Back to School!!

Kids are back in school which is a little bitter sweet.

Our summer was a crazy busy one and we only had a few days of play time.

Now that my oldest is a Senior in High School it seems as though it was yesterday I was taking her to Kindergarten!

Now it is time to gear up for the Halloween season.  These are some of the things I painted over the summer in my 15 minutes alone time intervals. 

This was a new and exciting type of painting I tried when I had one WHOLE day to myself!

It is a Chris Haughey design I altered to fit on to this pumpkin.  

It has been sitting in my stash for quite awhile! 

My next local show will be at Simple Treasures in Farmington, September 17-20.

Time to get to work!!

Enjoy your day!

Barb

Back to School, A New Friend, and a Giveway

What a summer!!  We finally got the outside of the house done!!

Celebrate!!

 

 

The kid's rooms are repaired after the window installation!

Celebrate!!

Now need the deep clean.

We (husband) are now painting the front room. 

Kind of miss my rustic red wall but I think the new colors my husband picked will be good and a nice change. 

Kids went back to school!!

 I am trying not to be too excited but some peace and quite will be nice.

I will try to catch up with everyone over the next few weeks! 

Celebrate!!

The kids left me a little note, bon-bons and a six pack of Diet Pepsi to Celebrate their first day back to school.  They even thanked me for a great summer!  Poor things...they really worked hard this year. 

This cutie was painted by my new Etsy friend Amie of Willow Tree Designz. 

She bought a couple of patterns from me not to long ago and was quick to paint this up.  I love to see how others take a pattern and make it there own.  She has a cute shop that you will want to check out.

Thanks Amie for sending me this photo and for allowing me to share it. 

Well what better way to Celebrate then to have a quickie giveaway!!

Click on him to read his description. 

Just leave a comment on this post and I will draw a name on Saturday.

I need the rest of the week to play!

Enjoy your day,

Barb

A Week in Review....

What a week...started off good!  We went 4-wheeling with my sister and her family up in the mountains by Park City.  But the smoke from all the fires in Nevada and California have blown our direction and it is a hazy mess.  So the view from the mountain tops was not as clear as we had hoped.  All in all a great time!

The Old Farmhouse Gathering is having a Fall into Thanksgiving Celebration.  This is always a great way for me to go shopping by participating in the celebrations and making treasuries!

Got my new lap top computer on Tuesday and this is were my week kind of went down hill...not being the smartest about computers (or really anything for that matter) my poor brother was the victim of my computer issues.

So for then next 7 hours we tried to get this laptop to connect to the Internet by wireless.  It worked great with the Ethernet cable (new vocabulary word for me) but we could not get it to work without.

Now my brother is pretty smart when it comes to things like this but he is also very analytical.  So him trying to tell me what to do with the computer was like talking to a rabbit!  Thus taking so much time on the phone.

Wednesday we are at it again...mind you he lives in Seattle and I am here in Utah.  So we up link with Skype and I am holding the camera every which angle for him to see my computer.

After many a phone calls to the laptop company and a very unhappy "customer service" representative that yelled at us and then hung up, I was a bit up set. 

Ready to live among the dinosaurs again.

We finally figure out something is wrong with the wireless router.  Off to the store to get a new one.

All this time either my brother has interruptions from his work or the kids and I have appointments, school shopping, and end of summer things that have to get done.

Thursday I get up with a huge headache and ready to call it a day at 5am.  Did not even make it to Jazzersize--well I unlocked the door and then left.

Now to install the "RAM"...me and tools. (If it is not a belt sander it ain't going to happen.)  But I swallowed my fears and have the kids holding the camera so my brother can see what I am doing. 
 By some LARGE miracle I get it installed.

Interruption...

I go upstairs to find the kids had tried to retrieve a dead fish from the tank and there is water everywhere.
  Not enough 4-letter words for that one.

And here is the place in my day were I lost my mind...

So my week did not go as planned, I was not as active in the OFG celebration as I had hoped to be, did not finish the painting that need to be done, our front room is in complete disarray needing to be painted, there was fish that died, and my head about came off with this headache, but we finally got the laptop up and running. 
WIRELESS-LY!

Now to figure out how to use it!!

Next week my kids go to school and I am eating a large candy bar all by myself!!

Sure hope you all had a great week and we all have a better weekend!

Enjoy today!

Barb



Check List!!!

The other day I wrote down everything that needed to be done with in the next two week and then had to sit down and compose myself. 

Have you ever had those moments?

How am I suppose to get this all done?

Curse the Check List!?!

We were able to check off most of the remodel and renovation of the outside of the house.

We laid the bricks at the window sills but we need to take it off again because we are not brick masons and it shows. 

My grandfather was a carpenter so I was out there telling my husband "how to do it" because I was a kid and use to help (hinder) my grandpa with brick laying.  We decide to "sleep" on it and the next morning made the big decision to take them off.  I think my dad will have to get involved with this one.  Actually I don't think it looked to bad from a great distance but knowing that both my husband and I are perfectionists we knew we would not be able to live with it.

Now a job back on the check list.

Then the registration for my daughter to High School and my son to Middle School--all on line now!

Yes, there were (what my daughter calls) "choice USDA words" involved.

Did I mention Merit Badges yet? Swimming, Environmental Science, Wood carving, Bird Study, Space Exploration....some done, others we are working on.

Teenage driver.  She is doing very well.  Still happy I am already white haired. 

The good news...I received a custom order and had the excuse to paint!!!  Got this far and was interrupted. Hope to finish it soon!!

Betty, our humming pigeon (as my son is calling her) has flown the nest.  I don't think the babies survived.  I did climb up on the tramp and it looked like the babies had hatched but I couldn't tell if they were alive because the branch was still a bit to high.

Then my neighbor came out and looked a bit stunned that I was tip toeing on the tramp pulling on the tree branch...it was not pretty getting down to go make small talk.

Well with that vision in your head I will try to squeeze in some painting.  Please do not have nightmares on my behalf!

Enjoy,

Barb