Looking Back

As I was shoveling the driveway yesterday morning, it occured to me that at this time last year we were preparing for Bill to leave for New York to begin training for his new job that would take him even further away from Michael and me, to Massachusetts. Hearts were heavy facing another separation, but I thought surely it would go faster than the last time when we moved from TN to PA (five months spent apart) Oh how wrong I was-and I had no idea what was coming medically for me either, just a little further down the road of the year to come...

But, 2012 wasn't all that bad. I had some incredible friendships that carried me through the hardships. I discovered Zentangle! And what a fun venture that's been this year! I've met so many wonderfully talented ladies through this creative circle-they inspire me with their work, encourage me with their kind words, and light my days with smiles as they share their world, their art, and their lives...I look forward to learning and playing more with Zentangle this new year and hope to get certified as a teacher in the fall (actually meet Rick and Maria Thomas!! Whoa!!)

2013 looms ahead with some still unanswered questions regarding my tremors. Whether or not we'll ever find out the cause remains to be seen. But, regardless, we move forward. I'm training for my first 10k I hope to run this spring. All I can do is take the very best care of my health and the rest is in God's hands, come what may.

I plan to enjoy as much of the ocean as I can possibly squeeze in--to the Beach!!! I plan to paint, to draw, to play, to write, to enjoy this gift of family, to go see the whales and the seals! Yay! I barely made a dent in my list of books to read this year and I've already dumped another good half dozen in there with certainly more to come. So much to look forward to for this coming new year...


10 Questions for a New Year’s Eve Reflection

1. What was the single best thing that happened this past year? Moving to Massachusetts!!!

2. What was the single most challenging thing that happened? Being separated from Bill for the first nine months of the year.

3. What was an unexpected joy this past year? The amazing friends God blessed me with--Missy and Jenn and Diane, who made the world of difference getting through a very scary time....

4. What was an unexpected obstacle? My tremors that led up to spinal fusion surgery.

5. What were the best books you read this year? The Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin--I'm completely hooked on that world!

6. With whom were your most valuable relationships? My girls!! Coffee dates at Panera!

7. What was your single biggest time waster in your life this past year? Stupid games on Facebook

8. What was the best way you used your time this past year? Zentangling!

9. What was biggest thing you learned this past year? I want to write something amazingly brilliant here but really...I guess in the very bleakest moments of the year, God blessed me with the most beautiful women I've ever known in my life. I never could've made it through without these three and I am so thankful...What I learned is God will never let me fall. His love will always carry me through, in the gifts of friendship and so many other little amazing ways...we are so blessed...

10. Create a phrase or statement that describes 2012 for you. All's well that ends well...

Our happy little home covered in snow

Boo wantsa go play...

Happy girl!

Loving my new calendar!

A little Rock 'n Roll Diva Dance...

It Snowed!!

Woke up this morning to a gorgeous white wintery wonderland outside-well, I really woke up to lights flashing in the windows a little after three a.m....There was a team of snow plows doing a tango, making quick work of the snow covered streets. It was really fun watching them--I'd never witnessed anything like it before. We'd always just had one big plow run a quick path down the one side of the street and then make another quick pass going up the other side. Here, I'm guessing because of the way our streets run wide in the corners, they worked together-one would push a pile of snow to the middle of the street then another would come from another angle to  push the pile to the curb, back up and they'd make another pile, push it to the curb, working their way around our deep, turn around corners. To me it looked like they were having fun, this little snow plow dance in the middle of the street...I could've watched them all day, I think, but once our corner was all neatly scraped clear, off they went to work on the rest of the neighborhood....

Then I watched as the moon settled over the trees out back and the sun slowly rose in the opposite direction. Pink washed the sky out front as the grey of the night sank softly away. The clouds were a feathery mist, flanking the moon in a ring of red that my camera just couldn't quite pick up. Magical, this first snow, so beautiful...it always makes me feel like a kid again!

Winter wonderland

Watching the moon sinking in the horizon

So wide awake and full of excitement, I pulled out my Tangle A Day 2013 calendar and thought I might start to play (Carole Ohl, of Open Seed Arts and the calendar's creator, said it was okay...) I'm really looking forward to taking some lettering courses this year and fancied up a Happy New Year, then also in awe of Helen William's latest post with Mooka, I went a little Mooka-ish with my numbers....I'll fill it in more and post again--it was just fun getting started this morning! Yay!!

