Art of Mine

Hello Dear Friends!!! If you have not signed up for my Giveaway yet now is your chance for it will be closing as of Wednesday the 24th. of August at midnight EST. I have been so busy with so many things as of late. My mother was in the hospital last Tuesday evening for a leg condition for Cellulitis. Her legs became swollen, red and hard. She was given antibiotics by IV drip. I have been taking care of her needs and happy to say the swelling in her legs has gone down quite a bit!! My online art class with the Artful Gathering is winding down now. I am working on my keepsake box at the moment and hope to finish it by the end of the week. The class with Nancy Maxwell James has been delightful. I have learned so much and will incorporate many new techniques I have learned in my future projects! Scroll down to my Giveaway post and sign up!! I will see you back here on Wednesday the 25th. with the name of the winner!! Love and Blessings to you All Susan ...

Hi Dear Friends, Are You ready to Party?? My Birthday is this coming Monday the August 8th. and along with my Birthday Celebration I wanted to celebrate my 214th posts with all of You as well!!! I wanted to "Thank All of You" for following me and becoming such Wonderful Friends to me. All of you are so talented and such sweethearts that I wanted to give something back to You!. Ha ha I just noticed...the thin black thing to the left of the picture is my sunglasses...sorry...it's too hot to go back outside to take the pictures over again...hope you will forgive me?? So I am giving you two lovely little pictures that I actually bought last year for one of my Giveaway's and always forgot them ...sooo here they are and they are soooo sweet for your bedroom or bathroom, well I'm sure you will find a great place for them!!! I have also made for you a Sweet Rose necklace...can you see it hanging to the left on the picture.....it sooo sweet, like You are to me!!! T...

Hey Sweeties!!! Hope you All are having a great week so far!!! It has been Hotter than heck down here in Hotlanta!! So I am still busy with ny online art class and thought I would share a few more pages of my heritage book with you!! This is my Aunt Julia who was quite the beauty in her day. Julia was in various beauty pagents and also danced with the Gertrude Hoffman Girls in the 1920's. These two pages are a tribute to my Great Grandfather Peter who came from Scotland. Peter was born in 1850 and was raised on a farm in southwest Scotland and came to America in 1870. He was a maker of fine furntiture and became vice president of the Harlem River Lumber Co. for many years. My online class given by Nancy Maxwell has been so enjoyable. I have learned alot in her class. I will be making the keepsake Box soon that my heritage book will be kept in. Stay tuned to this Blog because I will be announcing my long overdue 200th. post and my Birthday Giveaway.....very very soon!! Love and...

Hello Dear Friends!! Hope all of you are enjoying your summer dispite the very hot temps and drought, and fires...geez it's been quite a summer huh?? What have I been up to you may ask?? Well I joined The Artfull Gathering online classes for 6 weeks and I joined Nancy Maxwell's class. We are to construct a book with 5x7 canvas boards and also a keepsake box to decorate that will hold the book we are making. I decided to make my book into a Heritage book with pictures of my Grt. grandparents from Germany, Scotland and Ireland. I am designing a two page spread for each family. The first page is of my Grt. Grand mother Johanna circa 1881. The original picture was both her Johanna and Charles in the same picture with Johanna's right arm leaning on Charles' left shoulder. I copied them onto matte photo paper, used some pencil crayons to give them some color, as well as their background. From their shoulders to their heads I put some dimensional foam backing behind them s...

How are all my friends? I was wondering if you would like to take a walk with me...so lets go Maybe we could go for a nice walk here...... Or maybe we could go for a cup of coffee..... Or a cup of........... Or I know we could go to .......                                                               or just window shop..... Maybe we could just come over to my house and make something lovely!!! So let me know ok?    Anything you would like to do I would love to do with You!! Hugs, Happiness and Love Always...... Susan xxoo

Hi Sweet Friends, I have to apologize for being absent lately from my blog and visiting with you all. I was put on some new meds and for a couple of weeks I have felt like crap!!! I was put on Cymbalta for my fibro...ughhh it was so bad...I felt like my head weighed 100lbs. my mood shifted to feeling depressed and I could not concentrate on anything. So needless to say I just stopped taking them. I have not told my Dr. yet and have an appointment in less than two weeks. The only thing it was good for was my foot that has the RSDS problem...alot less pain and tingling, but that was the only bennefit from it. Also my 91 yr old Mom is having problems with her legs now and needs more care too. So we both have been rather down lately!                                       ...

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