is anyone out there?

ok. so i am slowly but surely working on jumping back into everything. one thing at a time, one group at a time, one project at a time. adding everything back in very slowly.

i have tons of artwork to show you, but i can't get picasa to suck up the pics i upload from the camera.

i was so proud of myself last weekend. i figured out all by myself how to upload/download the kodak easyshare stuff from their site to my computer....ok, the music is playin'.....i figure out all by myself that there is a little box to check deep within the stuff of picasa to check to get picasa to suck up the pictures from the kodak program. i restart my computer. i am so proud of myself. doin' the happy dance.....and.......it doesn't work. happy dance stops, shut the music down and breathe.....breathe...........and now i wait for my good friends will and denise to come over so that hopfully will can fix it all and make it all better! i am so modern day techno challenged, and blonde to boot. i was meant to be born in the horse and buggy days!

was sick for over 3 weeks, still not over it. i am still coughing, especially in the morning. i sound like the cat trying to hack up a hair ball. in fact this morning i caught the cat giving me that 'great, just great....she's gonna hack that nasty thing up right on the carpet again' look. guess i should not let cat see me give her that look any more......

max has been on cycle break the last couple of weeks, he is lots of fun but exhausting. he is missing the 'fear' gene and so i am about nuts. when he was 7 he got his one ear pierced. he wanted 3 more holes put in, and wanted 1 a year. well, we never went back to get any more piercings after that. max asked if as a reward for his report card if he could get his ear pierced with another hole a couple of weeks ago. so off to the mall we went. waited our turn. now while we are waiting this family, mom, dad ( who has 2 piercings) aunt, uncle, cousins they take this 3 year old little girl to get her ears pierced. this child does not want it done........the whole time the woman is marking her ears she keeps pulling away and i want to smack this family and say i don't think now is a good time....why don't you wait until she is a bit older and can decide for herself you idiots......but i behave, much to the relief of my husband......they pierce her, she screams and tries to grab at the earrings. you people.......i could have choked you! ok, so anyway it is now max's turn. the lady asks if we want the other earring, because they are sold in pairs. i said of course, because he will eventually lose one and then we will have a replacement. so the girl jokingly says 'or we could just pierce his other ear'.....with that max looks at me with that 'puhleaseeeeeee' look, and i look at bill who gives me the 'don't look at me look cuz it doesn't matter what i think boss lady' . so max has 2 in one ear, and 1 in the other.

next week steph and sam will be on fall break.....fall break....i never got no stinkin' fall break!

sam will be a teenager in a few weeks, my little baby........growing up......what a goofy sense of humor he has, oh, and he is getting this little mustache-y thing! for about 2 weeks bill and i would see him and say go wipe your mouth off, you have a bit of dinner right above your lip, he is really bad about that.........eeee then one day when he and i were talking, it is so cool, i realize there are these long dark soft hairs growing in. he did not have a food/drink mustache.....he is getting a real one! his arms and legs are all hairy......it is so exciting watching them grow and change and become their own person! he is growing into a pretty cool kid!

then there is steph who is 16, a hormonal girl. i love her dearly, but need i say more. i really wish she would wear a sign that gives us her current mood! now sometimes you can tell, like when the furniture is shaking, her head spins and she spews greens stuff and that deep scary voice comes out! there are times when i can feel her burning holes in the back of my head with her glare because i did not let her do something she wanted...... i remember what it was like to be her age, and try to give her space, but it is hard. i am very lucky, she and i have a much better relationship that probably 95% of her friends do with their moms. she is a good girl. so many of her ex-class mates and ex- friends are drinking, doing drugs, sex, one is pregnant......when she was little one of my biggest worries is that she would stick something icky in her mouth from the ground....how times have changed!

all three of the kids, when they are together have to drive each other crazy, which in turn drives me crazy! i still have not recovered from summer vacation, and now they are on f a l l break! oh, puhlease help me get through next week with my sanity!

still trying to find a web hosting site for my jewelry and art stuff. i have sent emails out to others to see if i can find a company that i can do it myself, it will not cost me my 1st and 2nd born children, the house and my right arm.....BUT comes with a shopping cart, paypal/credit card acceptance and does not require a degree in physics to figure out......as i put it to my yahoo group this morning....so, while i am at it should i ask for a million dollars to fall out of the sky, world peace and a smaller butt? or is there something out there that exists that meets my wishes? .......sigh, i am so ready to start selling NOW! i am getting so aggrevated!

so, enought rambling....i am off to clean, art, and p.u. hit the shower which i should have done many hours ago! ahhh, yes, my friend the pulsating shower massager......oh get your mind out of the gutter...ewwwww!

this, that and the other thing

just a few pics i forgot to post awhile back......hmmmm...the top is for heidi's journal page, next is heidi's charm...which is blurry, and the next one i think is ja-who-dees journal! i handpainted the pages in it and did gel medium transfers. the paper had a basic grey look 'bout it. love those papers, but i love making my own even better!
 

howdy!

