Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Not much new . . .

Just a quick check in, nothing much to report.  We are all getting our eyes checked tomorrow and have picked out our new glasses already so that will be fun!  Griffin's been without glasses for over a year and now that we can get him some, I'm relieved.  I'll have to do some before and after shots!  Burke's decided not to try contacts yet which saves us some money so that's fine with me!  We went to a few flea markets today while it rained but didn't find any treasures.  Memorial Day was a blast, played volleyball all day long so yesterday was a pretty sad muscle sore day for us all.  Well, that's about it.  Here's my very first attempt at creating a digital person, not what I expected but so much fun!


Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Digital Art #2

Three more!




Do you think I should try to sell these?  

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Digital Art

I've been working on some art via the computer.  It's right up my alley because I can make a mistake and fix it immediately!  Here's my house series that I started for John's new office.  Thoughts?



Monday, May 21, 2012

Ghost Hunting?

Remember when I took the boys to David's weird work campus in February?  John and I love that the boys are intrigued by things that are slightly scary or spooky but not TOO scary or spooky!  Yesterday we decided to do a little 'ghost' hunting with them.  John took them to some small church in town that is supposedly haunted.  We let the boys take pictures of it.   Then we all went to Gitchie Manitou State Preserve (supposedly haunted) and hiked around a bit.  We have one photo that  when enlarged looks pretty creepy and a short video with an anomaly that is unexplainable.  Secretly, these two items of 'evidence' are nothing to worry about but let me tell you, so exciting and mysterious for the boys.  Loved it!









Thursday, May 17, 2012

Put Em' to Work

Mowing and poo clean up day.   Notice, I'm inside taking this picture.  Got to 93 degrees today.  yuck.  


Been working like crazy on photographing ebay items I've been stashing for months and typing out descriptions.  The plan was to list everything on Sunday for 7 days.  That means they'd be ending on the following Sunday.  Realized after four days of working that that's a stupid holiday weekend!  ARGH.  No one buys things on ebay on holidays!  Oh well, for once I'm ahead of schedule.  Here's a little sample of the stuff.  











Tuesday, May 15, 2012

New Work

During my latest home improvement marathon, I managed to create two new pieces.  Honestly, I barely remember doing these!  I tried a new method for the background that involves paper and paint medium and I'm really happy with the results.  What do you think?



I also comic booked myself!  Those cheekbones in the 2nd one are stellar!  Ha ha ha!






Monday, May 14, 2012

Post Mother's Day Miscellaneous .....

Hope everyone had a terrific Mother's Day!  My kids were not in a good place yesterday, fought a lot, pretty much ignored me because they knew I was about to blow.  Don't take this as a negative though.  G & B are great kids most of the time and I know they love me whether it's Mother's day or not.  I'm not complaining.  My hubs got me a fandangled new digital camera!  Did I say, got me?  I meant, got US, meaning HIM and I, a fancy digital camera!  It's all good, I can share.  He needed one for HD photo's of houses and I need one for better Ebay shots so it'll all work out.  I tried to get him to sign camera custody over to me for the majority of the time but he wasn't feeling it.  Hmm.  He's so spoiled that way.  


Got to see David, Amanda & Gracie for a bit yesterday!  Of course, not once, did I think of taking any pictures with the new fandangled digital camera.  They are all looking good and healthy and adorable!


Tomorrow is my last morning of treasured 'no kid' time.  Griffin gets out early and Burke gets to go ice skating!  If only I could see him do that!  I'm trying to be upbeat about the summer but to be honest, I'm struggling.  I have a ton of stuff I want to do here at home but have the sinking feeling I will be harassed for ideas to keep them entertained.  We'll see, they are getting older and I'm probably thinking worst case scenario's.  


So here's some action shots of Burke, taken yesterday afternoon with the action option.  We made him jump for like 10 minutes.  hehehe.  Man, we're mean. 







Sunday, May 6, 2012

It's been awhile. I'm desperately trying to enjoy my last few weeks before school gets out on the 15th. Time is just cruising by!  

After two weeks of amy's table, I said buh-bye this morning. It's currently hidden behind the couch. It's just too crooked and if you put an elbow on it, the extension slot to add more leaves opens up. Game play on it sucked and so did eating. I feel like I wasted my time on this one. Kinda sad. 

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