Thanksgiving Festivities at my sisters in N. Carolina

Mom, Betsy, and Kaleigh in the kitchen

Waiting to play Tabu!

Holiday Decorations at the Center

This is the Christmas tree in the Lodge
at the Center in Palos Park. It's
decorated with over 500
pressed Queen Anne's Lace
flowers! This is just the top of the
very tall tree. This part of the lodge
is two stories tall.

Enjoying the holiday decorations at the Center
where our classes are held in a log cabin.

Serenity Prayer

I've been wanting to do another calligraphy

piece of the Serenity Prayer, as the old one

just isn't what I like anymore. Someone

wanted it done, so it pushed me to finish it.

Art show at the Center

Sunday was the Art Show at the place where I take classes in collage and watercolor and teach calligraphy. It was built in the 1930's and has a wonderful lodge where we have an art show with all the classes showing and selling their work. I just took one photo and then forgot to take more. Maybe I can remember to take a photo of their wonderful Christmas tree later all decorated with pressed Queen Anne's Lace flowers!

Project to finish!

This project has taken over my art time even though I have so many other things I want to work on. it's a commission that has been needing to get done!

Baltimore Oriole Nest?

Mick found this nest -must have blown down from the tree. It was hard to photograph -it is kind of a droopy bowl shape like a Baltimore Oriole which we see sometimes in early summer. It's made with seeds of the cottonwood tree deep down in the bottom. The sad thing is to see some of the other things used in the building of the nest- the green strips which I don't know what they are and some fishing line!

Sleepy Toby

I feel like my daughter's little doxy- kind of sleepy and un-productive. But I found a good book that I can't put down -The Kitchen House. Kind of similar to The Help, and yet different- in the 1800's with a child from Ireland who comes to the south to live.

I'm still organizing the studio, a never ending project.