Literally.
I keep all the change from when we go shopping, and put it in a savings account.
Now I'm getting sick of all the problems I've been having with my newish pc.
This morning it had the nerve to just shut down to do some random update. This was while I was in the middle of doing something! I've been given warnings before and pop up messages about this and that from my pc, but this was crazy. Made me furious.
So anybody switch from pc to imac and wanna say good words about the experience?
Introducing....
Tommy:
He's a West Highland white Terrier.
A Westie.
And he's the cutest.
And he's bitey and he's barkey and he's rolley.
He's always at full go or full stop.
The five cats either ignore him, hide from him or swat him.
He barks at them and we tell him no. Then he wants to be their best friend.
And did I mention he's the cutest?
It's strange to have to walk a dog in our yard (remember we live out in the boonies),
especially when it's about a million times a day!
He has a very different personality from the last 2 dogs we had, which were labs.
This takes some getting used to.
But did I mention he's the cutest?
The ceremony was beautiful,
the day was beautiful,
Heather was beautiful.
The whole thing started off with a rehearsal dinner at Lady and Son's in Savannah.
If you look closely at Heather's bouquet, you will see they are paper flowers that we made, and that she put together into the bouquets both for herself and the wedding party. I got a surprise bouquet too! The flowers were also put into the live plants we bought to go into the tins on the beach, that lined the aisles. And also on the tables at the rehearsal dinner.
This is the essence of the getting ready:
This is the beginning:
This is IT:
Reception followed.
With CUPCAKES!!!
It was GRAND!
Followed by beach party.
Finalized with dinner out at fun seafood restaurant.
Then drinks with the family we hadn't seen in forever.
The very smiling couple went off to Key West for a week.
Himself and I stayed a few more days at the beach and enjoyed the sun and seafood.
Then we headed up to see my brother, his wife and my Mom.
That was a treat, as she couldn't make it down for the wedding.
Lots of tears shed in our happiness, lots of smiles broke our faces in happiness.
All in all emotionally draining, but extremely happy days.
Ever onward folks, ever onward!!
And had to show you what we've been laughing at here in the cabin since yesterday:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Mind you, we don't laugh at him, that would be rude, and hurt his feelings.
We laugh with him and behind our hands and when he isn't looking!
Harry is about 13 years old, and this is the first time we've done this.
He was the "A cat" of the 5.
Now all the other cats seem bigger than him.
I hope they aren't laughing at him!
Back to work.
I won these two atc's just before I left for the wedding/vacation and didn't have time to post them for you all to see.
They are from Trudi over at Two Dresses Studio and what a gorgeous job she did on them!
Be SURE you click to enlarge so you can see the "beautifulness" of these atc's.
I hope the 3 dimensional aspect comes through.
The backs are pretty, too.
All in all I was really lucky to win these. Thank you Trudi.
Now, back to sorting wedding and vacation pics and working on collages!
This is a quick note to let you all know I'm back in my cabin in the woods.
The wedding was a dream, our daughter was, of course, beautiful!
The couple was very happy.
The sun and surf was wonderful.
I walked up and down the beach as much as I could,actually lost weight!
Saw lots of dolphins, ate lots of seafood,talked to lots of relatives.
Everyone had loads of fun the entire time.
Now I'm pooped, and need to rest for a minute!
I'll get my head together... then my pics together and post some more.
And I'll be getting back to my collages too.
Our beautiful daughter is getting married in just a week and things have gotten not quite hectic but very busy!
Art has to take a back seat to the most important day in a very lovely, loving young lady's life.
We will be enjoying the company of all sides of the families at a very special time and making merry!
I will return after I gather my wits!!
I leave you with this PRETEND wedding dress version of my darling daughter:
She'd be beautiful no matter what century gown she's wearing!
I've been very busy working on about 10 or so collages lately.
None of them are finished yet.
Just wanted to give you an update for those of you not following me on twitter, that think I've fallen off the edge of the world!
The collages are in various stages, a couple really close to being done.
So stay tuned!
In no particular order here are the other three collages I sent off to
Lisa Harrington,Jacqueline Bequette, and Cristi Clothier.
I received wonderful thanks from Lisa and Jacqueline.
Walnuts 5X7 Color Blocks collage
Snacks 5X7 Color Blocks collage
New Curtains 5X7 Color Blocks collage
As you can see, I am deep into this Color Blocks series now.
