tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80334254959852403792024-03-12T18:48:49.394-07:00Crazy Quilt PassionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-55093575626328713602023-03-22T09:46:00.000-07:002023-03-22T09:46:36.248-07:002023 I haven’t forgotten you<p> Hello there, well been awhile. I have been doing a lot of stitching and painting. Thought would share some of the little purses I just finished. I did use some of my Faerie art as the centers.</p><p>I hope all have been good and still sewing up a storm. </p><p>Thank you for stopping by. Will try not to neglect y’all . 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Spring and Fall are my favorite seasons of the year. How about you? Course the Spring here brings some hefty winds, like today. Just hand on to your hats and forget the hairdo if you go out. Just saying that is just this part of Texas. I guess it Mother Nature clearing the air? Maybe?<br />
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I have been busy, well as busy as I ever get anymore, doing some painting and drawing. Not much CQ lately, wellllllll making beaded bees might be CQ. I do use them on my fabric work.<br />
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Different beads make them look totally different. Something to do while watching TV. Baseball isn't happening right now but there is other things to watch on there. Shocking isn't it?</div>
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Lets look at the sketch/art I did Wednesday. It is different and I had to get out of my comfort zone for sure. Jenny Manno of Next Jeneration on Facebook, does little mini prompts and lessons. I saw this and thought ok Annette !!!!! get our of your comfort zone. You can do this.<br />
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I first sketched it in pencil, out of my head, a scary thought and then got the good ole sharpies and Micron pens out and just did what I felt to this sweet face. When I attacked it enough I used Charcoal for some shading. It is not a giant piece but she was a challenge. At first I thought I am not going to do these again, but the more I look at her I am getting drawn in to maybe doing another one.<br />
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Here she is, a bit of face sketching and then some doodle/zentangle art. I think you can see the charcoal work for shading of a lot of it. Many doodles to see on here.<br />
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Now the next piece is a Mashup as Jenny calls them. I think I shared the Halloween mashups for 2018 and 2019. Fun to create and just see where your muse takes you. Just combining this Mashup group of hairdos or styles of different decades combining anyway we want with flowers of the assigned month. This is April's post and of 1930 decade and Cherry Blossoms. I think she would make a pretty "ciggie" for my CQ fabric art. I cannot image making the waves in your hair back in the 1930's. Lots of ladies on the Next Jeneration Face book page and so many different styles of painting.<br />
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Our new neighborhood, hopefully our home for 22 more years and then will be 100 and we won't care, encourages the children to have things drawn on the sidewalks. Something for people to look at when they do the walking or bike riding or jogging. They didn't have an age limit so I chose to play also. I didn't have any sidewalk chalk, I had donated it all and some were bright colors, but one of the ladies out here had a herd of it and gave me a box. The only thing it is pastel colors but hey what is the saying don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I think I got that saying right. Maybe.<br />
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So here is a few pics hubby took of me while doing this fun thing. I wasn't quite sure of it but did look on pinterest. Lots of ideas there. While drawing the butterfly this young man about 10 ish walked by with his dog and said how beautiful. Well that is enough for me. I said thank you and thought I am going to continue this for quite awhile. The 3D looking stuff is awesome and I did a practice one on the back patio. Gotta do those also.<br />
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Here I am nearly finished. Kind of. I did draw it standing up and taped the chalk to a yard stick and didn't have to bend over all the time. I had to sit on the little yellow stool though, it would have been an ugly site seeing me get up off of the drive way. Really ugly. And I did want to walk and move around the rest of the day. No really !!!!!<br />
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Close up of the butterfly. I did have some charcoal, a lot that I won, so I outlined the circles and other things on the butterfly. Made it stand out better.<br />
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I just thought OMG my peeps in blog world. I did promise to show you how Alice is coming along and another recipe or two.<br />
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I do love the cooking challenge I am doing now, converting my favorite recipes into Diabetic recipes. I am going to put into parentheses what the recipe really calls for. Interesting for sure for me and Hubby loves it what I have been cooking. He has gone from an 8 A1c to just this week 5.3 just since December. I am proud of that awesome hubby.<br />
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Now for Alice, I have gotten all of the blue trim around all the rest of the blocks and all have been embellished. I thought I might just do the same, like the blue around them all to tie them together. Then embellish them all at one time. So did it. Slow process but one day it will all be done. I don't have the lace on the other blocks yet but getting there.<br />
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On this one, it is the facing page with the visit from the Caterpillar. A short note will go in each pocket about the scene. I found the more modern pics of Alice and liked them but still like the original ones the best. So I thought ok Annette just combine them with this wonky fabric. Still different but the colors go and is a different story for sure.<br />
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I bet you can guess then what I have been working on with my needle work. Between the needle work, painting and spring yard work I have not been idle. The yard work has just really started so I haven't done to much YET!<br />
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Our new neighborhood has a lot of young families in it and this Saturday they are having a Chalk Walk where whoever wants to can draw on their sidewalks and drives for others to see. All being the social distance away from each other. I had donated all my sidewalk chalk when we moved here so I thought oh well. Well a sweet lady out here had a lot of chalk so you know who is going to do some decorating outside in the morning. I wanted to do today but suppose to rain. We will see and will share with you next trip here. I did a practice drawing last night and thought this is fun. </div>
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Hello there, Spring has got to be here now. It is going to be, after tomorrow in the 70's for several days. So to me, that says put the humming bird feeders out just in case some early birdies come to visit us. I won't put a lot out right now, I know a bully will try and take over several of them but hey I guess he needs to eat also. I am sure the hummers are already down in Rockport. It amazes me how the tiny tiny birds fly so far. They have determination that is for sure.</div>
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I have this piece of art that I painted for a Christmas present for Grandson this past year. I almost forgot to take it's picture for my hall of fame paintings or painting I have painted. I guess that sounds better doesn't it? The painting is a 16x20 if memory serves me right. I usually put Indian symbols on and under them but this one just didn't call for it for some reason. Pleasant looking expression and just knowing it is being painted maybe? </div>
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I am finally getting to put the pages together as a book. The only CQ work I have ever made a wall hanging for is my Day of the Dead blocks. So the beginnings of an Alice In Wonderland fabric book. I tried every combo of fabric I could think of to make all the pages gel together. Then I found some I had that is kinda loud and wild, like this story of Alice and you will see how and what I brought together. The fabric is red,yellow and turquoise kind of like the cover, well the colors are like the cover.</div>
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This is going to be the cover of my book. Kathleen Klein made this precious Dodo bird for me and I added the felt hearts-flowers and butterflies and all to it. Just a little something to show of the Dodo bird. Thanks Kathleen Klein. A fun invitation of come on in and enjoy the adventure in here. </div>
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The first page is probably the calmest page in the book. Right now Dodo does not have a backing on the back to go with page 1 but it will have soon. I added this turquoise trim to every page to bring the block in and tie them all together. Of course I couldn't have something plain in the book so I did add stitches and some pages will have beads also. You know how I love beads, 100 pound of beads on a page is just about the right amount. <br />
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The sweet little flower lace is from www.RavioleeDreams.com I have used her pretties all thru out this book, I am thinking 18 pages in all. There are 5 pages that I had in a Round Robin and will let you know who embellished them for me as they come their turn. <br />
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This is a peaceful scene before the wild adventure begins for Alice. I got the idea to do this series when I came across a book my hubby received for Christmas one year like in 1946 or so. He was 4 years old then. I thought how cute would this be to create this the CQ way. Please enjoy the adventure of Alice with me and how and what I did with the pages.<br />
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I have to share this beautiful surprise gift I recieved. So my colors and such a treasure. Thank you Lydia Talton a crazy quilting wiz for sure. .<br />
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Just look at this art piece. I have it hanging in my bathroom over my jewelry chest. It is the spot light over my Mary Francis purses and other treasures there in the little nook. I thought and thought where could hang it so I will enjoy every day. Not my sewing room, I do go in there but not everyday nor my art room. I go in the art room several times a day but this is to elegant in my eyes to be in there.<br />
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I was trying to get fancy with my blog and until I figure it out, thank you Jackie PN for wanting to help me. I will take you up on it for sure. What I am trying to do is make little parts of the blog with recipes. Now when I started this idea it was for goodies etc. Well since then hubby has been diagnosed with the ugly Diabetes. I now have a mission to transform all my recipes into Diabetes friendly ones. Yes I know the Keto ones are out there, I would feel like a traitor though totally using those. Atkins has helped us during the years and we are very comfortable with that. We even went on vacations and stayed on the a<br />
