poor neglected blog...

i have sadly neglected my blog and if anyone reads it, i am truly sorry! since i have not scrapped in 3 months i had very little to show and we didn't have internet for 2 of the 3 months we were in florida, so that is another reason. i am also doing a 365 which also takes up some of my time, but i am enjoying it immensely. we just finished day 100 and i have not missed a day. it was so easy in florida with all the flowers and birds and greenery, but since i got home it has been a little harder. poor ruth who has not missed a day either had to put up with all the dead stuff and hardly any snow.

here are a few layouts i have not shown here.



this is a drawing done by elki of what it was like getting her h1n1 shot, so i just had to do a layout about it.

yahoo, we finally have internet!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as you all may know, we have been down in florida since the beginning of january, but we have not had internet so my posts here, there and everywhere have been sporadic at best. excuse my lack of comments on any of your blogs, but we had to go to the library to connect to the internet and i am way behind. we have finally hooked up with a friend of ours so i have been trying to catch up, but our daughter and her family were down here last week when we got hooked up so we were kind of busy.

we will be home by the beginning of april, so here are 3 christmas layouts i did before i left, so that at least when i get back home, i will be ready to upload the new stuff that i do, and not be 4 months behind.




i was missing bling 's' s for my title here, so i had some plane white stickers that pretty much matched the script, so i just put stickles on them. as you can see the color is not exactly the same. :(

it's a rainy day in florida...

this is the first time we have been in florida in january and the weather is not that great, one day nice, the next either, cold, rainy, cloudy or windy! with january behind us, hopefully febrary and march will bring us better weather. i am not complaining, because i know back home you guys are having it tough with the cold, and down here is better than that even with the ups and downs.

here is my fourth painting which i have been able to finish either on bad days or after coming up from the beach and having some time to kill before having to start supper.



all these painting are from photos that i took last year when we visited butterfly world.

a layout...

here is a layout i did before coming down to florida for our winter getaway. i had quite a productive week before i left since i knew i would not be doing any scrapping for 3 months, omg, that's a long time!

it is about elki actually swimming on her own at the end of last summer, because i had done one earlier and i had predicted that she would do so! i used some pretty old epoxies that i had bought the first year that i started scrapping. i am always happy when i can do that.

new paintings from florida...

we have been down here for a week and a half and i have already finished 2 paintings and am well on my way on my third. at home all i want to do is scrap, and so down here without my scrapping supplies, all i want to do is paint when the weather is bad. it was very cold the first few days, so here is what i have been doing so far.

finishing up with 2009...

we had a very quiet new year's day and i have had quite a bit of time to scrap, so i have been trying to get all my christmas layouts done while they are fresh in my mind. so here is a christmas layout which i think i went a little overboard on adding things. i had this overlay which i have had for awhile, and after i finished this layout, i tried it on top and it just seemed to fit perfectly even the little bird right over the 'i', so i attached it by adding some brads in the tree.

a year-end benzilla sketch contest layout...

what a way to start the new year! a layout based on a becky fleck sketch for the year end benzilla sketch contest, and here is my layout.