Get creative with me!
Today I’ll show you what’s happening weather-wise here in the upper midwest. Put on your spiked slickers! I’ll add more as the icicles grow and things start really sparkling from the coating of ice on everything.
Iced Birdhouse:
Slippery Slide:
Frozen Fence:
Glazed Post:
Hey! Today’s uh, over. How did that happen? I got up, we went to the grocery store, I started mucking with this neat program and getting my gallery images ready to go!
So I’d show you my progress on the new layout, but it’s really hush-hush right now. It’s a top-secret design that no-one anywhere has, I thought it up all by myself in the shower one day. No, I was driving. No, wait, I was feeding the dog. Yes, feeding the dog. Anyway I thought it up, and Lisa snaped it into position, and now I’m mucking! Fun!
No, I did not paint today. I will not paint tomorrow. I will paint on Tuesday! The Floor Guy is scheduled for tomorrow, which means I’ll be peeling & sticking again. The guy is like Linus, I swear, a cloud of dirt around him wherever he goes. Yes, he’s a dirty conservative Tim McGraw lookalike. So?? Is that really such a bad thing???
Alright sorry about that, I’ve missed you today, or I’m a little wound up from reading code. heh!
DAY TWO
Today’s Walk
Time: 30.02 min
Dist.: 1.68 mi.
MPH: 3.4
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Finish Line
March 5, 2005
GOAL: 128 mi.
Gone: 3.24 mi.
To Go: 124.76 mi.
I just received this pic from Lisa, this is her man, Chris, standing beside Talis & Meowface (who arrived in perfect timing on Christmas Eve, thank you USPS!).
Thanks, Chris, for allowing me to share! Your painting looks fab against the brick!
I’ve got a few portraits out there that were given as Christmas gifts, anyone have photos to share of their recipients with their paintings? I would love to put them up here for everyone to see (or just see them myself)! The Christmas feedback I get just warms my heart, to know that what I do touches someone else’s heart in such a positive way through the thoughtfulness of my clients, really, I couldn’t have asked for a better “job”.
Caitlin’s special gift from Mommy & Daddy, a sketchbook, cover design courtesy Mommy:
Jayden’s favorite pressie from Santa:
Mommy’s favorite pressie from Daddy, Cashmere!
What we saw out the window:
Together at the W family dinner:
At first I didn’t like that glare on the fireplace, but the more I got to looking at it, the more I feel like it’s kinda cool. I mean, that’s where Mark would be sitting. So he gets a bright light instead. Appropriate. 🙂
More later!
Thank you all for being here for us this year. I can’t express in words how much I appreciate your support and presence.
Special thanks to those of you who sent along beautiful and heartfelt cards, I will treasure them.
Merry Christmas!
Much much love,
Leanne & family
Hey there!
If you’re here, you’re noticing something very, very different is going on with my layout! Yea!!
Again, special thanks to Lisa. This is the first of a couple different and user-changeable looks for my blog. The others will be up at a later time.
Be patient with me, I still have some work to do to get things in order. I’ll be transferring as many of the comments over as I can. I also have to wade through 400 entries and categorize them so that you can view my entries by category (see the left sidebar, you can select a category and just those entries will appear!). Most of my images need to be reduced, they’ll be hanging over the edges until I get that done.
Just some minor tweaking here and there!
Have a look around! A bunch of new features await your left-click! 😉
This is the final scan of the painting. The other surprise will be coming along at some point today!
I just have to share this gal with you guys. I mentioned Lisa, she’s the gal taking the reins on revamping my blog layout and making the functionality SO MUCH better. She is also the gal I’m painting Talis & Meowface for. We’re trading services, which is awesome in itself!
You know how frustrated I am with Blogger, well I’ve installed WordPress and it’s a whole new coding language to me. I am the type who would sit and fiddle with learning the code, and I knew that if I did that I would not finish my commissions for everyone in time for the Holidays, so she graciously took over my headache so that I could get my butt back into the studio! THANK YOU, Lisa!!
I was blogsurfing lastnight, have you ever done that? You must! Here’s a great place to start, Lisa’s design samples. Have a look at the awesome graphic & coding talents this girl has. Pay special attention to the features on each of the blogs you look at. Layout aside, there are so many neat features that turn each blog into its own information headquarters. You can search each blog within itself for things you remember but can’t find thru dated archives. A calendar to read up from your last visit. A list of referring websites. SOooOOoo many things that I didn’t even realize I was missing until I stumbled across her website!
I know it can be time consuming, but it’s fun and informative, so surf those blogs! And if you have one, tell me where I can find you if I haven’t already. If you don’t have one, drop Lisa a note; her whole biz is hosting and designing blogs for folks! She’s awesome!!
Aaah! This is a MUCH better representation of Sheba’s portrait! She’s dry & varnished, and will be on her way to her family today.
