Thriving Art

Helloooo! Happy Tuesday!  This past weekend I got to enjoy an all "girl" getaway to Laughlin Nevada.  Five us loaded up and headed to the Colorado river.  Laughlin is like a little Las Vegas, about 6 casino/hotels along the river bank. We arrived about 4 P.M. and the sun was starting to sink in the west and made the mountains on the east bank glow.  This is the view from my room.......on the 20th floor.  Looking down onto the river.....that is a river taxi heading to the east bank to pick up people and bring them over. Saturday morning I was sitting on the River Walk....a walkway between the river and the buildings.......runs behind all the casinos.  I was enjoying my first cup of coffee as the sun came up.  There was artwork on the buildings along the River Walk.  I found this one the most interesting. Back in my room, for one more cup of coffee before joining the others for a hearty breakfast and the days shenanigans. ...

Well, here I am trying to catch up with the  T-gang over at Elizabeth's blog .   This morning (earlier) I was set up for some devotion time and as I sat my coffee down I realized it was Tuesday, grabbed my camera and WA-LA here I am.  I had already prepped my Bible page with clear gesso and had slid a traceable behind it.  I had lightly traced it with an Inktense watercolor pencil.   How it turned out.  The opposite page is a free hand drawing.  One thing about all this is I get a LOT of practice with lettering .......as you can see I NEED it...LOL! OTHER HAPPENINGS Our oldest son and wife decided to put their home on the market and look for something a little larger.  This meant that during showings I had to get the dog, and the family was here quite a few late afternoons, while the realtor showed their home. They had it sold and found one they liked and things were about to get very serious and then the buyer of ...

Time to share drink and food for this Tuesday's  T-day , where peeps from all over the world get together at  Altered Book Lover's blog . THIS WEEK The Mr. and I went to the Firehouse to meet up with family......well oldest son, DIL and 9 cheerleaders! The door......like an old firehouse. Inside was...............oh so nice and cool....106' outside!! The bar area has big screens playing all kinds of sport.......but we weren't three for that. They have in-house bowling lanes......there is my DIL Vanessa, and son Brian There are a couple of the cheerleaders.....Hannah had just thrown her bowling ball. This is the second half of her Birthday Party........they had all spent the night at her house, and all showed up in knee socks and shorts........oh to be young again!!! Bowling makes you thirsty..........the younger one's drinks.. The adult drinks.....the Mr. had a cold beer, the rest of us had water and ice tea. You can tell by ...

Welcome to this weeks T-day post, linking up once again with  Elizabeth and the T-gang . This week's drink photos came from a day of shopping with my GD Hannah.  Her birthday is next Saturday, and I asked her if she wanted to do lunch and do some shopping for her birthday........of course the answer was "yes!" I told her we could have lunch first, then shop.....or shop then have lunch.......she chose shop then lunch.  It was HER choice as to where she wanted to shop.....her choice....Target!! We spent a couple hours shopping, getting her a couple of outfits. Then she helped me choose some outfits for my 2 year old GD, Samantha too......whose birthday was in July......but I was buried in packing boxes! Then she chose to go to Chili's for lunch, but the wait was over 30 minutes at 1:30 in the afternoon!!  She said pass and chose Chuy's Mesquite Broiler........a semi fast food place. You can view the menu here .   We started with chips and sals...

Welcome back T-gang and friends, thanks for stopping by this wonderful Tuesday.  This morning's drink is black coffee and water for the T-gang .  My water bottle looks like it is looking back at you in this photo.....LOL! Since there are a number of family and friends, that have the same bottle I grabbed some nail polish and marked mine.....thus the pink "eyes". It is a bottle from Arbonne, and I think it is for the protein shakes, but I use it to measure my water intake ( so do the others).......4 of them a day is the goal. 4= 1 gallon!  Do I make the goal everyday?....no, but I'm still getting more water than I used to.... and now that the dust is starting to settle, I'll be striving to hit my goal again. MORE ABOUT THE MOVE.  A lot of questions last week......I didn't take very many photos of the whole process, but here are a few.  Packing was really a mind bender, we weren't planning on moving at this time, but the offer on our house was too g...