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  • A Lotta Little Things

    December
    9
    2008

    Hey! How are you? Me? I’m well, thanks. It’s been a few days. Why has it been a few days? Hm. Well, I have a mild Facebook addiction (You don’t? Then you haven’t joined yet. You can thank me later.), I’ve even made a page, where you can become my fan.

    Now, lest you think I spend every waking hour updating my status on Facebook, I have to show you that I have, indeed, been working! I’ve finished up a site design for Houston Photographer Patrick Bertolino. The design itself is simple, it’s the gallery that makes it what it is – and it’s his own Photography that makes the site delicious. You have to see his work! Go! I’ll wait.

    I’ve also started another drawing, and have been doodling a bit on a custom dog illustration to be used on a previous client site. Very interesting things going on over here!

    Last Friday, a very large package landed on my doorstep. Four new backdrops for my pursuit of studio photography! I will be revamping my studio to better accommodate portrait and still life sessions. I’m really excited about that, and will update you (and my site) when portrait packages and studio sessions are available.

    I’m expecting another shipment in the next day or two – of course that would be the Christmas Postcards that I designed, and I’m so excited to send! If you received a card from me last year, you’re still on my list. If you’re a regular here, I am going to ask you to click on my “contact” form and don’t be shy about sending your address! I’d love to share my card with you this year!

    I’ve also heavily discounted my “Eye Ate It” Series as well as Kiki, my beautiful Calico Cat painting in my Etsy Store, so there’s still time to give something sweet to someone you love for Christmas!

    * * *

    Those of you participating in my Handmade Gift Exchange, you received your partners last week. Just want to remind you that your Handmade gifts should be in the mail by the end of this week (the 14th), beginning of next at the very latest to be sure they reach their destination in time for Christmas. I’m really excited to see how it goes, and would love to see photos of your gifties, too! If you haven’t received your partner, then something has gone amuck. Please let me know if anything is amuck, as I have a brand new box of Hello Kitty band-aids, and I’ll fix it right up.

    * * *

    On the home front, we’ve all had the flu here, and I’m glad to see it depart our household. It’s a nasty bugger! I hope that none of you are down with this!

    The girls have piano recitals tonight so I’m really looking forward to that – they’ve got brand new dresses, of course, because you can’t wear the same dress twice. I’m raising my girls up right, you know! I’ll get video of them and post it to my Facebook. Catybug will be playing a tune herself, as well as accompanying another wonderful young pianist with vocals.

    It’s going to be a good day, as long as this rain doesn’t turn to ice!

    Update: I’ll be making my annual dough ornaments this afternoon. I gave the recipe a couple of years ago but here it is again, for those of you who are :cough: bored today and want something creative and fun to do!

    DOUGH ORNAMENTS
    2 cups flour
    1 cup salt
    1 cup water

    Knead, add more flour to make it really doughy if needed, sprinkle water to make it more pliable as needed. Roll on very lightly floured surface, cut shapes using regular cookie cutters of your choice, bake at 250 for 2 hours.

    Handy & Creative Tips:
    – Roll them out on the backside of a non-stick cookie sheet so they don’t need to be transferred to the sheet.
    – Fill in any cracks with water, smooth with your finger.
    – Use a straw to punch out holes for ribbon before you bake them.
    – Once completely cooled, paint them using metallic craft paint, or use a shimmery iridescent glaze over a solid color.
    – Glue foil to the back to reflect the lights on the tree
    – Use glitter sparingly to make them shiny
    – String with ribbon and hang them on the tree!


    Get in the Christmas Spirit!
    Now Playing : Oh Holy Night

    [audio:ohholynight.mp3]

    {7 Comments}

    1
    Renee said,

    oooh ACK! I didn’t realize how quickly time is getting away from me this year. I did get my handmade exchange person and I need to get that done! I’m also needing to get my Christmas cards done and wrapping …etc! I guess you would have my addy for the Christmas cards, huh?

    I better get off the computer and go make my gift! LOL!

    12.9.2008 @ 1:49 pm
    2
    pam said,

    Wow, you have been busy! Congrats on the studio photography inception! That will be awesome! :dance:

    12.9.2008 @ 2:36 pm
    3
    Marcia said,

    A lotta little things make a lot of happiness, don’t they! No ice! Enjoy the concert.

    12.9.2008 @ 4:22 pm
    4
    bob said,

    Goodness-have not made dough ornaments since my baby (now 22) was little. Good times, good memories. Thank you :thanku:

    12.9.2008 @ 10:23 pm
    5
    Da Goddess said,

    Feel better soon! And enjoy the new backdrops! Thanks for sharing Patrick, his site, and his photography with us. You know I’m drooling.

    12.9.2008 @ 11:13 pm
    6
    Robert Tracy said,

    Leanne,

    The flu!? Didn’t you get a flu shot? I’m sorry to hear it, and happy for you and your family that it’s gone.

    Piano recitals. What will your girls be playing? Hope it’s Classical, but a Christmas piece would be good for the audience.

    Keep up the good work. Stay busy. (People often say “don’t work too hard”. My wish to all is “Work hard”!).

    P.S. I love Lucy. That is to say, I love your “Lucy”.

    We have three stray cats since a year ago. Why? Where are the owners? One is pure black–we let her inside from the cold and she’ll stay for 8 hours before she goes to the door to want out. No doubt she’s been spayed. One is a long-hair pure gray with what we call a “smashed” face. I don’t know what this breed is, but he’s beautiful. We call him “Smash”. The worst case is an ordinary Tabby. But it’s taken me a year to get close to him. And even now when I touch him he backs away from his morning meal on the porch. He limps with a right front paw almost gone. I thought he’d wandered into a trap. No. For him to be so afraid, it had to be someone who owned him and did this to him. Breaks our heart. Looks at us with big sad eyes. Fear is gone but there’s a questioning look: “Are you going to hurt me”? Love to find someone in town who’d take him but you just can’t get a close emotional tie with him let alone find a way to capture him to a (I think a professional cat lover would know how) loving house. We care for him and love him, but it’s so sad. He’s always here for his meals. But that’s all. He sees us spend time with the other two, petting them. Why won’t he let us pet him?

    I’m sorry for this long P.S. But we can’t do any more than we do.

    Thank you so much.

    12.10.2008 @ 10:04 am
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    you’re so busy, i don’t know how you do it all. i’ve got facebook, but i’m not really understanding what i should be doing with it, but i keep at it anyways.
    i hope you post pics of your ornaments, i did pretend gingerbread ones a few years ago, they were made of mainly glue and glitter, no actual gingerbread and i gave one to a friend of mine and her dog ATE IT!!!

    12.11.2008 @ 12:37 pm

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