oops I didn't do that winter wonderland with striped paper I did a page with alcohol inks and then did computer altered art to make it winter wonderland...I guess the back if effecting the brain....

Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

Saturday and I am bent over with a bad back....however I did suffer it and go to my grandaughter's hockey game...she got two goals...I am so proud of her...
Between laying in bed with the heating pad and sitting in my computer chair with the heating pad I was getting pretty frustrated...so decided to play with some altered art...
I up loaded this piece that I took from plain striped paper to make a winter wonderland background...what fun....

I was sitting at my daughter's with the kids the other day...Jacob 13 and Nicky 10...I was doing some Zentangles...the next day Jacob is on the computer doing them digitally...he made some beautiful ones; cut them out and put them on a page...I want to take a picture of them and put them up here as they are beautiful....

I have two very talented grandkids that are teaching their Grandma new things in art all the time.

Here it is Tuesday and raining. I knew that it would because my legs were really aching yesterday....I should be the weather person. this morning I woke up with the worst headache...another indication that rain had started... so today is a rainy kind of day and foggy to boot.

I am uploading today the little atc envelopes I made for my atc swaps I sent out yesterday.

I am going to work on my rose and music canvas for awhile today...more I want to do with it...I thought it was finished but it is beckoning for more so I will abide by its' call and do some more on it....

I want to work in my journal also....Mondays and Tuesdays are my croweded but loved days.

Grandkids in Volley ball, hockey and gymnastics and Grandma is having a great time filling in for Mom's busy work schedule...makes me feel young again hahahaha. Also Grandpa and I don't have to make meals if we don't feel like it etc....Great life being grandparents....you get all the pluses in life...

Okay today's quote should be this one I think:

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. Evan Esar

This morning the sun comes out then goes in...and some gray clouds in the sky...hmmm wonder what we'll get...I vote for rain over snow....

Well I am putting up today 3 atcs that I did for swap....one word prompts...what fun these were!!
I do love doing atcs....

Now I am off to finish up some other swaps and upload them....

Have a wonderful day .....Monday's can be good days sometimes...


The primary benefit of practicing art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I haven't been very dilligent lately blogging but I have been doing art....journal pages and will be putting them up tomorrow or Tuesday.

today I am trying to finish up swaps so I thought I would put up a card I did for the swap.
It is done with music sheet layered on card stock a cut out bird in Christmas paper (my bird)..and overlayed with a transparency of Christmas berries. The inside is also done with transparency...

I love working with transparencies...they make my heart sing.

Since this is a Christmas Night theme card I think it is only fitting that I add a Christmas quote.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale