Heya! Sorry I had to take the cam down without warning this afternoon. I am determined to finish her face tonight, and you are welcome to watch!!!

Sooo, go on and click on that cam link right over there ————>
and don’t forget to zoom it to 200% to see the whole capture area! 😉

I have a beautiful photo that I took this morning that I will share when I finish up and post her progress pic tonight. Make sure if/when you come back, you scroll down right in this entry to see the images, I’ll add ’em right down here. 😀

ONE WEEK TO GO TIL MARK COMES HOME! Whoooooooowie! We are so excited to get to spend two whole weeks with him, I can’t even describe it! I’ve arranged the first night already, kinda honeymoon-ish. 😉 Jay and Caitlin are both thrilled of course, Jay keeps talking about sharing her birthday cake with Daddy and making him wear a hat and hold balloons. hehe! (Ready for that, hon?)

I’ll be back in a bit!
xoxoxo

And one more for my bestest bud who isn’t obsessive compulsive AT ALL. I swear.

She just loves my purdyful flowers. 🙂

Holy cannoli, what a day! I don’t think I’ve done that much math in my head since high school. LOL

I unloaded the garage and loaded up two trucks with stuff to add to the sale for tomorrow, WISH ME LUCK! And lots and lots of sized 14-22 women who love clothes. And expecting moms, and moms with infants. 😀 That will take care of everything and I won’t have to bring anything home! YAHOO!

I tell you what though, not painting today, I am getting the jitters. Even just thinking about not painting tomorrow is making me a little nauseous! I am so in love with my oils, and so excited to really excel and expand my compositions and gallery!!! I have so many ideas!

You know that painting from Vermeer has already taught me so much, looking at his palette, using only the colors he used (ok 2 extras ’cause I couldn’t figure out which was which on his palette description!). I was really intimidated by working this piece. I had it ready to start for a few days, and I was headed home one day and honestly started painting it in my head! I knew I was ready for it, now to finish it and to have a painting that is truly a tribute to Vermeer – I will be SOOO EXCITED!

Aaah. Ok folks sorry to ramble, just had to get that off my chest! Now please accept my apologies for my lack of cam painting today and tomorrow, I PROMISE I will paint Sunday, and I will finish this piece by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week! (Ok, Thursday or Friday. LOL)

I still have some eye candy for you! See how mean I am, make you read all that when all you really wanted was something easy on the eyes. Ok here you go! This is a flower in my in-law’s garden. Anyone know what it is? An African Daisy perhaps? The light was hitting it just right and it just caught my eye from the driveway. Aaah. Sniff. Enjoy. It’s my favorite color!

We’re heading out for the morning/afternoon, my mother-in-law is having a garage/moving sale so we’ll be helping her with it today!

I am trying to get a whole bunch of stuff done before Mark comes home on leave, so to help facilitate all of these projects, I just relisted a couple of paintings and a bunch of prints, 3 of them are Limited Editions! They are 3-Day listings, so they’ll be over by the end of the weekend! Here they are!

I’ll be back later today to paint… 🙂

xoxoxoxox

Caitlin wanted to paint today, and I got her working in soft pastels. She worked a lot on this portrait of Daddy, and I helped her refine some areas and showed her how to blend. Not bad for an 8 year old, eh?

I gave Chloe a bath today too. She smells so purdyful! 🙂

I have prepped my next painting, and might maybe possibly paint on webcam tomorrow! I will be painting a tribute to Vermeer, his masterpiece “Girl With A Pearl Earring”. I had sketched a version of it (from the book cover) on a flight down to Louisiana, some of you may remember this sketch.

That’s about it for today, I am off to raid the freezer for chocolates (daggone it!) and watch some really educational and informative public broadcasting. heh. :P~

Hey! Long time no see!

Well I had a nice couple of days “off”, ha! I’ll try to catch you up on everything.

