My how time flys. I should have had pictures for Thanksgiving this year, we had such a good time. The boys got lots of birds. We went goose hunting in the pits which I always love. The pits where you hunt from are down in the ground so that when you stand up you are looking straight across the horizon and up into the sky. Of course this is perfect for watching for geese but it is also beautiful to watch the world from too. You just listen for the sounds of the geese flying. It is such a peaceful time. I'll try to take some pictures from the pits next time we go. Sitting there looking into the sky makes me so aware of everything I have to be thankful for...my family especially and all the good times we spend together. We are so lucky that our kids like to spend time with us. We enjoy them too so much.
Now we are down to crunch time, those short weeks before Christmas, when you are checking your lists once a day to make sure you haven't forgotten anything. All my Christmas is bought or made and mailed and I am doing my baking this week for friends. And we are ready to see the grandkids in their school Christmas activities. That is the best time. We will make our rounds at Christmas this year to see what Santa has brought everyone. We will be missing one this year, our oldest grandson is in his Navy boot camp for the holidays and my heart will be with him too. And all our wonderful service men and women who are spending the holidays away from their families.
This is my favorite time of the year, with all the warm memories from the past and the ones that we are making everyday. Merry Christmas to everyone and a Happy New Year.
Omies Place
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
I love old houses
During my Friday dates with my husband we have been just driving through the countryside. The weather has begun to change from Fall to Winter and it has been so nice just to relax before the busy holidays. This week we found a great big house standing all alone up on a little knoll, in the cold wind but bright sunshine, still standing after all the years. I can't even imagine what this house has held in it's lifetime. I could see the summer breeze blowing through the windows with the white curtains blowing in the breeze. Little kids running around the yard playing while their Mother was working inside and their Dad was out in the field. It almost made me cry to see this house standing all by itself, empty and alone, after all the shelter it has provided for so many years. It doesn't seem right that it should be left to die alone. I wonder what has happened to a family that would make them leave their home to just fall apart. I can't seem to get this house out of my mind...I wish I could save it.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Friday Date
My husband and I have been trying to take every Friday and go on a date for the day. Usually it is breakfast and a drive through the countryside. We try to take off a different direction, a road we haven't been down before, or a little town we haven't seen yet. I love to take pictures and what's is down the road and of course we look for little junk stores to see what we can find (and I usually find something).
This week I saw a little house that just caught my eye. It always breaks my heart to see a house empty. I always wonder how it looked when someone lived there. And how excited maybe a man and his wife and children were the first day they moved into their new home. I used to know a poem about just this and I think about it every time I see something like this.
In our part of the country they are bringing in the harvest and the colors of the grains are unbelievable.
It is opening day for pheasant hunting season and my boys will be home soon hungry for supper so I had better get busy on the mashed potatoes for supper...enjoy.
This week I saw a little house that just caught my eye. It always breaks my heart to see a house empty. I always wonder how it looked when someone lived there. And how excited maybe a man and his wife and children were the first day they moved into their new home. I used to know a poem about just this and I think about it every time I see something like this.
What a cute little house.
Even empty I love the mossy green color that it has take on with age.
In our part of the country they are bringing in the harvest and the colors of the grains are unbelievable.
It is opening day for pheasant hunting season and my boys will be home soon hungry for supper so I had better get busy on the mashed potatoes for supper...enjoy.
My postcard
I made another postcard "thank you" for my mother-in-law but I didn't think of taking a picture. duh! I also used this last week to drop picture postcards in the mail to my grandkids just to say hi! and I miss you! Everybody loves getting something in the mail...it's like a little Christmas.