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In the next few days, I promise soon, I will share with y'all what I have. There are lots of recipes out there but some not really really diabetic compatible and tastes, like the doctor said CARDBOARD. One site I found did list some things he can eat and some are so boring. Not a drop of Cayenne pepper in them at all, I use spices a lot, he is allergic to onions so spices are my go to. Well we will fix that. I am just eating everything with him, he does tell me to eat regular but nope I am a Taurus as he is and we are both hard headed. Can you picture us butting heads? We do sometimes. Course he knows the saying Happy Wife--Happy Life. Isn't that how it goes?<br />
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A typical Thanksgiving meal is turkey, gobble gobble, and Dressing or Stuffing. I think it depends on what part of the country you are from is what you call the Dressing or Stuffing. Dressing is what is put around the turkey or side dish and stuffing is STUFFED inside of the turkey. Well to me that is the difference. Mr. G does not care for dressing or Turkey so I cheat and buy a little pan of already made dressing. I can have dressing for several meals, well I put the left overs in the freezer and enjoy it when my taste buds crave it.<br />
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One time my Mother cooked duck for Thanksgiving. She was from England and sometimes we had different things to eat....like Ox Tail soup. Now you can imagine a 5 or 6 year old or so eating the soup and said this is good. My brothers and sister all liked it also. Well the ones that were old enough to eat the soup. I said what is it? She smiled and said Ox Tail soup. Now you can imagine what we did. I said arg quite loudly and spit it out. Of course brothers and sister did the same. I did feel bad about it when I was older and laugh about it. But an OX and it's Tail? I couldn't imagine. I think we were either in Tacoma Washington or Geronimo Oklahoma. I am not sure but somewhere in those areas.<br />
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I am trying to make a category of recipes and I am thinking a atab of guest recipes with their stories also of their family favorites. I thought might be fun. BUT........ I am trying to figure out and learn how to do this on a separate tab up top with different categories. They say we are never to old to learn so this ole grey mare is trying.<br />
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Just had to touch base and let you know what is going on in my world at the moment. I will just give you a link here at Crazy Quilt Passion when it is finished if you would like to pop over and see the recipes. <br />
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The back side of the purse, now it has under gone an operation and brought back to life. The pretty fabric on the back started to come apart some and I happen to have some pretty lace and I think did a little dye job on it and now it is pretty and ready for another 5 years or so use. Of course I had to have a bling button for the closure of it. Some places I go people love it and comment on it but here in Abilene Texas I don't believe one person has said a word about it. </div>
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So here you go some pretty rayon ribbons. I left the spiders on the one with the glass pumpkins and glass candy but need some fill in pretties. They don't look half embellished. Not sure if you can see the "diamond" in the silver spider. </div>
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The unembellished spine but shows the back and front of the book. I used one of the prints off of my daily paintings and added it to the front. Lots of color and texture here. </div>
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The inside of the 2019 book. I did the same method of embellishing it as the 2018 book. Hey as the saying goes if it ain't broke don't fix it. You never know though if next year I don't fix it lol Who knows , I do like the look though and kind of fits the theme of the book. </div>
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Inside the book with one of the paintings, the whole 31 prompts had to do with mermaids and this one had to be with flowers. So I instantly thought Day of the Dead. Now this is not original from my head, most of it anyway. Thank goodness for pinterest. I had more of the papers from scrapbooking and then added a little story about each page. Stories like how the mermaid was thinking or feeling. Just ran with it and had fun.\</div>
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Now since the last real post we have moved from Rockport Texas on the coast. We did want an adventure and did survive Hurricane Harvey. I did share some of the pics in earlier posts of the damage that was done there. We knew what we went down there it was just for a while. Well 18 months later our while was up and did find a home in Abilene Texas.<br />
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We had no idea where we were going to settle but after staying 2 weeks in Abilene during the Harvey experience we thought why not there? The people are friendly and will say hi and not look at me like I was an alien when I visit with them. Sometimes total strangers do that but not here. The traffic is not fight for your life when you venture out and we have found some good eating places. We do have to limit ourselves to maybe 2 eating out ventures a week. We could do more but the hips scream no no no Annette.<br />
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I am fortunate to have an ART ROOM and a SEWING ROOM. Now that is the cat's meow as a saying goes. Two perfectly good rooms to clutter up like crazy, clean it up after a project is finished and start again.<br />
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It does take a while to get back into the grove so to speak of sewing and painting but I am doing it. You know when you move there is always things to do when you move and now the weather has turned to winter,we did have 2 or 3 days of Fall, so yard work has basically come to a screeching halt. Yea, I love doing yard work but not 12 months out of the year. Know what I mean?<br />
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Now I am so blessed to have many artsy and non artsy friends. We are on the same page of life and as said I am so blessed. They get me and that might be scary for them but I love it. In this wonderful group I have a twin. Yes, she and I are cut from the same cloth as the saying goes. This angel loves the same colors as I do and we have found so much in common during our live's path that I figured we must have been twins in another life. She also does Crazy Quilting and very good at it. She puts fabrics together like a breeze and a great color sense to go with it all. She had pieced 6 blocks of Halloween design and I offered to embellish them for her. She had a lot on her plate of life at that time and you know to me the embellishing is the best part of it. Like eating a piece of good yummy candy.<br />
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The first block I did add some glass pumpkins and lots of stitching. Lydia puts the prettiest fabric together . His crop of wheat is gathering the black crows and I know the corn will attract them also.<br />
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The next one I had to add one of<a href="http://ravoli%20dreams/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RavioleeDreams" target="_blank">Raviolee Dreams </a>little appliques of a kitty and of course embellish the kitty also. Ravoli Dreams has beautiful lace that she hand dyes and will look wonderful in any art form you chose to use it in. </div>
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The next one with Lydia's pretty fabric and of course I had to really doll this lady up with shoes and all. A garden spider had to peek in in the upper corner.<br />
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Now this little mummy was trying to get around and I though ok maybe some crazy corn, love that stuff. Hubby says it is pure sugar and what is wrong with that I ask? I did find some crazy corn<br />
"beads" at Michael's craft store. Right up there with Hobby Lobby but not as big. I don't get into as much trouble there as I do Hobby Lobby. You all know what I mean.<br />
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Now the finished piece, all the blocks put together with Lydia Talton's expertise. She just makes all the blocks sing. </div>
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Oh I have to share a visit I had yesterday. We went to Chick fil A , wonderful chicken, and Hubby went to the book store near by the chicken place. I knew he would be a while, a long while so I went and stood in line. Well ahead of me was probably 30 or more young men and women in Air Force fatigues. I got in line and a young man behind me was standing there and you know me if they are breathing it is my duty to talk to them. I had a great conversation with him and was a great topping of the day to me. He said he loved my visit and learned a lot of history. Hubby laughed when I told him that. Well yes, he was 20 and I was 75. A lot of history there. Ok had to share the topping of a warm day for us. </div>
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We had heard on TV, yes TV ( we admit proudly we watch TV) about the Youth World Championship Sailing. We have never ever been around Sail Boats, but do know one lady who is a Sailboat Captain ( if our memory serves us correctly- Lela). What a treat for us to see all of this activity. They bid for the chance for this event and were granted it in 2016. <br />
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There were 382 young sailors up to the age of 18 from all over the world, actually 66 countries to be almost exact. We did hear the number 420 and 400 several times but didn't know if that number actually entered or what they ment but I didn't want to leave that out just in case it was a magic number. Remember I don't know one little thing about sail boats. They had boys and girls fleets.<br />
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We wondered if they had their own boats shipped over but heard a lady or someone say that Great Britain furnished the boats and had them shipped over here to Corpus Christi. The kids could of course use their own banners on them. After the races they did hose off all of the salt water and take care of them as if their own. There was 110 races over a 5 day span and included 9 different classes for all to be in. Now that is a herd of boats no matter what you say. They loved the Corpus area because the wind. A lot of the places they have these at didn't have the consistent winds and to me ya gotta have wind to go somewhere. <br />
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We didn't know when we went over to Corpus that their take off time was by 11 am and coming in time was 6 pm. We know now, we had made another stop before getting to where the sail boats were. I did take a few pictures, there is a bit of the Saharan dust in the air so you will be able to tell which photos are mine. The rest of the birds eye photos are from the TV from the two television stations in Corpus Christi. What a treat y'all get to see these besides my puny attempt of photos of the sail boats. Kiii and KRIS. They did fantastic coverage of this even. <br />
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So here ya go---the flags representing the countries entering the races. No matter where I stood I couldn't get all of the flags in one pic but this way you might can make your country's flag out. I see ours. <br />
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From where we were at this particular beach we could see the USS Lexington. Now this ship has some stories. We have been on it years ago but when cools off less than 100 million degrees we will go back on it before we leave this part of Texas.<br />
