I just added six new entries to the Pumpkin Carving Contest. Go have a look!

EVERYONE is welcome to join in. Young or old, carved or painted – we like ’em all!

I’ll be adding entries through Monday night – so please send me a portrait of your pumpkin as soon as you get it carved – I’m excited to see them all!

Here’s my carving for this year. I drew it up and made the stencil myself, and WHEE it turned out just like I thought it would!

Here it is in daylight:
I’m totally entering it into my contest. I’m just not gonna be eligible for votes.

Muuuuuuch better.

Aaah. I think I might keep this one around for a while.

The Second Annual Intricateart.com Pumpkin Carving Contest is now open! If you’ve carved your pumpkin, go on and get a Wicked picture of it and enter the contest!

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Here’s #4 in the Eye Ate It™ series, a brown M&M on an orange dish. I know a few of you who are really going to have a sweet tooth after you see this one, and I will not apologize for that. I’ve been sitting here snarfing them down, so please – go get yourself a bag and try to catch up, would you? My Hips & I would appreciate it if you did.

One set is now complete in my Eye Ate It™ series. They look awfully tasty together, see?

As shown:
#1: Walnut, #3: Blackberry
#4: Brown M&M, #2: GoldfishI’m really enjoying painting these little 4×4’s. It’s stretching my brain, and I feel like I’m getting a really great refresher in depth, shadow and dimension. Who knew these tasty treats would teach me so much?

Enjoy.

Catybug giggled as I doodled out her “sandwich bag art” this morning. We had 5 minutes. Then 3 minutes. Then one minute – then we were late to leave the house. When we’re about to be late, and I still have a headful of hair to comb – that would be me – the little stick figure with the “Oh No! Mr. Bill!” look on his face.

I dug the espresso machine out of the pantry lastnight, cleaned it up and stopped by the coffee shop for some ground beans and vanilla flavoring. That was a smart move, because I needed that latte to put me in overdrive and get the girls to school on time today.

Now if I could just figure out how to go back to “idle” mode…

(zip da dee doo dah, and all that is holy and caffinated.)

I just completed #3 in the Eye Ate It™ Series, a nice plump Blackberry. Unfortunately, my poor little perishable looks pathetic now next to its sweet and former self of a painting, so Eye May Not Eat It this time around. I have, however, eaten a few of its cell mates. (cellophane – hahaha. get it?)

4-inches square (all of them in the series will be this size), a perfect sized oil painting for bite sized goodness.

I’ve added the scans of the first two in the series to my gallery today as well. You can see them here:

Eye Ate It #1 : Walnut
Eye Ate It #2 : Goldfish

Our neighbor has two big beautiful apple trees in their backyard. We stopped over the other day and he filled a grocery bag full of yellow and red apples for us. This weekend I peeled and sliced well over 10 cups of apples, and I still have a sink full. Catybug and I made this lovely deep dish apple pie, and I made 5 loaves of apple walnut bread. We shared the loaves with the neighbors, of course!

In other news, and as you can see (unless you’re feedreading), I’ve finally completed the blog design to match my new gallery design. Please let me know if anything is broken – or if there are regular features that you can’t find.

Now that the weekend hustle and bustle and slicing and dicing is over, I can resume normal activities – and munch on some tasty goodness during breaks!

What have you been up to? And more importantly, when is the last time you made (or ate) home made apple pie?

MmmMMMmMmmmmm…

Our little Tucker reminded me so much of Barkley with his little innocent “petmepetmepetme” look.

“Come forth and pet me like the soft fuzzy puppy that I am”We had a little photo shoot this morning since he’s freshly bathed and I gave him a pretty little furcut to clear his eyes. The top of his head is turning creamy white now, and I really don’t want to have him groomed or trimmed because he’ll wind up losing that pretty Wheat (aka Wheaten/Wheatie terrier) color they’re born with.

Here are a few more feature shots from our little Studmuffin Tuckerhead today:

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