Valentine print outs... get 'em here!

A little more Valentine's love... This is sized to print onto a 8.5"X11" piece of sticker paper and hand out to all your lovely friends.

Random Musings:
Wow, it can be overwhelming to redo a website! I've been looking into giving mine a spruce-up (mostly because part of it is off-line) and I'm feeling not quite up to the task. So instead, I super cleaned my bathrooms, filled holes in the grass from the dog, and basically any medial task I could find to make me feel like I did something worthwhile, while the entire time I thought about my website. And how much I am not a techie. And how much it pains me to have to redo it.

So.

Solutions...

1. Don't do anything. Look the other way and maybe it will go away.

2. Jump in head first and just do it while learning the newest Adobe Dreamweaver (since I only know the most dinosaur version.)

3. Find a cool template.

4. Pay someone to do it and put off painting the house.

5. Go have a drink with a friend and think about it tomorrow.

Hmmm. I'm leaning towards 3 and 5. Do any of you FABULOUS creative people know any cool templates?

Thursday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for clean bathrooms and clean laundry!

Love is in the air.

It's that time again! Happy February!

Wednesday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for a lovely stroll in the delightful sunshine today.

Resurrecting files.

These are a few birthday graphics I did last month for a 50th birthday bash. I almost forgot about them and since I'm trying to be responsible and back up my files... I thought I'd give them one last gasp of air.

You know what I absolutely love about the early nights in the winter? I LOVE going to bed early. I wake up before the sun no matter what so the extra hours I've been getting have been turning this grumpy old gal into a sparkly ray of sunshine!

Tuesday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for crazy animal love, new soup recipes to try, and lunch with The Kid in a crowded and noisy lunch room with his peers!

Solutions.

This is my favorite quote, I live by it.

I just discovered recently that my internet provider has stopped hosting a site that contained my portfolio of mural paintings. Without telling me. That's a problem and I'm looking for a solution, one that entails NOT redoing my entire site!

Thanks Cox Communications. (LOVE that communication is in your business name!)

How about you? What problems do you face that require a solution? Are you remaining open or fighting it tooth and nail?

Monday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for a humbling and exhausting psyc class that requires students to come and be vulnerable. It's so uncomfortable yet empowering in a weird way.

Baby Shower cuteness.

Cuteness all put together...

Just had to show the shower graphics all put together... super cuteness, amazing food, fun party.

Sunday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for repeated opportunities to stop talking and just listen.

Cuteness.

Have some new baby inspired art going on around here, partly because I have tons of requests and partly because it's just so fun to create cute art. I love cuteness. How about you?

Random Musings:
I've been away from my blog lately because I've been learning another lesson, one that needs to keep repeating itself. That is the lesson of saying "no." Lately, life has been very full and there are so many... so, so many things I want to do, but I just seem to keep running out of time. Life can be full but it must be balanced. I suppose the balance is what I've been needing as I am walking around in circles.

The lesson... find more balance, slow down, say "no."

How do you find more balance in your life?

Saturday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for lovely friends, old and new.

Worth it.

Such is life.

Wednesday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for full days, lots of sunshine, doggie kisses and no TV.

Havin' fun.

Just playing around with some design ideas for a baby shower I am going to this coming Sunday. Hopefully, there will be some delightful cupcakes to nibble on!

Tuesday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for too much work to keep up with.

Do what is possible.

Today, as I sat in my first class of the semester, it was easy for me to wonder if this is all worth it. Although I find the psychology field VERY fascinating and I am grateful for the opportunity to attend classes again, I was feeling a little overwhelmed at how far I still have yet to go. Far to go within this new field to make any sort of difference. Far to go to figure out if I even CAN make a difference. Then the lovely teacher assigned her students into groups to interview each other and that was the point I wanted to get up and run. High tail it out of there because I felt so uncomfortable sitting in this classroom. I didn't want to talk about myself and certainly didn't want to talk to anybody else because I am just plain tired of my story.

However, I forced myself to stay glued to my seat throughout the break, interview another classmate and even stand up and introduce my peer in front of 40+ people. U-n-c-o-m-f-o-r-t-a-b-l-e.

But during the midst of all of it, something miraculous happened. The little tiny stories about people started to surface, people fumbled, people cheered and at times we all laughed. In a super short amount of time I felt as though I got to know a lot more people. Some of us even formed the beginnings of a bond. Then I realized that we all just start by doing the necessary, then doing the possible and soon we are doing the impossible.

I think that's pretty darn FAB.

Monday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for drizzly rain in the land of sunshine.

It's raining babies!

I don't know if you have joined the group, like I have, that doesn't have many members that are having babies or are getting married anymore. These types of things have come to a halt or at least slowed   w a y   down. That is until recently. I know two people in my group who are having babies! What a delightful surprise! This is some art someone requested for yet ANOTHER baby maker! I think it's raining babies around here.

Thursday's Gratitude: I am so grateful for delightful friends for The Kid, and another successful middle school meeting!