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    T Tuesday: somewhere in paradise edition

    March 25, 2019 - By 

    We are temporary empty-nesters as my neighbor so perfectly phrased. The boy is off at college and the girl is traveling around Costa Rica. Crazy!

    I’ve been keeping up with her through a few random texts and Snapchats…otherwise I’m using social media to see photos from their adventures.

    Mini-me sent me this photo she took at the Irazú Volcano.

    And this one of the La Fortuna waterfall. They rode horses to get to there then swam at the base. WOW!

    Meanwhile in MN…we are watching the snow melt. 🙂

    I am so excited that she has this opportunity..once in a lifetime.

    AS far as myself…I’ve been knocking things off a todo list. Feels good. There just haven’t been enough hours in the day or week lately. I’ve been creating and experimenting with my supplies. I think these may become tags….or at least tag backgrounds…or starting pointsAnother thing on my list for this week is to clean up this chaos. I want to streamline and phase out some things that I really never use, are too old and junked to use or lets face it…never liked in the first place but hung on to it anyway.

    It’s a big job but I think I’m up for the challenge.

    Mini-me comes home on Thursday. Friday we leave for the state archery tournament. Well, at least she gets to sleep one night in her bed.

    T stands for Tuesday
    What are you doing today?
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    Not art but a call to action

    February 1, 2019 - By 

    I wouldn’t typically do this but desperate times call for desperate measures. Feel free to leave and come back another day when I will post more art. I completely understand.

    I have a dear friend who is struggling. A few of us got together and with her permission started a Go Fund Me campaign to help get them get back on their feet after one thing after another has seemingly worked again them.

    Thank you for your consideration and I promise next time I post it will be about art!!

     

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    T Tuesday: ski trip edition

    January 7, 2019 - By 

    Today I went on a ski trip with the 7th graders. I’m not a skier but I was there to support and encourage the kiddos. I tried skiing over 20 years ago and was pretty sure I was going to get hurt if I kept at it and I needed to drive the bus home so figured I better quit. This time I wasn’t needed to drive the bus but there was no way I was putting on skis.

    I may not have skied but I became very proficient at helping with boots, bindings and picking kids up off the ground. It was so fun seeing the kids go from hardly able to stand to going down the slope.

    I stood outside at the bottom of one hill or another for about 5 hours today. So happy it was hovering around the freezing point instead of way below like is typical this time of year.

    A day filled with exercise and fresh air needs a hearty breakfast…like this one. Wish this would have been from this morning. This breakfast was during winter break while planning some of the flurry of blog posts that made it to the site. It was really great to be so prolific in posting.

    I’ve been working on getting caught up with my journals…not the art kind. I’m planning to do a flip through video eventually. I’ve also been thinking about doing flip through videos of some of my completed journals and altered books if there is enough interest. What do you think?

    T stands for Tuesday 
    What are you doing today?