Big Win!

My husband won a jackpot recently on his favorite Monopoly slot.  A thirty cent bet for $430!  He hit a bonus and free spins to go around the board.  All aboard the money train!

Trees and Bluebells

 My recent Watercolor effort.  It's a practice piece from a step by step instruction book.  I liked the textured look on the tree trunks achieved by building up alot of dry brushing.  Not too bad for my first painting in a really long time!

Box Bags

Fun cube shaped bags to make.  This one has silk fabric painted with Shiva oilsticks over rubbing plates.  Wrist straps were put thru a wooden ball slide so that the slide moves to open the purse and clamps down to keep everything closed and secure.  Cute for evenings out.  Yeah, I have alot of those!!  


I think I'll make one in denim next.

First Iris Bloom

A couple weeks ago I took this picture of a new Iris to bloom in my garden.  The peachy ones are coming up too.  I planted mini gladiolas this year and the leaves are up but no stalks yet.  I think they bloom in June.  I love this color but don't recall planting it.  Lovely surprise!

Steampunk Debutante

Don't even ask me what that means.  It is the name of a line of scrapbook paper that I love for its funky designs.  I made a book with the paper.  Love the colors.  Lots of imagery.  Take a look!

Encaustics - Love 'em!

I gave myself a gift of encaustic (wax) paints for last month's birthday.  They are great to work with, fun to mix colors and embed things into my canvas, like papers or flowers.  This photo is my first palette on a presto griddle with aluminum foil to protect it - we still like to use it for pancakes!  So much fun.  Will post more samples if I can just remember to take some pix!

Episode 33: Train :: Live From Daryl's House with Daryl Hall :: Current Episode

Episode 33: Train :: Live From Daryl's House with Daryl Hall :: Current Episode

Dazzling orbs of Light

I've collected paperweights for 30 years.  Most were picked up in my travels but I couldn't say where any more, except for Mickey, which I bought at Disneyworld.  I have dandelion puffs and milkweed preserved in glass as well as flowers.  There are the coins and postage stamps, maps, earths, the metallics, the bubbles and the millefioria.  I think I just about have every color of the rainbow.  I even have one filled with "cholesterol" which moves and changes color at the warmth of my hand.  I don't have any idea if that really is cholesterol but that is what the paper said!  My special place for them is atop my rolltop desk.

Flutter by, Butterfly

This is my new friend.  Look at those colors!  And that iridescence.

 Working in my yard today I spotted a very dark fly-by.  I found him in the leaves of a tree.  Of course I lost him going in to get my camera but he soon reappeared and stayed around me most of an hour.

I took a few shots and he circled around me 3 times.  I went on with my tasks.  At one point I could see his shadow on the ground flying around me as I picked up sticks and pulled weeds.  I could feel him come real close to my hair once.  He must have thought I was so sweet!   AWwwwwww.