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Gallery up and getting my art head organized.

Starting with my picture I drew (in College) of a lady with fish. I know it SEEMS like I’m not around, but I am. This weekend, I reorganized my side bar and at the top you will see a link to my gallery…the gallery is in Flash, so if you

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Artistic Exploration and a trip to Missouri

Having two children and more going on than I probably should, I find that “recovery” often takes WAY longer than it should. Sorry for my absence. The picture above was taken on a whirlwind trip to and from Missouri – back to my college reunion to Cottey College in Nevada

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And We’re Not Even in Kansas Yet!

And We’re Not Even in Kansas Yet!

Tornado CloudsOriginally uploaded by rexandsharkey. Well we’re on our way to my college reunion in Nevada Missouri! 🙂 Unfortunately on the way through to our first stop…Garden City, Kansas….we had to go through Holly Colorado, which was hit Wednesday night by a tornado that went straight through town. These were

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Stitch Night and many flowers to come!

Stitch Night and many flowers to come!

This is a hideous photo of this (as in fuzzy), but I’ve adjusted the light a bit to try to give you some idea of the colors and textures! I’m on a big tear to get this finished. I got the borders put on and now I can really “see”

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Bloggers who embellish ring

For those who don’t know, I’m the ringmaster (which sounds very circusy) behind the Bloggers who Embellish ring. Of late (the last 5-6 months) the ring has been hit by spammers, and spammers and spammers. Luckily, I have to hand approve everyone in the group, but it gets exhausting….so I

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The Joys of being a mother – Part 2

The Joys of being a mother – Part 2

I think my daughter is really bright, but if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that a year and a half ago she cut her hair with my sharpest sewing scissors right before her first day of school. Know what’s worse than that? She did it

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A backlog of posts!

A backlog of posts!

Not sure I’ll get to them today, but I finally worked out how to bookmark sites again with my “send to blogger” on my browser (this is a really handy skippy tool!) and so have been surfing and reading blogs, just not actually blogging (sigh!) I was struck down with

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