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Check out this creative promotional tool designed by Swink and letterpressed here. This is so fun, wouldn't you love receiving this in the mail? I love anything to do with camping, mini's and letterpress.

I {heart} you

Happy Valentine's Day friends! Get out there and love on your friends and family. Heart shaped waffles to greet my Valentine last year. He also appreciated the beef jerky I lovingly cut into heart shapes for him! Have a fabulous day!

One great project

Here they are, the sweet dolls I've been working on for the past month. Below are the bound beauties waiting to be cut out and adored. The set with blue ribbon are the color copies and the original artwork is handbound in the books. I did learn a great lesson after taking my pictures- don't procrastinate uploading them to your computer. My close up shots haven't turned out so great and I just found that out this morning. Hopefully, I can retake those before I add them to my website. Procrastination- my downfall everytime!
I really enjoyed making these, it's been a while since I've sat down and drawn a complete set and never fails to make me happy. The little details are my favorite and I thinkI feel most comfortable with a pencil in my hand. Enjoy!

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In the works

I am wrapped up in a wonderful project today. Actually it's been a few weeks in the making but today was a dessert day, I finished my final ink drawings and am ready for the printer. Below is a sneak peek...
Just a little snippet of a new paperdoll for someone's very special granddaughters! Will be posting the whole sha-bang after January 31st. It's a joy to feel energized by your projects, I love it! Have been listening to this great song, hope it calms your soul like it does mine. Have a great weekend friends.

And so we begin...

Happy New Year!

Hope you've gotten off to a great start this 2009! I gotta say the New Year was fabulous but the ensuing week after was like the let down after church camp. I've had my pity party and now I'm ready to tackle my 2009 resolution list. It's just one resolution: DO.I'm a Thinker, Dreamer, Planner. It's seems like I rarely get to the DOING. SO! With my husbands help and anyone else who'd like to encourage and spur me on I'm getting things done this year.First order: Clean out and organize our filing cabinet!

And hallelujah, it's done!

And how about this to excite your organizing dreams- I found a $100 Savings Bond tucked away in those jumbled files last night! Yahoo!

Our Christmas was spent eating really great food with all my cousins, aunts and uncles down in Houston. The big surprise came from my PawPaw, who announced that he is engaged! I'm so excited for him, Mary is such a sweet lady! What a hoot, with four cousins in their twenties we'd have expected the engagements from that corner of the family! I enjoyed the week after Christmas in Albany visiting one of my dearest and oldest friends. There's nothing like being with your worn in friends, having that same shared background and easy understanding. We had some good times cooking and lounging about while the snow piled down! Winter Wonderland! But I'm very glad to be back in the South, 7 may be great as a pair of jeans but not on the thermometer! Also read this book while traveling in the airport. Oh man! ... if you haven't read it... wow... it blew me away. When my friend gave it to me I wasn't too excited about a romance novel, just haven't read those. But my life has been so impacted from this story. I came home from Albany feeling like a new and profoundly different woman. Don't think I can do the book justice by trying to explain it or what I felt. I hope you get a chance to read it, would love to hear what you think about it.

...a few of the projects I made during the Christmas hustle and bustle. I lost my camera at the beginning of December, sadly I lost photos of some very cute paintings and journals. These pics are straight from my camera phone- sorry for the fuzziness. From top left to right- Itty bitty journal for my sister Nichole, finished table for the Googe family, the beginnings of Dana's journal, growth charts waiting to dry, Baby Sabrina's first Christmas, matching chair for the Googe family.

happy new year!

Hope you had a wonderful New Year's celebration! It was one fantastic break for me! I'll be updating soon as soon as I'm settled in from my travels...

Frolick and Play

Thank you everyone for all of your encouragement, excitement and ideas this year. 2008 has been a wonderful year and it's because of my fantastic friends and family. I love you dearly! It's very exciting stepping into 2009 with a bundle of new ideas under my arm waiting to be explored. My first steps with Ruby Coco have been my dream come true. Thank you!
Our hot pink, turquoise, lime green, orange and purple Christmas tree. My one rule for the tree ornaments is- it must be shiny! I've lost my camera (such great timing) you can spot me in the pink bulb snapping a picture with my camera phone.

Mr. Peacock keeping a royal watch from the top of our tree...


Mmmm... can you smell the chocolate chip goodness yet?

We're headed to Houston to hang out with my family this Christmas Eve and Day. Aunt Linda has promised we'll be baking cookies and singing Christmas carols. Will be celebrating the New Year in Albany with Tara and her family, I haven't visited since her little man was a month old. Can not wait to spend time with them and meet some of the ladies I've made paintings for.

Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year!