Lets Get Physical.....

I know its not Thursday, but decided to upload my image today, I will fill it in on Thursday. I used paper for the skirt, drawn the legs and the shoes, used art felts and paint. I think that's all it needs. Sometimes I have a hard time knowing when to quit putting stuff on, and then it ends up looking like crap, and I do not use it. My motto should be less is enough. Had a great weekend did not do to much, alot of flu over at my house, both the hubby and the daughter two weeks ago both had bad colds, now they have it again, only worse. I am taking the daughter to the Dr. tomorrow. The hubby well you know men, I am OK no need for the doctor for me. I of course am in perfect condition, what would happen if I got sick, who would look after them (of course me who else, isn't that a mother duty in life, Ha Ha,) Well I did some art in the studio, tried some new techniques (with paints) I will scan it tomorrow and show you, I got the idea from the Somerset Studio Magazines. I also found the coolest website called gomakesomething.com. I don't know how to link, if anybody out there does, could they email me and tell me how. Anyway if your interested in creating stuff this is the place to go, each Monday they have a Monday challenge and they show you how to make the project, totally cool. Well I wanted to post early, because I want to go down to the studio and "gomakesmothing".

Studio Friday-Artists

This weeks studio friday was just up my alley, I want you to meet Audrey Kawasaki. I love her work, she works in a light color pallet. Her paintings seem to float in a soft light. Her subjects are women. I found her by also surfing the web one day looking for inspiration. I could only pray to have a talent that awesome. I did not know how to do the link with her name, but it you clikc on the Studio Friday Artists it will take you to her website.

Rembering when....

Today was a sad day for my family. It was on this day a year ago my sister passed away. I spent today quietly remembering all the things that I loved about her. The way she would phone me and we would just would joke around and laugh and laugh. The way she was always worried about us, my sister and I always called her mother. She was meant to have a dozen kids, but only had one, and he was the love of her life as well as her husband. They did everything together. Vicki and I will always miss her, she was our sister....

I am back Just Popping Along

Yep, got the computer fixed, just spent 4 hours trying to get everything back on and get into blogger, since all is ok with the world now. Yes if you notice I gained 2 lbs how i DONT KNOW, but it will be off next week. I have missed blogging only been away a couple of days, but felt like weeks, though nothing earth shattering has happened in my life since I last blogged. I somehow feel conneted knowing some people read my blog. Well I feel like I have done a full days work getting this computer set up. Well will talk tommorow for sure.....

Computer going to the hospital....

My computer has been giving me some trouble. Its very slow in starting and sometimes wont do what you want it to. I am taking in tomorrow to my guy (a computer guy) to get a complete clean up and reload. Hopefully will have it back by Friday. If all else fails I will post from work. Well its been a great couple of days here in the North, its going to plus 12 Celsius and its still January. God are we having crazy weather or what. Hurricane winds in Europe snow in Arizona. Finished up a couple of layouts last night for my 52 week weight loss. I am going to post then on Friday I dont have to post them every week, I am going to post them as I do them. Well tommorow night I off with the girls for a night out. We are going to this Italian restaurant Its all about Garlic, should be inter sting and fun. I have alot of fun with these friends of mine. Well I am all out of news, that would not put you to sleep. So hopefully will talk to you on Friday.....

Pretty Hot Chick even at age 6....

Didnt really have any good images to post today, but wanted a picture up, so here I am age 6. Well this weekend again has flown by, last night all I did was watch NIP and TUCK season 1, my daughter got it for me for christmas, play on the internet and that was it. Today we had the family clean up, thats when we all clean up one area of the house, today it was the kitchen, we cleaned the cupboards washed them down, reorgaznied, etc. Goes by pretty fast with three people helping. Other than that went shopping for some new clothes and that was my day in a nutshell. Didint go to the big mall, I cant take that place on the weekend, its a mad house. I did get some time in the studio and I created the card for week 3, pretty good even if I must say so . Going down tommorow to do something else, hope to show it on my blog tommorow night, if it turns out, not all my art projects turn out, some go straight to the garbage. Well talk to you tommorow night...

Cant load an image today....

