SUMMER'S PLAY....JOY!

Flowers from Dick, not my garden....love the colors!!!

VBS at Spanish Church ...a treasure

Andrew and his Van Gogh style painting! He doesn't know who Van Gogh is, but I do!

Copied quote and style from an artist I saw in an art book, Dawn Sokol?

Goodbye to our old golfcart!!! Going home with Scott!!

Watercolor doodling in my journal of my flowers in garden.

Silly, GREAT BOYS....buddies...fun day swimming and horse shoe junction.

A great book....above!!

Home made art journal...

Doodles above and collaboration with grand daughter below...read about it at bottom.

My awesome grand kids....3 of them!

Mickey hugging his teddy bear from Barbara and Dick, his Daddy! Me, my son and grand daughter below!! Love them!!!

My beautiful huge old live oak in the back corner of yard with grandkids enjoying the last rides on the old golfcart!!!...then it goes with Scott to be refurbished for his acres!

My first roses in LaGrange, and with the scorching heat of Aug/Sept, almost the last ones!!

My Love, Elena bird!!!

Succulents..new to me but LOVE THEM!!!

Backyard Ping pong pros!

These kids grew up on this old golf cart!!! So many wonderful years had with this crew of kiddos....they all learned to drive on it.....my hearts for sure!!!

Mom (our Kellie) and dad, Jimmy, of the three! Love love you!!!

Little Natalie's art!!

Tito became a cowboy this year during the county fair!!! He and the other buddies too...all bought hats at the fair!!!

Camp!! Pilar's big group to camp...SPEAK LIFE..... AWESOME YEAR!!!

Where we live...view from the bluff...our house is down there somewhere!!

Getting candy from the floats at the labor day parade that goes right by our house!!! Almost like Round Top!!!

Peyton's painting of the singing plastic bird....great job!!

Redone old purse, embellished for Peyton!!

Doodling...

Awesome kids!! growing up too fast!

Camp kids!!!

Pilar's horse painting.

Peyton and Natalie seriously painting!!

Play house still works too!! As babies and toddlers they all sat in the little blue boat!!

Home made journal ....big with lots of blank watercolor paper, waiting for me to start!!

I must post something!! Been a long time and I apologize!! That, above, is most of what went on, except I'm missing a picture of my awesome daughter-in-law, CARRIE DAY PECK!!  She and Scott brought the little cousins and we did art, of course!!! Andrew really got into it....they all did!!  Love you, Carrie!!  I am just going to post a ton of photos of this summer in a nut shell...or in a huge basket!! There will be some art, kids, and who knows what else!! WE ARE BEGINNING TO BUILD A NEW ROOM ON THE HOUSE AND ANOTHER BATHROOM, with a little better plumbing situation!!! Plus some back porch room this house was lacking.  I am a gardener and outdoor person so needed to have a place in this new backyard to sit and admire my plants and huge live oak in the back corner without getting eaten alive with mosquitoes at times!!! Working on putting in raised garden this fall...a little anyway!! So here goes the pictures....also of some sketching I did during a class with Mary Ann Moss, called  SKETCH BOOKERY....should have done more art myself!! The last photo is a collaboration done with grand daughter Peyton, age eight, we had a blast smooshing on color and finding shapes and doodling, getting in each other's way...but the end result 12x18 turned out so pretty it got a frame to go home with her!!! I love all the kids in my life!!! LOVE THEM, even the big ones, plus Dick and Mickey the puppy!!!  Did you see him hugging his teddy bear the neighbor gave him?!   I just needed to add that I am grieving the loss of some friends of years back....some from death, some from distance and some from painful problems and health.....they are NOT FORGOTTEN.....and I am continually praying for them, lifting †hem to the Lord for His help and comfort to come to them, for one especially, very soon and that PEACE and HEALING would fill her heart and know that she is loved...and missed. Thanks to the Lord, all things are possible through His streng†h to uphold us til the day we enter His gates of splendor.   I just realized today is 9-11 the anniversary of the losses in NYC and Pa.   God Bless you all....   ENJOY and BLESSINGS TO YOU!!!

A FULL LIFE...

OK, I DID get this picture up, our mermaid Peyton! That's my girl! She loved her dress..... 16x20 in progress collage... like my house... unfinished! A woman on a mission!! That's how I feel .... but with the children in tow! That is a wicked little purse ... but it has some money in it .... YAY! My art studio mess .... I love the metal letters in the window ...A R T Mushed paint, rolled a pointed roller thing over it and wallah.... I saw a jar with a flower.....this was fun. Used oil pastels over acrylic ... new for me. Loving those colors from the pastels.... gotta have more! Finished page for the GUT ART JOURNAL.... An idea coming from one of the field trips .... these were old photos (copies) of us when young and more shapely!....or I guess I should say LESS shapely! My Mother sewed my "Vogue" pattern dress...my whole wedding with cake, reception and four bridesmaids cost $500.00! Yes, the dot is in the right place! Collaged tissue around him in his flight suit (1967).... this is NOT Michael Jackson, (with the great lips and black glove, chuckle) but it is my honey ....I want to pursue doing something with these..... it will come to me. A quick line drawing with color pencil wash from a woman on the TV.... quickly done. Good practice.... These two (of five) beautiful children (after church) are awaiting the finished home they will have .... little by little they work on it ....it was a condemned house that got to be saved and done for a family! All their saved money and efforts and prayer! Many of you know or remember Elizama, my sort of adopted child.... known her since she was nine (now 21) .... this is her precious baby girl, a happy child, and Mom and Dad are so proud of her! She laughs a lot! Here, she has on a dress that MY MOTHER made me from feed sacks in 1947!! I still have it.... my Mother embroidered little flowers on it. We had to try it out for a photo! These are some of Pilar's ART (age 6 to 7) she would do this all day long!! We need to loosen up like the kids do with their art! And YES, SHE is a WINNER! I tried to post a picture of my grand daughter in the Mermaid dress I made her and couldn't get it off the email...will try another way later.... she is my heart! Hello to all .... I know I have not posted in a while. Here are photos and art projects ( unfinished) of what is going on in my life at the moment. Just too much to write about. However the art of mine is from some of the reflections of field trips taken on the GUT ART CLASS.... I'm very behind ....but I have taken a ton of notes and have drawings that will go in my GUT ART JOURNAL......behind?..... well, because I was blessed with an opportunity to do nine pieces of work with a deadline of three weeks, which is ending tomorrow. I can't show them and will tell about it when it all comes together ..... since it is only my work for another group. So with that I have had my head swirling in the studio ....painting nights and sleeping days.... as there are no interruptions at night. And it is probably my body clock anyway! Sleeping from 7AM to 3PM, then doing regular life...and then painting from 7PM to 7AM in heaven ... I must say. This project came as a result of much prayer and soul searching and direction that the Lord wanted me to go in my life, plus a few other things. WELL, He is MAKING it happen .... WHY am I surprised!!? Also, you will see little precious children in my life, one of the Mom's lived with me for four months when she was fifteen (now 21).... the other children are from church and a favorite family.... and then Pilar's Art.... my little artist! I keep her in sketch pads and markers...and she will draw or paint all day long! We have four full note books (sketch pads ...9x12 thick from Wal-Mart) that she has filled. Some day when she is grown I will give them to her.... so they won't get thrown away. Any who..... as you can see, I am behind in my class, but live a FULL life! And thank goodness the Lord motivated my hubby to take care of me with food during all this!! ENJOY HIS BLESSINGS!!! I AM.....