Happy Monday!!

It's great to be back! We travelled home to Maryland for Thanksgiving and really enjoyed time with the family....and shopping.

I always have to visit Savage Mill when going home. This is my favorite toy store...Queen's Ink.
DH doesn't mind taking me there because they have a wonderful spousal containment area with a big comfy couch. Tons of creative goodies here.


Also at the Mill...And SEW it Goes...conveniently next to Queen"s Ink

Lucy & Ethel's.... another good one

a sweet Maryland pillow

I have great news....As I was catching up on my e-mails, I had one from the Editor of Artful Blogging and they want to feature my blog banner in their Blog Banners We Love section!! I am so excited but trying to figure out how to send them what they need to publish it. I am not really computer smart and the deadline is TODAY! So wish me luck.

takin' off a bit

After three weeks of doctors appointments and tests and stressing out...I am taking a week off from everything....including my blog.

Thanks to everyone for your kind thoughts and well wishes.

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!

See you next week.

good news

Test results are in and everything is A-OK with my heart!

I have a little leaky valve but it's OK.

Artful weekend ahead...hope you have one too.

friday bliss

Yay! It's Friday and the last doctor appointment for a while...I hope. Today I get the results of all the tests I've been having. Fingers crossed.

Another little girl ballerina bag. Front....

....and back

...be artful!
and have a great weekend

flu shot bluez

Yep, got my flu shot yesterday and was fine until last night about 10:30 when every muscle in my body felt so sore I had to go to bed. A little better this morning but still feel like a truck ran over me.

Today, I get my broken crown fixed. No not that kind....the one on my tooth. Maybe they can just numb my whole body.....yeah...dream on.

This is a bag for a little ballerina.

...don't forget to work some art into your day...

no lunch tuesday

It's already Tuesday and no time for lunch with the girls today. It's deadline time...need to work work work!



Here is my sweet little Santa. He is 6 and a quater inches high and has a clothes pin with a magnet on his back so you can hang up your Christmas list. I actually made a bunch of angels this way and used them to hang up my Christmas cards. My front door was metal and they looked nice hanging on the back.

...he's ready for his close up

hope you have a great hair day!

another monday.....

This was basically my weekend....making angel dolls. The dresses are reds, greens and some beigey Christmas prints....beigey?

...no bucket of wings here...bucket of heads

I get all the component parts made then have fun putting them all together. I like creating the hair...then the personalities begin to emerge.

my current read

I am loving this issue. It is always fun to see where other women create and a good source for decorating and storage ideas. I read in a different magazine where a woman didn't have a place for creating and she rented a storage space and made it her studio...now that is extreme..but an option. I could not imagine not having a place to create art.

think pink today!