Don't know why I cant load an image today but will post anyway and try to get an image up later. Well how are you all.....I had a great day today, went out with my friend to Costco and Lunch. Everyday is out of the house tonight, hubby at a hockey game, and the daughter at work, and what am I doing cleaning the fridge and hanging around on the intenet now how exciting is that. I love Costco, I don't have a card, but my friend does ,I go with her when ever I want anything. The sizes of everything are way to big for this family, now if I had boys like she does, its another story. Last night I cleaned the studio and threw out stuff I thought I would use one day and that day never comes, it just takes up space and this is the year I am make space in my life....the studio looks and feels 100% better, tomorrow I am going to hang up some of my art,I dont have anything hung up in there of mine, but I will starting tommorow, another big step. I have been thinking about my life lately it must be my age and all the things I have done, and all the things I want to do and accomplish and I made a list and this is the year that some of those things get taken of the list. Well hopefully tommorow I have something that is a tad more interesting than me....Talk to you then.

Drowning in a river of water. week 2 of the journey

Well I lost 5.2 lbs and I am thrilled, how did I do it, well certanily not eating my favourite foods. But I did and I am trying, so drink a bottle of diet coke for me. Well I have been busily doing not much in the studio but making a real big mess, but I did manage to create this. Hubby just got home from the Hockey Game and the daughter just got home from work, so it's a busy house around here tonight. Well not much news tonight except the big loss so I am pyched. Well I talk to you tommorow I got to think of my Studio Friday entry......

Facing the Scale week One

Here is week 1 of my goal to lose weight, each week I will post one of these oversized cards that I am making. Well not much has happened around here since last I talked. I joined a new online group they are going to make art once a week, and post, its called Lab555. I am excited about it since the beginning of this year my mojo seems to be off, where is my energy to create. So here is hoping this is the kickstart I need. The diet has been going great no cheating, taking my lunch faithfully, since I am dieting the whole family gets to as well, no junk in this house....Well talk to you tommorow.

Just 5 minutes....

Another 5 minute sketch,you only get better with practise. Well had a great weekend. My mother went on Saturday on a two week trip to visit my sister. The weather there is really cold. and here it is warming up. Went to friends for dinner on Saturday and saw Little Miss Sunshine on DVD, I totally loved that movie, really kind of a screwed up family, but they all love each other. Did some art on Sunday night, I am creating a little book made out of over sized playing cards, to document my weight journey, I am going to do one tonight for week 1. I will post it tommorow to show....I know you all can hardly wait for it. My husband is watching Nancy Grace at this moment on CNN I cannot tolerate that woman....she grates on my nerves. I am thinking about going to an art weekend in Vancouver in March. I think I would like it very much, and how lucky am I that I have my brother inlaw who lives there, actually quite close to the place where the course is being held. I am still pondering it....Well should hit the road, its all about ironing on Monday nights and then its done for the week.,...So I will talk to you all on Tuesday.....

Studio Friday: Travels

Travels

I have traveled many places in my life, and hope to travel many more. I have traveled just about all over Canada and the USA. I have been to Europe and found my favorite place on earth to be Italy. From its majestic hilltop villages to its breathtaking beauty of its beaches. My favorite city has to be hands down Venice. We stayed in a hotel right on the canal, in our room we able to see the boats traveling up and down the canal doing there daily business. The water buses, the Italians going to work, we even saw a funeral, with all the mourners in there own boats following the casket. we heard and saw amazing sights and sounds. The smell of the city was something not to be forgotten (no not the canal), cooking , oils, people all mixed together in those tight little alleyways they call streets. The colors' and history could boggle your mind. The ride on the canal at night on a Gondola, hearing the quiet looking into lives' of people as you passed by their house truly amazing. Nothing there was new, it was all old and full of history, I could have stayed there for months and still not taken everything. I hope one day to go back there with my sketchbook and my digital camera and record these amazing sights.

A horse is a horse of course of course...

I know what the heck is she talking about. I am sure that like a song or somethingI am doing 5 minutes sketch excersies in my sketch book, no erarsing, no starting over, nothing, just sketching, this is a sample. I am in a creative block right now, tonight I tried a few things, and threw them all out. I had to have something to post so went to my purse sketchbook and chose this one. I know needs work but hey it was 5 minutes worth of work...Well didnt get to ww tonight, went to the Doc after work and it was to late by the time I got home. So i am going tommorow night, that is my commitmment you are all witnnesses. The weather stinks, it snowing, blowing, and really cold -30 below. I was going to shovel as the hubby is away but way to cold to do that today...Well must go and think about what's for lunch ....