Speaking of Christmas and getting something in the mail. I got my early Christmas this week too. I ordered myself some patterns to use for rubbings with my "paintstiks". I found a beautiful cape made of silk that was done with "paintstiks" that I would like to make for someone. I just want to make it, I don't wear things like that, don't go anywhere, but I just want to make it. Or maybe a lap quilt would be fun too. No sure just love the patterns and colors. I also ordered some beautiful craft metal to emboss and use in some jewelry. Fun stuff to do!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
New Old Sewing Machine
I have signed up for "The Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap being done by Beth Nicholls on her blog at aspecialjourneyofmyown.blogspot.com. I have my idea in my head and I hope to set at my new old sewing machine tomorrow and sew. I will add a picture when I am done. Come see.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Getting ready for Winter
It has been a while since I wrote but I have been settling in for the winter months here. Fall weather has set in and the evenings have been wonderful. I know this sounds crazy but my husband and I were wishing for a rainy weekend to set around the house. Hasn't happened yet but I know it will soon enough. Our old bed has gotten a new paint job probably for the last time and it looks so nice and clean. This bed my husband built for me before we were married some 30 years ago. The corner posts are made from cyclone fence posts and he made the rest himself. It is so heavy I can't move it so where it is set up it stays. I have a trip to make this week but when I get back I am going to make new curtains (using old quilts) for the bedroom too. I have my idea in my head I just hope I can make it work and it looks ok.
I am working on setting up my sewing room. Shelves, tack board, thread holder, ribbon holder, etc. I want to make it as organized as I can to help me put all my "stuff" out in front of me for inspiration and ease for projects to come. I know it is a "job in progress" to get it just right and I am looking forward to that too. I love organizing.
Soon it will be bird hunting season and the kids will be here on the weekends so I will be cooking and cleaning but laughing and loving every minute of it. Warm homemade bread, pots of soup, chili, chicken and dumplings, yummmm. And then the holidays...so looking forward to them this year.
I am working on setting up my sewing room. Shelves, tack board, thread holder, ribbon holder, etc. I want to make it as organized as I can to help me put all my "stuff" out in front of me for inspiration and ease for projects to come. I know it is a "job in progress" to get it just right and I am looking forward to that too. I love organizing.
Soon it will be bird hunting season and the kids will be here on the weekends so I will be cooking and cleaning but laughing and loving every minute of it. Warm homemade bread, pots of soup, chili, chicken and dumplings, yummmm. And then the holidays...so looking forward to them this year.
Monday, August 30, 2010
New life adventure to begin!
Almost Home Texas again...with lots of things running around in my head. At long last, plans that we have been making for retirement are going to be put into action. Time to organize, sort, hang, and get ready for my pursuit of happiness in my art projects. I have been reading the latest Where Women Create magazine looking for jumping off points for my work stations and everything I have seen is swimming in my head so i have decided to start a list of items/projects/dreams to work from or inspire for to stay on track and what better place to wish from then my blog. Any ideas you want to share I would love to hear them and hopefully I will be able to keep you up to date over the next year with pictures too.
...sewing space in ks house
...paint/paper space in ks house
...jewelry space in ks house
...take Lexy for a walk everyday I can
...join a photo group and enter a photo challenge this winter
...finish at least 1 quilt I have already started by next spring
...recipe book for my niece
...1 photo book organized and ordered a month
...make Christmas gifts for my freinds and family this year
...make my Christmas cards this year and actually mail them this year too
...make a ribbon holder
...make a thread holder
...have an artist date with my husband each week
...visit every junk/thrift store near our home in ks that we can manage
...reconnect our love of exploring every nook and cranny of a junk store
...lace, lace, lace, make a lace book
...quilt, quilt, quilt
Bare with me here...it is a wish list
...inspiration board for my sewing space in ks
...paint and wallpaper (large floral) in my jewelry space in ks
...button embroidery picture
...work on repairs to my grandmother's crazy quilt
...scarfs from sewn flowers, felted pinwheels, old hankies
...need more old jars for sewing notions
...quote a week to a friend
...more, more, more vintage material
...list old papers and pics on easy
...stamp/paint buttons
...be more free with my color!
...material bib necklace for my girls
...skirts,skirts, skirts
...1 assemblage piece this winter
...hang all my pics
...use an old window to frame pics in a group
...1 set of earrings and a necklace made from my metalsmithing class
...black background/silver and gold leaf paper drawing
...make chandelier for my painting space in kc
...license plate(s) pic
...mud boots for ks
..........ok I quit for today. I will be dreaming about all these things tonight!