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Now for the cute story, just have to tell it. Our daughter Debra, while going to college and for two summers, was a counselor at Camp Champion. It is a summer camp around Marble Falls, Texas area. She said some of the campers would come in there private planes and it was a busy and full place. Anyway she had a group of girls that wanted to go sailing. Debra was like me, knew nothing about sail boats. She told the girls and they didn't care. So off they went and the girls squealed and giggles like little girls do and said they had the time of their life with her on the sail boat. They would lean over and yell to anyone who what close to them in the water " move out of the way she doesn't know what she is doing" then they would all laugh. When they made it back from their sailing adventure, safe and sound, they wanted to go again and said that was the most fun they had ever had sailing with Debra. Now when Debra told us we died laughing and was a summer memory for she and the girls. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-65320591660993646662018-07-11T12:32:00.001-07:002018-07-11T12:32:18.154-07:00Just stuff for July Hello and happy July. It is toasty here as in other places but hey it is Summer and it comes every year. No, really it comes every year and usually the same time of year also. Sometimes a slow starter and sometimes it lets go of the heat later but that is a fact. Now I can remember way back in the olden days when kids played outside until it was darker than a starless night and we never thought of it as being dark. Well until someone tells you it is dark. It was Summer and you were playing. That was a job for you---playing. You were having a good time playing Cowboys and Indians, (taking turns who was what ), making mud pies or playing hide and seek. Yes back in those olden days. Now this may come as a surprise but Autumn or Fall will be coming also and then Winter. My favorite time of year is Fall, everything is pretty and we have gotten past the ugly stages some plants go thru and it is a tad cooler. Just a pleasant time of year. xoox<br />
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As you may remember we are here on a "vacation" so to speak. After Harvey we could have left but felt like we needed to stay, be it to explore this area more or just get the feel? I wonder why ? Are we here for a reason? I feel like we are and maybe after August our little vacation here might have fulfilled as to why we are here. You never know. I think often that we are here in this little town to learn some things about ourselves maybe and also for a reason, maybe to be here for someone or just impact something? We never know whose paths we will cross in life do we? Maybe meeting someone you didn't even know was in the world and that would be worth it for sure.<br />
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This is one painting I just finished. The sweet lady doesn't have my blog address so I can let y'all sneak a peek. She loves my colors so I thought I will just surprise her with not such a stuffy portrait. A fun and light painting. It is in acrylic and seems like I am enjoying that medium a lot. It does dry quickly and I don't have to raid the cookie jar or anything like that while waiting for it to dry. Well truthfully the cookie jar is full of the candies Eldon likes, so I could raid it. Hummmm a thought.<br />
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Now here is another portrait I finished in charcoal and no one in particular just a magazine gentleman. I have been on a charcoal kick so kick away Annette. Love the dark dark around him and it really makes his white beard pop doesn't it? I am doing these while watching TV at night. I don't have much of my Crazy Quilting going on at the second so why not sketch and just dilly dally? I laugh because if I don't do art or stitching while I watch TV I go to sleep. What kind of a TV watching partner would that be? Kind of bumish I think. </div>
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A wonderful thing is happening right now and you don't realize what you miss until you miss it. We are getting highway signs up now. Yea and if you don't know where you are going, you don't know where you are going. There are still lots of street signs not up so we are in just a wandering bliss when we drive around. Not knowing where we are just by landmarks. You know though that is how I find things, buildings etc by the landmarks. I use to tell people in a neighboring town go down highway yatta yatta and when you get to the tree on the right ( there was only one tree there ) you can use that little road on the left and get you to this back road everyone used. Guess just a country direction. Those are Annette directions. It was called Telephone Road and everyone drove quite speedily on it. Well very speedily is more like it.<br />
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Everything is slowly coming back to normal and one particular apartment complex has it roof on now and some just have tarps on them. Now for the inside work on the new roof complex. The did have a TV story that one particular complex got a giant grant or funding and will get to start on it's repair.<br />
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One thing have learned while here is we don't need an acre or 3 1/2 acres for a yard. When we start hunting for our home with roots for us I may have to do some talking to hubby about this. Maybe a little more than this but certainly easy to tend to and fortunately for me it is not big enough for both of us to work in it at a time. Awe shucks what a shame. No just joking I do enjoy working in the yard, something about getting the hands dirty and just the pride of it all. We have made this little area, added rocks and pots and plants. A friend in Florida says she likes plants in pots that is what she has and I love it. No weeding at all. Now if I have shown this before just say well she wants to show us how much things have grown. The one yellow bell on the right came with the house so we bought another one and planted in the ground. Our gift to the yard and will stay when we leave. Oh if you notice the plastic zip lock on the little grill? Fill with water add a penny and the flies stay pretty much away. We have done this trick for years. Once when at a restaurant with an outside patio they had these all over everywhere. So I guess we are doing good with our plastic zip locks </div>
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We have been getting major rain the last few days, our little rain gauge after being emptied several times tallied up to 14 inches. Now all the years we have had the gauge in West Texas it has never had to work so overtime as it did this past week. We were fortunate enough to get this in about 3 days, maybe less but it did give the rain time to not just stay and flood our area. Some areas around here got it bad even a creek close by did rise a lot !!! Part of South Texas the rain all came at one time and that is just to much for the streets etc to handle and the poor people of there had to go thru the flooding. Like the water was shoulder high to them. Man alive when Mother Nature clears her throat she clears it. Just had to share what was going on in this part of our world. The sun is shining and that is a beautiful thing. I try not to complain about the weather, it is what it is. Just go with the flow and enjoy it while it is here. The rain did have a wonderful sound while sleeping, just a good comforting sound.<br />
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We voted today, lots of little things to get settled here in our state. We only had one issue to vote on but we did vote. I was visiting, I know you can't believe that at all---me visiting, with the ladies that worked there and asked did any of them remember paying $2 to vote? Some of them never heard of it . I remember so clearly, I was 21 and legal to vote and it was and is such a treat and honor to be able to vote. I know I marched up the courthouse steps like I was in charge of the world, getting to vote. I giggle now about it but it was such a monumental part of my life I think it was in 1965. It was call a poll tax but now is no longer in existence. You know thinking of years past a lot has happened in the years I have had and can remember.<br />
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Now don't laugh I said something about the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, Hubby said they haven't been that is years. I didn't know much about baseball growing up and the first time I got to play it I was 12. I didn't even know it existed. My Mother was from England and didn't speak of it and I know I didn't have a clue what to do and when came my time to bat I chopped it like an ax but from top to bottom. Can you imagine that? Well one time I actually hit it and stood there and watched it, all the girls yelled RUN !!!! Oh I was just watching to see what the ball was doing. I really giggle when I think of that story. I guess the Brooklyn Dodgers were a team then. They are now the Los Angeles Dodgers. OK, now how in the world did I stray to that.? I guess one of my bunny trails as Grandson says.<br />
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I have been busy with painting and sketching. The sketching is with charcoal and I love doing the paintings with Charcoal. Here is one that I recently finished and she just spoke to me with her gentleness. I have some commissions to do and the pressure is on. I just want to get them Annette perfect.<br />
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Here he is finished and the pic is a tad short and cuts some antler off but gives you an idea of the finished product. The owner of "The Guardian" is very proud of him and Fed Ex did an excellent job of packing him and getting him to Oklahoma. He didn't eat much corn in transit either. I told the girl packing him if it took to long they might have to feed him corn, she stopped and looked at me. It took a second and she just laughed. </div>
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One set of the facing page and the finished page. Now after they were joined together the pages needed more fluff. That was all there was to it, so I gathered my left over "blue water organza" and tacked it between the pages. Then they weren't so naked.<br />
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One set of the larger pages. So they are to this point. Now you are asking where is the outside covers Annette? Well I don't know and don't have a clue what to do with them at this writing. I had a precious seahorse all beaded and nearly finished to use but it is hiding in seahorse haven. So I guess I will create some special piece for the cover of each book. I guess something for you to see later. Right? I still am working on the Alice in Wonderland book. I know it will be a chunky book and all the pages sort of the same size. No telling what Alice and the gang will do while I work on them. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-67714372966508889452018-06-02T09:54:00.000-07:002018-06-02T09:54:02.306-07:00Shapes Hello and Happy June, I know late Spring has hit us all right now being toasty warm or just plain HOT , well except my friends in Australia and it is Fall and I suspect toasty hot also. Sometimes it is hard to wrap my mind around that.same planet and different season zones.We do have different time zones and hate, yes a strong word but hate daylight savings time. It is funny to see and think about different subjects like that. I guess it keeps my mind busy and wondering different things. Well not lay in the floor laughing funny but still funny. When I look at ordinary objects besides cloud formations that we all look at and find objects, I sometimes see shapes of people or just things.<br />
