this place is a zoo.....

well okay maybe not all days..but today we went to the zoo..what a fun day!...and relaxing!
Here is Tyrus petting and feeding the giraffe!

Turner playing with the goats

some cute pics of the boys...Turner Tyrus
Jonathon (dad I added these for your brag thread...since you didn't have all the kids...now i just need Stephanie!)
And Salina..isn't she a sweetie...and gorgeous?!~Riding the brand new carousel...this is one of only a couple that turned out

riding the cow...Salina, Jon and her new boyfriend/male type friend...(not official boyfriend...really nice and cute..his name is Preston)

Turner and Jonathon...little buds... oh...here is Art and me
No trip to our zoo is complete without taking a ride on the giant ant! Turner insisted on "driving the ant"
I have to admit somedays when the stress is high...the best thing is to bail and go out and have fun...Our zoo is one of the most beautiful zoos I haveever been to.....not a gazilion animals....but it is very wooded and natural and so relaxing to visit....even on hotter days~

Aaaah! I feel refreshed~

knocking them off the list

getting some of my list done! YAY!! remember that list i posted a few weeks back?..well i am still working on it..in between the contsruction and kids, summer stuff and getting ready for our huge meet Sept 29th....i still have costumes to design and make..besides that list...so here it what i got done so far..quick post while i wait for ARt who had to make an emergency run for butterfly sutures...Turner cut his finger really bad....dog gone it can we have one quiet evening?..he is holding pressure on it watching tv....gees can you tell i have had 6 kids...lol!

any way...here is what i made with Lorri's fabric/embellishment pack....she sent me two packages of vintage goodies in exchange that i make something for her to show as an example to keep one package for myself...fun trade~ I created a composition book cover...the only things I added were the background fabric, flowers, buttons..pen and index cards..lol!~


I also got my Art to Art swap stuff done tonight...and also a thank you gift! I had made a tiny mint tin necklace for my dear friend Joanne a year or so ago..she loved it..and i had a blast making it..so I thought it would be fun to make some more...i love the tins with the tiny leaves embossed on them...unfortunately i only had two...but the mini altoid tins are fun too!..sad that I collect tins not for the mints but for the tin...rofl~

this one says on the inside "in a world of love and peace, music would be the universal language"
this one says: "every child is an artist, the problem is how to stay an artist...." i ran out of room for the last tinybit of the quote..."when one grows up"

this one says: "we can't take credit for our talents, it is how we use them that counts"

I had lots of fun making them...and am relieved to knock two more items off my list....now back to see what Turner is up to andsee what else I can accomplish before i totally zonk...i think i am close....

oh Art came back already...We bandaged Turner's finger..not as bad as it initially looked...it did stop bleeding too!...PHEW!!! ...where's my xanax?..oh wait!! i haven't had any in a year....okay off to refill my wine glass....rofl!

taking a breather for a moment...

and i thought i would give an update....
As you all have read it has been so busy around here. not all bad things just busy! One of my highlights this week is that we got a new couch and chair for the front room this week! Of course it took two hours to prepare...it wasn't just as simple as them brining it in...First we (the builder guys and I) had to clean out the garage so we could move the old furniture in there. That took about an hour..and then they moved the couch and chair..leaving me with the task of cleaning under the old one in preparation for the new. We also got a new table for the kitchen at the same time. A smaller and more rounded one so it is easier to navigate around it to get to the back of the house~ Yesterday Art and i decided the kitchen would look more coordinated if we painted the brown wood on the corner bench that Ashton had made us....we decided on black..Art did that yesterday~ Now I am looking for fabric fo brown and red accent pillows...no luck so far.