I have a lot to do in the next month to get me ready to go back to KS for hunting season, pack, prepare for sale on etsy, clean my house in TX. I have been looking forward to this for so long I am so excited but it is going to be some work and fun to get both my houses ready so that I my things in both places as I travel back and forth. Wish me luck!!!
Talk to you all soon.
...
mt
...sewing space in ks house
...paint/paper space in ks house
...jewelry space in ks house
...take Lexy for a walk everyday I can
...join a photo group and enter a photo challenge this winter
...finish at least 1 quilt I have already started by next spring
...recipe book for my niece
...1 photo book organized and ordered a month
...make Christmas gifts for my freinds and family this year
...make my Christmas cards this year and actually mail them this year too
...make a ribbon holder
...make a thread holder
...have an artist date with my husband each week
...visit every junk/thrift store near our home in ks that we can manage
...reconnect our love of exploring every nook and cranny of a junk store
...lace, lace, lace, make a lace book
...quilt, quilt, quilt
Bare with me here...it is a wish list
...inspiration board for my sewing space in ks
...paint and wallpaper (large floral) in my jewelry space in ks
...button embroidery picture
...work on repairs to my grandmother's crazy quilt
...scarfs from sewn flowers, felted pinwheels, old hankies
...need more old jars for sewing notions
...quote a week to a friend
...more, more, more vintage material
...list old papers and pics on easy
...stamp/paint buttons
...be more free with my color!
...material bib necklace for my girls
...skirts,skirts, skirts
...1 assemblage piece this winter
...hang all my pics
...use an old window to frame pics in a group
...1 set of earrings and a necklace made from my metalsmithing class
...black background/silver and gold leaf paper drawing
...make chandelier for my painting space in kc
...license plate(s) pic
...mud boots for ks
..........ok I quit for today. I will be dreaming about all these things tonight!
I have a lot to do in the next month to get me ready to go back to KS for hunting season, pack, prepare for sale on etsy, clean my house in TX. I have been looking forward to this for so long I am so excited but it is going to be some work and fun to get both my houses ready so that I my things in both places as I travel back and forth. Wish me luck!!!
Talk to you all soon.
...
mt
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Brooklyn Library Sketchbook Project
Hello everyone from Kansas. We have been at our home in Kansas for the last month so I have been busy with some of my projects. It has been hot outside but it has kept me inside busy setting up a new sewing room for myself getting ready for wintertime. I hope to be able to maybe finish a quilt this winter that I started years ago.
But I really wanted to tell you about the Brooklyn Library Sketchbook Project I heard about from another blogger. It is so neat!!! You receive a blank sketchbook from the library and send back a full sketchbook that you have made and it becomes a part of the library's catalog of books. They will tour the books before they return to the library to remain so that anyone can check them out. Such a neat thing to be a part of...check out their website and all about it from the button on the right side.
Talk to you soon.
But I really wanted to tell you about the Brooklyn Library Sketchbook Project I heard about from another blogger. It is so neat!!! You receive a blank sketchbook from the library and send back a full sketchbook that you have made and it becomes a part of the library's catalog of books. They will tour the books before they return to the library to remain so that anyone can check them out. Such a neat thing to be a part of...check out their website and all about it from the button on the right side.
Talk to you soon.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Gathered and Sown
Dear Friends, Just a little post to introduce you to my beautiful niece's (and her friend)etsy shop called Gathered and Sown. It is a shop of fun bags and other accessories that are hand made and wonderfully done. I have one myself and I get so many compliments. Please check it out. More soon!