1. I’ve discovered that there is no handbook on “how to do everything perfectly when your husband is off at war”. I searched everywhere! Bummer. I’m still wingin’ it.

2. Jayden had TONS of fun at school, she really likes it! See?

3. I’m trying to plan a new more sophisticated and browser friendly layout for my galleries. So far I came up with this, and you would click on the teenie tiny image and the large one would come up in that big blank space there. The menu on the left includes everything this time, it’s all broken down. You like?

4. I got a package in the mail yesterday from Artbyus, which included a few of the postcards that are being sent out to thousands of folks around the world! See anything familiar?

5. I have a lump on my foot, it’s a ganglion cyst, and I’ve lost about 90% of the feeling in my toes because it’s pressing down on my nerves and may have caused permanent damage. 🙁 Part of Lala land was a trip to see a very sweet podiatrist who has me scheduled for surgery on October 15th.

6. I have a couple of other lumps (hehe!) that are also going to be removed. I’m just going to leave it at that. :X
;P~

7. Jayden’s 3rd Birthday is September 21st. Guess what her birthday present is? C’mon…guess….

nope. that’s not it.

MARK GETS 2 WEEKS LEAVE AND WILL BE HOME AROUND THE 23rd!!!

now guess who is going on vacation again very soon? heheheeeee…..

Of course if you’re in the area you are all invited to stop over and have a piece of cake, some ice cream, and hear war stories for the day! (We’ll have chips and beverages and stuff too, of course!)

I think that’s everything, yea? Dang I hope so. That’s enough for 2 days worth of vacationing isn’t it? Good golly!

The convention last night was PROFOUND wasn’t it?! I was bawling. But if you watched it toward the end there when GW was all teary eyed, you should have seen me. God Bless the creators of extra soft Kleenex with Aloe.

Have a great one, my prayers are with everyone in the path of Frances!!
xoxoxoxo

Good morning!

It’s going to be a busy day today. Caitlin leaves for school in a bit, then I’ll be getting Jay ready for her first day in Pre-K! She is so excited, and has to wear a necklace she said. LOL

I have an appointment this morning while she’s at school, and will also be swinging by the post office to drop off the paintings I wanted to ship yesterday (the Coon wasn’t dry yet). I got up at 6AM to get all of the packages put together.

Today is also “pay the bills” day, iew! Sitting down at the table with the big giant calculator, you know how that goes? Blaaahhhh I’m glad that only happens 2 days a month. hehe! Oh how I wish my brain was a calculator some days. I suppose I should take some Advil an hour before I do that, huh?

I also have some website updates to do today, to my site as well as another one. I have so many things to add to my galleries!

I think that about covers what I’ll be up to today, how about you?

Have a great day, I will leave you with the scan of the Coon painting as your eye candy today! See ya later!
xoxoxoxo

It’s rainy today, so here’s a lil sunshine for you! We stopped by Grampa’s house a couple of weeks ago to drop off some of my excess Irises, and I saw this beauty & had to get a pic of it! You can click the flower to see a closeup of it. It looks like a pretty sunset, doesn’t it?

I will post again later, a progress shot of the pup I’m painting. 🙂

P.S. The MCFA letters were just sent out yesterday! So…today or tomorrow I should find out if I’ve been juried in!

Still working on this fella!

and this next one…well this one is for P. Yes, this is my cookie jar, on my messy kitchen counter. We’ve had it for a couple of years now. Look familiar? 😉

I wanted to get these up here so you can see what Mark got for his B-day! He’s already received and unwrapped his present, so now I’m not spoiling the surprise… lol

We made life-sized posters of the girls for him, so he can see exactly how big they are! Caitlin colored most of herself in, and I colored in Jay. Aren’t they cool? 😀

Hey now! Check this out!!! Cowpainters Custom Painted Fiberglass Animals Page! See anything familiar? Neato frito!

Now I’m off to paint ALLLLLL DAYYYY!!! Hope you have a good one!