and stay warm.

Drum Roll Pleeeeease!

This is an exciting week for me - well actually it hasn't been the best of weeks, weather is pretty bad and I haven't felt that well - but - it all came together when I logged on to my email and saw that I had won the January "Shoe" challenge on the Beginner Polymer Clay Art Guild list! How cool is that , my little green fairy shoe is a winner! this shoe was a lot of fun to make and now I need to make a fairy to go with it - no nothing but a piece of leg in a shoe right now - more to come???

I also made a "Cold" pin doll for Jeri on Pin Doll Alley in the January Swap. I enjoyed making this pin doll - the challenge I gave myself was to make the North Wind and make her look cold and blowing. LOL. It was also a lot of fun. I got to bead and do a little bit of needle sculpting and to use a few additional products to ice her up. What fun in what has been a cold, cold month.

And last but by no means least was my final challenge of the month of January. It is a black and white Challeng on the Art Fest 4 the soul group list. The challenge was just that - an art piece in black and white. Period
No boundaries, no other rules - except of course to post the picture by the end of the month. Ellen and Sallianne will be giving a challenge each month and then when the conference is held in October we will all share the resulting art work in a gallery of works. This is a lot of fun and really helps to keep creativity going. This is a picture of my entry, "Winter Realm - the place where Spring waits"

Last post I spoke of my husband, Ted's Retirement party. I have a few pictures now. I still haven't gotten to the video but I'm looking forward to it. This is a picture of Ted, after his parting presentations, saying what a joy it has been working with various people and how much he will miss them. Ted's adieu:

And here are a couple of more family pictures. One is the family table at the party. Samantha, Andrew, Edward, and Aaron. Samantha is our granddaughter and the three men are Ted's sons.

So January has been a busy month and now it's February. What lies in store? Who knows - but the Ground hog didn't see his shadow - so that's promising.....

The day after Ted's big retirement party!

Good morning! The last few weeks have seen me caught up in all the planning and prep for my dear Ted's party. Ted has had a banner few months. His Red Soxs are World Champions, His Patriots are undefeated, His Celtics are the best record in Basketball, He celebrated his 60th year, his military pension is now payable and he's retired officially from his full time job! I'll be posting pictures of his party as soon as I get some. He was so honored at his party. 172 guests, sit down dinner, band and videographer. Needless to say he was overwhelmed. I am very proud of my husband. He is a loving, kind and compasionate man that I feel truely inspired by. He supports all my artistic endeavors and thinks I am worth more than I can imagine. So today my only thought is about how very lucky I am - oh and of course how jealous I am - he retired but I still have over seven years to work. Oh well, the older you get the faster time seems to fly - and we all know - I'm not getting any younger...LOL.

chilly day but will warm later

Good morning and happy January 5th. Seems funny not to have a holiday to talk about right now. I have been working on a couple of ideas for January. Have a pin doll to do for pin doll alley on COLD. Shouldn't be hard right now as the last couple of days have been well below zero. BBBBRRRRRRRRR!!! Also going to create a black and white something for ART IS...hmmm, lots of ideas. There are also some things coming up locally that I would like to participate in so I guess I had better get my own self moving. LOL. I have to drive Mike back to the train station today to catch a train back to the city for tonight's PROM and then pick him up again tomorrow upon his return. (Why don't I ever have time??? ) Train's an hour away so that two in the car for me. : - (

I took a couple of pictures of the morning sky around 5:30 this morning and what you see is a star and the moon. So beautiful I couldn't resist. I also made a mushroom man (Pictures at the top of this post) last night while I watch Bourne Ultimatum. He isn't finished - but he is baked. Bourne Ultimatum was really good and very action packed.

Happy New Year's Eve - boy did we get some snow!

Good morning and welcome to the day before the night before 2008.

When I woke up this morning, what to my wondering eyes did appear, but a vision of snow and fields of white, candy fluff only beautiful because I'm not going to work! I had to take a few more pictures of this wonderland this morning. Yesterday there wasn't much snow left. It had rained Friday, most of the night in fact and the snow had dwindled. I got up this morning to a refill. LOL. I took the pictures about a half hour ago and it's still snowing. The flakes are fluffy and moderately sized and it would be a beautiful Christmas fantasy out there - if this was Christmas eve/day! Alas - a week late. Anyway, here are the pictures that I took of my winter wonderland, here outside Cambridge, NY. Enjoy! Have a wonderful and happy, healthy 2008!

Hi and Happy New Year's Eve of New Year's Eve!

Welcome to December 30th! What a year it's been. Can't wait to see what 2008 may bring. I hope that we find good health and great peace with in it's bounds. I have been working on a few things and am posting some pictures here. I made an elf from cloth along with a stocking to send him to Yvette Cole in. This one was made as a swap for her on Pin Doll Alley.

I also made an Ornament for Fran Parrington-Mehan as a secret santa swap on A Dolls Safe Haven. I really had a great time making this ornament and using the beautiful magenta taffeta lining fabric that I also used years ago on my daughter Becky's prom dress.

Just before Christmas I started working on a head sculpt. I was trying for a Santa but at this stage it looks more like an ogre. Who knows how it will end up. I kind of work as it comes and many change of directions may occur. I also made a face mold out of this one. Not sure how I will use them but I did make a couple of impressions. (LOL> Only time will tell...)



We spent Christmas at my daughter's house and had a wonderful time. Lots of food and fun and the kids all got more than enough for the year. Mike will be home from NYC for a couple of weeks in January and we look forward to that. He is still working in Prom at Webster Hall and having a great time.

I'm hoping that in the coming year I will be able to branch out with my work and enter a few things here and there.

These are a few pictures from our visit to Prom

The good one of Mike on the bar was taken by our son, Aaron's girlfriend, Annelise. Thanks!

I also want to add a picture of the window decorations in our sunroom and the view of the snow on the horse field from the windows. (Horse has been long dead and the fence taken down but it will forever be "the horse field". God Bless Gaucho.)

Happy December!

Wow - can't even believe how fast the time has gone. Almost Christmas and so far so good. This has been a rather laid back December (relatively) for us. We got our decorations up and have made some treats for the neighbors, shopping is mostly done and wrapped and the long distance things are mailed. My wishes for you are a safe, healthy and happy season - for me it's a Merry Christmas - for you which ever holiday you embrace should be the happiest one ever! May you have peace, hope, health and prosperity and great love in the coming year.

I have been working on some things also and will post some pictures of the completed (and not so completed) shortly. I did take a few pictures of the holiday decorations we put out and will post some of those too. Hopefully tomorrow as it will most likely be a snow day. We got pounded with snow, sleet and freezing rain for the last 24 hours and tomorrow is supposed to be windy. Since it's all heavy and wet it will take us a little while more to dig ourselves out. LOL. Home and hot chocolate all around.

So more tomorrow - have a peaceful evening. Whoops - looks like it's tomorrow already - so have a great day.