life just flies by

i have realized that i have slacked off on my blog posting..i love my blog..but it seems time warps are prevalant lately...

lets see....not a whole lot exciting lately..other than asshole neighbors on mothers day eve..came home to find out that the idiots called the fire dept again for our smoldering pile of leaves(our friend neighbors were watching it for us)...no biggie really, except these idiots don't like us and have a personal vendetta against us...it started a few years ago when their son hit Tyrus with a clump of dirt that had a rock in it..and Tyrus had to have stitches...yes you read that right...OUR son was the one needing stitches...we never made any big deal out of it because all of the neighborhood kids were playing in a dirt pile throwing dirt clumps at each other...this one just happeend to have a rock in it and hit Ty in the ear against his glasses....he even went to shake the kids hand to let him know no hard feelings...two weeks later they call CPS on us(child protective services) They obviously watch us closely...When i usded to smoke, i smoked outside on the front porch and would let Jonathon come out with me to run around in the front yard..ALWAYS in my sight..but my front porch sits back and the neighbors couldn'tsee me..assuming i was not outside..what idiots...and ever since then they try to find anything to harrass us..so it was rather annoying...and you just can't feel relaxed. We also suspect them of signing up several neighbors(the mail carrier varifies this) that they don't like, to all kinds of pornographic mailings and "gay"suscriptions and such...Matt and i were talking today, we should sign them up for any and all church/religous mailings we could think of...since they obviously need some intervention, ha ha!...oh and Art even thought maybe he could wear a banana hammock to do yard work and i could wear a thong bathing suit....now when they come hme they will have some interesting things to watch on their survellaince camera, mounted on the back of their house conveniently directed at our house..so we might just go ahead and give them a show....oh and i told Matt next saturday we should get all of our tiki torches(no burning permit needed) and sit in the field with those....we can have our fire..and they can eat it...making fun of people like that is the best ammuntion..totally takes away their power...it has been interesting the past couple of days...there is a ton more to the story but i won't bore you with any more details

On Saturday(before all the above crap)I had the pleasure of photographing our neighbors(the same ones that i metion above..the friend ones) for their mom...all of them! Matt and Michelle and his two sisters and all the kids..so fun~
Dominik

TimothySherrithe Family~ Matt and Michelle and all three wee onesAbigail..one of the cousins..she was not happy..but i did manage a couple individual ones of her smilingElizabeth....she has the prettiest eyes~the whole crew...what a pile...i need to practice group sitting arrangements...but hey it was for free..and so fun~! i spent a lot of mothers day working on one of my blythe dolls rescues. This is Tori..she had some bad things done to her...i sand matted her and then repainted her make up..and gave her eyelashes...she looks so sweet now..i did put her pink wig back on until i have the time to redo her hair..she will have green fairy hair..she is my forest fairy...

she had bad scratches and over carved eyes..to see more of my doll pictures visit my flickr site


she got new eye chips...Blythe dolls have 4 sets of eyes...you pull a string on the back of her head and they change to a new set....they are called eye chips...two are front facing and two are left and right facing...so each set can be different...these are her left facing ones..irridescent with sparkles
here are her eyelids when her eyes are closed..i painted those too...
so there a nutshell version of the latest happenings...much more has happened..but please for simplicity go visit the above link to my flickr to see the pics...

xoxox

until next time!~

The most amazing afternoon ever..

Welcome to the world little one!! This is Dominik Brady...less than 2 minutes old~I was so honored when our good friends and neighbors asked me to be at their son's birth..of course they only really wanted me for my cool camera..ha ha~ Matt and Michelle have become very close friends to both Art and I over the past year..and i really cherish their friendship! I was so honored to be there..it was one of the most amazing experiences i have ever had....
Here is Matt trying to calm Dominik....he was not happy at the experience of being born...
here is a close up of this sweetie. The nurse had put medicine in his eyes I think she said she wasn'table to get them to open right away and this was to assist in that process.Dominik weighs 8 lbs 6 oz and is 19 inches long, born at 3:55 on May 1st 2008~ a May Day baby~look at the beautiful mamma....she was amazing!~ She hardly wimpered and when it was time, just pushed him right out...one push~Matt and Michelle with their gorgeous new little boy! I can't wait to take pictures with Dominik's older brother Tim and Sherri his big sister...What a beautiful family~amazing head of hair..it is a dark brownDominik is telling his gramma Debbie his woes of being bornGramma Debbie has a knack..she got him calmed down by telling him how he was going get to go fishing with his grampa and cousins...he was Grampa's newest little bud...how sweet~here he is with his Grandpa Tim and his Auntie Christy had just a moment to pop in and say hi before she had to go!
Auntie lovin!~

As soon as i can, i will share more pictures of Dominik and his siblings!

wow~ what a day...an amazing day!

wow!! where does time go?

not only did i just realize it has been 3 weeks since i last posted...sorry all..been playing mostly..but also have been working on new paper designs..and got caught up into the flickr thing!

but also i realize how fast time really flies..my baby girl...my first is 24 years old today..I am NOT old enough to be the mother of a 24 year old..yikes!~
so here she is at 5 months and then at 23 1/2...wow~Happy Bithday Stephanie!!! I made her a birthday cake...here she is with Jonathon, Tyrus, Jake(he is squeazing in..tyrus' friend) Art and Turner...all my goofy boys

well sh*&

i swear i am in a fog lately....okay lets see...darn it i should have peeked to see where i left off...

well i can attest to today's adventure..Tyrus had surgery. His broken arm was checked this past monday..new xray, etc to see how things were progressing..well, he must have gotten a bit wild and displaced the bones in his wrist and had to have them surgically corrected and planned to have pins put in. The universe was looking out for him...the doctor (doc Langworthy) found that the callouses of the healing area of the broken wrist bones, were still soft and was able to "pop" them back into place. So no surgery: incisions or pins were necessary..yay! Ty was such a trooper through this whole process...what a sweet boy! so it all turned out okay!!

