To Do List ...

Painted hall bathroom!!! It's no longer deep purple, it's now a sweet sea glass blue.

I can't believe how much bigger it looks, so weird.Found a can of wall color paint and touching up all over the rest of the house. Finally, finally putting up curtains on the window in our bedroom, love them, too. Bought a dresser at Ikea and have it assembled and filled with my stuff. Finally replacing the dog hair magnet curtains on the patio doors with some cool graphic ones. Repaired the tear in our leather couch!!! Tom painted the new beam in the patio in 105 degree heat...he's a trooper.

Oh yeah I also got the margarita party invites finished and most have been given out!!!

That's gonna be a great time, can't wait!

What do you do on a hot day?

This is what you do for goodness sakes!

you find some friends

you dress them up

wedding attire of course

you get a camera

scuba gear

and you all JUMP in a pool!!!

Okay, if any of you know me...I'm tad bit afraid of water even pool water even only 6 feet deep pool water and I float and can't sink to the bottom at all...

So you wonder how this worked out for me...

Then comes a friend

who is in town from San Jose

who is a fish

who scuba dives

who has a underwater camera

who loves an adventure

who is willing to help out her water fearing friend

Add two friends who are getting married April 2011

who went with a great idea for their "save the date" announcements

This is what you get ...............

a blow you outa the water fun day!!!!

One of the funnest and coolest photoshoots ever - even better it was for Melissa.

Laugh with me...

I was remembering my first day on the job...Chesterfield building, red-haired Jackie and Jeff D our trainers on a very hot humid day. My first summer experience of the monsoon season.

I think there were 16 of us "newbies". I'm not sure how many are still working.

Of course the talk is always about retiring...

but for now there will be no talking of retiring

only what fun can we have today.

Tomorrow is the day

August 18, 1986 was the day
August 18, 2010 is....
The first day of my twenty-fifth year of my job

I will celebrate it
I will embrace it
I will enjoy it
I will find joy in it
I will laugh
I will cry some, too
I will smile (a lot)
I will bounce
I will dance in circles
I will twirl til I get dizzy
I will shout it out
I will take my photo
I will eat something sweet
I will drink a passion tea lemonade
I will play my favorite songs
I will watch the sunset
I will hug Tom & my dogs
I will buy something cool
I will scream with joy
I will keep praying
I will love
I will be kissed
I will make a big splash
I will wish upon a star
I will...

More posts to come....

Did the coolest "SAVE THE DATE" photoshoot!
It will blow you out the water......
I have a new toy to show you....
Watched the meteor shower with my three favorite boys....

Stay tune................
What's going on in your world???

She must be a princess?

She walked into my studio and was in awe

She wore the tiara

she smiled when she saw herself in the mirror

She's growing up...aaahh

I keep a photo library of her life....
and this day needed to be documented

She's a freshman, heading to high school...

dang where has the time gone?

She's awesome!

If I would of had it my way we would of parked the car

followed her to her first class

but I controlled myself and watched her walk away

Angela's Birthday

Had so much fun making her birthday card...

she loves blues

Key ring with my special metal charms

Have Blue Suitcase Will Travel & Craft

Every trip I take I bring along crafting supplies....

this time I stuffed it with painting supplies

The lake side cabin was a great place to paint.

The space was soothing, the colors were calming

and the view was beautiful.....

greens, blues and browns of nature

The painting is far from finished but what a great start

with all the inspiration coming from the view

Working while vacationing, huh?

Not a bad office, huh?

He needed to check on things and why not do it at a great place. His sister's cabin on a lake. The view was good, the sofa was comfy but but there were these uninvited guests......

This little guests.... "may flies"... never heard of them. They live for only 24 hours and we happen to wanna share the same space for the same 24 hours....ahahaha


24 hours not really a problem, but there were gallions of them!

Humidity

Right now it's 85% humidity where I'm at.... it's like wet without rain. On the up side it's really really green, lots of beautiful flowers and tall trees. Yesterday we had dinner at a place right on the Missouri River, I don't think I've ever really looked at the Missouri River. It was humid and sticky. The company and food was excellent. Speaking of company we ran into more family...lots of relatives in this area. We met up with Uncle Joe and Aunt Adeli, Uncle Joe is 98 and Aunt Adeli is 96, can you believe that??? I guess they take excursions all the time from their assisted living home with their daughters, Irma and Marina. Tidbit...our cousin Irma is married to Allen who is also our cousin but they are not cousins... figure that out...I'll explain in my next post. So we all had dinner together. Unforturnately for my father-in-law he had ice chips for dinner. He's the reason were in Nebraska, he's recovering from surgery and doing excellent. I'll post pic of Missouri River when I can.

Monday Monday Monday

What can I say it's Monday again, well this Monday is over and on to Tuesday. One thing I've noticed about myself is how I don't ever know the date or time, ever....

I always know what day it is, actually I work hard to know what day it is....not that I agree with the calendar what day it is ... some days feel more like a Thursday than a Wednesday, so I check the calendar and dang I'm wrong, it really is a Wednesday. Recently, several friends have left me voice messages or texts and I haven't been able get back to them. I used to call when I was in my Mini on my daily commute, but traffic and the foot traffic on the surface streets has gotten busy and I need to completely focus on the drive. My office in the first floor of a parking structure so my cell reception is so bad...thus I don't call anyone. I'm a night person and most friends are sleeping when I finaly sit down with some time to chat... thus I don't call anyone....most of my family lives in different time zone...two hours later! thus I don't call anyone....BUT today I said it's only Monday so I have all week to connect with these friends....I didn't call them back today.... lol ... I ran out of time.

On to Tuesday and I know it's Tuesday...it is, right?

Look at what I got today

I have been waiting for this piece of art from Gabi. She painted in her art class at school. She brought it over today and now I need to find a nice place to hang it.

Trip Number 2

We headed to the beach and you can see it was a nice cloudy day. Warm enough just not sunny. We found out you can't just take dogs to any ole beach. We found out there are rules about dogs and beaches.... we we're able to walk the beach or the paved walkway with the dogs. We actually had to go back to the nearest street to walk to Tower 5 area.... a dog beach

Here we are at Tower 5 and not that many dogs and our dogs especially puppy Maximus haven't been to many dog parks let alone a dog beach. We were alittle anxious but as one dog owner said to us "let them go and they'll stick around and have a blast" and he was so right.

As you can see into the water they went. Winston loved the water and he swam and swam and swam. Maximus followed Winston everywhere.


As we were walking from the beach Winston was so worn out he took any opportunity to lay down and rest...lol


After the beach we drove to the Cabrillo National Monument...it closed early so we didn't get much time there and no dogs allowed! ugh


There is a National Cemetery near the park so we stopped to take a moment in honor the 4th of July.


On our walk we saw some incredible flowers...I have no idea what this is but boy was it beautiful and unusual....

Morning Glories!!! How perfect.

We took the dogs to lunch and we were able to find one that allowed dogs. Maximus was so well behaved.

Check this out...

I've been waiting to post this...
My niece, Brenda graduated from Vet school and I made this piece for her. She got it and I got a nice thank you card from her. She loved it and I loved making it. I was able to use my new found skills.