Compliments of Violet (thank you!) I borrowed this meme…thanks!
Accent: I have a definate Chicago accent. Someone on a plane once heard me talking and said, “You’re from Chicago, aren’t you?”
Breakfast: Kashi Cinnamon Harvest and coffee.
Chore: Least favorite – Picking up the dog poo. Closest to a favorite –vacuuming.
Dog or Cat: Cats all the way. Although I own two dogs, they are becoming pains in my butt and the 4 cats are superior in my book. Cats are less demanding and don’t wake me up 2x a nite to go out and pee.
Essential Electronic: Lamps and my computer
Favorite Cologne: Lovely, by Sarah Jessica Parker
Gold or Silver: I like silver. It’s cheap and doesn’t turn green. Handbag: GAP, purple knitted bag, very hip and casual.
Insomnia: Not usually. If I have problems falling asleep, I pop 3 Valerian and I’m off to sleep.
Job Title: Domestic Goddess/art diva
Kids: 5 children-4 males 1 female
Living Arrangement: 5 kids, 1 hubby, 4 cats, 2 dogs, 2 turtles and 1 pet rat.
Most Admirable Trait: I am like sunshine.
Naughtiest Childhood Habit: I love to (and still do) egg people on. I like to press people’s buttons, when it’s something I don’t agree with.
Overnight Hospital Stay: 2 or 3 when I was little for pneumonia. 5 other times when I birthed each child.
Phobia: Walking on mucky stuff in lakes, looking at fingerprints (don’t ask me why, it’s crazy, I know) and sliding down waterslides-for some reason when I go down them, I imagine razor blades straignt up ready to slice me to ribbons….another crazy thought.
Quotation: “You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor!“
and:
“Did anyone tell Toscanini or Bach, that he had to choose between music and family, between art and normal life?”
Reason To Smile: I’m happy & healthy and delving in creativity and loving life and my kids are happy and healthy.
Siblings: I’m an only.
Time To Wake Up: 6:50am on school days….anytime on off days.
Unusual Talent: I have an almost psychic ability to sense when someone is pregnant even before they are showing.
Vegetable I refuse to eat: seaweed
Worst Habit: I’m too blunt with people.
X-rays: None recently
Yummy Stuff: Chocolate, cakes, cookies, pretzels
Zoo Animal I Like The Most: Wild cats and the Kookaburra
This is a little elfie video of my kids, Dave 20, Scott 19, Caroline 16, Drew 13 and Jeff 10
Yesterday night, my youngest came up to me while I was sitting at the computer and gave me the biggest hug bursting with love. With it, he told me, and this is a quote, ” Mom, I love you as much as a fat kid loves cake!”
And that, my friends, makes me feel like it’s all worth it.
Click to Get a Better View!Kim R., remember when you were over and I was just working out the sketch for this pillow design? Well, here it is, finished and published.
The small doll is my 3rd Inaugural Annie. This one is much smaller than the ones from the past, mainly because the magazine needs smaller designs due to size issues.
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Me and my dad, circa 1967, hamming it up in a photo booth.
Our old dalmatian, Blaze…
Chaz, the black cat checks out the ornaments…
Winter solitude spelled out by two lonely park benches…
Willows dressed up in their icy finery…
Ice cicles dripping over my porch rail….
A frosty evergreen after last night’s ice storm.
Always remember-No matter what situations life throws at you… no matter how l o n g and treacherous your journey may seem… Remember, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
The girls passing them around admiring each other’s collage.
Terri and her mixed media collage. Her red and brown canvas had a theme of being a grandmom and family. This lovely woman is so young an already has 7 grandchildren. She’s a saint! She also hosted our beautiful Christmas party this year and it was really wonderful. Thank you, Terri!
Sharon and her mixed media collage. Her purple, pink and lime green canvas had a theme of motherhood. She has two young children and I included them for extra specialness!
Liz and her mixed media collage. Liz’s bright color canvas had a theme of vacationing in Ft. Meyers, Fl, her family and her dog.
Laura and her mixed media collage. Laura’s blue and mauve canvas had a theme of men and playing poker with snippets of other things she loves to do peppered in.
Cindy and her mixed media collage. Her pastel collage was of a gardening theme with touches of Jackie Kennedy, an excerpt from Eloise and her favorite quotation.
Cathie and her mixed media collage. Her blue and green theme was of kissing and watching old movies-two of her favorite things to do!
Why Jane 