I still have to finish Charlies vest for his costume and pack! AHHH!!! Where did the time go?! Time to stop goofing around and get to it… Hope you all have a great day! I’ll be checking in from Detroit. Have lap top will travel.

Ang

The eyedoctor said they would help, but Gerald still felt a bit silly.

This was my latest photoshop entry.

It placed 5th out of 49… and got a juror’s award.

I was pleased with that.

The assignment was to take a picture of a play ground monkey bars and do whatever you wanted with it.

This is what I did.

Do you judge others?

I have been thinking about this lately. I don’t think I judge other people. I make assumptions sometimes and then adjust them as we go along, but I don’t think I JUDGE people.

Do YOU judge others?

Wet, rainy, dark day good thing I have a lot of things to waste my time on.

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness~ Dave Barry

I have found a new site, Worth1000 were I have been entering a few of my photos in contests and even  entered a photoshop contest and actually, have done alright. I am learning a lot and have a fun time doing it and that’s what matters, right?

 I haven’t had much time to work on glass, it is the Halloween month and the costume ideas have been flying. Tonight I am making a cat suit for Isabelle, the last one I made three years ago and she has out grown it. The first month I made it for her, I practically had to pry her out of it so it could be washed and soon as it was out of the wash she was into it again. I think it is totally worth the time and money invested to make her another one. She want’s to be a ninja kitty this year. Charlie is going for the ORC costume. We bought the fabric to make him a dragon skin vest and pants and he can use bits and pieces of the armor from his knight costume that I made him last year… I’ll leave the ugly looking orc face part to his Dad. Cooper is a train! Finally a costume I can BUY! He has the overalls and we picked him up the train the other day.

So goes the month of October. I thought things would slow down a bit with summer over, but that doesn’t seem to be happening.

Hitting Detroit this weekend and I have to have the costumes ready by Friday because we have tickets for ZOO BOO!  I, of course, have a beard and mustache for myself.

Oh! The cat suit explains the purple leopard on my bullet list… I had to ask Is if it would do, we found some tiger she liked better.

Thoughts for Holly, My friend Haynes94 aka Holly is VERY sick… Just been thinking about her a lot.

That’s all. everything else was pretty self explanatory, right?

This is film my Pop took at my “Aunt” Ethel’s 90th birthday party last weekend. It is about the cutest thing you will see today.    Ethel on the left with her sister entertaining the crowd.

• fold laundry
• herd children
• thoughts for Holly
• purple leopard print?
• study rule of thirds
• chili
• fruit fly annihilation
• move jade
• thoughts for Holly

Makes sense right?

playing around

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I decided it needed more leaves.

What do you think?

Today is the dreaded picture day. On this day, more then any other, I see the similarities between my daughter and her Aunt D.

This morning started out well. Breakfast was eaten, teeth were brushed, and then it was decision time. I wanted her to wear the pink lacy dress shirt, she wanted the grey “All my grandparents brought me was this t-shirt” with the hole in the hem.

Charlie, always resigned to his fate, grabbed his striped cotton v-neck and pulled it over his t-shirt “Just wear it Is, it’s only for one day.” He said taking a poke at her as he walked by.

I forced her into the shirt, pulling the pink cotton over her head exposing a stubborn brow and a lip large enough to perch a parrot on. “I hate it! Why can’t I pick what I wear?!” she shouted as I stubbornly continued to tug the tiny pearl buttons through their holes. “There!” I said tightening the little pink belt and stepping back to view my handy work. A beautiful little girl in jeans and a lacy pink shirt and a face that looked like she was sucking lemons.

“Okay!” I can’t help laughing “What do you want to wear?”

We spent five minutes sorting through the drawer I said “no” to the baby blue sweatshirt, she said “no” to the white cotton pullover with the tie back, I said BIG “NO!” to the rainbow tiedye art shirt that is frayed on the sleeves, I thought I threw that away? I did, she had pulled it from the rag bucket. Finally it is settled she pulls on the black   t-shirt sporting glitter and a screen print of Animal from the Muppets.

As we head for the door satisfied with our compromise she grabbed the hot pick cardigan with mismatched buttons and a string trailing from the back that if pulled would put the whole sweater in a pile on the floor. taking a deep breath, “Okay, but please take it off before the pictures?”  I say letting out a sigh.

 ”I will.” She said grinning a gleam in her eye that says I will be seeing the sweater in my picture packages.

 Yes, she is very much like my little sister, she knows what she wants and is determined to the end.

I made fudge last night because it sounded good, now it just doesn’t appeal at all.

My daughter is a boy magnet. We drove the kids to school this morning and ate breakfast in the lunch room all together. A little boy walked in. Isabelle said “Hi Lucas!” He picked up his breakfast and then came to our table and asked me to move over so he could sit next to her. 

So it begins…