Ashton is making out like a bandit with new furniture..dining table...with 4 feet of leaves, a brown couch and chair...only 3 years old...out door furniture that i have had in storage...and anything else i can pan off on the kid!!..lol~

Another thing that I am excited about is this handy dandy contraption...an airconditioning unit for my studio...no more roasted artwork..yay!..of course that took up another afternoon...moving stuff out of the way and having heating and cooling dudes in my studio *eye roll*

Friday Ken came back to work on Art's theater stuff and then we drank margarittas...having company is nice but boy i just don't get much done...Earlier that day i had taken the kids...ALL FOUR of them to Target to get all the school shopping done~ Now we need to win the lottery to pay for all this stuff...rofl! The boys were of course the boys..numerous losses in the clothing racks, shopping cart races down the aisles, yelling to stop at least 1000 times....you know the normal stuff~ Friday night the turkies gave me a huge scare..they had been playing with the left over burn pile..throwing sticks in and some random newspapers they found...no biggie, but when Art yelled that they had the gas can out there..i about had a coronary right there on the spot...i had nightmares the last two nights...phew! those boys! Oh and then Ashton comes over sporting bruises and scrapes on half of his body...he had hit a car on his 24 hour old bike...with no helmet...man do these boys want to kill me?....parenting is definitely not for wimps I am telling you! Nothing terribly funny this week...just busy busy...

one more thing before I go back to my artwork.....YES!! I am actually doing artwork finally~...check this purse out:

would you like to own this purse?...well just for fun i would like to see how many people actually read my blog....all of it!!! So, I am giving it away!....If you would like a chance to win it, leave a comment here...if for some reason comments don't work for you shoot me an email and put 'purse' in the subject line and next Sunday i will draw a winner. This purse was made with papers from our first line at Dream Street Papers..Natalie's blue stuff-Ruff and Tumble and my Carrinna Rose with a bit of Basic Grey papers and vintage printouts!..it is a lot of fun and cute..I just have toooo much stuff up here and need to start doing something with it..yeah i could sell it...but that isn't as much fun as doing a give away!!!

any one that reads my blog is qualified to enter...yes dad that means you too...I promise the drawing will be fair..i will have Jonathon pull it out of a hat!

ps..my email is geminiangelart13@yahoo.com

for more pics you can go to my website http://www.geminiangelart.com/gallery.htm it is in one of the gallery pages there...not sure which and now i have got to run!

so busy

this is the first time i have had time to get on the computer for more than 10 minutes...sorry for no new updates...it has been a crazy week...construction continues, new carpet on the stage in the theater, trying to keep up with the house, bills had to go out, new couch and love seat...i love that!....cleaned the garage up to move old couch until Ashton can come get it, football practice, school teacher meetings and orientations....busy busy busy

oh gees in allmy excitement i forgot to mention a couple of things...

todays wacko kid experience....lesson learned...never, never mention to any one including an older child a "fun" idea while one that is less than 4.5 feet tall is in presence or within a mile ear shot of your conversation....later it WILL haunt you. Salina's gf's had made some posters last night, while waiting for make up and photos. This poster making had glitter involved....well, i had noticed all of the glitter on the carpet after Salina vacuumed and she stated it wouldn't vacuum up....and since i have been reincarneted from either a show girl or a crow...anything that glitters makes me 'ooh and ahhhh'!! I had that temporary brain fart of thinking how cool it looked on the carpet. I told Salina it would be fun for a party to have glitter all over...soo pretty......**side note**...a 3 foot tall one was standing near by and over heard this statement.....So, about an hour later I came back downstairs to pick up real quick before Artie came home.....and "ooooooh sh**&&T" where were my sunglasses....there was glitter ALLLLLL over the house!~ the boys had found a styro foam cup of glitter and decided to do what I had said~ I think it will take a week of vacuuming to get it all up...the good news is..i still think it is pretty .ssshhhh don'ttell any one i said that...

and they ask why i drink so much wine...HAH!!!!

no internet?....

okay i just found out what purgatory must feel like.....no internet for 24 hours...don'tthey realize that the internet IS my socila life...i don't have friends other than the ones i have here....i seriously think this as a room or location..it is so weird! but i have friends all over the world right here in my studio office! Speaking of which..please please please go to the bottom of my page here and add yourself to my buddy map! that would be so fun to see who actually reads my blog! well::: bleep bleeepbleeep:::: it posted the person's i got it from...ignore that statement....i will figure it out later.....lol*** waaaaaa I want a buddy map***** end of whine....

okay so what does a girl like me do when her internet goes down...aside from wild sex...(okay i made that up..i dream of wild sex...hey a girl has got her dreams...oh wait! that is tomorrow's acitivity...yeah i know TMI!!!..rofl!)...any hoo....what does an artist girl do when her internet is down..well she makes art....and since i love all of you i am going to share my most favorite image that i made for my fairy riders...it involves my favorite puppy and one of my favorite vintage images.....you are welcome to click on it and dowload the high res image to play with in your artwork!~....