well, i was going to upload photos from my camera, and realized that i do not have the hardware installed on my studio computer so this will have to do! i am going to have to ask my really really good friend will to help me out!

so everytime i am ready to go and get back in the swing of things a little bit of life happens! last week i had allergies and a sinus infection.... i had 1 day of feeling like i was getting better, last thursday and then whap i got max's respiratatory crud! 2 weeks of feeling like my eyeballs were going to explode and my brains were going to eek out, runny nose.....i am now sporting a red fuzzy looking nose, you know the dry flakey skin from blowing your nose tooooooo much! and my favorite......coughing so hard that your eyes water and bulge out of your head like some freaky cheezy horror flick, you almost pee your pants, and you make that horrid sound like you are going to heave up last weeks dinner, and you feel like you are going to! and of course this only happens when you are talking to someone, not when you are in the privacy of your own home minding your own business! and if all of that was not bad enough, once the repiratory crud started to hit, the same day cramps, pms AND a hot flash from hell as i was trying to get ready to go to a meeting! ya gotta love it! i had to run from my bathroom to my daughters bedroom and stand in front of the fan until the i could quit sweating long enough to apply another coat of makeup! i could not get my hair to dry........ yes, i am in hormone hell right now, zits and wrinkles, pms and hot flashes............

so last night i am sitting in the bathroom swishing another dose of listerine in my mouth and i look over and see the clorox disinfecting wipes on my bathroom sink, and it says KILLS FLU GERMS! and i think to myself.....hmmmmmmm if i shove one up each nosehole maybe i would feel better by morning.........that is fever and sleep deprivation talking.......ok, ok, and i admit, a bit a just flakey blonde-ness talking too! i was brought back to reality before i could give this a try by max, who told me through the bathroom door he had a 102 fever. oh good grief! he has already missed school for a migraine, and twice for this stupid respiratory flu stuff, he only has 2 days until cycle break.....why now..... he says his stomach is hurting and he has a fever! blaaaaahhhhhh! i am going to scream........well, i step out of the bathroom and look at the thermometer and sure enough it says 102, and yes earlier his stomach was bothering him.......but that mom sensor goes off, something is just not right....... and so i feel his forehead and he is cold and clammy? the built in to the lips and hand mommymeter is always withing 1/2 of a degree accurate, so i am puzzled? i ask him the standard tummy issue questions.....and the wheels are s l o w l y turning, and i keep feeling his forehead, and i ask if he thinks he should get a puke bucket.....momma does not do puke...........and he says no and i shove the thermometer under my arm like he did to check the accuracy of the thermometer......like that will help because i, too, am running a fever! oh, you dork. then everything clicks and i knew i had caught him at something and he knew he had been caught! he starts giggling and informs me that he rubbed the thermometer on the bed until the temp went up, only the first time he got it to 106, and he figured he should back it off a bit if i was going to believe it!

so life is marching on! now that i am starting to feel human again, i can start back up getting ready for some pretty exciting stuff.......and art. i feel the need to be artful, and artful i shall be....because, yikes...i just remembered i have my 4x4's to do for redlead! eek! it is to be on our favorite color........oh, do i have to pick just one? maybe tomorrow i will have one done to post..... 

...ok and here is side 2 !

this is the side 2 of the bliss charm! it has a photo copy of a vintage, early 1900's post card!

still need to add the chain to this one, the swarvoski crystal dangly is a smokey clear color, with a real vintage look and feel to it, and it will coordinate with any color of clothing!

i still have a couple of other charms to add, but gotta get going.....will add more later! also have some pretty awesome jewelry and artwork coming up for sale soon!

it is taking me a bit of time to get started but once i do yeehaw!


hmmmmm.....and soon i will have pics of another venture coming soon.......wonder what it is??????????? you will see, and if you are a member of my yahoo group you will be the first to find out! 

here is yet another charm soon up for sale!

this is one side of this double sided charm, that still needs the chain attached by the way.

the image under glass is a 1930's original stamp, not copied that has the post mark lines running through it! i love this image!

this necklace is a 2 in 1, it is reversable!

side two will be right above here in just a second.....or minute.....or hour.....i am really starting to have a love/hate thing with this new scanner...... 

up for sale......soon!

here is the second side to the charms below!

ugh...this new scanner is drivin' me nuts! but i will get the hang of it....i will...i will... 

up for sale soon!!!!!!!

well, i am excited....this is the first thing i have scanned using my kinda sorta in a way maybe new scanner......i hate figuring out how to use new stuff!
the screen on this scanner is slightly slanted and these puppies kept sliding off! time for some creative adjusting to the scanner!


well, these charms will soon be for sale! eeeeeeeee! i am so excited to finally have the courage to do this! i want to thank my wonderful hubby who has been nothing but supportive and encouraging since the first day i met him.....just a bit over 20 years ago! (wow, that just made me feel old to say i have know him that long!) it took a long time for it to sink in that he was being truthful and not just a wonderfully supportive hubby being sweet!

these charms are two sided, the second side coming up next!