 

Happy New Year everybody!!

Zendala Dare 37

After a good month off from challenges and dares and pretty much any kind of creativity projects, and staring at a nice pile of art goodies from Christmas, it was high time to get back on the horse again this week and start playing! I've got a couple painting projects well under way, jumped back in where I left off with One Zentangle a Day, started Carla Sonheim's Drawing Lab, and found the past three weeks' Zendala templates from Erin over at the Bright Owl. So much to catch up on!! And so many new toys to play with! Too much fun!

Making it in at the very last minute, I finished the week's Zendala Dare this afternoon:

Lanie, Tripoli, and W2

 And tomorrow she'll post a new one!!

I'm so excited about the coming year-I signed up for the Creativity Every Day challenge, there's a few online art courses I want to take, I've started painting again, and I'm also hoping to open an Etsy shop later in the year as well. If I'm really lucky, I just may get to go to CZT training in the fall...It's gonna be a great, great year!!

Diva Challenge #96

Trying to tie up two tangles with one tile...I'm getting frustrated. I don't know if it's the tile limits that are wearing my patience, or something else. I feel like I'm missing...possibilities? I haven't played with a spiral in months, or just a big Zia for the fun of it. I've stuck myself in this pattern of completing specific strings and that's messing with what I feel like I should be able to get out of the process maybe...But I have such limited time to play, I think if I don't stick to some sort of constraint I wouldn't accomplish anything...Vicious circle and I'm getting bored...fast...

This week's Diva Challenge is to use Maria Thomas' flourish pattern Zinger, which I LOVE!! I've seen some great ideas inspired from this simple little design and I really, really wanted to have fun and just play...Then there sits my One Zentangle a Day book with the project I've neglected to finish for the past three or four days...and so I figured I'd just pop a few Zingers in with the day's patterns...

I do need to stop. Stop trying to cram things in, stop playing catch up. And just let it all go, all the pressure and expectations, and just....play...There is so much fun to be had with Zinger and I'm missing the boat!

Anyways...off to enjoy the day, our family, the food. I feel like I want to go lighthouse exploring...I Googled a map of lighthouses in Cape Cod and Southeast Mass...and there are tons more to tour all the way up the coast. Perhaps a new quest, seeing how many lighthouses we can visit?? Yes?

Zendala Dare #32

I suppose I sort of fell off the Art Every Day bandwagon...It's been rather hectic here and I needed to take a break from something...Seems like the first thing I always let go is my art...But I did get a couple things done-I finished my tile for our Zia group Secret Santa swap and popped that giftie in the mail yesterday. Today the kids had only a half day of school so Bug was home extra early with a friend in tow. Hard to concentrate with boys bouncing around in the other room, but I did sit down with the week's zendala dare and came up with this:

Black and white--wasn't sure I even wanted to color it in...

But what good is having that gorgeous set of Prismacolor pencils if I don't use them??

My Secret Santa Christmas tile, now airborne to California...

Tomorrow we head to Ash and Kyle's for an early Thanksgiving (oooo--gonna have me some turkey!!) Not sure if I'll have much creative play time...I still have the week's Diva challenge to do, I'm behind schedule now with my One Zentangle a Day (I so love this book!!) and Miss Holly still sits unfinished as serious painting time eludes me...I'll get there--soon I hope!!

Anyway...thanks for taking the time to peek in and I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!



AEDM Day 16 (...12...)

Well, I didn't actually skip a day of arting, just posting. Day 11's project was a black Zentangle tile, of which I don't have official 'tiles' so I simply tangled on an old black notebook page with my white Gelly Roll pen and I was rather disappointed with the results, so I didn't bother with taking pictures or posting about it. Blah. Not all arting comes out victorious but at least the practice makes one better, smarter having learned from mistakes made, and eager to strive for more successful results, right?

So yesterday morning I stayed with my mother-in-law so sister-in-law could go grocery shopping, run errands, and stop to visit father-in-law at the nursing home. I can't even begin to imagine being in her shoes. Everything heaped on her shoulders...Mostly mornings spent there are quiet and uneventful, save for the cat coming up from the basement to demand some attention. I typically see more of her than of Mom, who spends most of her day sleeping anymore. But Mom actually did get up for a little while yesterday, and sat in the kitchen with me to eat her breakfast. She wasn't feeling well, dizzy and headachey, and soon headed back to bed. I carried on with my Zentangle a Day and this is yesterday's (not official) tile:

 

Patterns of the day were Echoism, Finery, and Flukes. I love the soft feathery-ness of Finery paired with the harder, scaliness of Flukes and the rippling flow of Echoism...