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Take this piece of Ginger that I purchased at the grocery store the other day, I say other day, it may have been several months ago. I thought what an unusual shape and then I got to looking at it and saw a mermaid with her baby and then an angel with at baby .<br />
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I then looked close and could see a nose and eyes of the lady holding clutching a baby in her arms. I never did cut it up wanting to keep the wonderful shape until it dried up and got really really ugly. Ginger seems to do that when it has dried up.<br />
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There is, outside of course, a light pole thing with transformers and such on it. I see this every day and to me it looks like a ski person with it's poles and legs bent really working at getting down the hill of snow. It even survived the hurricane and just waiting for us when we got home. I am very curious about shapes and what they form I guess. </div>
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Here is a sketch I have done a painting of and parts of it I didn't know what it was so I just painted the shape and that is all. In the finished painted you can't tell what I shaped. lol Just a fancy way of saying I guessed and painted.</div>
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I have this plain Jane wall in this house and just put some of my like paintings on it, lots of shapes in painting these for sure and a tad of color. Not the most exciting way to hang the paintings until we find the right place to spend our next many years this works for me and they don't have to live in a box waiting patiently for their forever home. Only "Wind Dancer", the horse is full size the other two animals are prints of original art work I have done "Tatonka", the buffalo and "The Sentinel", the deer. </div>
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Here is the original of "Tatonka" he is also a 30 inch by 40 inch painting. I have finished another painting that size but will share him next time. The young lady that owns this "Tatonka" has displayed him wonderfully and has such a decorating touch. I told her decorating is certainly her calling. I just had to share this photo of some of her handy work. I thought was brilliant to put him on this screen and it really makes him pop. </div>
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I don't have any CQ work to share today but for the next time. I think the Kite and Sand Fest might have worn out your eyes. </div>
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Down here in Rockport they get what they call Coastal Winds. To us it is a little breeze but still feels good. We have found out there is not enough humidity here to shake a stick at EXCEPT when the winds come from the water aka Gulf of Mexico. Here it is the East, we are so turned around in our directions North, South, East and West. Whew, we are glad that the sun still comes up in the East and sets in the West but it feels North and South to us. We have also been educated that when the dew point gets above 60 humidity here it comes. West Texas is dry dry dry so it is some getting use to with the humidity down here. BUT------ we have refrigerated air and that is a good time to stay in and paint and read and just enjoy it all.<br />
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I can't remember if this event was the last of April or first of May but they have started a little kite fest here now. So we did go check some of the kites out.<br />
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There is a large area by the bay and little beach that has no telephone lines and a great place for the kites. The first part of the morning, of course, there was not much wind but then it picked up for the kites. One side was designated for the professional kite flyers and the other area for the kids and non professional participants. A line was marked all around the area so you wouldn't get tangled in palm trees or the one electric line on the area. We did see a grown up get his kite wrapped around a line so good. I mean really good but a lady came up to them and knew what she was doing about untangling the kite. That was interesting to watch. <br />
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Here are a few that had gotten up in the air while we were there and was a pretty site and the clouds did cooperate and came up to play also. Not West Texas thunder heads but pretty fluffies none the lest.<br />
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Of course I had to add seagulls and a turtle, well two turtles one a charm and one a little stitched one. this is a vintage image in the center that I got off the internet. No reason to do these just something fun to do while watching the ball games. This one took 4 ball games in time to do. </div>
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I have been painting but keeping what I just finished a secret until the owner gets to see it. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-65678800181962116272018-05-03T12:03:00.001-07:002018-05-03T12:03:13.916-07:00The Sand Fest WARNING LOTS OF PICS Hello out there, well poor April it got totally ignored this year. Maybe I can make it up this month. We are trying to take in some goings on around here. I do have to say they have Fiestas in this area-- a lot. We don't really go to them we are not crowd people. Now at a football or baseball game the crowds are suppose to kind of sit in place but the crowds that mill around and dilly dally ( they are enjoying themselves though and that is why they came to the party) and push and shove are not for us. Is there such a thing as hermit crowd goers? Well we are that I guess. It is good people watching though. Do any of y'all like to do that? People watch? Sometimes Eldon will be in the car while I pop into a store and he will be laughing and would say oh you missed a good one today. Maybe that is our hobby? <br />
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This weekend we did venture out to Port Aransas, a ferry ride away. We were told to go later Sunday afternoon for the Sand Fest event, so we did go then but don't think we waited late enough. Now before the weekend, I think last Wednesday we ventured over to see the beginnings of the Sand Fest with the carving and setting up, just being nosy and see what we could see. <br />
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We did think we were in the twilight zone though when we went Wednesday, usually the ferry wait is quite lengthy, no other way to put it. There was maybe a 5 minute wait to get loaded on one of the ferries. Then we were waiting and thought oh no they tricked us we have a wait, the Ferry revenge. No just a ship coming thru the waters and it is always interesting to see them and sometimes you even see people and proves the ship is not being run by robots. I have thought of that you know. <br />
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We wandered on the beach, I couldn't find a stick but did say Hi to y'all. It was a beautiful day and we brought chairs and just felt good to be on our mini vacation. Even brought some Granola Bars, semi healthy snack and of course water and wore hats. I always cover up like a mummy when I go. I do wish I would have started that practice when I was 14 and did the cotton chopping in the fields with no sun screen or anything. BUT that was before they figured out the Sun was not our very best friend. Oh but it is, it would be pretty cold here if it didn't share it's warmth. </div>
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After we scouted out the beach we went to Virginia's by the Bay to eat. We had forgotten that we have eaten there several times before we moved down here but we just didn't know the name. It was ok but like Moby Dicks better, just our taste I guess. Now the ferry line was longer than on the Aranasas Pass side. This is what we call the double back side of the line after you get to the part where the workers wave you on. I think you can see the end where it doubles back. </div>
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Now you remember the image when we first went over to Port A, well here it is finished. Seems like they just had to do some carving and pretty up things to it. It was mainly lots of sponsor ads the best I could tell but still very impressive. The day was beautiful and a slight breeze which is good. There were soooooooooo many vendors, we didnt check them out but I am talking a double row of the tents that went forever plus some more by the sand carvings. </div>
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They said the woman carved her side and the man carved his side and I think they met like last year and and have been together. It might have been longer than that , it was interesting thought that the two carved these together and apart.<br />
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Oh I almost forgot the Ferry waiting on Sunday. OMG There are two ways you can get to the beach after you get off of the Ferry. One thru town and the other a little bypass road. Well the town line was horrible and so was the bypass road. There is a turning lane you drive in for the Ferry only. The line backed up FOREVER and I am not kidding, took well over an hour and a half and finally made it to the staging area. The poor traffic policeman did not look very happy but did the best he could with a million and one cars waiting. </div>
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It is funny little things you remember from growing up. Some are good and some are not as good but put those out of your head and just remember the good memories, like having mud fights and playing hide and seek when you are dressed up like an Indian or a Cowboy. You never knew who the Indians were or the Cowboys until we started playing. Sometimes I was an Indian and sometimes a Cowboy. No planning we just played. I know you all have a wonderful story to tell and if you want to share it here that is good and if not it is good also. Little things in life just pop into your head with no warning at all. I guess I should write them down but then that might be work.<br />
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We did take a little mini vacation yesterday and went to the beach over at Port Aransas Texas. The hardest part of that is waiting inline for the ferry to take us over to the island. We thought we were almost in the twilight zone we only had to wait maybe 10 minutes and usually it is 1 1/2 hours or more, depending on the traffic. They do have another giant ferry they have added and that helps also. We usually are semi patient to wait though we just love watching the waves and just hearing it with all the energy in that water. The wind was blowing, not the West Texas strength but blowing about 15 to 20 miles an hour, just a gentle breeze. There were quite a few people at the beach being as it was Good Friday and the Easter weekend. It is always interesting to see all the "set ups" people have at the beach, with tents and umbrellas ans what have you. We just, after walking the beach, sat in the back of our SUV and had a nice non wind relaxing time. We are bums now you remember.<br />
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We did take a picture of the waves and I had to write a little note to a sweet and strong friend. I left an e out of her name but she didn't care. Just felt good to do this and hear the gulls and watch the little "chicken birds" as our daughters use to call the little birds that ran around on the beach. I have no idea what kind of birds they are so "chicken birds" are good for us. Now the sun was so strong I could not see the edges of the words on the screen of my little fun camera ( I do not take my ancient good camera to the beach ) so Eldon placed his foot on one side, I zeroed in on that spot and then he went to the other side and his foot came with him, to mark the other side of the name. We just laughed, he has done, in the photography world, different things than that for me to get the right camera framed image. Thank you Eldon, you are the best helper ever.<br />
