Touchdown and Choir...

Well, my boys never cease to amaze me. It's been quite a week since I posted. No, I DID NOT get the 3 things done on my list. I DID "finish" the blog prizes, but I don't like them...so I"ll have to alter them a bit. I DID get 2 things painted for the frolics. They are cute. Mostly "piddly" things. Not sure if "piddly" is a word...but you know what I mean, right?

So, you ask...what does Touchdown and Choir MEAN for a post? Well, not sure if I even mentioned it, but Kirk decided to PLAY football. OKAY. Makes the game a little more stressful, but hey...I LIKE the idea that he's playing. Well, he obviously missed all of the "HARD" work all of the other team has had for months now...but he was practicing kicking. Luckily we've had a couple of weeks of good old-fashioned Tornado football...you know like when I WAS in school and the score was always highly in our favor. We didn't really MEAN to run up the score, it just happened. Especially when the band played "Sweet Caroline". Okay, I'm digressing here. ANYWAY, Kirk MADE 2 kicks in the first game that he got to play in...yea Kirk..put 2 points on the board. Well, last week the score was way on up there and Kirk went in as Wide Receiver. HUH? OKAY...forewarning: this is ALL from a mom's perspective here: SO, my nephew was in as QB and Kirk is in the end zone...Justin throws a pass and Kirk CATCHES IT FOR A TOUCHDOWN!!! Talk about exciting. I mean it WAS just 6 points out of the 52 we racked up...but STILL. That video will be shown every Christmas LOL.
And since my good, sweet boys are surprising me lately...J.T. tells me that he's joining the choir. I've mentioned it a couple of times when he and I are in the car singing like CRAZY to KLOVE. I thought he was blowing me off, but ON HIS OWN decided to talk to our choir director and he went to his first practice last night. DID I MENTION I'm so proud of my kids? They are the best. Not because of what they do...but because of who they are.

OKAY...on to creative stuff. Well, do you ever just have so much to do you don't know where to start? I'm narrowing it down: (1) do baby paintings that I have an order for (2) more frolics painting (3) FINISH "piddly" things I've started. If I'm lucky I'll also do the blog prizes, paint yard signs and some fun thing I"m working on.

I also just found out that my sister-in-law, Kim is coming home with the girls (my beautiful triplet nieces). Isabelle, Alyssa, and Makenna. They will be here Thursday afternoon through Monday.

AND...I have/had this creative weekend planned...but things change. Some things are more important (like babysitting my nieces and watching Kirk play football). There is a Louisiana Art Ed Assoc. convention at Tech this weekend. I was looking forward to it. THAT's ANOTHER story that I'll save for another day. I do think I will make it to the Saturday stuff. But I'll miss something Friday night AND dinner at Squire Creek Saturday. I"m pretty sure I"m taking this workshop Saturday that is probably sure to fill my creative brain with more ideas. Tell ya more next week. Hey...MAYBE I'll have photos. Wouldn't that surprise you?
till then....

Create.
Suzy

A Day in the Life...

What does a day in MY life look like....
well, that may be why I haven't posted in a month LOL. I like boring though. It's nice sometimes, especially right before a fun and busy holiday season. Gives me time to think. Time to think of MORE ideas that I wonder if I'll EVER get done.

Well today looks like this: Couldn't find my school tshirt this morning...hello? HOW many places are there for it to hide? It'll turn up. School was good. My 5th and 6th graders started doing papier mache today. That is SO much fun. Really. It's theraputic. (sp?). Then I came home and cooked sour cream chicken enchiladas for the first time ever. another HELLO? WHY have I never cooked this? It's even J.T.'s favorite and super good and easy to cook. Then, I ran over to the football field to outline the Tornado so I did not have to re-paint it from scratch. We have not had a home game in a while, so it's faded alot. Will probably watch Dancing With the Stars and Color Splash (on HGTV) tonight right before a nice long hot bubble bath to wrap up the day. Nice. Thank goodness some kind soul at ABC created the Dancing with the Stars show right as I started teaching Fine Arts Survey. LOL. THAT IS our dancing unit. Not really, but ALMOST.

Okay, now that I've bored my blog reader...(notice the "reader" not "readers")(Hey Jenn...) I'll post about something creative.

Last week I made the cutest halloween name tags for my nephew's halloween party. I've had these canvas fabric squares sitting by my desk for a few weeks trying to decide what I wanted to do with them. Well, I hand painted little pumpkins and the kids name on them. My sister-in-law is attaching them to pumpkin cups with a ribbon. Since I was using FABRIC and I needed a way for her to attach ribbon....I LEARNED how to use my awsome new little tool that set eyelets and grommets in fabric. So cool.
Also last week, I finished the 3 paintings that I was doing for my secret pal at church. I did a cross, floral, and snowman family painting. We wrapped up a year having the same secret pal, and I just feel blessed to have drawn Donna B's name. She is a very kind and beautiful person. Our former secretary at the church (Ashleigh) had my name. Before she left, she revealed and gave me the NICEST platter personalized with our name (and other goodies). Have I mentioned we have the BEST sunday school class? It begins with our teacher who we honored this weekend, but I just have some good genuine friends. Each one of them different in their own way, but we make a good team. I enjoy the fellowship so much. 7 of us went to a Bed and Breakfast in Arcadia (The Dove House) Saturday for lunch. It was such a nice day.

Okay..this week...I"m holding myself accountable (or Jennifer... you can hold me accountable since you're reading. LOL) Here's what I'm doing as part of a new "Creativity Challenge". (#1) I AM finishing my blog prizes for Jenn F., Jenn.K., Kelli, Angela and Bethany...hopefully you'll think it's worth the wait since I did have the contest back during the summer. (#2) Paint atleast one thing I'm working on for our Tornado Frolics auction (I can't say what that is exactly) (#3) finishing my bedspring angels for Christmas.
You may have noticed the new "logo" on my blog that says" Creativity Challenge". Check out that website. www.donnadowney.com. She is one of my creative people. Everything she does is super cool and cute. Love her work.

I'm thinking of doing a mini Christmas workshop for The Art Factory kids. I'm thinking a 2 day thing (afternoons 3:30 - 5:30). Any project requests? I'm sure we'll paint something that you could use for family Christmas cards...but I'm stuck on the other "big" thing. What would you LIKE for your kids to make? A big giant snowman for your front door? Ornaments for their own tree in their room? Stockings to hang at the foot of their bed (there's a history lesson with that). A hand-painted Christmas photo album..notice I said photo album, NOT a scrapbook you would have to make! Let me know.
For all of you who cannot or do not know how to leave a message...email me at: toddsuzy@bellsouth.net

okay...I HAVE to post atleast within a week and be finished with my three things on my list. I'll let you know. So much for boring.

Create.
Suzy