Monday, July 12, 2010
Buzy Summer
Hello Everyone,
It has been a long time and I have so much to tell you. So have a seat and stay a while. Well first the e-course I took from Kelly Rae Roberts on making a creative business is over and I am still soaking up all the information she shared in her course. I would love to think that I can keep up with her standards and I am going to work hard to accomplish my goals, share my thoughts honestly with others, be more open to the wonderful artist community out there, and start my Esty Shop. I have a list a mile long but it is a good list and I am looking forward to it. Starting with making my blog an enjoyable space for others to visit. As Kelly Rae would say, come in to my kitchen and set awhile. I have always lived in the country and have never had close neighbors so I am looking forward to having good fiends stop by and chat for a while. Be sure to leave me your side of the conversation so we can get to know each other. I will put on some tea and we will have a nice visit, so stop often. I love company!
My daughter and I took our first vacation together since she has grown into a wonderful Mother and Woman. We had a blast! We drove from Kansas across beautiful Colorada into Utah. We talked and sang and laughed for 2 days. And then the fun started again when we made it to The Art Nest Retreat put on by Julie Collings and Candice Elton. They are the best! If you ever have a chance to go to one of their retreats I would highly recommend it. The whole experience is so nuturing. They cook and cuddle you the whole time. And this time we were high in the mountains of Utah in a beautiful log home and we had special visitors, a momma moose and her 2 babies. It was beautiful. I will have pictures to share when I learn how to add pictures to my posts. I had visited a previous retreat they did and I wanted my daughter to know the same experience in her life.
Ruth Rae, an awesome altered mix media fabric designer, showed us her way with fabric legacy books. She is amazing. My daughter had not sit at a sewing machine since she was in the 6th grade and she fell in love all over again. It was so neat to watch her have so much fun sewing again. And Stephanie Lee, found object jewelery designer, found her way into our hearts with a simple but really cool book cover that is never ending. The book covers (front and back) are tied together with ribbon so your pages can be added as you want. I loved that idea because I never have all my stuff together at once anyway. And she also spent time with us about journaling. I had always wanted to write or journal but always had an excuse to start. She gave us nice hints to help us get started on our own. My Mother wrote a journal for over 12 years and I take them out once in a while and read through a few pages. She is gone now but it helps me feel like she is still very close to me. We had a wonderful time in our week of travel and it was nice to get closer to my daughter again.
Now that my traveling is over for the summer and it is so hot in Texas that all my work outside is done in the first hour in the morning, I am taking a box of family momentos each day and sorting through years of living with my Grandfather and Grandmother, and Uncle, and my Mother that has been gone for over 24 years now. Being the only girl with 3 brothers, I seem to have gathered the family treasures to deal with. I don't really mind, it is fun and sometimes sad to go through their lives in boxes. But it is also amazing how much I have learned about them too. These are the items I mentioned in my earlier post about sharing items with others. I will be posting soon about my Esty Shop.
I am addicted to art magazines, I admit it. I can look, look, look, wish, wish, and wish...but I talk about making art but I can make more excuses than art it seems. So...I am giving my self a challenge to take a magazine and start from the beginning and do each project that is showed in that magazine. Mixed Media Artists are so giving of their art and I want to show my appreciation to them by using what they have shared so graciously. So I will be sharing pictures with you as I finish a project.
Which brings up another subject, pictures. I will be loading pictures to my flickr account this week too so that I can share my life through pictures with you too.
Well if I haven't run you off by now, I will say so long for a while but please come back soon. I will have lots to talk about always and hope you will too.
Have a good Monday.
Debbie
It has been a long time and I have so much to tell you. So have a seat and stay a while. Well first the e-course I took from Kelly Rae Roberts on making a creative business is over and I am still soaking up all the information she shared in her course. I would love to think that I can keep up with her standards and I am going to work hard to accomplish my goals, share my thoughts honestly with others, be more open to the wonderful artist community out there, and start my Esty Shop. I have a list a mile long but it is a good list and I am looking forward to it. Starting with making my blog an enjoyable space for others to visit. As Kelly Rae would say, come in to my kitchen and set awhile. I have always lived in the country and have never had close neighbors so I am looking forward to having good fiends stop by and chat for a while. Be sure to leave me your side of the conversation so we can get to know each other. I will put on some tea and we will have a nice visit, so stop often. I love company!
