Things to make YOU smile!!!

Traded up to a new phone last week, so have been trying to learn how to use it (a Sprint Instinct) and a 'Jawbone' ear thingie. Randy refuses to switch to AT&T, so I can't have the latest Apple toy. Funny how I can do just about anything on a computer (mac, of course), but can't use a remote OR walk and chew gum at the same time. I am determined to figure out this hands-free ear piece, though.

The SMILIN' part are the 2 photos I had on my old Treo...OBVIOUSLY from a birthday. The one with the pink ribbon is my birthday, I suspect the purple ribbon is Josh or Jessie's b'day dinner. He took both pics with his cell phone, and then sent to mine. They both think I am way 'cool', cause I do stuff that makes people laugh. Well, either laugh or cry...I prefer laugh!

I figure these will make you fall down in the floor laughing...I probably should have gone into theater...comedy, of course!

Kinda remind you of Lucille Ball?

After 14 days straight working on Mr. Les' new website, I haven't even darkened the door of the studio. Didn't want to let that left brain off the hook too quick. Reached a point where I thought I could give it a break...Realized that Nancy at Eurekan Art in Eureka Springs had chosen the paintings for her gallery from my existing inventory of oils, and that she might want to see some new paintings. OOPS. 4 months working in pastels, figurative, and need to switch to OILS, LANDSCAPE!

I can just hear Kippy saying (georgia accent), "Pastels, Watercolor, Oils...Figurative, Still Life, Landscape...PICK ONE FROM EACH GROUP!"

OH WELL, I can look back on this period and tell her 'you told me so'. I figured out the best way to ease back into things was to work on a few 'starts' I have. The afternoon flew by...here are the results. Will probably not like anything I did today when I look at them tomorrow, but that's the way it goes, folks!

This painting was started some time back from a free Tuesday art group, worked on it a couple hours there, brought it home and never picked it up again. That's the problem with going somewhere to paint, it is too easy not to 'finish'. then I used the same source photo for a pastel version...

This is from a photo taken from the rooftop of our hotel in Spoleto, Italy at Charles Reid's workshop in 2005. Don't know why it caught my interest, except for the oval path your eye (should) take.

This was from one of the very few days I got to go to a group that Theresa Rankin had...before she fell in love and moved to Carthage, MO (instead of 30 min. drive, 2 hours). She thought herself very clever by changing the still life setup 3 times in a 5 hour period. teehee. very funny. However, it is a great challenge, thanks Theresa! Not sure this one accounts for much, but ya never know. Yeah, they are supposed to be red onions. Have a nice 'worm' effect going on over the left onion. darn.

So GO AHEAD AND LAUGH! Hope I made your day!

Talk about SMILIN'!

Just got a phone call from a client (real estate) I helped buy her first home 3-4 years ago. Kerry Sears. We had so much fun looking for her 'growing up' out of an apartment future home. Became friends. Usually just a few clients remember your name a year or so down the road...but apparently, I did something right.

Funny thing is that I said something that she remembered...and remembered well. This is SO funny because it is advice I could have used in my 20's and 30's. Are you ready?

Apparently I told her to go ahead and live her life...find a house she could make a home, finish out and decorate to please HER, and when she was least suspecting it a perfect man would come along.

Well, Randy and I saw her sister out a month or so ago who told us Kerry had met someone..special. Kerry called tonight (we lost touch over several of her job changes)...but it was as if no time had lapsed. Her future husband surprised her with a 'kidnapping' from her job, with a limo driver in a Rolls Royce...a 4 hour spa treatment, her sister (who was in on this) brought her a perfect little black dress and heels. the limo driver whisked her away to the Springdale airport where she was flown to Branson to be met by Prince Charming!

Ya just never know whose life you will touch! And to Prince Charming, you better do right...I've advised her to lease her perfect house so she'll have a cushion! Not after a listing even just a little bit!

AND, those of you who subscribe, I lost a subscriber after the last post about things being good...I must have said damn, or referred to Theresa's nude or something abhorrent. The only other one I lost was after the post where I was cussing in Grandma Neil's "p'shaw's". WHEW, they don't even know cussin from cussin!!!

Congratulations, Prince Charming, you got a keeper!