It's been quiet on this blog for quite some time. If I can't maintain a blog, how in the world do I think I can have my own web site??? Patience, grasshopper. All in good time. Oh yeah, and there was that little problem of forgetting my password. Whoops!

In the meantime, I put up a few more visuals as it was getting kinda stale around here. I hope to put up some collaborative photos soon. One is a piece my fellow Treasure Diver, Beth and I have been working on together over the last 6 or 7 months. It's slow going when our painting sessions include 4 young children! We are very excited with the outcome and we are currently getting our feet wet with the whole glicee printing process.
The second collaborative piece was a large 3ft sq painting that I did with the wonderfully creative 3 and 4 year olds at my children's preschool. The title, "Jellybean Trees", was perfect for it . It was a huge hit at the school's annual silent auction. It will likely be the inspiration for a "Jellybean Tree" series that hopefully will be showcased at the Oregon Grape Nursery coffehouse/cafe here in good ol' West Linn in May.

In other news, I found a great pair of jeans at Goodwill today and most amazing was that they fit when I tried them on at home. Also found some great kid books at the library sale today...great ol' 50's era children's picture dictionary. The drawings are great and only 50cents for a hardback gem. Gotta love that 2 hour chunk of freetime I get every once in awhile...school is a good thing on so many levels!