The Snow Gods have Dumped a Load on us!

Yea.... We finally, finally, finally I might add.. got some serious snow! Over 12" deep... Just loving this.... having a snow blower that I purchased 3 years ago and have not been able to use until today! How Exciting... Here is the back yard.... ahh the poor little pooches just can't find any grass to go the bathroom.. the poor things.

Journal Making Online Class

Hi All.. I'm in the process of an online workshop with Sue Bleiweiss Making her journals. Here are my 1st 2 journal covers. The pics arent that great as I took them with my cell phone but you get the idea.

Whats on the Needles

These are some Felted Slippers I am doing using some Noro Yarn. You see the blue clog in the picture.. thats what these will look like only in Pink for my daughter.

Baby Alpaca! Wow how soft and wonderful this feels in the hand! So finishing a scarf for my wife, this will go with her coat wonderfully!

Purse Done!

And its finished! Leah its ready for pick up! LOL All done an felted and turned out fantastic. Actually better than thought it would and the felting process was so easy!

2009...well lets just say I'm working on it!

Setting goals for 2009... Well Its a work in progress I guess... but below are few of my goals to acheive... I know I need to be more disciplined but I also know there WILL be things that will get in the way of me meeting all of my goals...

Loose Weight... Well my wife and I started Weight Watchers. Too me this IS a successful program, but its easy to get out of the frame of mind... SO I'm back and with a vengance this year.

More time for my Wife... What can I say.. with my 24yo daughter doing well.. I'm so proud of her becoming the adult that she is! My son is in college and well lets say... College kids have their own mind I guess. Its time for me and my wife to take our energy's finally and spend on one another. The lake house should get a lot of attention this year!

Take more Online workshops! I have been finding that doing small workshops online help to keep me going art wise... so enough said on that.

Create art... Well isn't this a struggle at times for all of us artists. The goal is to create at least 1 thing a month.. while I would love for it to be weekly.. I just don't necessarily see that happening with my current job and going into my busieset part of the year preparing for all of 2009.

Purge my studio! Time to clean it out! get rid of stuff that I just don't use and use to have the mindset of I may use it one day. I'm taking a container to the Michigan get away in Feb.. and I'm not bringing anything in it back... not to say I won't bring some goodies from the others that are doing the same thing.

Gallery submissions.. Its my goal for 2009 to submit to a minimum of 6 events for 2009.

Focus--- Stay focused on MY art work and not worry about learning NEW stuff to just collect more things.. I need to do more mastering in my own realm vs picking up a new thing todo... "Mary and Lynn" if your reading this... no you'r not going to talk me into spinning in 2009! LOL LOL

So thats the simple goals in place so far... Printed and plastered all over my studio! my wallet! My Car, and my desk! oh and the cover of my journal!