Fairy Door

My Fairy Door made of clay.  I wish I could take better pictures.

Handmade Trinkets

This little boy...

This little boy is the love of my life.  He is my heart, my smile, my wish, my dream, but he is eating my brain and depleting my sanity!  What is to be done when  'No's' go unheard, time-outs are only a minor annoyance, and beatings (not literally...more like smacks on the hands or bottom as a last resort) only beckon a furrowed brow before they are forgotten?  Is it simply the 2 year old mentality?  I could be all right with that so long as in actuality I am not really creating a little monster...sooner-to-be than I would like a BIG MONSTER.  I don't want to be THAT woman in the grocery store with the little demon running a muck.  I also don't want to be a Nazi Mommy either.  Can't there be a happy medium?  Can someone tell me how to find it? 

Prima Pick!

Altered Halloween/Fantasy Flying Creatures Tin

I took this Christmas tin, decoupaged it with pages from a Spiderwick book.  Then, I used orange and black distress ink on the paper and orange Adirondack ink to color the metal areas that do not have he paper on them.  I added a strand of this curled metal on the top and flowers to that.  Oh, and a yellow ribbon around the lid.

Hooray for Good Self-Esteem!

Even though I have been feeling fat all day (unfortunately there is a good reason for that, but usually I can ignore those 100 reasons) ...I feel so loved and appreciated tonight.  All my swap partners were thrilled with the items I made for them and my husband has spent all evening telling me how pretty, lovable, and talented I am.  If this is what good self-esteem feels like I need to get me some more of it.  Do they make pills for that?

Life's Cruel Ironies

Finally!  Finally after 8 long years of living away from everyone we know and love...and just away from anyone we know at all we are now in a place surrounded by loved ones.  With each year we prayed for it to be the one we could journey off to another distant (or not so distant) land to see new sites and endeavor new experiences.  And with each passing year, there we remained in a...I won't say hellish place, but a place that just wasn't our cup of tea.  Then it happened!  Set free, we fled--even if only a few hours away.  It's been like livng in a whole other world.  As if the dark clouds were dusted away by the hand of God, himself and the sun was finally allowed to shine down upon our heads.  It has been a glorious 8 months.  I have had so much fun here, learned so much about people, myself, my family and now...NOW! the powers that be have suddenly attatined some sense of urgency and seen to it that Here is no longer the place we should remain.  Sad...