Today once again I'll be playing catch up at home. This whole week seems to have gotten away from me and we have a full weekend ahead with bowling, and the church's Christmas Fair on Saturday, then a Thanksgiving service Sunday afternoon at the Seaman's Bethel -a historic chapel, nearly two hundred years old and the 'Whaleman's Chapel' of Melville's Moby Dick--how super cool is that?? Next week is Thanksgiving break already and I have no idea what we're actually doing for the holiday...I don't dare blink, otherwise it'll be Christmas!

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AEDM Day 14 (...10...)

Well, most of yesterday was spent dealing with my Lack of Phone issues...I bounced from the Verizon store to an AT&T store and ended up on the phone with Verizon's customer service (always the way to go!) who've kept me from jumping ship at the exhoribitant cost of almost $300 for early termination of my contract--yikes!! Sorry AT&T...I told the guys who waited on me that I'd be back. I won't. At least not for two more years...But I am happy with Verizon (when they give me what I want--I truly am a brat, I confess...) I'm getting a super cool phone--a Droid Razr M and all is right with the world once more. Like anyone really cares about my phone issues, right? I know--it just took all of my morning to get that sorted out and after spending all of Monday playing, I'm way behind house-wise and I didn't get much caught up after lunch but I will jump on all of that today. Projects are piling up!

I did sit down after dinner to do the day's Zentangle project. Patterns for the day were Vega and Purk (one of my favorites!) And I did a little fill with Tippled Hollibaugh for this result:

 

I was worried the Tipple might muddle the effect of the Purk, but my only issue with this is that it's hard to discern the smalled Purk sitting on top of the larger. It's a little eyeball bendy and I like that!

 

Today, as I said, is playing catch up on finishing the laundry and housework since tomorrow I'll be at my sister-in-law's for a good chunk of the morning--a good time to catch up on reading! I'm trying to finish Fevre Dream so I can at least start 11/22/63 before we go see Stephen King speak in Lowell! Too many irons in the fire! Aaahhh! Haha--it's good to be busy with so many happy things! Thanks for stopping by and have a great Wednesday!

AEDM Day 13 (...9...)

What a beautiful day we had yesterday! It hit about seventy here, just a gorgeous sunny day. The kids didn't have school, off for Veterans Day, so rather than sit inside playing video games all afternoon, we grabbed the neighbors' boys and headed for the beach. Too much fun! They climbed all over the rocks at Fort Phoenix, then after a bathroom pit stop at Dunkin Donuts, we decided to hit the road for Horseneck. I am so in love with that beach! The sand is incredibly soft and silky and the beach stretches away for miles, just rolling waves and sandy shores as far as the eye can see...heaven!

So the boys splashed and jumped in the waves and I gathered up some of those milky white rocks you can only find at the beach. I chatted with folks passing by (especially if they had dogs!) Everyone loved seeing the kids out in the water having a great time--absolutely perfect day!

I wasn't sure I'd have enough time to finish the day's zentangle, even though I had sketched it out earlier in the morning. Made a quick dinner while hubby went to visit his dad at rehab and sat down to ink in my tangle...The day's assignment was to create a design with tangleations of previously given patterns. You could spend all day just playing with tangleation possibilities and something like that could easily overwhelm my OCD brain (is it enough? Should I do something different? Will it look good? What if I did this instead? Endlessly until I didn't manage to create anything...) So I kept it simple and quick and did this:

 



It's all right...like I said, there are simply hundreds of possibilities and I could've spent all day pondering what I 'could do' rather than just do it...so, maybe when I have more time to play I'll try more tangleations and see just what I can come up with then...

Beach pics:

Climbing the rocks at Fort Phoenix

Playing in the waves at Horseneck

Too much fun!! And so much to catch up on today along with figuring out what to do about my phone that fell in the water yesterday...and doesn't seem to want to work for me this morning...Oh boy!! Happy Tuesday and thanks for stopping by!

