A couple of Artist Trading Cards I did for a swap. these were an Asian theme.

Here she is...I darkened her arms as they didn't show up here very well...she is an 1895  bathing beauty who will go back to her studio to paint after she has a dip in the ocean.

Here I am finally!! My blog doesn't like me and sometimes makes it very hard for me to get in. I know it is my fault.

Here it is Friday already, Lordy the time speeds along.  So sunny and bright today with beautiful warm weather and birds singing. It is a happy Friday and I am so grateful to be here to enjoy it.

Here is my first art doll for the art for the creative mind list I belong to...I didn't think, while creating her I would have the patience to do another but after her sitting here all night and then leaving me to fly away in the mail to my partner this a.m. I am deciding I would like to create another...

Here is the back...Address goes on White Rabbit's Head

Here I am finally again!! I have been working on a journal bag book for my granddaughter's birthday party last Sunday and I will post some pictures from it later today...

I worked on a postcard this morning for an Alice In Wonderland swap...what fun!!

I did a new technique of on the front using spray inks and computer paper .  The back is baby wipes and paint. I use the baby wipes a lot for blending as I love the soft look you get...the White Rabbit is where the address to my partner will go. You can see the beginning initial of her name by the Rabbit's nose.

Inside of Journal cover w.i.p.

Front of journal W.I.P.

My grandson Jacob and my granddaughter Nicole have taught me so much when it comes to art...they take it in school and learn new things weekly and share with Grandma...I am doing a cover page front and inside from a piece of art work that Nicky had to do for school. She is 11..I am going to embelish the front with something on the top and ribbons and beads along the rings and  the top and side of where her art finishes in the inside of the cover...so this is a wip...I can't express how proud I am of the work Jacob and Nicole do..Jacob is in to zentangles and creates beautiful ones and Nicky has been saving up and buying doodle books and we have so much fun after school working with these characters in the books....they are getting what I didn't in school and I think that is so important and great!!

some days you just have to stop and do a gratitude page and that is what I have done today.  I talk to my angels often and they never let me down in the important things in my life.  I could tell stories of how I think I was near the brink of disaster and they have pulled me through emotionally mentally and physically....Here is a gratitude journal page....

Grandad Eugene O'Neil and Charles Henry Sullivan at Eugene's Tailor Shop 1173 Dundas Stree Toronto Ontario Canada cir. 1916

My Grandparents Alice Wood (s) and William Sullivan cir. 1912

Eugene O'Neill with wife Bridgette and sons

These past two weeks have been "not" my favourite for sure!! Week one had someone close have an operation and spent the week staying late at my daughter's so she could visit the hospital...the second week my darling grandson had the flu so I stayed the week (daily) with him but thankfully he was well enough by Saturday to participate in his confirmation...

Now I am trying to do my tutorials but I also have the Family Tree bug and although all my Mom's side is done I am trying now to do my Dad's...His family was from Ireland and of course I don't have any records and know very little about my grandparents and great grandparents...so I have been on here most of the day trying to track some info...the internet for the first time, in a long time, has frustrated me...

The next three pictures are of my great grandparents, my grandparents and my great grandad with my dad as a child..