I've Won an Award!!!

My friend Ann at Ann's art @ Studio Hyde  has just presented me with the Versatile Blogger Award!

I’m delighted and honored!

Thanks Ann!

Now the hard part, LOL!

According to the rules I have to:

1.   Nominate 15 fellow bloggers (I could only come up with 13)

2.   Inform the bloggers of their nomination

3.   Share 7 random things about myself

4.   Thank the blogger who nominated me

5.   Add the Versatile Blogger Award Pic to my blog post 

So here goes:

Seven random things about me:

1. I am a compulsive list maker

2. I’m a sucker for old B&W movies from the 30’s and 40’s

3. I am left handed and have the brain to prove it!

4. I’d rather be at the shore than on a mountain

5. If I had all the money in the world I’d buy books, books, and more books

6. I don’t like crowds

7. I am a one year survivor of ovarian cancer  

and now my nominations are - (in no particular order)

1. Pia Drent at liquidbrick

2. Marilyn at my magpie collection

3. CJ Kennedy at Pony Express Home Station

4. Carol at Tall Tales From Kansas

5. Timaree at Freebird Drawing

6. Kim Henkel Letting in the Light

7. Elizabeth Stanton at Penspaper Studio

8. Pat Elliot at Pat Elliot Paintings

9. Yvonne at Muddle on Through

10. Joanna at Gathering Wild

11. annie! at bohemiannie!art

12. Marianne Walker at I Like Markers

13. Dion at Dion Dior & More 

Thank you to everyone who participates, who stops by to read my silly ramblings and who give their never ending virtual support! I am touched and grateful to you all!

Coal for Christmas

Back in the 80’s, we were the only house in the neighborhood that heated with a coal burning stove.

It was amazing how popular we became every Christmas!

It Went Well

Thanks everyone for all your virtual support! (I was nervous!) 

Today’s the Day

Wish me luck! 

(I will dutifully report back after I recover! LOL)

Done and Ready to Go

Inventoried, tagged and ready to go. 

'Snow Chicks' it is. 

Snow Chicks

Snow Chicks

Thank you to everyone who voted and helped with my indecisiveness! LOL

journals and  gift card/$$ ornaments

Snow Peeps

Snow Peeps

gift tags

(Update: Husband found the plate rack! Whew!)

The House is a Total Mess!

I'm going to have to clean all this up.
Eventually!

At least the glitter is done! (The ‘Snow Ho’s’ [as Husband has lovingly dubbed the luminaries] are all done.) Whew!
Only a few more journals to finish and I'm ready.

Brain Fart or ‘Old Timers’ Disease?

I’ve been running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to finish up for the sale on Friday.

Most of the items are finished, so I began thinking about how to best present/display them.

At one point in time we had a black metal plate rack (you know, the single kind for displaying an ornamental plate.)

I KNOW we had it. I even called Husband at work to verify I’m not just hallucinating.

Yep, we had it.

But where the hell is it?

I have been scouring the house. Every nook and cranny. Every hiding place, every drawer, every little place I might be tempted to stuff something out of sight until I can find a better place for it!

Nothing.

Nada.

Zero.

Zip.

I can’t find it anywhere!

And the thing is………

I know it’s right in front of my eyes…..somewhere………..

And I’ll be smacking my head (a lá ‘I could have had a V-8’) when I finally see it.

Do you have these moments too?

Please tell me you have these moments (please!)

Other Husbands Bring Flowers

Except flowers make me sneeze.

Through the years I’ve often felt kind of sorry for husband. He can’t rely on the usual little gifts and assorted sundries most men give their wives.

I don’t like or wear jewelry. I’m apparently allergic to most flowers. I’m not exactly what you’d call a clothes horse.

But he has shown a great deal of imagination when it comes to surprising me with little ‘trinkets’.

Like this:

He said. "You can use it as a container for something or the top would make a cute hat on one of your 'little guys'."

And this:

He heard me say I was looking for something to make a 'travel kit' for my watercolors. When he saw this he thought it would be different than everyone else’s. 

It’s not what most people would call a gift, per se. But it shows that he is thinking about me, he appreciates what I do, what I like, and who I am.

And isn’t that what gift giving is all about? 

Leveraging Your Artwork

This is what comes from working like mad at 3AM!

(I know it’s not good form to laugh at your own jokes but this just cracks me up! They will be cards and tags for the holiday sale.) 

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