Fireworks at my house! Bring all of your leftover tea party fare and we will pull up lovely cusions in my front yard for the best view of my towns festival fireworks, they are FANTASTIC every year!!!

This has been so much fun today everyone! Thanks for all of the great comments!!!!! I will try to reach everyone by this time tomorrow!

My camera died so I cannot take pics of my lovely crown, but it has flowers and ribbon and glitter!!!!

Here is an old sketch to help celebrate this party

I am so excited about this:

We survived our first day of summer vacation today, in spite of the fact it was broiling hot and humid. I was starting to think winter was coming back then today BLAM! it was so hot and humid blinking made you sweat! okay that might be pushing it a bit LOL but it was very hot and humid and I had three munchkins running around here invading my quiet time! LOL.

I got them each a little start of summer gift, each personal to them. Hannah got this awesome book on birds, and I altered a composition book and made her a nature journal, Hayleigh got this very cool book about writing and a new writers notebook, and Sabastian got this book on drawing Superheros, and a new sketchbook. I also got them each a fresh set of colored pencils and a very groovey pencil box. They loved everything and spent several hours checking ot their books and drawing and writing.

We watched The Golden Compass, I don’t want to give anything away incase some of you haven’t seen it, but for those that have, what the heck was that ending?????? I’ve now had to add three more booksto my Amazon wish-list which is already ridiculously large and in dire need of editing!! (I have folders and sub-folders…how sick is that??)

I am loving the art journal class I’m taking part in, that I mentioned in my last post!!

okay so this is my weekly post, I am so proud of myself!! My goal is once a month but I’d really like to make it once a week, we will see.

I gotta get to bed, Sabastian will be home EARLY tomorrow from his Dad’s and I have ALOT of work to do around here. I am purging closets and nder-bed areas (cringe) and toys. Wish me LUCK!!

Well surprise surprise I’m posting on my blog!

I’ve been making a lot of changes in my life lately, small ones, going one or two at a time, but the key is I’m doing it this time, not just talking about it.

Today is the first day of an art journaling classI’m doing online! I’m so excited to get to know everyone involved and to use this to jump start some other changes I have in mind.

Procrastination is such a huge part of so many peoples lives and even though deep down we know this, it still feels very lonely. So I am kicking procrastinations butt starting now! The first step in that goal is to set more realistic goals for myself. Instead of posting Hey I’m going to blog everyday!! then get so upset that I again didn’t follow through I am going to take baby steps and say, I’ll be really happy with myself if I blog once a week. I am going to schedule the time with myself.

I’m also hopping back on the FLYLADY wagon! I still read her e-mails everyday, I just don’t follow through with everything. But I am going to take it 15 minutes at a time and all will be well!

School is going good, I have about two weeks left until I have a month off for summer break!! Whoo Hoo.  I’ve scanned a few of my assignments into my Flickr  photostream if any one wants to see.  I still can’t believe I am an ART SCHOOL STUDENT at age 34. I love it.

Another new thing is I have discovered that I LOVE working with clay!!!! I am in need of a new camera, and hope to acquire one in the next month, so that will just have to be a small teaser for now…but I can’t wait to share!!

Finally, I have been itching to collage again and I’m doing it! I have so many ideas they seems to be bursting from my head! I will be scanning some soon.

So I made my kids a sketch blog because they draw all the time and they love to do Illustration Friday!

 We had a hard time coming up with a name that everyone liked so I picked one, Hayleigh thinks its very clever! LOL

Their initials in reverse birth order are S H H (Sabastian, Hannah, Hayleigh) and I am always or at least it feels like always telling them to please be quiet for at least five minutes, not always that politely but ya get my drift. So I named it S.H.H

Heres the link S.H.H

The kids and I were watching Zathura last night on Cartoon Network and I did some doodling. Then today I was playing with my new Wacom Bamboo Fun and did a bit of coloring. I love my Wacom!!!!!

Go to my Flickr page for larger

Sabastian-Kindergarten                                 Hayleigh-First Grade                

                                 Hannah-First Grade

Here are my kids’ current school pics! Aren’t they cute!!

I know it’s been forever since my last post, but I have an update coming soon, just need to get stuff scanned.

I started school!!! I am a 33 year old Freshman in college! I am attending The Art Institute of Pittsburgh’s Online Division! Going for graphic design. Wish me luck!

Here is my piece for illustration friday TOPIC: neighbor

Today is my 33rd birthday!!

I LOVE my birthday!!

Here is a little something I threw together for my birthday and to work for Illustration Friday!