Not much doing in the creativity area... Busy at work and have been practicing with my church choir. Going to take a personal growth class starting this week and gonna have to skip the first class because it's my 4 year wedding anniversary (yay). Otherwise life is...... one day at a time

"found poetry" ATC's for poems about love swap - these are words taken from book pages to make a poem or story, in this case, about love. They are collage/mixed media. Got them done today after I went in and groomed a HUGE golden retriever. Man those dogs are hairy... Ugh, feel like I'm gonna cough up a fur-ball the size of one of my dogs ;o)

Front of "Key to My Heart" chunky heart

Back of "Captive" chunky heart

Moveable peep-hole showing dimensional eye

Front of "Captured" Chunky heart

Inchies for Totally Awesome Inchie swap

These are just a few of the goodies I've been working on lately, when I'm not busy at work, which means I work on them late at night ;O)

Great weekend last week at ARTzona. 3 blissful days of creating. Check out some pics at my friend Sherrie's blog http://bigtoestudio.blogspot.com/2012/01/artzona.html

Looking forward to meeting some AFA-ers tonight at the Scottsdale Art Walk!

2012

Wow, haven't been HERE in awhile!! As always, I hope to blog more this year, I guess I just forget.

Looking forward to ARTzona this week. Hosted by a few Arizona ATCsforall.com folks and we have some of the members coming in from out of town. Can't wait to meet some of these folks face to face.

Here are a few of the most current pieces I have been working on, all for swaps or to trade at ARTzona

STUFF

So, I've been crazy busy with the grooming, I no sooner get finished with a week than the next week is booked already. Guess people like what I'm doing although I'm still learning.

My hubby and I attended a Grooming Expo last month in Pasadena and I picked up a lot of tips from all the classes I attended and a certificate as well, so it was worth the money, no question.

We have found a house we want and have put a bid in on it but haven't heard back yet. I know that this house is mine, it just feels right. It needs a bit of work, but I like doing that sort of stuff and it will be my hubby's (Tracy) and mine, first house together. He moved into my house shortly before we got married and I think he might have felt a bit put out since it was already filled with my stuff. I tried to put his things in too, but it's not the same as having a house you pick out and decorate together. So, we are hoping for the good word this coming week.

As far as my art stuff is going, I'm not doing as much as I'd like, mostly because I only have one day off and that gets used up with CHORES... sigh... I manage to squeak some small stuff in tho.

Looking forward to the blogger's luncheon on April 9th, hope to meet a few folks and spread out my blogging wings!