Will wonders every cease?

For the last couple of days, we've had a barn swallow trapped in the shop. The poor thing would just fly in circles no matter how wide open we'd have the overhead doors...Then yesterday afternoon, when we came back from playing on the new toy (story is below) I opened the door as big as I could, one almost all the way open the other I couldn't get as open..

The poor fellow is flying around and around chirping...well, here comes in another bird.. I thought "great, now 2 of them in here to worry about", Well the second bird is flying behind the first one, chirping at it and The Second bird gets the first bird to follow it and out the open door they go!

Yea!!! His family had been hanging out on the north end of the shop, chirping away at him while he was in..there was no way we could reach him, it's over 16 feet at the peak...so we just hoped he could get himself out... Sometimes they get in, and then find their way out in a few hours, but we've not had one in there for over a day...or they fly straight thru when both big doors are up..I was glad this one got out, they are too pretty and eat pesky bugs...

I received a couple of emails the other day on the Somerset Gallery Article, about the Glass Fairy houses..Well, Jamie sent me a photo of hers! Is it not the cutest thing?

Jamie doesn't have a blog yet, but said she hopes to join the blogging world soon! She has some cool stuff!!

Here's the new Toy..Big Daddy picked it up Friday. It's a Polaris RZR, or Razor...it's a side by side 4 wheeler...we have a regular 4 wheeler and now this... You know the saying about Boys and their toys?! it's so true at this house!

Needless to say, we've been out playing in this and checking it out. We live about 20 minutes from the Red River, and it's a perfect place to run this stuff, sandy and dunes, almost like the beach..I see a Colorado trip in our future to really give this a run...

Paper Cowgirl is coming along...we have the payment info now, so if you want to send in your money for your spot check out the blog!

Have a super Monday!

t

YeeeHawwww

Hope your Friday is going well.

I hit the studio early this morning with hopes of working on my project for Paper Cowgirl but alas, these Cowgirls were calling to me..







I had cut some more MDF last night from hubs stash of leftovers and based them with that wonderful blue I had left over from a job last month..remember that bathroom update? Covered the edges with old book pages, then went to town on these..Glue on my fingers for sure this morning!!

Here's alittle tid-bit for ya: Sherwin Williams has colors to go for less than 5$ a quart, if you are in the want for some colors they make great backgrounds for your boards or canvases...I use my leftovers from job samples all the time for this~

We are working feverishly on the retreat, setting up classes and payment options..so, check in with our blog. Cindy is going to post some photos of the area and list some motels and such, soon. Mark your calenders for some great Paper Cowgirl fun!! We would love to see your there with glue on your fingers too !

Thanks for all your comments, I read them all :)

Have a great weekend!!
t

Back Home

Well...Scooby and I rolled in to the shop shack about 12:45 yesterday..Bike is at the shop with promises to be done in a couple of weeks, Soldier Son is back at Base..so I suppose you can say alls well in my world..








The following may be abit for your constitution, so proceed with caution:

This came out of hub's garden..it's crazy~ we had to show you...lol...

Paper Cowgirl is ON!

We will be meeting at: The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie Texas.

Date: September 26th-28th

Vendor night Friday the 26th. location to be announced

Registration fee: non refundable $20.00

We have approx 4 classes, at this time we don't have the exact projects, (other than my class will be a pendant made from a vintage watch crystal, and Sharon will teach us her transfer and napkin techniques. ) Each class will have a kit you will need to purchase from the teacher at time of class. And you will have a supply list on a few of them...

Motels are near, eating is near and we will have a list to post on our blog we are starting about this.

Early registration will receive a Paper Cowgirl soldered charm..made by yours truly...

Cindy has been working her fanny off to get all the details, so if you go see her give her a pat on the back!!

Hope ya'll can come and join our fun!! Cause, we's gonna have some fun!!!!!

later,

t

Envision...

Willie Nelson in his pigtails and bandanna...singing "On the Road Again"...that's going to be me..





Here's the story and I'm stickin' to it: Soldier Son calls us yesterday, his exhaust brackets broke on his NEW, did you see the NEW part? bike...so we go up to Oklahoma to get him and the broke bike...He's to be back on base this am..didn't happen...he's got another couple of days now to get back up there to Kansas...



This Dealership in Wichita Falls, Red River Harley Davidson, are being ASSES about doing warranty work on this, so after a few calls to the exhaust place, and the dealership that he bought the bike from they have an answer...So, guess what? MOM is going to take the broke bike back to College Station Texas to the dealership there, who were great about the whole thing, I might add...and leave it there to get all fixed up...So, if you are passing thru and need something at the HD shop in CS tell them that Tina sent you in..they'll know who your talking about..(she rides an 06 Deluxe and used to live there..)



