be patient!! I am almost finished tooting my grandaughter's horn ....hahaha
the next picture is for the tournament her regular hockey team played in and Nicky won the MVP against some pretty big guys and fairly assertive players...she held her own....oh gosh I love it when I can yell....'WOMYN ROCK'....

the brongze medal was won in the tournament for the school.  She played on the boy's hockey team and they won the bronze medal for that.  She was the first girl to score, assist and win the bronze medal so that is an accomplishment to go on her list of accolades.

the bronze medal....

Nicole (grandaughter) plays on a boy's hockey team and is the only girl.  They played in a tournament and the team did so well they won the bronze medal.

here is a shutter card I did...my first ....ummmm...for me I think it takes too much patience.

I have neglected my blog once again and I am sorry for this...I have been busy though...doing workshops, doing journaling, watching my wonderful grandaughter's hockey games......

I spent this afternoon doing a couple steampunk pages in my journal. This was amazing amount of fun.  I cut out the head from steampunk images on cd from the book I got for Christmas from my d.h.  'Steampunk Sourcebook.'  the crow is a stamp; wings also a stamp; the gears are from Tim Holtz  cut out on my Big Shot. This brass ring around my lady's eye, the eye of the bird and the buttons down my lady's dress are all watch parts I bought in tiny tins when Lorne and I went to a book show last year...what a scoop that was. The clock by the lady has the hands from one of the little tins I got..so I have plenty to play with in future art...This was an afternoon well spent for sure.....

This page is done with washers, verigrated leafing,stamps,hinge and punk art from the same book as above...A lot of fun to do; just let the imagination run wild.

I am still learning about setting up my blog....which is hard when you don't have much patience....I just changed it as I wanted a little bit of 'steampunk'....
but still working on it to make it the way I want it...

I try not to miss any of my darling grandaughter's hockey games. Any follower of mine knows by now that Nicole plays on a boy's team.  I call her my wild mare because her long blond hair flies in the wind from the bottom of her helmet when she skates....this is a picture of her wearing the 'hard hat' which they get for being the hardest worker on the team for that night...they all work hard and are a great team...Nicky got a couple goals this night.

I did a round robin book swap on my mixedmedia art group but I am bad for getting pictures off my camera but I finally did it today. so here are a couple of the books...this book is for Jenn and I simply couldn't stay away from my birds.  The tag clips on the page.

These pages are Lisa's and she had a couple pages on time so I kept with the them...I love my bunnies and so I wanted my 'I'm Late I'm Late'......grunge pages

2012

We had a quiet New Year but at least I stayed awake!! My dh kept me up with my new big screen TV by watching all the programs I liked...devious is that man!! It was fun though...I am too emotional for New Years...I don't like saying goodbye to anything even inanimate objects...don't like all the drunken slobbering and cry at Old Lang....so I try to avoid it all together...I didn't when I was young and a party girl...but now yes....
So I wish all my friends a Happy New Year and I hope this year is better for everyone...

here is a little atc (I love atcs) that I made for a swap on the mixedmediaart group....it is called Celebrate and I thought I would celebrate the hat.....I just couldn't resist this twist.

Well finally back to blogging.  Hectic before Christmas as you all know.  I did lots of things but as usual in my rush I forgot to take pictures of most of them...I made some fun cards for the grandkids and had a great time with them....cards for others but mailed away before picture taking.
I spent yesterday cleaning up my studio. I don't know about you but when I create I am like a hurricane hitting....everything is out...so now it looks nice and is beckoning me to start again....