My daughter and I took our first vacation together since she has grown into a wonderful Mother and Woman. We had a blast! We drove from Kansas across beautiful Colorada into Utah. We talked and sang and laughed for 2 days. And then the fun started again when we made it to The Art Nest Retreat put on by Julie Collings and Candice Elton. They are the best! If you ever have a chance to go to one of their retreats I would highly recommend it. The whole experience is so nuturing. They cook and cuddle you the whole time. And this time we were high in the mountains of Utah in a beautiful log home and we had special visitors, a momma moose and her 2 babies. It was beautiful. I will have pictures to share when I learn how to add pictures to my posts. I had visited a previous retreat they did and I wanted my daughter to know the same experience in her life.
Ruth Rae, an awesome altered mix media fabric designer, showed us her way with fabric legacy books. She is amazing. My daughter had not sit at a sewing machine since she was in the 6th grade and she fell in love all over again. It was so neat to watch her have so much fun sewing again. And Stephanie Lee, found object jewelery designer, found her way into our hearts with a simple but really cool book cover that is never ending. The book covers (front and back) are tied together with ribbon so your pages can be added as you want. I loved that idea because I never have all my stuff together at once anyway. And she also spent time with us about journaling. I had always wanted to write or journal but always had an excuse to start. She gave us nice hints to help us get started on our own. My Mother wrote a journal for over 12 years and I take them out once in a while and read through a few pages. She is gone now but it helps me feel like she is still very close to me. We had a wonderful time in our week of travel and it was nice to get closer to my daughter again.
Now that my traveling is over for the summer and it is so hot in Texas that all my work outside is done in the first hour in the morning, I am taking a box of family momentos each day and sorting through years of living with my Grandfather and Grandmother, and Uncle, and my Mother that has been gone for over 24 years now. Being the only girl with 3 brothers, I seem to have gathered the family treasures to deal with. I don't really mind, it is fun and sometimes sad to go through their lives in boxes. But it is also amazing how much I have learned about them too. These are the items I mentioned in my earlier post about sharing items with others. I will be posting soon about my Esty Shop.
I am addicted to art magazines, I admit it. I can look, look, look, wish, wish, and wish...but I talk about making art but I can make more excuses than art it seems. So...I am giving my self a challenge to take a magazine and start from the beginning and do each project that is showed in that magazine. Mixed Media Artists are so giving of their art and I want to show my appreciation to them by using what they have shared so graciously. So I will be sharing pictures with you as I finish a project.
Which brings up another subject, pictures. I will be loading pictures to my flickr account this week too so that I can share my life through pictures with you too.
Well if I haven't run you off by now, I will say so long for a while but please come back soon. I will have lots to talk about always and hope you will too.
Have a good Monday.
Debbie
Monday, May 24, 2010
I'm so Excited!
May 30th I am beginning my first e-course done by Kelly Rae Roberts. The course is going to be full of information to make your business grow. I am looking toward retirement to be able to do what I want to do and I think I have what I am looking for. My husband and I have been in antiques for 20 years and I love the small things that get left in the bottom of the drawers when you clean out an old dresser or little treasures that you find in dresser bowls or in the bottom of boxes in your bottom drawer. You know, the little trinkets that a penny or nickel would buy with a piece of gum. All the little things in life that mean so much for the moment as they are held in your hand or put in your pocket and then washed. All the little things that we remember having but don't remember what happened to them. These are the things that I like to collect and I want to do something with them. I want to be able to share them with others. I have to because I can't do something with everything I have and I want them to have another life.
So I am hoping through this wonderful class that Kelley Rae is offering I can find a way to share my ideas and love of these little things.
This is going to be such a wonderful way to take a class. You can pick a quiet time to read and absorb the material and yet have plenty of time to ask questions and then read everyone else's questions too.
Class is still open but it starts May 30th so hurry if you are interested. Go to www.kellyraeroberts.com and look under e-courses. Kelly Rae is great!
And I am starting to gather and pack for The Art Nest in June. It will be here in no time. My daughter and I will be driving from Texas to Utah. I think the trip will be so fun too. I will take lots of pics to show everyone what we did.
