Oh mY Goodness!

Wow - it feels like forevah since I was last here... and forever since I last did art... We got back late from our various and sundry family visits, and Olivia got strep throat, so we couldn't go to Chattanooga for an overnight mini trip. (The fact that I'd left it too late to book a hotel and there was nothing available across from the ball park had nothing to do with us not going, luckily...)

Since we ended up with a sick kid and other tired people, we hung out the whole weekend in the den...didn't even leave the house on Saturday. Lloyd watched his TEaching Company tapes on biology (he's a scary smart boy) and Olivia and E read and watched movies, and I soldered and packed up orders and soldered and cut license plates and packed up orders. My trusty helper Carol has abandoned me - well, not quite abandoned, more like taking over a HUUUUUGE Christmas order of license plate charms and another special item, so I need a new helper. Any ideas?



It feels so good to have four wholesale orders all packaged up and ready to go, and all my etsy orders are in the mail except one to Australia and one to Canada. Those will go to the post office today - paypal doesn't do foreign mail. So now, all I have is a couple of Uncommon Goods orders, and then I can play art!

Three Cups of Tea

I'm back from vacation - we went to see my sister Jen and her family in New Hampshire. It was lovely lovely lovely and thought provoking, as always. On the way home I became immersed in an incredible tale of what one person can do to effect change in the world. The book, Three Cups of Tea, is about a guy who makes a promise to bring a school to a hidden tribe of people in Pakistan.

"Three Cups of Tea is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of our time. Greg Mortenson's dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is not only a thrilling read, it's proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world."
-Tom Brokaw


I came away with the thought that even I can bring good to the world, one small act of kindness at a time.

I'm on vacation!

Since this is an art blog, and I haven't done art for *shudder* three whole days, there have been no posts. However, shopping for art must count, right? And now I'm sitting at my sister Jen's computer, in her sewing room in NH, behind her HUGE quilting machine thing that looks like it belongs in an Asian sweatshop, surfing the Etsynet. I found a gas tank assemblage piece that I love! But since I'm on Jen's computer I need to make sure it's okay if I save the image to her disk (it's her work computer)... more later!

Sugar and Spice and Everything Kickass

My sister RAchel is the sweetest girl... she has a cooking business and she's very good to her customers... they think she's gentle and meek and a doll... but then... VROOOM VROOM!! After work she puts on motorcycle leathers and goes tooling around the countryside on her big fat BMW cycle! So there! She must be a tough chick, right? Well, I contend that we all have depths, and many of us are sugar and spice in one aspect of our lives, and everything kickass in another. I have a friend who is the NICEST person in car pool, and she also runs marathons. You tell me she's not kickass!

How 'bout you? Does this saying fit anyone you know?