Happy Valentines Day to you all

Hope you all have a great day. Bill is doing better today which continues to be a relief. He is still limping though and the bruises are now quite colorful. We continue to be thankful it wasn't any worse. But he says he keeps reliving the accident in his mind.

Our plans for this Valentines Day are perhaps a bit different than normal. We are going to a Daytona 500 Race party. We go to this party every year. This is the first time it has fallen on Valentines Day though. But it is a fun day and since we follow Nascar we are happy to have the season start. I will be driving to the party even though it isn't far away. He can't walk that far easily.

Have you ever been hit by a snow plow?

My husband has!!! and it was NOT pretty.

This was not a great way to start the Valentine Weekend.

On Thursday afternoon my husband drove with me over to the next town where I had a doctor's appointment. Afterward we went to a shop across the street to buy a few things. And were then planning to go to the bakery across the side street. He said he wanted to put the bags in the van before we went to the bakery. I went on ahead. He was standing at the side of our van, getting ready to put the bags inside when suddenly a truck with a snowplow came from the opposite side of the street and hit him and threw him through the air a few feet. I did not see the actual event for which I am thankful cause I would no doubt have passed out on the spot. We are very thankful that nothing was broken. He is a mass of bruises though and he got a couple of cuts on the head. And there was a nurse from my doctors office, who had seen what happened and came over to help a bit.

The police and ambulance came interviewed the plow truck driver, checked out Bill and and off we went to the emergency room... they checked him over, popped a staple in his head where one of the cuts was and released him. He limped out of the building. We had been planning to go out to dinner but that was not going to happen so I ordered a pizza on the cell phone and we went home, arriving just as the pizza guy arrived.

It was NOT a fun afternoon though will give him great stories to tell.

We went to regular doctor the next day and he checked him over. He has a limp, a very sore arm and a LOT of bruises. It has not a big city snow plow but one on the front of a pickup truck. He was not plowing, just driving along. Needless to say he is probably in a bit of trouble now.

I have been playing nurse a bit, making sure he uses ice packs when he is supposed to and putting ointment on the cuts. He will survive but it will probably be a couple of weeks before he is fully back to himself. Good thing he is a normally tough guy. It does not make him happy that he is hurting and can't do what he wants to do but we are so VERY thankful it was not worse.

Snow, snow, snow. snow, snow. snow

Yep, we are finally getting a real snow storm. We have had little bits of snow up to now but this seems like the real thing finally. It is very quiet out as there is no traffic on our normally busy road. Schools and the college are closed and probably a lot of businesses. So I shall be staying inside, doing some projects, perhaps a bit of decluttering here and there and generally thankful I can use the snow as an excuse to stay home and enjoy. So here are a few pictures I took this morning. It is supposed to snow off and on all day so may be deeper tomorrow.

The above picture is of a couple of chairs sitting out on a small patio next to our deck. I judge how much snow we are getting by checking them out.

this next picture is of a teacup planter my daughter gave me for mother's day a few years ago. Looks like whipped cream on top of the cup.
And this next picture is of a birdfeed hanging on my no longer used clothes line. That is quite a high "roof" on the thing.

and finally here is just a general picture of the back yard. It is pretty out there.
Tomorrow, perhaps, I will have more pictures of the snow and pictures of the projects I get to work on today.

an angelic wall hanging

Started working on the next artist class project yesterday and finished it up today. The original was to be 11 by 14 but I liked it better smaller so it is now 8 1/2 by 11.

I used vintage sheet music and vintage lace pieces. Good thing I have an antique shop where such items are available.

I will be taking a couple days off from the artist class projects but will be back at it in a few days.

Snow and shoes

If you are living in the mid-atlantic area you KNOW there was quite a bit of snow this weekend. Fortunately for those of us in the NE section of PA we only got a few inches of the stuff. Here is a picture of two outdoor chairs on our patio. You can see, if you look closely, that there is about three inches of snow on the white chair. That was taken after the storm passed so that is probably what we got. I feel so bad for the Virginians, and Marylanders who really don't know what to do with all the snow. I know, when we lived in Maine, 20 inches was a lot of snow but didn't slow things down all that much.


Here is a picture of my "shoe" in the paper shoe project of the Artist Class. I shortened the heel a bit cause it didn't want to stand up that well with the spikey heel. I found these pretty flowers to dress it up. I still have one more project to complete for the weeks projects. The next one is a pretty flower. Hope to start on it later today

My first Artist Class Project is done.... On to the next one soon.


This is the Valentines Day Hanging Heart. It is missing the "love bird"in the original because I don't have one in my stash of art stuff. But when next I go to a craft shop I hope to find one.
But meanwhile I am pleased with it and it is hanging up in the dining room.



When I took the artist class series back in Oct.- Nov. I was fortunate enough to win a wonderful prize... CD of all tutorials and all the graphics, plus a lot of extra graphics from the lady who runs the classes, Mary Green of Green Paper.

This time I decided I would keep a notebook of all the tutorials printed out so if I want to do any of them again I can easily do so. My luck probably won't allow me to win another prize. But that is ok as I was thrilled last time.

Here is my book this time....
I put a title page for each tutorial and included the printed out pages. I feel so organized this time. There are little pockets inside the front and back covers where I am keeping the templates for the projects. I believe I found the notebook at Wal-Mart.

Here is the cover with an addition give the title of the contents.

and one of the title pages.......

And this one shows turning of a page to show a title page and a tutorial page.

I hope to get started on the next tutorial tomorrow. But my antique shop opens Thurs. though Sunday so I can never be sure how much time I will have. I will post as soon as I have something to show.

ARTIST CLASS

Back in November I joined a group called Artist Class and made some pretty neat items following all the tutorials. I was excited to sign up for the next series which begins tomorrow. If you are curious about the class you can check it out here..............Check out the Feathered Nest. She has a description of the class and you can even get a discount on the price there.

We received a list of supplies we needed and last night I spent time up in my studio searching out those supplies. I still have to look a bit more to find all I need but it appears I won't have to buy anything at all for the first three classes. I do have a well stocked studio.

So check out my blog over the next week. I hope to get the projects done quickly..... well, at least fairly soon.