Until another time...
So I am hoping through this wonderful class that Kelley Rae is offering I can find a way to share my ideas and love of these little things.
This is going to be such a wonderful way to take a class. You can pick a quiet time to read and absorb the material and yet have plenty of time to ask questions and then read everyone else's questions too.
Class is still open but it starts May 30th so hurry if you are interested. Go to www.kellyraeroberts.com and look under e-courses. Kelly Rae is great!
And I am starting to gather and pack for The Art Nest in June. It will be here in no time. My daughter and I will be driving from Texas to Utah. I think the trip will be so fun too. I will take lots of pics to show everyone what we did.
Until another time...
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Another Month is gone.
Here we are in May already. I am just about done with my job and will be fully retired soon...yea!!! I have a busy summer planned. Next month my daughter and I are going to Utah for the Art Retreat with Julie and Candice. I am so excited about taking a class with Ruth Rae and Stephanie Lee and working with my sewing machine again. I made all my daughter's clothes before she started school but that was almost 35 years ago. WOW! I can't believe it. Then I helped my girls sew when they were in Blue Birds and home economics classes in jr high school. Hand sewing has been my passion more than anything over the years. I love to quilt, embroidery, cross-stitch, anything with a needle and in my lap but I have also missed the machine. I have a feeling a new machine is in my future, ha. I hope to have pictures of the class when I get back to put on my site.
July we are on our way to travel the East Coast. I want to go to Maine and eat lobster, New York and see Niagra Falls and everywhere in between. So I will have lots of pictures to share with everyone when I get back.
It has been so nice to spend time in my home, cleaning, organizing, and going through lots of things I have collected along my pathway. I still have boxes from 5 years ago when I cleaned out my father's home to go through. But now I have all the time I want to do what I want. Enjoy whatever you are planning for your summer and please come back and see me. I want to tell you everything.
July we are on our way to travel the East Coast. I want to go to Maine and eat lobster, New York and see Niagra Falls and everywhere in between. So I will have lots of pictures to share with everyone when I get back.
It has been so nice to spend time in my home, cleaning, organizing, and going through lots of things I have collected along my pathway. I still have boxes from 5 years ago when I cleaned out my father's home to go through. But now I have all the time I want to do what I want. Enjoy whatever you are planning for your summer and please come back and see me. I want to tell you everything.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Happy Birthday to Me
Well, I'm not sure that this is my favorite birthday but getting close to 59 1/2 is one milestone I don't mind...retirement here I come. I am ready to play now. My husband, family, and art are going to be my full time job, in that order, from now on.
I am starting out with a trip to Utah with my daughter to the Art Nest in June. They treat you like a queen while you are there. I cannot believe that my daughter has an interest in art now. She was never interested in any of my "crafty things" until now and I am excited to take this trip with her. Then my husband and I are planning a trip to Nova Scotia this summer. This is part of the country I have always wanted to see.
I just had a wonderful visit with my cousin and her husband. I saw her for the first time last year and they came back again this year. We have just become so connected after all these years. Now we are planning a cruise together for next March. It is so nice to have family. Family is special!!
I have an easy day planned tomorrow for myself to paint and spend time with my favorite friend, Lexy, my black lab. She loves my company. Wishing everyone happy days until next time....
I am starting out with a trip to Utah with my daughter to the Art Nest in June. They treat you like a queen while you are there. I cannot believe that my daughter has an interest in art now. She was never interested in any of my "crafty things" until now and I am excited to take this trip with her. Then my husband and I are planning a trip to Nova Scotia this summer. This is part of the country I have always wanted to see.
I just had a wonderful visit with my cousin and her husband. I saw her for the first time last year and they came back again this year. We have just become so connected after all these years. Now we are planning a cruise together for next March. It is so nice to have family. Family is special!!
I have an easy day planned tomorrow for myself to paint and spend time with my favorite friend, Lexy, my black lab. She loves my company. Wishing everyone happy days until next time....