 

AEDM Day 12 (...8...) and Zendala Dare 31

Running a day ahead somehow! I even spent a couple hours raking leaves after church this morning, but got my Zendala dare done in no time...I did know exactly what I wanted to do once I saw the template-it just screamed Cubine to me. So sat myself down and ta da!! The template also kind of seems like a kalidescope, which could be really pretty in color...if I can get around to a second shot...but for now, here's my Cubine zendala:

 

Cubine with a Gneiss star in the middle

And this is Day Six of the One Zentangle A Day course--patterns given were Amaze, Mooka, and Flux...added a little Printemps in the corner. It feels too light, no depth or contrast. Ah well, we'll have to see what tomorrow brings, right?

 

So, off to feed the pups and round up Bug from wherever he got to this afternoon. Heading to visit Grampa at rehab for a little while tonight. No school tomorrow and the weather is supposed to be gorgeous! I'm thinking we might head to the beach for a little seashell scouting after a stop at the library to see what kinds of goodies we can find there! Thanks for stopping by!

AEDM Day 11 (...7...)

Woohoo!! Even in the midst of our busy day yesterday, I still managed to find time to squeak out the day's zentangle! Okay, granted, that's not how you're supposed to do zentangle...it's supposed to be a quieter, meditative process, hence the 'zen'...But, I had a little time before Bug's tournament to go over and sketch out the day's exercise, even managed to ink it in and start coloring some before the bowling got under way (the boys had a great day and fun was had by all, I believe!) Then later in the day I finished coloring and shading...and here ya' go!

 

I like yesterday's tile much better than this one...The day's patterns (only two) were Isochor and Printemps, with the added 'sparkle' technique, which I hadn't tried before. Isochor still confounds me. I had been drawing it a completely different way than the step out in the book (One Zentangle a Day), and I think I like my way better than this way (but does that make it something other than Isochor??) Anyway, I do love the sparkle (should've sparkled my Crescent Moon, I think...)

So this morning is church and then yard clean up for a good portion of the afternoon. I have Erin's weekly zendala dare printed out and ready to go and I'm pretty sure what I plan to do with it (though those weeks I seem to change completely and do something altogether different than what started out in my head...) and I will do my best to do Day Six of One Zentangle a Day--and I didn't think I'd get any arting done all weekend! If I didn't have the challenge, I would've skipped it though, so a great big Thank You to Leah over at Creative Every Day for helping me (make) take the time to tangle and create!

AEDM Day 10 (um, 6)



I took a little 'Creativity Date' yesterday and went exploring at our new Michaels store in Dartmouth. It's pretty big and, sadly, the shelving is so high, it's really hard to see around the store to find where everything is at. I almost felt a little claustrophobic...But we also have an AC Moore as well that I really like, so I should be good on art supply shopping opportunities, either way! After Michaels, I thought I'd stop for a latte at another new-to-me place, Mirasol's Cafe. What a great little shop! It's so cute, inside and out, the windows are all painted bright and cheery! And along with coffee and lattes and chai and smoothies, they also offer quite a list of sandwiches and pastries, monster cookies--oh my!! I just ordered my latte and headed home, having such a small window for play time with school letting out early. It was yum! I'll definitely have to head back sometime for lunch and other, hopefully longer Creative Date excursions!

 

So this is Day Four of One Zentangle a Day. The patterns of the day are Shattuck, Nipa, and Jonqual, and below is my tile:

 

 

I'm really enjoying this book and highly recommend it for anyone looking for a well stocked Zentangle pattern book--there's so many that aren't available online. Get it, get it, get it!

The next three days look pretty busy...I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up with AEDM, but I'm really going to try and in the very least, I will certainly jump back on board by Tuesday when life returns to what passes for normal here! Haha! Hope everyone has a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

AEDM-Day 9 (er, 5...)

 Continuing on with AEDM--we should do this every month! Of course, there is a Creativity Every Day challenge...Just somedays it's hard to find the time to sit and play. And looking at the long weekend coming up so quickly here, I'm wondering just how much art I'll be able to accomplish over the next three days. Saturday we have the Father/Son bowling tournament then family adventuring after. Sunday, weather permitting, is more yard clean up from these storms that have dumped leaves and branches all over, and Monday Bugga's home from school for Veteran's Day. So he'll either be gone all day or I'll have a houseful of boys crammed in the office playing video games on the computer and eating everything in the fridge and snack cupboard...Then next weekend's Thanksgiving already! How can that possibly be?? I really need to get cracking on wrapping for Christmas... and baking! This time of year always flies by too fast....

