Happy 20th!

Thanksgiving Day was Sam's 20th birthday. 

To a wonderful sweet son-We Love You.

Mom and Dad

New Banner

I hope you like my new banner I painted today.

I needed make something to go with the season.

This picture was taken on a frosty morning a couple of weeks ago, and I loved the red trees.

The banner was created from this image.

Pictures from the week

Someone made himself comfortable.

What a fabulous full moon this was.

It looked like it was going to land on the house!

Snowman Head

I went to a Christmas Open House and ordered this guy.

He is quite handsome.

We even has a little snow flying through the air a couple of days ago.

It's amazing how the weather can change so fast around here.

Photo Assignment-Recreate Art

A Recent Photography Assignment was to recreate a work of art through photography.

I Chose Vincent Van Gogh's Dr. Gachet.

Here is Kevin with a sad look.

I was happy with the outcome.

Here is the original painting.

Halloween Faces 2011

It was a cool Halloween night.

We had a visit from Scooby Doo.

Spiderman, Cat Woman and Super Woman, with all the crime fighters, it was a safe trick or treat night. 

A Lady Bug and Cleopatra

A Smurf and a BumbleBee

A Princess and an Ostrich

Closeup of the pretty princess

Superman

The Princess's pretty shoes

Anna Banana

Padre

A Bookworm

The Joker and Princess in Pink

CamoKevin and His sidekick Tom

New Quilt Book

I found a new quilt book at the grocery store this weekend.

It has so many pretty ideas that all use scraps.

I picked out a couple that I liked.  I could have scanned the whole book.

This is highly recommended.

Photography assignment

The assignment was creative printing and hand coloring.

The picture below was made from two negatives that I had already taken.

It is sandwiching the two in the enlarger and using filters to make the picture.

It is a heart that my sister had given me and the family bible.

This is Sebastian in the sunlight.  This picture did not develop well and so I decided to make it better by hand coloring.

I made it his fairytail land.  He used to be an outdoor cat and these were the things that he dreams of chasing again. 

The next picture developed really well and I just took some things that he uses alot, like his phone and watch.  Then I used colored pencils to make his shirt orange.  I added all the elements of hobbies that he likes to do or watch  I guess you could call them his passions.

The other picture I developed was of an old building and I scratched up the negative and then used waxed paper while developing the picture to make it look really old. 

canned gifts

This weekend we had some friends over for dinner.  They brought us some of their canned goods from their garden.  There is so much work that goes into canned goods and the colors are so beautiful.  It is truly a work of art.

From left to right.  Dilled Green Beans-I have been told they are good in Bloody Marys.  Bar B Q Sauce, Salsa (We received both spicy and mild), Sauerkraut and Zesty Sweet Pickles.

Thank you Suzy and Steve for the wonderful gift.

A Day with the Girls

Today we four gals who love to stamp got together at my house to make some cards. 

Below is our controlled mess.  We all know where our personal space ends and can find our "stuff" immediately. 

We always have lots of fun when we get togerher. 

A card Michelle made.

Here are some Halloween cards for her kids.

This is the inside.

This is a tree that she made all blingy.

These are decorated candy boxes.

A Pretty card made by Toni.

This is a Penny Black card called Peppermint Polly made by Toni.

A Denami apple basket.

A scoop of Denami Ice Cream made by Theresa.

A beautiful fall tree by Theresa.

Denami Triple blue flowers.

And an embossed card on vellum by Theresa.

A Halloween card made by me.

A lovely bunge jumper by me.

A lovely card with new ink.

Another version with different colors for the flowers. 

 We are able to get together twice a year for this,  usually October and February.

Photography class

We are working on portraits this week.  This is one that I took of Allie-my niece.  We had a really good time taking these. More to follow.

The Tigers are Done

We watched the last game of the season for the Tigers last night.  The Rangers had a LARGE lead and that didn't make us feel as bad as if it was a 3-2 victory.  They ended up winning 15 to 5.  It was a great season and we are already looking forward to spring training.  Thank you Tigers-We Loved It.