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While on the subject of Eldon helping me, he was a good sport about it all. I had started photographing airplanes at night and he helped me with these also. It was always interesting what we did in photography and certainly a fun adventure in my life. Once he went up with me in a small plane while I was photographing something. He was looking thru a camera also and said he didn't know how I did it for so long. I always got funny feeling in the head for the rest of the day but it was still fun. I wouldn't have traded those years for anything, meeting a great group of clients and today most of them I am still in contact with. That is a blessing. Here is one of the planes we photographed with nothing but a flash.<br />
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Now this is the back of a painting. A lot of the studio samples I just turned around and used gesso and then a painting surface for me.<br />
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Here is now the front of the painting, a reflection on the glass but if you remember I used this and two others as a back splash in our kitchen.<br />
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Now Eldon gets to see the finished images of my paintings. He is my inspiration and best cheerleader joined by many cheerleaders for me on Facebook. I am a lucky lady.<br />
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I just finished a painting and I did so stray from the inspiration photo I had to go by. Man alive did I stray but it was some collage and painting and when it is collage to me that means add stuff Annette. A little strong for some but you have to have fun with your painting or you just will burn out. I mean all the paintings I create now are for fun and the stack of the paintings are growing. I have sold some and some prints but just painting to keep me out of trouble. I have added more white highlights on this Carmen Miranda inspired lady. I just had to add goodies to her hat. I guess my Texas bling just had to shine.<br />
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Now I did have a calmer self last week and did this Madonna and am using her also for Ciggies in my crazy quilting and even sold a few for other Crazy Quilters.<br />
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Well there you go my end of March shout out to you my readers. Thank you for stopping by and seeing what is going on in my world today.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-41738943612123863592018-03-01T16:34:00.001-08:002018-03-02T07:14:39.975-08:00A March This and That Hello there, March 1st, the first day of the month and shockingly the sun is shining and feels so good and taking in some Vitamin D. It has been a cloudy and grey February. Hummm if I remember correctly it was the same in January also. The fog has been thick as pea soup, not green like the soup but pretty thick fog. You could see it rolling inland. Luckily we did get some Northern winds and that certainly helps blow the fog back out into the water. We get lots of fronts with the weather here, we didn't realize that but just an adventure and learning all sorts of things. Now I know things are a little different here in South Texas, they call it the Coastal Bend but South Texas to hubby and I. When in West Texas it was Fall and Fall color and then Winter with Snow. In January we got 3 inches of snow here in Rockport Tx, it never really snows down here and I honestly think weather follows Hubby and I. Really !!!! When we lived outside of Houston in 1972-3 in Katy, when Katy was a small town ( it has been gobbled up by Houston now ), we got snow. It had not snowed in that area the paper said in 50 years. Is this a pattern do you suppose? Weather following us? We found out the Hurricane had 9 tornadoes in it also. Well we got the snow in January which finished snowing by 10 AM and was melted and gone by 3 PM. the good snow, not like what is it they say, company and fish begin to smell after 3 days? Well this snow didn't over stay it's visit for sure. I took photos of the snow but they are in hiding from me. Guess they are playing hide and seek and if they ever turn up I will share. Then in February we got this :<br />
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The prettiest fall colors ever and was across the street so we could enjoy it for a few days. Sadly the people who live there didn't get to enjoy it as much as we did, they were still not living in their home because of Hurricane damages. A little color sprinkled here and there and was just a beautiful color. I have come to the conclusion that Mother Nature does what she wants to do down here or anywhere. When she wants to clear her throat, she does it. I will not complain though, weather just makes life interesting and I do like some seasons during the year.<br />
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I had to share what also happened in our Neighborhood. The city came and it was our turn for round 1 of the clean up. Right now I think round 3 of clean up with the big trucks is going on. It was a wonderful site to us all, the trucks and "diggers" as grandson use to call them. We sat in the garage and watched this, gave the workmen thumbs us and we looked around and neighbors all along the street had their lawn chairs just watching it all get cleared up. It felt so good to see the rubble go off to the meridian on Highway 35. That is the only place they have to put so much debris and it was for miles also but now the meridian is getting cleared and that is such a good site. I cannot imaging how much mold and not the best things for you was in the rubble. Silly us we didn't think to wear a mask so it did choke us up later but we lived and no complaints from us.<br />
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We saw where they dumped the tree trunks and cuttings and they were making mulch, piles and piles of mulch. Good to recycle and we are talking big mounds and piles of mulch.<br />
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Now we have not been as busy as the workers here but I have been painting portraits like a wild woman. I don't know what I am going to do with them but the stack of paintings are growing.<br />
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Here are a couple of new paintings I have just finished, there are lots more but I won't bore you with them all. I saw this one on the internet and it just spoke to me and kind of reminds me of the little girl on Golden Compass, I loved that movie so of course I had to paint this. It is mixed media and sitting on my stack of pretties. I like the way the owl and the girl are connecting and the colors just spoke to me.<br />
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One more painting Frida Kahol and I wanted to make her softer than the stern paintings and photos I have seen of her. I did take some liberties with her but isn't that an artist's licence? Again it is a mixed media painting. <br />
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Now I have not been idle with my Crazy Quilting. This is a beautiful heart a friend let me embellish for her. I love to embellish but not the sewing part. I laugh sometimes I have a rule that if the piece doesn't weigh 100 pounds it just isn't finished. This is a relaxing art form of art for me to do while watching TV and and and Baseball is fixin to start. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-65414872724094241232018-01-27T10:27:00.001-08:002018-01-27T10:27:04.958-08:00A Grey Day in January and some CQHello there, well as the title says it is a grey day in January. Now it is Winter in our part of the world, I know Summer in other parts of the world, but the sun could shine and still be nippy outside. We are getting a tiny bit of rain, always can use the wet stuff. To me the grey days mean sacking in and watching a movie or six, cooking something yummy and just full of calories or taking a nap or something useful like that. So I am fixin' to start another painting and then put some beads on a piece of CQ or something like that. That should take care of my grey day in January.<br />
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We have had a different 2017 and now being 2018 not sure what we are doing, I know you kind of have a life plan but Hubby and I just go with the flow of doing whatever happens and deal with it.. Have you ever thought ok we are going to do this adventure, but then at the same time you and Hubby say the same thing and then you wonder if the adventure you are planning is the right thing? The timing is right? Just hold off til later, maybe? Is this what we are suppose to do right now? I think this time we will listen to our Angles, yes gasp, we will listen to them. We did ask them to lead us, I guess by the hand we are such hard heads and don't listen like we should. We are both Taurus and that may explain why we are hard headed. Well that just certainly sounded like ramblings but Grandson did say my blogs are like Bunny Trails and go all over the place.<br />
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CQ is still in my world and I think it and my painting is winning for the privileged of getting to stay in my jumbled up and everything has it's place, but looks like a unneat mess. Well I know the ones that are artsy can certainly understand that sentence. I figure if my art room is neat I am not creating a thing, so I had rather have it jumbled. I will be getting rid of a lot of the unpainting and un CQ pretties.<br />
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I did this CQ pouch forever ago and just purchased a NEW phone. Yes our old one was at least 6 years old but so cute and little. It would not give all of the text messages we got from Grandkids so out it went. That is important to a Grandparent. So we keep it as our night light so we don't step on the furbabies at night when we have to get up. The old phone has not gone to phone heaven. The NEW phone is bigger and I found the pouch and lo and behold it fit and now the NEW phone has a cute little coat when it goes out. The other pretty on the phone is my credit card holder and holds all my "old people" cards Eldon says I have to have with me. The pouch has a little pocket on the back so it holds everything I need.<br />
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A sweet little front of a bigger pouch, so love embellishing these and the more "stuff" I can get on them the better I like it. Not sure what the section above the faerie is, looks like two bunnies but I don't have any bunny things. I guess we can call it what we want. Shapes, right? Funny story, we were going to a nearby town to get the dogs food and I said you know that shape looks like a Kangaroo. Well off at a distance it did, it was a black plastic bag wrapped around a tree and I swear it had a tail and all the Kangaroo things. Remember we were 4 lanes and part of a field and a very large media away and I am an artist and have sort of an imagination. Shapes.<br />
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This is one of my newer portraits, and I have named her Yellow Rose, one sweet lady has already purchased her and I cannot see what she creates with Yellow Rose.<br />
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I have been doing more portraits, almost like a mad woman, obsessed with them. Learning the different techniques on Let's Face it 2018. You do still have time to go sign up and would enjoy learning a lot of techniques and then when you like one just jump on it and play to your heart's content. This month we are studying the Renaissance movement. So learning a little, I don't think that will ruin my brain, and just enjoying it all .<br />
