Oh yes I am finally done with this piece!!!

Yeah!!!  I am finally done with this massive piece!  The final size is 3ft x 4 ft!!! She turned out soooo lovely though!  I am still going to have a background photo-shopped behind her.  I am thinking about a piece of teastained linen...What do you think?  Then I will have her printed on canvas, embelish her and hopefully hang her in Starbucks here in town.  Exciting!!

After spending so long on the piece above, I just wanted to have fun.  These are pics of a cute little window charm I made out of wood rounds - I got the idea from a picture Amalia shared of an Etsy item...They are so colorful and I just love how they turned out. I made several with messages like 'I love you', 'believe', and 'yes you can'.  Drilled a hole (with much help!) and strung them all together with colorful beads in between each one, then hung this in my kitchen window ~ it makes me smile everytime I look at it!  Fun!

Pictures of the boys...

Beautiful PEACEFUL Eamonn...I assure you these are the sweetest moments with this little dynamo!  He is in the 'I'm going to disagree with everything you say based simply on my principles' stage.  Yikes he can be challenging!  But one look at this sweet face and I just melt :-)

Liam and his "Are you kidding me?" glare...

Eamonn, now 3-1/2, falls asleep quite often on his dinner chair...This was the night we made pot roast and he took one look at his plate and promptly curled up and fell asleep...

Hmmmm... not sure what to make of that! :-)

Oh yes...been baking again...These California berries were
too luscious to pass up and I was so yearning for a cobbler
so made one for my boys this weekend.
Oh it turned out sooo yummy.  Not as good as going out
and picking the berries fresh, but with the vanilla bean ice cream on top
we managed to make do :-)


Wondering how Spring is going for you all?  We are still getting lots of wind and rain here, but we did have a little clearing this weekend so the boys could get outside for a bit.  We've had lots of colds and flu and cabin fever has been roaring it's head!  It was nice to bundle up and get some fresh air and just turn our faces up to the sun!

Hugs and smiles to you all!

I'll be around to visit soon!

Moongazer

Good Monday Morning!

This is a new piece I started yesterday. I call it 'MOONGAZER'.

I am loving it in black and white, so I will preserve a copy at that stage, but I can't resist adding color, so that will be the next step.

This is done in indian ink with a .005 tip.

At first she sort of looked like a mermaid, but that is not what I was going for - we'll see if color changes that.

I always Love to hear what you think -

Smiles

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A new piece from my Daughter Amira

Hi Everyone,

This is a fabulous new piece by my daughter Amira who is 11 years old. She is a really talented artist in her own right, and does some great thing with colored pencils as you can see. She has been wanting to join me for Sunday sketches, so next Sunday I will be posting a piece from me and one from her!

I am so excited to share her amazing talent.

Let us know what you all think.

Smiles and hope you are having a great day!

Happy Sunday Sketches all!

I tried something new this week - I have to admit I am so enamored of all the big-eyed girl art out there. For all of you who specialize in this type of picture, I just love them all.

So this is my attempt at a couple of Big-Eyed Girls - I am a little disappointed, because they just really doesn't do too much for me...maybe this is just not my genre. I'm kinda surprised because as I said I just love all of this type of art that I see on so many blogs...

Well I proved I can imitate all of you great wonderful artists out there to some extent. Hopefully if you think it looks a little like your work, you will be flattered and not annoyed:-)

You can find more fabulous Sunday Sketches at Sophia's place http://bluechairdiary.blogspot.com/

Off to visit all of the other wonderful sketches!

Sunny Sunday Smiles to you all!