Unseasonably warm today!

This has been in process for a few months.  haha....or should I say, put away for a few months.  It's a combo of acrylic paint,  coloured pencils and Indian ink.  Don't ask about the meaning...I have forgot and the meaning will be changing while I work on it.  But in the beginning I think it had something to do with embarrassment and poor self esteem.  Downer, I know...it's just what came.  I just follow what it is that "comes".

So a warm January day is predicted and I will be inside working.  Hopefully I will get out soon enough to take Mattie for a nice walk!  And pick up some coffee for Rich and I to meet at the park...so he can have a break.  I'm such a thoughtful wife! ha

So Iowa has a tie with the caucus results...and Ron Paul is a close 3rd.  I can live with that!

The challenge today is to replace all thoughts or spoken sentences that contain the word "hate" with the word "love".

Cheers!

New Years highlight!

Here it is caucus day in iowa.  We got a call last night to take part in a straw poll.  Ron Paul was the answer!  We have never done the caucus thing since we are new here.  The only signs we have seen in town have been for Ron Paul.  It is just the main stream media who black out the truth.

I'm just downloading some podcasts for work and having a cup of coffee.  

This week (hopefully tonight) I have some really awesome antique illustrations from and antique book-set of works by Charles Dickens that I will be listing in my online etsy shop!

One of the illustrations

 They are some sort of etching.  Like a wood cut but carved onto a copper or metal plate of some sort, and then inked and pressed onto paper.  The book is from 1870.  The only reason I would even desecrate a book is because it is in such bad condition that it is unreadable.  By this I mean it is stained, ragged edges, brittle to the touch and just plain falling apart!  haha  There are dozens of the illustrations.  They can be used to frame or use in crafts.  I will be listing them in my shop soon.

This year looks to be an improvement over last year!  Let's hope so anyway!

Cheers