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Now this young lady is not a Renaissance lady but she had a mind of her own and just appeared. Now as you can tell I was going to add a flower but it turned into a white feather. <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When white feathers appear Angels are around. A sign from beyond to offer hope and encouragement Spirituality,faith, protection, purification and hope. Looks like I am sending this</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> to all who want to look at it. I liked that meaning. </span><br />
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Another Renaissance lady, she was a modern day lady but then I just painted her in the Sepia/Umber tones. I am loving doing these studies.<br />
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Now this lady is a Renaissance figure for sure, I did modernize her some. I guess it is just in this Texas gal to make them look a little modern. To me all the men and ladies of that time period all look alike in the paintings, but then it was in the 1400s to 1500s, I do have to remember that .<br />
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Alright last painting in this style, I cannot imagine all that hair, how hot it would be and the washing of it but they were use to it, whew she was fun to create.<br />
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These are my takes on the Renaissance period for right now.<br />
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Well thanks for coming to see what is going on in my world today.<br />
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xoxoxoUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-50653214595665577302018-01-13T12:59:00.001-08:002018-01-13T12:59:45.348-08:00A Wordy January PostHello and can you believe January is here? I would say I just dilly dallied around but honestly I was doing something artsy, not sure what. I always say though even making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich can be artsy, if you want it to be. Really just can’t put my finger on it. A quick update on Rockport, where hurricane Harvey paid a visit. Rockport is healing and is and will be a slow process but it is healing and it is interesting to see it all come back alive. Today the Pizza Hut opened back up in their rebuilt building, they had been operating out of a food truck. Just things like that shows the strength of putting the town back together. Roofs are being replaced for the homes that are still standing and we don’t hear as much hammering as we did in our neighborhood. So many families are still without homes and that is so sad, we don't know if FEMA is helping as much as they should, we have heard stories pros and cons as in everything. Everyone is excited the little beach here is almost restored with its new little tiki huts and the sand looks so pretty now. A new tin roof on the Maritime museum and the small birds are starting to come back. The big dump trucks have been doing a wonderful job of picking up debris. Everyone could pile it up in their yard or by side of road and put in categories. The categories were tins, tree stumps and brush and building boards etc. There are mattresses and furniture in there and then appliances in their own group. The piles were tall, very tall but now just here and there. I think I saw where they are fixin to start pickup round two. Just an interesting process to watch. The Snowbirds aka Winter Texans, we always called them Snowbirds, are coming back and that is good for Rockport,s economy as well as them escaping the snow. A post on that little subject soon.<br />
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I have been doing some Crazy Quilting and of course loving it. Believe it or not even when Baseball is not going on I either do the embellishing of the Crazy Quilt blocks or sketching. Now the sketching is getting semi serious and the sketching be it with pencils or charcoal is getting in my blood. Of course the painting is still going on in my art room. You can tell I am back into painting because just about everything I own to wear has paint on it. Isn’t that a sign of an artist ? I do have a little apron that one of our daughters gave to me to wear and it has a goodly amounted paint on it.<br />
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A few of the blocks I created and embellished around November. There were more but don't want to wear your eyes out. Of course with my faeries I have painted and printed on fabric.<br />
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The next two images are some CQ blocks I embellished for a dear friend Nicki. Nicki created the blocks and I had the honor of embellishing them for here. She is going to create pillows for her bed out of them. </div>
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Love Nicki's saying here and she is represented by the woman in the ciggie.<br />
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I have started my second year of Let’s Face It, a painting group let by Kara Bullock of Lets Face it 2018. There are several wonderful artists teaching their styles of portraits. What fun for me and I know the other artists taking this online treasure. Taking them online is wonderful, you can create in your jammies at anytime of the day. I feel like it is pushing me to sketch and paint which is a wonderful thing. This year starting off we are learning about different artists in Renaissance Movement, I find this so interesting. I cannot imagine what they went thru to paint with whatever kind of paints they used . I guess that would be a good could hunt up that just for a personal project for myself. Any who, here is a painting I have done so far this year. I don't want to over load you but more are coming. Promise. Not the pinkie promise thing, just promise.<br />
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This is my Piero Della Francesca (1415-1492 ), Renaissance Movement, influenced art piece. Now I did remember doing a bride once with a red background. The bride was shocked but when she saw the photo she loved it so I just had to do a red background on Mr. Francesca's version with an Annette touch. Kara Bullock guided us thru this and I just can't get enough of the portraits. This one is acrylics and I am new with them but you know I am getting hooked on acrylics also. Lets face it I love, like and whatever words cover this creating art.<br />
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Now last year Annie Hammon gave some guidance with layers as did Kara here on this portrait. When I did lots of pastels I use to do many layers so this right up my alley. I met this beautiful young mother on a plane on our way to see Grandaughter and Daughter in Hawaii. I fell in love with the strength and goodness of the young mother. She was shy, to me very shy but she was trapped next to me and when she and her friend left I got hugs and they called me Nana. Now that was a success to me. This is a painting of their young son I did. I used the layers and layers and I think that is what makes it glow so much. To me like in photographs, film has many many layers and digital does not. That is another subject but just had to throw that one in.<br />
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Well I have more to visit with but will try to do better this year. We will probably be moving again, we knew our "vacation" here in Rockport was only going to be a year and we need, we guess, to find a forever home. I mean we have 25 more years to stay around. We will be 100 then and really won't care where we will be living. Besides I have a lot of CQ and art supplies I have to use before then. We know wherever we land it will be the perfect place.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-55568068026619435732017-09-23T12:22:00.002-07:002017-09-23T12:22:27.866-07:00Mother Nature and Harvey Hello dear ones, well a lot has happened since my last post. Do you remember that I said when we moved down here this was going to be a new adventure? An adventure different than the last 75 years Eldon has had and 73 for me? Well I have always heard to be careful for what you wish for. I didn't realize I was wishing for it but Mother Nature took me serious. We moved to Rockport Texas on the Gulf Coast in May of 2017. THIS YEAR!!! We have learned about the weather and if the clouds look stormy it usually doesn't mean a tornado or hail storm or any of the weather related clouds we are use to from West Texas. They just fluff around and are pretty and go North. Now we know they have hurricanes down in the coastal areas and have been watching one the weather men couldn't put a grasp on. I told hubby oh oh this may be a goody coming our way. Well on the 23rd of August Harvey was building and doing what hurricanes do. He was a tropical depression then a storm not sure what he wanted to do. Then they declared him a category 2. We thought ok we can ride that one out, West Texans know wind, do we ever. So we went to bed that night and woke up about 4 am with a rain you wouldn't believe, it lasted about five minutes and got an inch. We looked at each other and thought lets turn on the TV. Harvey had grown to a category 3 with storm serge of water what was it 8 or 12 feet. He finished up a category 4.<br />
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We thought OK lets leave , we are not one of the ones who want to get stormed in when we could have gotten out in a safe timely manor. We gathered up the fur babies, their food and beds. Threw some clothes together and did remember to grab the fur babies shot records and our passports. Guess we thought they would be checking passports at the county line or something lol. We were prepared to stay with canned food, lots of water and toilet paper but just didn't think of us having to leave. We were just loaded up and one of our sweet young neighbors came over and said leave. We are leaving and have lived here forever. Her husband was at work on a tug boat and said leave now. We hugged and I wished her well and to be safe. Just as we were leaving a dear friend called and said what are you doing? We are going North, not sure where but just somewhere North. She said come to our home in Abilene. We have two big dogs and she didn't care. An angel in disguise for sure. When we moved here one house rule was to always have at least 1/2 tank of gas in the car at all times. WHEW good time for rules.<br />
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We did move some furniture around in case windows got broken with limbs, we moved the 60 inch TV ( man that sucker was heavy) to the bed in the back and some paintings came with it. Now when we moved the TV back to his perch it was twice as heavy carrying it. I guess the Adrenalin kicked in at least on my part. I was not Wonder Woman helping Eldon carrying it back. In fact we sat it on a towel and drug it over the floor. Guess Wonder Woman stayed at Gingers. We had called the rental people 4 times that if we had hardware we would put the window coverings up. They finally got back to us and said don't worry about it. Our stuff and the landlords house? OK.<br />
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We called the LaQuinta in Brady, we knew they accepted animals. She said we have lots of room it is slow this weekend. We thought bet it won't be for long. When we left she said it was packed. We weren't the only ones who came to Brady for the first night. It took us 5 hours to get there but safe and sound were we and our little wards--Libby and Charlie. The next morning we went down to breakfast and several people were there and some were from Flour Bluff outside of Corpus Christi. They said it took over 10 hours to get to Brady. Now remember we went the same route and took us 5 hours. They had called for a mandatory evacuation. Yea for us to leave early. They planned to go back Monday the 28th. This was the 25th when the breakfast happened.<br />