 

Anyway, I wasn't completely happy with my first tile response to the Diva's Weekly Challenge #94-UMT Socc and something in the auras made me think of Mi2, so I wanted to play with a combo of the patterns...and, I don't know, maybe I need more practice with Socc...it's still not quite what I was thinking of...

Then for Day Three of One Zentangle A Day, the patterns we were given were Poke Root (yes, I mislabled my sample as Poke Leaf but fixed it this morning after I saw it in the picture...my brain stops working after, well, it's not really worked all that well since Michael was born??...), Festune, and Hollibaugh. And my tile, with a little Tipple thrown in as well:

Ta-daaa! I do like this!

So, time for breakfast and some quality time on the treadmill before I get on with the day. Oh, I did make some great progress on the pet portrait as well yesterday (it was a good, good day!! And aren't you curious to see?? Haha!) Happy Friday everyone!! Thanks for stopping by and hopefully I'll have more to share tomorrow!

 

Art Every Day Month (Technically Day 8, for me Day 4...always been a late bloomer...)

So I'm jumping on board the AEDM train a little late because I didn't really find out about it until it was well under way-but I'm playing along anyway. Day One would've been my PIE zendala, Day Two the Diva challenge Socc zentangle, Day Three I started a new six week course called One Zentangle A Day, which should carry me well through AEDM and almost up to Christmas! Yay! These are the pics for Days Three and Four:

You are given three patterns a day to work with to create a Zentangle. Using an old leftover sketchbook--figure this will be a great reference piece when the course is finished.

 

I'm really excited about the next six weeks of zentangle as I work through this course. I've been playing with this since April and am totally in love with the art and the process. There's an amazing online community of incredibly talented artists who share their work and techniques, along with being a constant source of inspiration! I enjoy learning from them but I also hope to attend a certification course next year and then be able to teach Zentangle to others. Too much fun!

 

(On a side note for AEDM-I'm also working on an acrylic painting of a pet portrait and got the background completed yesterday. Not posting pics every day, but will update progress reports as it comes along...Nothing like a teaser!)

 



And, completely unrelated:

Things You Can Do With A Bassett:

She really does have eyeballs!

People can be so annoying....

 

 

 

 

Challenge 94: UMT Socc

This week's Diva challenge was to use the tangle Socc, created by none other than our beloved Zendala Diva, Erin at the Bright Owl! And as I had to spend a the greater chunk of my day sitting at my sister-in-law's yesterday, I took along my zentangle sketchbook and created this response:

Socc, 'Nzeppel, Cruffle, and Mysteria

Not thrilled with the end result-Socc looks more Bale-ish to me, but the process has sparked another idea to play with this pattern that hopefully I can try later this week...Meanwhile, today will be catching up on the week's chores I've missed and maybe a little painting, if I'm lucky...fingers crossed!

Happy Wednesday everybody!

November is Art Every Day Month--giving it a shot....

 

Zendala #30-Thanksgiving

I'm actually done with the week's Zendala Dare already! I seriously don't know how that happened but I love that I'm on track and all set for the Diva's challenge this morning--I may actually get more artwork accomplished this week! Hooray!

So this weekend's Dare came with a Thanksgiving theme, each of the patterns you used had to begin with the letters P, I, E, and at least one had to be a pattern you hadn't used before (ewww....) With the pumpkin pie thing in my mind, I wanted to use my orange Staedtler pen and viola:

Paradox, Ixorus, Echo, Echoism, Equerre (I'd not used Echo or Equerre before)

Bug said he loved it this morning, so I suppose it's a success! Thanks for swinging by, have a great week and hopefully I'll have some more goodies to share through the week!