Looks like brite and early tomorrow I'll be headed out in the Big Ass truck pulling the broke bike on the trailer...so if you don't hear from me in a few days send out the search party..





Today, is the last of the dominoes I had finished before my trip..the one on the left with the yellow flowers is sold..but if your interested the others are for sale..just give me a hollar..10bux. free shipping..

We are starting a blog about the retreat, it's at: http://papercowgirl.blogspot.com/ no work on it yet, but that's fixin' to change...yeehaw...

outta here..t

Happy Sunday!

HOpe your HOlidAy WeEkenD has been a GoOd oNe!





I decided to drive home on Wednesday. Drove straight thru from Phoenix to Wichita Falls! Pheew...what a trip..it was 15 hours! So, I recovered on Thursday...Friday we went to a fish fry at a good friend's house! What made it extra special is that Soldier Son was able to attend! We had our whole family there among all the friends that are like family to us! It was great for us all to be together. Since Soldier son was in Iraq last year... So, please continue to keep those Soldiers in your prayers and Let's keep GOD in our country.


Here's all the goodies I hauled away from Mystic Paper:

Is that bird paper not YUMMY?? I should have bought more..I am using this as backgrounds!! I picked up some goodies that are not found around here and hope to put them to good use, tons of ideas flying around in my head now! Jennifer had a necklace I'd love to create..I should have taken a photo of it! Those bird stamps were too good to pass up, I know where I'm using them too!! Crowns were brought back too, and some of those are going to be soldered on some charm ideas I have too!

I had tons of mail to open after being gone for 10 days!

This box from Sherry was in, our Cowgirl Swap! Look at this cool bag she sent me:

And these tags were just wonderful!!
Thanks Sherry!! Loved ALL of the goodies!!!

this fellow has been my shadow since my return... Cindy and I have a date for our Retreat! Paper Cowgirl is going to be: September 26th - 28th in Waxahachie, Texas.

I'm going to teach a class on Vintage Watch Crystal necklaces..Sharon is going to do a transfer class, and a couple of other gals we are trying to talk into teaching..so get on our mailing list so we can get you info!! Let's drive over and get together for a fun altered art weekend!!! We are planning a vendor's night on Friday night, with goodies to purchase and goodies to snack on and fun times to be had!

Birth of a Mural

Here is what I worked on Saturday:

This area is round, I then added these on the smaller walls:


All in all, I think it was about 6/8 hours of work..I did some then would stop to get away from it, then worked on it Sunday, and messed with it abit more yesterday. Liked what I had and signed my name to it..

Here is the ceiling:

That, I finished up yesterday with a final coat sprayed on with the HVLP sprayer. I love this ceiling...gives it a whimsical, open feel in this back hall area off the kitchen.

Almost finished up here and will begin the adventure home...see the hub and Scooby and then the rest of the family for the 4th holiday..I'm ready..

I'm bummed out though, looked down last night and the diamond had fell out of my wedding ring sometime yesterday after lunch. I remember washing my hands and picking paint out of it then..I've wore it everyday almost for the last 25 years...we bought it from hub's aunt, when we'd been married a year, she let us pay it out..it was about a quarter of a carat solitaire with just a nice medium wide band...dang...

later,

t

Our Trip to the Dump

We went yesterday to the Town Dump in Cave Creek, here's my review:








The Town Dump was a very eclectic mix of Metals and wood...if you need a kitchen sink, they had one, hammered from copper at a reasonable price..if you need a Fredia Kohl painting, they had that...if you need something wooden from Mexico, they had that...if you needed something metal and rusty in finish for the yard or house, they had that..for the most part it was household/yard goods.

But they didn't have anything for altered artists to alter..or at least nothing struck my fancy there....so if you looking for household decorating things, this is a good place to go...

Look at this fine fellow:

He was made from car parts and metal doo-hickeys all welded together..this was not at the Dump, this was up the road....

I did find more my likings at this place that had a huge metal rusty T-Rex out front, we think the name was Wild Bill's but really couldn't tell...so if you see a T-Rex in the parking lot that's the place..it was the only one with a huge dinosaur. I did buy some stuff there and my host found some nice pots that didn't look southwest. It was a bit neater in appearance than the Dump.

It was not all play yesterday..finished up the mural I'd started on Saturday and did some rework on some mirrors she had that were not quite the right color anymore..so dabbed on a bit of glaze here and there to unify them with her black accents.

Then for dinner we ate at an amazing place in Scottsdale called : Bandera . I recommend it! If you are in or near that area, look it up and go. They had a great menu, it smelled wonderful inside, wood fire..and dessert was amazing..

I'm about to wrap it up here, maybe finish up tomorrow if all goes well today...

Hope your Monday is a good one and you can get IT done, what ever IT is...

t