Lets see what else..not a whole lot. I am trying to do some R and R..I so seriously need it. I just want to hibernate with no company, no special demands, nothing...on some days i wish i could just crawl into a hole and hide from the world. I must really need it because i keep getting sick. That is my signal from my body that i just need to stop and do not much~ I have never been this sick so much in my life. It started with the after effects of the trip to California for the papers, I was down for 5 days with a horrible upper respitory infection..and i have relapsed this week with a bad sinus infection...on antibiotics now.so hopefully i will heal fast!

i have fallen into a fun thing though, and have been having so much fun playing..the world of Blythe dolls(go google them), it seems silly in some ways..but it really has brought me so much pleasure the past few weeks. I know i was supposed to wait..but i pulled my secret stash money i have been saving up and bought 3 of them...i just adore them(Art if you read this..forgive me..but it was my special spending money just for such an incident...i just HAD to have the girls~) It really has kept a smile on my face and has gotten me excited again..i really think i was heading for a bout of depression without it...I have fluctuated so much the past couple of months and i hate that. I rarely talk about it, to any one, not even Art for some reason i feel embarrassed by it..or less worthy...i try to be strong and wonder woman,kwim?...but i know there is a history in my family and i have to admit that i can be victim to it too. Although mostly i get affected with anxiety..but the let down after, can be depression!~ the best thing for me to do to battle it, is to keep exercising(shich i have been doing) and to find something that makes me smile...and these dolls have been that answer. and definitely cheaper and more effective than therapy..ha ha~
check out my little stories and scenarios at flickr.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/41086083@N00/
i love that place and have sooo many friends there.

i broke my cardinal rule of not having pictures on my post...but that is what is so...but i promise next post..lots of pretty pics~ (if you go to my flickr there are lots of pics!~)
hope all is well in every ones world out there..
lots of love and hugs!!
angela

sooo what american accent do you have?

On my Altered Art Diva site one of the gals posted this fun quiz..we tease each other all the time on which ones of us have an accent....here are my results....how about you?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The West
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
Boston
North Central
The Northeast
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have">What American accent do you have? http://www.gotoquiz.com/">Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

A little of this and a little of that..catch up post

Let's see where i left off....oh yeah..the room...this is as far as i got....it is nice and bright and clean..yay! Then i had a bad episode of ADD...(Artist Distractive Disorder) and started to play with dolls....

I have fallen in love with Blythe dolls....oh my! and am getting one very soon...in the meantime i have been getting ready....I had Ashton help me drag up the Barbie house from the basement along with all the tubs of clothes and furniture....cleaned it all up and sorted through the clothing...Blyhte dolls' bodies are the same size as skipper dolls..

here you see my we sonny angels coming to get a closer look of this monstrosity....if you want to see the whole story go to my flickr site..just setting that story up was fun.....This is called play therapy..been needing it lately....after this post i do have to get some domestic duties done and work on the house..it is awreck after the weekend...and a pile of boys running in and out...dirt, mud, clothes...you name it it's on the floor..
so I also in preparation and excitement have decided to play making clothes! This is a skipper doll modeling...so i couldn't post her on the blythe site..therefore the disguise...i am making 3 of each outfit....one for me and two to sell....this one is the first finished so far...i have 3 dresses finished too..but want to make her accessories before i post a picture....
detail of thermal undies..has elastic at the top....
felt monkey dolls for her to go to bed with....about 1 3/4" tall
Another project i have worked on is this mini book...I used the diecuts for the mini albums from my Father Knows Best paper lines and created a book about Oscar....to readthe whole story go visit the Creative Therapy blog to see what it is all about~ I am on their design team along with many other very creative women! Please come play with us!!! I plan on putting a permanent banner on the side bar here soon...

So for now that is what i have been up to....been playing and enjoying a reprieve from crazy busy..and hope it lasts a while longer...i have been so needing this....see ya next time..hopefully with pictures of the mural...need to work on that this week...am looking forward to it!

xo

angela

In case I am quiet for a few days....

This is where I will be....
using all of this and much more paint. first I am repainting all the base colors...starting with the ceiling..the the green..at the bottom and a blue sky..then will be painting a city scape with robots all around the room....some will be space robots...probably on the right wall there by the door... So if you are looking for me...that is where I will be for afew...then I will be going to Jon's room and creating some sort of jungle scene...he has new scooby doo safari sheets..and then on to the bathroom which is currently Moulin Rouge themed...now that I am the only girl in the house..and that doesn't happen to be my bathroom...well it is going to be transformed into a vintage hollywood comedian theme...red walls...we are replacing the damaged vanity either with black or very dark wood and the tired 90's style vanity light...then I plan on painting film strip all around the top of the walls inserting images of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello..maybe Jerry Lewis and more(if any one can suggest more please do so)...so i am excited..home improvement projects get me excited...Oh and after those, if I have any energy left..i plan on redoing Salina's room....the hot pink and turquiose just doesn't work for the boys...I think I am going to make it into a "club house" for the boys....and really paint it to look like the inside of a homemade treehouse...the boys can have their games and video games and stuff in there....they loved the idea~

okay..wish me luck and no paint spills
love and hugs!