My husband and I decided to go out for breakfast/lunch today. As we were pulling up to the Cheesecake Factory, my husband asked me to go ahead and jump out, he'd go get a parking spot. I'm halfway out of the car when we saw and heard a crunch of a car hitting another, right next to us. She pulled up, stopped, the guy in front of her started yelling, as she is taking off my husband said "she isn't going to just take off is she" yep, there she goes, peeling out (the streets were really wet, in California, that is not a good thing) he yells at me, GET OUT...as he does a u turn to follow her. She was driving so fast, Dean got on the phone to call 911, as he turned the corner he spotter her, then there was a big bellow of smoke. She ran a stop sign and slammed into the side of another car. It was a brand new Mercedes, no plates yet...then he saw a baby in the back seat with blood, he was still on the phone with 911 and said to bring an ambulance. The lady that was driving erratic, pulled back and went around the car trying to take off, but all the airbags had deployed, and there was no front end, it was totally crushed...a new BMW. Dean was able to give a statement. after lunch we drove over (just a block away) to see the cars, the police told us they hauled her off to jail, she also had a baby in the car. So sad, none of this would of happened if she had taken the time to do the right thing and tell the people (in the Lexis ) that she hit their car, there was no damage.
We had a beautiful thunder and lightning storm this evening. What fun!
How delightful is this little girl playing in the waves
I was looking for the unusual to photograph
The view from our favorite place to dine...Rockin Fish
This fountain had a beautiful turtle
Looking through a parking structure was a little treat of flowers
Loved finding this beautiful lantern
Blue umbrellas with the beach beyond
A wonderful sculpture table and chairs
I wasn't feeling real great last night, so I crawled into bed early, got my tray out, a little water, a brush, watercolors and tags...I LOVE making these little birdies, you never know quite how they
I did have to get up to get something...these called for a sprinkle of glitter
I'm going to be listing them on Etsy later today
Love Lori Vliegen's blog and her class on Letters at Creative Workshop is great. In her blog she shows these birds from watercolor splots, or splats. I wanted to give it a try. So fun!
I had a chance today to add a tag and a needle holder to this pincushion
Took a drive up into the mountains. What a beautiful day
Close up of my bird...its made out of wool, it is my own design
I made a small needle holder the cover is raw silk, inside is wool felt
A little coffee stained tag
listed on my Etsy
Our vacant street, the yellow trees are spectacular
I painted this snowman watercolor. Added lettering learned from Lori Vliegen
Thanks to Hobby Lobby, I picked up some charms, and some new epoxie, these are future Christmas presents
I played around a little more, adding more color then decided to ink it up
Here is one of my little pink wool birdie Pincushion
I dye the wool myself to come up with just the right color of pink
A vintage spoon holds the lace filled pincushion, A little tag saying a "spoonful of sugar" was added. I'm adding this to my ETSY
A little vintage Christmas music,
a monogram on a vintage spoon handle
A sweet pearl/shell vintage button
This is the back. This would make a great add-on to a package for gift giving, or hand on a tree
After a two year break, I'm back at it again. Bending, hammering, priming, painting, glittering
I've had a thought...I'm wondering if there is enough interest in this big ol world for a "workshop", videos in the process and painting...I would do it over at Gails "Creative Workshop"
Of course...I'd have to dig out the video camera, get my hair cut (lol) clear enough space on my desk...so much to think about!
The above is what I started out with...wrong paper, it wouldn't take watercolors at all
I've been wanting to improve my journal writing, so, visiting blogs, I followed what they did, so I could learn and have a page I could refer to
A little plain but I wanted to incorporate the word with the nest
Pen and ink...first I sketched with a pencil then used a micron pen and a waterbrush with pencils
I got this little book for $3 at Dick Blick, it doesnt take water very well, just having fun. Not working in an expensive book gives great freedom from "messing up"
I picked up a store catalog and thought I'd try drawing the chairs.