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Off we went to Ginger's home. Safe and sound from Harvey. We stay glued to the TV watching everything the Weather Channel had out there to share. The motel across from where we had a lot of belongings stored was not holding up well. I started laughing and laughing and Eldon said what is so funny? Well, when we moved here we knew we were going to move one more time either to another permanent home instead of a rental in Rockport or another town. We had saved the good packing boxes, folded them up and put up high so they wouldn't get messed up. I said well at least our boxes, empty boxes will be safe. I know I have a weird sense of humor. A lot of empty boxes, but our attitude is that it is all just stuff. STUFF we were out of harms way and safe and sound with our fur babies and ourselves.<br />
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After Harvey cleared his throat and played havoc on Rockport, being as that is where he made land fall, we saw so many bad photos of little Rockport. Such demolished areas and the news didn't exaggerate at all. It was a mess. Some we talked to afterward said the eye of it was just like you see on TV perfectly calm. Then Katy bar the door when the eye passes thru. Some had well water and generators so just hang on but be safe.<br />
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We didn't know a soul to call to see what our home and neighborhood looked like. The high school really got it bad and we were very close by. Then we thought of the owner of the storage unit, a precious couple and so friendly. I called her and she said the storage unit was perfect didn't lose even one piece of tin. The builder of the unit was from Lubbock Tx where we moved from and has many many units. Guess he knew how to build them fo tornadoes. She offered to go drive by our house and see what the damage was . They had stayed in Corpus Christi at her parents home. She texted and we had lost part of a fence and 2 shingles. We were so blessed, we couldn't believe it.<br />
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Wednesday the 30th we went back to Rockport, still no electricity or water or sewer but in our haste to leave we never thought about the food in the freezer or fridge. We had just gone to the store and it was nice and full of meat etc. I have gotten in the habit of re wrapping the meat in freezer paper and then in plastic bags. Why? don't have a clue but sure am glad I did because it would have been pretty stinkie to clean out the freezer but nope just grabbed the bags and tossed them in the trash. We were there about 2 or 3 hours and was long enough with no air conditioner. There was a cerfew of 7 am to 7 pm.<br />
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We went back to Kerrville to spend the night and then on to Eldon's sister's for a couple of nights. Back to Abilene on Sunday to Gingers. We heard by the way of 3200 miles away from daughter Dedria that we would have electricity by the 8th of September. So we left Abilene of the 8th of September hoping that would be a happening. Well lo and behold we had electricity and came back to Rockport on Saturday the 9th of September. Our thinking is New Braunsfel is closer than Abilene and would stay there several nights until electricity was up. The fur babies were perfect this whole time we could not have asked for any better and Libby the timid baby learned to go up and down stairs. A giant task for her so in the motels we used the steps to keep her active. Charlie needed no encouragement. He is a ball of fire.<br />
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There is still tons of limbs and trash lining all streets after two weeks that we have been back. We have internet now, two days, well most of the time it goes in and out and have TV now. WHEW gotta get our Baseball game watching back in our schedule and saw the last episode of Game of Thrones for the season.<br />
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Our Dairy Queen parking lot. Pretty and so calm and shady in the back of the DQ building. Now all of the leaves got stripped off of the trees but now after this time the leaves have nearly all grown back. I will not show what they looked like stripped but how they almost are. Even the pitiful tree in our front yard has leaves back. Mother Nature takes care of her babies for sure. We noticed the Oleanders are blooming and I don't think they lost one tiny leaf. They are pretty tough plants I do have to give it to them. Poisoness but pretty. While sitting at the DQ yesterday there is no telling how many trucks and pickups went up the main 35. A few cars but most work vehicles all working to get Rockport back and cleaned up and running again.<br />
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This may be up there with the most damaged of the apartment buildings. We have seen two or three that will tie but hard to see these. Thinking of the poor souls who lived there and we know some just left town. Their home was destroyed and they now have no jobs. So many, well all businesses were damaged by Harvey. The Wal-Mart was open part way with groceries and if you needed anything else they had runners to get what you needed. They are now open 100% as of like 3 days or so ago. Heb is open and now the Dairy Queen all of it, Whataburger drive thru only and the Sonic is now open with full menu. Every day we drive thru the town to see what is being done. Slow slow but getting there.<br />
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When we were at Gingers we did do some site seeing and I taught Ginger how to CQ. That angel is hooked and she wanted to make a Boho bag. Not a little pin cushion or pouch noooooooo a BoHo bag. This girl took the task on and did so good. So CQers we have another one to join the crowd.<br />
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I didn't want to make a book the size of Gone with the Wind or War and Peace but nearly.<br />
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So here we are Brady (Gingers son), me, Ginger and Eldon. Kent was at work. What a family this was. Oh and notice Libby's back part in the pic with Ginger and I. lol We are sort of kind of back to normal and just happy to be blessed with so many friends who were concerned about us and offers to some and stay with them. So see? We are truly BLESSED.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-36293695555537248342017-07-16T11:00:00.002-07:002017-07-16T11:16:10.927-07:00The Story of Our Move Hello readers, well here is the little story of our move. I know
we are not the first person in the world who has moved. Many of you
have shared your move and your doings with that "fun" adventure. I have
loved every story and certainly know how you feel.<br />
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I
think I have told you Hubby does have a wanderlust and I go along and
just enjoy the adventure of it all. We did joke though at a time in
our lives we said MOVE and our furniture just folded it's self up and
was waiting at the door ready to be put into a moving trailer. Now
when we moved back to Seminole to farm we pretty well had roots. Deep
roots and really enjoyed it with raising our daughters, farming and that
is where I really got involved with my art and photography business.<br />
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Onward
Annette you are wandering here !!!!!! Alright about 8 1/2 years ago
we moved to Lubbock Texas. We found our home and could really make the
yard pretty, which we did. We planted 12 trees also. Never to many
trees in West Texas. I knew we were in trouble though when probably not
two weeks in the move and hubby was looking on line at homes around the
country. He was mainly looking in TEXAS and Arizona. Well in
November or December of 2016 he mentioned moving again. I said alright I
have one more big move in me. ( It will have to be two moves but
later on this ) We spiffed up the house, you know the drill just little
things that you only notice but still want it to be nice for the
buyers. We listed the house and in our market the realtor said in your
neighborhood it may take 9 months or a year to sell. We thought
alright we will be tough and endure the lookers and all that go on with
it? Well after one open house and a couple of weeks of showing the
house sold in 40 days. Wow did we ever scramble and started doing away
with things. Good Will loved us we donated so much. We did sell a few
things but donated most of it. <br />
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Where will we go? We
didn't have a clue, no kidding. One reason we moved to Lubbock is we
just needed to move and I thought ok it is close to Arizona ( in Texas
world ) and we thought we knew Lubbock so that is why we chose it. We
wanted to stay in Texas, it is a big state, but you know when you rule
out where you don't want to move it isn't that big. No really !!!! We
spent two weeks wandering Texas. LOL no not really wandering but in
one week then a separate week . We were running out of time before the
closing and thought ok we will actually listen to our hearts and God
telling us that the doors are not opening for a reason. LISTEN !!!!!!<br />
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So
our story is for the first 75 years of Eldon's life and mine not
quite, I got to Texas about when I was 9, Eldon and I lived in West
Texas--off and on but mainly on. So why not live somewhere else for
the next 25 years and by then we will be 100 or pretty close and by then
it doesn't matter. We have come to the Texas coast for many years we
think at least since 1971 on spring breaks, vacations and then a month
at a time. So why not? So we leased a home in Rockport Texas, gotta
feel like we are on vacation for a year and see how we feel before we
purchase a home. Hence the second move. We are trying to listen to
our hearts on this and if the doors open then it is the place. They have
a place here called Castaways, we have filled the back of the Steel
Stallion every week and donated. We had to rent a 15x20 controlled
climate storage room and it is next to be donated. We are sizing down
and trying to be vicious with the junk lol <br />
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We loaded
up our two fur babies and by the way we have never traveled with fur
babies and they did so good. We put their doggie king size beds in the
back of our Steel Stallion and the behaved like troopers and even
stayed in the motels with us while moving down. We could not have been
prouder of them . They are adapting to be inside dogs perfectly. We
thought they should be because of the humidity down here. They go in
and out in our postage size yard and are perfect. <br />
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The
house is tiny, really tiny but that is ok. Like a friend, Marilyn
Paragain, said it is only 4 walls. Right now it looks like an art
gallery, most walls have lots of Annette art and one has is a painting
by my friend Jane in Italy. xoox<br />
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We are
not far from the water, Rockport has a Blue Water beach and it is so
peaceful there. Now when we use to come and visit we would take the
Ferry to Rockpost and visit and then back to Port Aransas, bigger waves
and lots of business for young people. Remember our daughters and their
friends were usually with us. They need busy places. Several times
a week we go to Sonic and get two bacon and cheese toasters extra
toasted bread and go to the beach close by. Oh we ask for extra toasty
and told them that my Mother use to burn the toast and I guess I
acquired a taste for really toasted bread lol <br />
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this little cutie is in our front yard only visiting. Our Fur Babies
have not seen a squirrl, in our part of Lubbock we didn't have them.