Okay lets see...what did i do in the last 24?...Well the excitement didn't really start until we were at football practice...before that it was the normal get to the gym by 9am, work out..come home to three sweet but in-the-way-of-normal-life-construction guys..a pack of wild kids and half the neighborhood and the balloon pooping pug puppy..you know normal stuff. Okay cleaned the house, worked on my tornado struck storage room and got on the eliptical for 20 minutes..about died....and got Ty ready for football. (i am sure i could think of 40more things but won't bore you with the details...We had to get there early so he could get his game uniform. So we are there for a bit before practice start...the uniform guy shows up and tells us that a storm is coming....well a few minutes later Ashton calls to tell me he heard a storm was coming...so i keep watching the sky.......so about half an hour into practice Ashton calls again yelling .. "that storm is hellacious!! mom..it about blew me across the parking lot...it is coming your way in less than 20 minutes"....so i relay this info to all the other mom';s...they all look up at me with that 'deer in the headlight look' and dont even more....well i see the ominious clouds and start packing up...now realize i am not an alarmist..remember..i have 6 kids...i have seen about 90% of the events that can or will happen...but i thought i was being smart and would plan ahead and pack up....i did make a bit of a smart remark back at the other moms and dad's..."ah don't every one jump up all at once now...."..lol!

well it gets a bit closer, call home and tell the girls that there is a huge storm..and i exagerate a bit at this point, tell them,there is a tornado warning...well...there was one in the other county...i guess this created a bit of a panic a few minutes later when the wind picked up!..ask me some day about 'wonder woman Stephanie'...lol so i drive home, storm hits...nothing happened at home other than a neighbors tree lost a HUGE branch...kids are running around like mad men and i ended up with a pile of teenage girls. Stephanie had Salina invite her gf's over and was doing hair and make up on all of them to build a make-up portfolio....so i played photographer later too...lol!

(Salina with make-up and hair done))

so, then i came up and did artwork on my now internet-less computer and created a few more 'Fairy Riders' for new sheets i am creating.....sooooo here is my favorite... for you to use!(click on it to get the big hi res image to download)

oh i did sneak in the start of my art-to-art swap stuff for Santa and Kris...but that has to remain hush hush until they recieve theirs....so stay tuned for more fun and art.....

and if you read this far...thank you! thank you!~muwah..i love ya baby....

yuk...been sick the past few days...

i am sitting here sniffling...sucking what air i can through my nose and then giving up and breathing through my mouth that aggrevates my already sore throat...oh joy!

any way i am not here to whine. I am feeling better even if i can't breath. I have been working on my new set of scrap papers for Dream Street for our release in January and since it has to remain top secret and i can't share any pics with you, i thought i would share some of last weeks adventures on the football field and the goings on in Art's theater with you!

Oscar has captured my heart....look at that face...'nuff said

Yes, it is what you think it is....Turner was off on an adventure of his own at Tyrus' football practice...he came back with this fun prize to show us all....yuk! It is a mole~ he said it was doing mean thing to him?*(*^%???this child is something else...

What boy can resist climbing....even the mildest little boy enjoys the thrill of climbing something...

Now let's see what the big boys were up to on Friday....

How many men does it take to take down theater projectors...hhhhmmmm? Here they are taking them apart..Don , Cliff , Arli and the builder Dave in the background..but wait..there was also Artie and Ken looking on(not in picture) they weigh cloes to 150 lbs each...they are no more...the end of an era...the new projector will be up by this coming weekend...

here is Cliffie demonstrating the overwhelming emotions he was feeling that he was going to be able to take them home with him....he is selling one of them i think... he looks like an over grown kewpie doll or something i think..rofl

Oh NO!!! the moster cable is going to get Ken...back! back...get off Ken..i wont have a margaritta drinking buddy any more, if you eat him....

so there is a tiny taste of my crazy world....i would post more but i seriously don'twant to bore you to tears....i am off to go find some orange juice or some form of vitamin C and head for bed..keeping my fingers crossed that i can breath enough to sleep some tonight!~