last chance

Just a quick reminder....you have until midnight tonight to make your donation to the Susan G. Komen foundation over at Monicas for your chance to win our Love Squared doll and many other prizes. You can't go wrong on this one. Even my man Tim Holtz has a prize to offer.
Just go to the button on the top of my sidebar and you are there. GOOD LUCK!!

Well on that note I am off to the doctors today for my six month checkup for my kidney. I am dreading it because I didn't lose the weight that he wanted me to. Oh well, maybe he will forget....not! This is my weight loss time because it is getting cooler....so my next visit I will be back down.

thinkin' pink!

weekend update

We went to the theater this past weekend to see the Pajama Game. We sat ten rows back and it was excellent. Next on the play list is two weeks from now and one of my favorite Rodgers & Hammerstein productions....Carousel. And it is staring Shirley Jones and her son Patrick Cassidy. I love Shirley Jones and I think this was her very first play or movie. I think she was 17. Or maybe it was Oklahoma...not sure.

Out to lunch today with the bowling girls then back to the studio for some work.

think pink!!

pink monday

Just a reminder that it is breast cancer awareness month....so you know what to do.

On that note, Cookie Sunshine is having a give away in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. She is giving away one of her signed "Princess Pink" prints (matted and framed) so check it out.

I hope everyone had or is still having a great weekend. I am on my way out to go to Michaels to use that 50% off coupon...woohoo!

So have a great day and don't forget the crayons!

sketch art

Here is the painted collage I made after accepting Sharons challenge last friday. She said to take an old sketch and finish it. I wish I had taken a before photo because she doesn't look anything like she did on the previous start. She had big bangs and pink hair. So she traded the hair for a hat....somedays I feel like doing that. I know her head is not in proportion with the rest of her body but we have BIG heads in our family. (That is why I can't hide bad hair with a hat....I can't find a cute one to fit this head.)



I cut her out and collaged her onto a canvas that I covered with ripped and inked pages from the books I found at the flea market last weekend. Added a few stamped images here and there.

To finish it all off I added beeswax and a flower on her hat. I like her and think her name should be Bella. Now I think I will pop over to Sharons and see if she and Norah have anything cooked up for this weekend.

Have a fun extended weekend!!

finally....

Yes! We are finally getting some cooler weather here in Oklahoma. Yesterday, the kitties and I hung out in the sitting room and enjoyed the nice breezes. The windows have not been opened since last Spring.

Another birthday bag.

...with lots of purplely goodness inside....

....topped off with a purple butterfly.

More orders in today. I am off to work now. Have a great Thursday! Three day weekend coming up.

busy...bagz

More bag orders this week. This one is red and black with pink flowers by request. I really love this one.

Both of the monograms are on huge pockets.

Today is stay-at-home-and-work-all-day-but-don't-have-to-cook-day. I wasn't on the roster to bowl this week but DH was. So I get to work longer in the studio and forget about cooking dinner. That cooking dinner thing cramps my style/day.

I took Sharon's challenge last weekend and I am making a painting from an old sketch. It should be ready by Friday to show.

a peek at tomorrows bag...some crazy stitching on that cell phone pocket

a day late

I am a day late here. Had labs to do yesterday. Fasting and all that and I ended up just running around all day. I just got home in time to whip up dinner and that was my day in a nutshell.



Some of you asked if I found any treasures at the Vintage flea market on Saturday. Books! Old books, school books, music books and books with French and German print. Great ephemera!

I found quite a few of this ladys books.
She had some shorthand books with the squiggly writing.

a very old book from the U.S. Army

But what did I really fall in love with?

THIS!!!

Isn't it a great old rusty pedal car?! It spoke to me. I love old pedal cars. I thought ...what a great planter this would be...on the front porch. DH looked at me with that look. I don't know...the look like I had two heads or something. But it's OK. At $325.00 it was NO bargain and I walked on.....

Have a good Tuesday. I have to go take the Mustang for an oil change and other fun stuff....not!