A page a month;....

Going to do a page a month, kinda remembering the month. What exciting events took place. The first month really is not quite in the format that I want but February will be. Tonight we are expecting a blizzard, we have not had this kind of weather in years. Just last week it was beautiful here, not sweater weather but nice for here in the chilly north. Hubby is going out of town to a conference, but they are taking a bus, the road they are going on is bad at the best of times. The daughter was suppose to be going away on the weekend but the weather is to bad to be driving with teenage girls. I heard this song on the radio by Jan Arden a Canadian singer, really great. The song is Bring the boys home, it was orginially a song from the 70's which she redid, I love it. It is inspiring me to do a page on it, so stay tuned for that.....Well gotta make lunch. I start number one of the goals tommorow. I joined WW and am going after work.....I will keep you informed of my progress. My weight is between me and the scale.....

When love was really love for a lifetime.....

This is a picture of my Mom and Dad when they were dating, I think my Mom said she was 17 and he was the same age but almost 18. They truly had a love match, they knew each other most of there lives, he lived down the street, they had the same friends, and so the story goes, they met and fell in love. My dad died when he was 55, and my mother never remarried and she will be 79 this year, if I have heard it once I have heard it a thousand times, when you have had the best you dont want anything else.....A little bit of my family triva for you today. I just came up from working on an art piece and it looks like crap, so its going to be repainted and will not be seen on my blog..... Well the weekend went by fast and furious and here it is Sunday already, another exciting week ahead....Well thats it for this Sunday, hope you all had a great weekend and talk to you tommorow.

Studio Friday....Changing Names

had been thinking about this Challenge for a couple of days. I talked to my mother about it, and she in turn related a story to me I had long forgotten.In about grade one, the first day of school I told my teacher that they had got my name mixed up, my name was Patsy not Lee, (Patrica was my middle name). Hence the class began to call me Patsy…until meet the teacher. In comes my mother , the teacher asks whose mother are you, well I am Lee's mother. The teacher then says oh you mean Patsy….needless to say I was Lee from then on. As a child and a teen I always disliked my name for many reasons, first I thought it was a boy's name, second it was to easy to remember the teachers always knew my name immediately. And last I wanted some exotic artsy name like Natasha, or Victoria not plain Lee.. Now as an adult I cant imagine being any one else. My name goes with me, and its so easy to say, unlike my married last name which nobody can spell or pronounce. I think my mother could have been a little more daring and at least spelled my name Leigh. But on the other hand she named my other Sister Delta, now that's another story…..

Spring has Sprung on the Blog...

Yep felt like spring in the studio, wanted to try some watercolours not great with them yet, the flowers need some work but I tried and its out there. Today it felt the spring here, above zero great weather for the past two weeks, I hear we are in for a cold spell. Hubby got home safe and sound late last night. Thats it for tonight back to the studio, see you tommorow for Studio Friday.....

Waiting...

I have been thinking about doing this layout for quite awhile. When I go to my Mothers building (a seniors residence) there are always the same people sitting my the window,each time. I notice them when I come, when I go just waiting. My mother says nobody comes to visit them. Now of course some may not have children, etc. But somewhere in their life they must have known someone who could have visited. Do we have such busy lives that we cannot spare 30 minutes for someone else. Just a thought and a layout. Did not do to much today other than go to work, play around with my layout and that's it. No exciting life here, talk to you soon......

New Years Day and counting....

This is the fireworks we had last night at 12;00, I know just about as exciting as watching the ball drop in Time Square in New York (just kidding)) love watching that ball drop. Today the first day of January was the day I hang around in my PJ's and really dont do to much. Which I did, just kinda slept in, cleaned the studio (have to do that for 2007), thought about some art projects, chatted with the hubby, totally watched the sci fi network (Farscape the Peacekeepers) I really do like those shows, watched Last Kiss DVD. Hubby went out of town on business for a couple of days, will miss him, but love not having do anything for anyone, the daughter pretty much looks after herself. But alas its back to work tommorow, but it a fresh year, new possibilities and I am totaly open to tackle anything. So until tommorow hope you did what you wanted to today.....