Sunday, April 4, 2010
April already
I can't believe it is April already but it sure is nice to see Spring come at last. My brother and wife has been here for a nice visit and the weather has been perfect. We have been able to sit outside each evening on the patio with our wine and a snack. We went to The Oasis in Austin last night and it was a perfect night too, beautiful weather and Lake Travis was full, the boats were out, margaritas and food were great! Great time with family that are good friends too.
Thinking now of my list of "wanta do's" Now that the weather is nice I want to start my foundation mosaic, I have flowers to plant, I have my walkway to finish to my greenhouse, and I want to start painting my outbuildings. I will take pictures during my projects so that I am sure to keep it going.
I have 3 outbuildings to clean out and I want to get my cellar cleaned out so that I can paint down there this summer when it is hot outside but cool in the cellar. I am so excited about retiring and having time to do all the projects I want to work on.
So for tonight I can have good dreams about playing with my home again.
Good night to all and Happy Easter.
Thinking now of my list of "wanta do's" Now that the weather is nice I want to start my foundation mosaic, I have flowers to plant, I have my walkway to finish to my greenhouse, and I want to start painting my outbuildings. I will take pictures during my projects so that I am sure to keep it going.
I have 3 outbuildings to clean out and I want to get my cellar cleaned out so that I can paint down there this summer when it is hot outside but cool in the cellar. I am so excited about retiring and having time to do all the projects I want to work on.
So for tonight I can have good dreams about playing with my home again.
Good night to all and Happy Easter.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Spring in Texas
Home again, home again. I have been in Kansas somewhere since last Christmas. Came home for about 2 weeks, then left for California for An Artful Journey in Los Gatos, CA. What a wonderful time! 3 days for playing in glue, paint, paper, etc. Learned so much and had so much fun. We made a funky chunky coffee table book. It is something that will continue for a long time. A book that I can journal in anytime. I am already planning another one.
Then I went to KC to help my son move. It was cold and nasty but after 3 weeks we had him moved. I know he is still looking for things that his Mother put away for him but I will be back Stephen to help you find everything.
I wasn't ready to come home but work called and for now I had to respond. Soon my time will be my own and when it is I have lots of plans. I have been "gathering" for a long time (as most women do) to mosaic the concrete foundation around by back porch. Weather is with me now and I hope to get started soon, so I will be posting pictures of my work as I go.
Weather is beautiful, pictures are good for the taking, time has slowed down, relationships are growing, time will take care of things that I don't have to worry about anymore. Life is good and I am going to make the most of it while I can.
Then I went to KC to help my son move. It was cold and nasty but after 3 weeks we had him moved. I know he is still looking for things that his Mother put away for him but I will be back Stephen to help you find everything.
I wasn't ready to come home but work called and for now I had to respond. Soon my time will be my own and when it is I have lots of plans. I have been "gathering" for a long time (as most women do) to mosaic the concrete foundation around by back porch. Weather is with me now and I hope to get started soon, so I will be posting pictures of my work as I go.
Weather is beautiful, pictures are good for the taking, time has slowed down, relationships are growing, time will take care of things that I don't have to worry about anymore. Life is good and I am going to make the most of it while I can.
Friday, February 12, 2010
New Start, New Year
WOW! It has started out with a bang and I have so much in my head it has been hard to keep all my feelings straight. After I returned from Kansas for the holidays, I had the opportunity to go with my Brother and Sister-in-Law to visit missionaries in Managua, Nicargua. What an experience. This couple sold there house and business in Missouri to help the people of Nicargua. What a wonderful and eye opening experience of what people can do with God's faith and love. They take food and medicines to many families that have nothing and teach english and agrigulture in a private mission church on their faith that God will take care of them. And they are doing it! I was able to visit a Mother and Children's Hospital to see the work being done by many faithful followers. I also was able to meet families of an outer community that hang on to their faith to survive. It makes all the difference on how you look at the world when you come back to the states. I want to go back this summer and volunteer anyway that I can.