Yes Lubbock has squirrels but just not in our part. He love to taunt
the Fur Babies and the stand at the storm door and bark and bark. Well
Libby whines and Charlie uses his outside voice. We have tried to teach
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Our Patio deck. Nope not very big, we did have an acre in Lubbock but
you know it only takes very few minutes to mow instead of us both
working over 3 hours once a week to do that chore. We still did our
own yardwork and really didn't mind it at all. Yes when in Seminole
after I started my photography business I did hire the mowing etc. I
wanted the yard mowed twice a week for it to be pretty and Eldon nor I
had the time then to do it. Funny story about the mowing person, he
kept saying well I do so and so on and he named a name yard. Every time
he came. I said I don't care this is our yard and that is how I want
it to be pretty for my clients in my photography. One day I just fired
him. Called Eldon and he said oh oh I have to go home she just fired
the yard person. We did find a wonderful young man and he was
awesome. So that was good I fired the other one. We were mostly all
happy. Except the one I fired lol<br />
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Alright,
that is our thinking and doings on the big move. One of our neighbors
said the people who lived in this house had a big U-Haul truck in the
drive. We said no no this will be a 53 foot trailer on an 18 wheeler.
Kind of surprised them, but it is done and now we are fixin to enjoy our
move and back to normal whatever our normal is. For a year then who
know?<br />
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Thank you for stopping by to see what is going on in Annette's world today<br />
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Annette</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033425495985240379.post-81131885058738869022017-07-05T15:02:00.001-07:002017-07-05T15:02:11.376-07:00The Cart before the Horse and Wanderlust Hello dear readers. I know you might be thinking what is she up to
now and where is she? Well have a glass of iced tea and I am fixin to
tell you.<br />
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I am fortunate, I think, to have a hubby with
a giant wanderlust. It has passed down to daughter also. Me? Dear
Readers I am just happy as a lark no matter where I am. Oh I may gripe a
little but I am here and when I look into the mirror I do gasp at what
stares back at me but just glad to be here---wherever here is. <br />
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Now
at one time Mr. Graves wanted to move to Australia and South America.
Not on the same parcel of time but that is two places I can remember.
I did say no, I guess everyone has to have a party pooper, but now
I wonder what our life would have been like if we did. Do you ever
have hind site like that at times? His Daddy was game for Australia,
he was the kindest and most quiet man you would have ever known and
would not have guessed he would be game for an adventure like this. He
was game for going to Australia, it really shocked me. <br />
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We
have moved to Rockport Texas, a coastal town in our Texas (on May
12th) and I will share that whole experience with you but next
post---Pinkie Promise. So I am putting the cart, what we are doing,
before the horse--the moving part. Funny saying isn't it? Today I
just want to say hello and thanks for hanging in there with me and
wanted to share of few pics of what we did a couple of weeks ago at our
new place of residence. Now I do have to say Rock Port is not hustle
and bustle and driving on the defensive all the time. It is taking a
while to just slow down and enjoy life. <br />
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I have to
admit we might be some of those people who you see on TV when a big
storm is coming they go to the beach to check out the waves. I didn't
ever think we would be like that but there was a tropical storm in the
gulf and we looked at each other and loaded up our tired from moving
bodies and off we went. Now we know how excited Brett, Piper and Kathy
Austin ( they surfed and surf still in Florida). Brett is now in
Heaven but you know when we jumped in the car to see the waves he was
grinning ear to ear. <br />
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Aransas beach is on a Ferry. The shortest way, well if the ferry time
isn't giant. If not into Corpus Christi and then to Port A. The wait
time is sometimes large but the little flashing sign said wait time 15
minutes. We thought was a joke or we were in the twilight zone. Nope a
very short wait. <br />
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come in and we wait to watch them, seems like putter thru. There was
one going thru the channel but it was in high gear. A lot of times you
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after your little wait the patient people who work for the Ferry
company ( I guess that is what you call it) they point to you which
side and where to park your cars. You turn your car off and just enjoy
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guess William was a good guy. I will have to look it up how they are
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mood. Do you want your hair to blow all over the world of just wait
til you get on the beach. An 18 wheeler was on the right side of the
ferry we were loaded on and I wondered if it rolled a bit or if the
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I guess this was for extra protection to not to roll, boy howdy that
would really cause some excitement if it rolled around wouldn't it? The
truck stayed nice and still. It was not parked to the very edge of the
front of the ferry either, usually when you are up front you are pretty
close to the little"bridge" from the ferry to the ground when docked.
I guess the truck front needed a little extra room. I am not sure
how these little cables will hold that big truck but I will not
question. Maybe next time. Daughter did ask I we knew all the Ferry
people by name now. LOL, no but will get there I bet. Y'all that
know me, know that I am not shy for visiting people and am not a snob. I
think sometimes I embarrass my family but hey they will talk back to me
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in a part of the 15 minute wait I did have to snap a pic of these off
shore rigs. Almost positive that is what they were doing, either
stacked-waiting to be put to work out in the waters or maybe some
repairs. Not positive which one but I did see some cranes and figured
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I am. Hi y'all and glad to be here. Waves looking good and there
are some dots out there and those are humans waiting for the right wave
to come. The now greying big time hair is blowing in the wind, or did
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Dear
hubby on the pier for us to check things out. Had to be a good day for
us even the fee for everyone was waived that day. There were several
people standing at the gate just looking etc and when we left I went
over and said there is no fee for today. They thanked me and their
group of many smiled and just walked on in.<br />
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One of the reasons we came, to see the waves. We didn't expect to see surfers but got a treat to see them. </div>
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and heat for one good wave. This was just a tiny amount of surfers on
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it was out there. I didn't take pics of the rock jetty with the
lapping waves. I didn't want to get my camera wet and if we hadn't been
in the 4 wheel drive Painted stallion we probably would not have gotten
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part of the pier and between the surfers and his dad got the pole free
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going to move full time soon. I just had to catch this and his
trailer of goodies. I asked him-----let me guess you are going to
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sand storms. Like we had to put all the outdoor furniture on the patio
rug to keep it flying around like Aladdin's magic rug. Of course if
the rug would really take us on a magical trip that might have been fun
also. The temps have been very warm for us this time of year but you
don't hear hubby and I complain at all. Love warm weather. The next
post or so I will tell you what we are trying to do about that. An
adventure for us and I guess I should have been keeping a little log
about it. Hummmm, might have to conjure that up. <br />
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am not going to mention February except for it was our beautiful
granddaughter's 25th birthday. Now all I have to say is wow !!!!!!
I cannot believe she has approached that magical age. Way to go
Princess. Now I know some of y'all might be numerologists or thinking
in that line, so please get this in your noggins. Hubby will be 75
in April, baby daughter will be 50 and our granddaughter just turned
25. There has to be something magical going to happen to all three of
them this year. Right? Can't wait to see if any of you have a
thought on that one.<br />
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I was thinking ( oh oh Annette was
thinking, that could mean trouble) the other day that I should take a
few pictures of one of the Crazy Quilt blocks I was doing. Sort of a
step by step of why and what I did. A received a block from the
talented Brenda Sandusky on the theme of Downton Abby. Now I don't
watch that at all, I know I guess I am the only one in the world who
doesn't watch it, it was a fun block to embellish. <br />
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First off I usually don't use the pretty soft colors she uses so that alone was a challenge for the bright colored Texan. <br />
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block came beautifully sewn together like this. Brenda had attached
the Shibori ribbon at the top. I added the pale green pleated ribbon
and the pretty wired ribbon on the lower left. I forgot to take a total
from scratch pic. I wanted some more of the darker color of the
ribbon at the top somewhere else on the block, to me it just makes it
flow better. Do have to say this couple look pretty serious, I will
see if I can jazz them up and maybe the will smile? <br />
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lower left corner. I just was afraid the darker color of the fabric
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to start adding stitches and playing with the block. I really had to
use my noggin' on this block, remember I usually don't use such soft
pretty colors. The ribbon on the lower right was first. I folded it
over and pinned it on. Rayon thread I love, lots of sheen to it. I
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sketch it off, well in my head I do. Lots of twirls and wiggles and
some lazy d. stitches. I do like this green with the purple fabrics. I
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it is time for the upper right corner. I dance around the whole block
and don't stick to one section for very long. I guess a good waltz
dance. I did want the thread to stand out some on the block. Still
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think I could anything to make them smile so I thought ok will make
Brenda smile. On the Shibori ribbon I did little roses of
coordinating silk ribbon. I really like that stuff and the Fargo roses
and french knots just filled in nicely. I am surprised I had any of
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left out. Then as you see some more vines and french knots on the
fabric under neath it. I used more thread for the flowers and then
just could stand it any longer and added some darker silk ribbon Fargo
roses and BEADS !!!! Gotta have my beads-whew I was having withdrawals
there for a second. I did have some purple family tiny bugle beads so
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with silk ribbon. The upper right flowers grew as did some clear
sequins. I am about to say ENOUGH !!!! I need my beads. Now I did
work on the Shibori ribbon and fixin to show you up close. This block
still looks so plain. REALLY PLAIN. I am fixin' to put my 100 pound
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with this, the pink just added pretty and notice I put purple beads to
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bet you sneaked a peek with the other beads---on the green pleated
ribbon and on the flowers in the upper right. I was going to put on
more, not quite the 100 pound limit in beads but I knew this was part of
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