I've got more on the studio table in various stages of completion.
They are such fun to make.
Off I go.
Ever onward my artful friends.
I sent another Create it Forward collage off into the world and it landed at Prairie Emporium with Debbie.
As you may (or may not) have noticed in the right side I've been doing a little ( and I do mean little ) tweeting on twitter recently. Seemed like a fun thing to do. I actually started when I was following something or other and now I'm not following that anymore...funny eh?!
I thought it would be a "hoot" to do a twitter collage with so many on it, and even a contest being waged over who could get the most followers.
So a Color Blocks collage was born!
Poor Marion.
Will she ever learn about Twitter?
Will she at least learn about computers?
Will we ever know these answers?
Ever onward my arty friends,
at Livewire Jewelry.
Sharon sent me a nice email and then followed up with a post on her blog yesterday. It showed not only the collage I made for her, but the recipe card I sent along as a note also.
5 Second Rule collage.
This is one of my favorites in the Color Blocks series, to date. I feel I got my colors exactly as I wanted them in the background, the clothing, the skin and the object.
And it's chocolate!
These were both vintage images from 50's magazines. You can see there was some damage on the cherry. I decided given the subject, that that worked in my favor.
The background is several layers of acrylic washes, to give it more depth.
I didn't get much done in the studio yesterday as Heather & I picked up the wedding dress & other bridal dresses: Can you say beautiful?
This is from the day Heather first tried on her dress. That's Heather on the right and left.
Mirror, you know!
The pinning is being done by the Wonderful, Marvelous, Fantastic Colleen Louis Moore of White Orchid Bridal in Knoxville, TN.
She worked with Heather every step of the way & did all the dying just beautifully.
And the way she transformed the bits and pieces of my dress onto Heather's was just what Heather and I envisioned.
The hair pieces came out perfectly.
I'll show pictures of everything...After the wedding of course!!
Okay, back to studio stuff.
I think I need to do a bit of straightening and then get back to fun stuff.
Ever onward, all you arty people, ever onward!
Maybe last week, week before. I don't remember anymore. I have so lost track of time now!
This is a Color Blocks series collage called Frosted Meatloaf.
This started with a vintage picture I got in a scrapbook I bought. I blew it up and manipulated it in Photoshop first, then on the copy machine.
Then I painted it.
The green and white is fabric. The other images are from 50's and 60's magazines.
The background is acrylics, both regular and fluid.
Such fun these are to create!
On the home front news...I'm off to my daughter's to pick up her wedding gown and the bridesmaid gowns today! Heather opted to have the lacy bits from my gown sewn onto her gown and then the whole thing over dyed to bring the total brightness down. She's a redhead with very fair skin and the super white just didn't look right on her. The maid of honor and bridesmaids all got to pick out their own dresses and then they were dyed to match. That way everyone got a dress to suit them, and Heather still gets her color! Very fair I thought. I also got my dress yesterday, and that was fun, with Heather helping.
So now I'm going back to my Color Blocks for a while then off to the big city for some wedding fun!
are starting to arrive at their new homes.
The Creative Jar has a posting about her receiving her collage.
The first to make it on a blog is "Smell the Pickles":
Yes, indeed, you guessed it. The "Colors Block" series is alive and well and living in other peoples homes now!
I had an email from another create it forward receiver that had gotten hers, but I'm not going to post the picture here until she does on her blog.
That seems fair, right?
Meanwhile, I'm working on more of these. I really am having fun with them.
Okay, off to more painting and cutting!
There have been in my many years on this earth, only a few things, places, or people that have truly awed me. I can however, name the places that struck me deeply and left such an emotional connection with me, that even a brain tumor could not wipe the strength of the moment from my memory.
The places?
The USS Arizona Memorial
The Gettysburg Battlefield
The Vietnam Memorial
I feel honored that the men and women of the armed forces gave their lives for this country to go on in it's pursuit of whatever the ideal of "life liberty and the" happiness that it deemed appropriate at the moment!
As we go to our barbeques, picnic, beach parties or hanging around or even work today, I'll just leave you with this last bit:
"that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government : of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
For those of you not recognizing it, that's from the Gettysburg address.
I was just messing around this morning seeing if I could make my own border.
I could!
Then I wanted a different way to put a name in, so I used a spray brush rather than using the type tool.
I added an accented edges filter to it.
That's it, I told you, a quickie!
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