Texas has had a cold winter this year and I don't even have any garden in yet. I am looking forward to being able to get outside in some warmth again. Even though I have enjoyed setting in the evenings drawing and following many friends on facebook.
I am heading to Los Gatos, CA on Thursday for a 3 day art retreat call An Artful Journey. I am taking another class with Mati and Kelly Rae and I am so looking forward to it. With my supply list in hand I have everything on my list and have been gathering all the little things that make mixed media art so much fun. When I head home I will go to KC to help my son settle into a new place and spend some good time with him.
I will be ready to come home but Sprin will be in Texas again and I will be able to work outside. I am going to mosaic all around the base concrete foundation of our house, I have been gathering for this project for a long time too and I am ready to get started.
I have also decided and with my daughters support this summer I will be able to retire from our consulting business so that I will not be stuck in an office all day! Halleluyah! I will finish out this year but she is ready to take over and I know she will be ready for this old lady to get out of her way.
I have pictures to add and more stories to tell, so until next time, everyone be safe and be happy, that is the most important thing in life.
Omz
Texas has had a cold winter this year and I don't even have any garden in yet. I am looking forward to being able to get outside in some warmth again. Even though I have enjoyed setting in the evenings drawing and following many friends on facebook.
I am heading to Los Gatos, CA on Thursday for a 3 day art retreat call An Artful Journey. I am taking another class with Mati and Kelly Rae and I am so looking forward to it. With my supply list in hand I have everything on my list and have been gathering all the little things that make mixed media art so much fun. When I head home I will go to KC to help my son settle into a new place and spend some good time with him.
I will be ready to come home but Sprin will be in Texas again and I will be able to work outside. I am going to mosaic all around the base concrete foundation of our house, I have been gathering for this project for a long time too and I am ready to get started.
I have also decided and with my daughters support this summer I will be able to retire from our consulting business so that I will not be stuck in an office all day! Halleluyah! I will finish out this year but she is ready to take over and I know she will be ready for this old lady to get out of her way.
I have pictures to add and more stories to tell, so until next time, everyone be safe and be happy, that is the most important thing in life.
Omz
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Back to Work
Well I'm back in the rut again but I have promised myself that I am going to write a note every chance I get. My daughter called me tonight so excited because she made her first batch of homemade butter. One of those things every kid did in elementary school she has found again. My one child I never thought would settle down is happy with her life on a small ranch with cows, dogs and cats and now making butter. We are planning a small garden this year that we are going to work together. I am so excited to do this with my daughter.
We received so many wonderful Christmas cards this year and I appreciate my wonderful friends and family that still send me cards when I have not sent Christmas cards for probably 5 years so I am sending post-Christmas cards this year to say Thank you. It is late and I still have lots of mail to catch up on so I will say goodnight for now.
We received so many wonderful Christmas cards this year and I appreciate my wonderful friends and family that still send me cards when I have not sent Christmas cards for probably 5 years so I am sending post-Christmas cards this year to say Thank you. It is late and I still have lots of mail to catch up on so I will say goodnight for now.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010
Happy New Year everyone! I have been in KS for the holidays with my kids and today was our last day :( Everyone will be heading home tomorrow and back to work on Monday. Another year to start with new challanges. My son has a new life to begin and plan for this year and I am looking forward to watching and helping as he goes along. My daughter and I will be traveling with our business more this year and I am looking forward to spending that time with her. This will be her big year to take over the business so that I can be ready to retire next year.
My husband will be 61 tomorrow, WOW, I don't know where the time goes.
Had a great day, cooked for my family again tonight and had a neighbor over. It is now time to say goodnite and be ready to start thinking about going home ourselves. I have a lot of new things to get ready for myself.
wishing you all a good year!!! Pictures and ART are next on my list. Love to all...
My husband will be 61 tomorrow, WOW, I don't know where the time goes.
Had a great day, cooked for my family again tonight and had a neighbor over. It is now time to say goodnite and be ready to start thinking about going home ourselves. I have a lot of new things to get ready for myself.
wishing you all a good year!!! Pictures and ART are next on my list. Love to all...
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