Zendala Dare 29

Getting things in here right under the wire this week...though I didn't have much time to play. School and work both closed Monday and Tuesday had Bill and Bug home extra days, Wednesday Ash was here all afternoon waiting to take Bug trick-or-treating, Thursday I spent a couple hours after lunch at my sister-in-law's to keep an eye on Mom while Cindy went to visit their dad in the hospital, which left me yesterday to do anything really creative. Well, I did get my plan sketched out for the week's zendala while I sat at Cindy's so all I had to do was ink it in and color--after the day's house work was all done and getting Bug off the bus early since Fridays are half days here for school. Actually didn't see him after that until dinner time since he stayed up at his friends' playing X-Box all afternoon... Have I mentioned how much I love this neighborhood?? (Okay, not that I didn't see Bug all afternoon, just that he has friends to hang out with for a change rather than sitting here glued to the computer or bored out of his wits...) Anywho...

So this is my zendala for the week:

 

Aahh!! There's my color!! Channelled a little LeeAnn Denzer kinda sorta...I love how she uses color, she is truly a master of colored pencil! I was just happy this didn't come out feeling all dark and heavy like I've been doing so much of lately. It's maybe a little too springy for this time of year, but I think I needed some light airiness for a change...Oh, I saw a patch of pink daisies on the roadside this week, so wonder where that inspiration fell in? Haha...must plant pink daisies for my garden next year!!

Artful Halloween

In spite of Hurricane (what??) Sandy, I still managed to get a couple projects done this week. Not my zendala yet--yet!! It's hard to find time when hubby and kiddo are both home with school and work being closed, then the power and lights go out...*sigh* The house should clear out again tomorrow so planning a little zendala and Holly portrait time--yay!

And here we go:

 

The Diva's Weekly Challenge was to use the brandy new pattern, Bunzo (the swirly cone-ish bits in the center of the left side and the far right corner). I've also been wanting to play with a combo of Fife, Bales, and Suzanne McNeill's new pattern, Snood, and threw in a little 'Flord'. Not 100% happy with how this turned out but considering most of it was done with no light, well...hoping for better results with the week's zendala...

Then, I had signed up for a bookmark swap on Facebook and finally got that finished and ready to mail:

Front: Helen William's Leaflet pattern

Back: Eye-wa, Bales, Tripoli, 'Nzeppel

Wanna do more of these!! But....too many other projects waiting in the wings and Christmas swaps coming up...Christmas! Shopping and baking and presents to wrap--I'm already in the mood for my stash of Christmas dvd's and cd's!! Aaahhh, love this time of year!!

And speaking of things I love, we spent a good chunk of the day beach adventuring today! We couldn't get back down to Horseneck as the road had been washed out from Sandy, but stopped to take some harbor pics, play with a couple super cute dogs, and agitate an already hurricane agitated crabby--poor guy!

That's actually downtown New Bedford in the background, taken from Fort Phoenix beach. I love lighthouses!

Love New England, love living here, very thankful we didn't get hit worse from Sandy....Hope everyone has a happy Halloween! Trick-or-treat!!

Weekly Challenges

Having another great week of zentangle fun! I was up until after nine finishing the Diva Challenge last night (way past my usual bedtime of 7:30--definitely not a night owl! Haha!) But once I'm in that mode, it's hard to stop. I would've lain there awake obsessing about finishing, so it only made sense to stick with it and get 'er done!

First, the Bright Owl's Zendala Dare #28 I loved this template but I wasn't happy with the progress of my design until it was shaded in, then I was a bit happier. Still feels heavy and clunky to me...

 

And I don't know why the background appears so blue, other than poor lighting...Felt very 'Queen of Hearts' but not sure if I managed to capture that...At least I got some color in this week!

Then the Diva's Weekly Challenge #92, a little string theory challenge to use stripes for your string. I decided to go a little 'Hollibaugh' with my stripes:

I could totally play with this striped string theory a lot more--so many ideas floating in my head but there's only so much time in the week and new challenges come out tomorrow...Plus! This is the sweet baby girl I get to paint a portrait of:

 

Those ears!! And her cute little nose...miss our precious baby Holly!! But getting cracking on that--basecoated the slate, have to pull paints yet (I love thinking of colors!) And I keep looking at my stash of pens and markers and colored pencils...so much fun stuff to play with, if only there were more hours in the day!!

Oh! I've entered a couple more swaps: a Christmas Secret Santa swap for the Zia Yahoo group, and a zentangle bookmark swap on Facebook! Need to start thinking about those as well...fun, fun, fun!

As always, thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a fantastic weekend! See you next week! (Watching the weather reports on Frankenstorm...and off to Walmart to stock up this morning! Yikes!!)