Little Carmen....

Shhhhhhh!baby sleeping!
This was taken last night when I babysat for my two year old (great) nephew Carmen. He is the sweetest little boy. He barely noticed when his mom and dad left. Of course he had his favorite bat and ball with him, and also his batting helmut. He has become obsessed with baseball!
We watched Toy Story, drank "Invisible Kool-Aid", ate dinner (he loved my Garlic homefries) watched tv. He was so sweet all evening. I rocked him in my computer chair, and he slowly began getting drowsy. I put down a blanket and pillow on the floor, and said "ok Carmen, lets go night night." He layed down without any fuss, and watched tv through sleepy eyes. Giggled for a moment after watching the snapper guy, "Bobby Badfingers" on "Americas got Talent. He was a complete angel.
His mom, Antje, is expecting a baby in October. It's going to be a girl! and she and husband Michael, might name her "Gabriella".. oh I love that name. Cross yer fingers.

So. now I'm kinda nervous. After this whole terrorist/airport thing.
My daughter Jamie is Flying to Las Vegas with her girlfriend, and her parents, in the morning.
I guess it's a good thing flying with such tightened security. I hate the times we live in.
The simplest pleasures, become stressful now.
Oh well. I'll just feel better once she calls from Vegas tomorrow.
I'm saying an extra prayer tonight.  

Inspire Me Thursday...Black & White

My 5 minute doodle at 4 a.m...

Hot, Sticky, Gross....!

Susan's Art. Cool hand painted Wine bottles.

Debbie's Photography, and art. Check out those cool Mirrors!

My art.


HOT.... HOT.. HOT.... HOT.. HOT! YUKKKK!
It's soo hot!

Ok. So not that I'm done complaining about the heat. Another weekend
over. My daughter Jamie called Saturday morning, to tell me she was in a small car accident
she's fine thank God, and so was the other driver who hit her. Jamie went to the
hospital just to get checked out. But all X-rays were fine.
Allison moved into her new apartment, with her two roomates.
I spent all of Saturday, trying to get a few collages made, for a little
art show at the WWW.SPIRITOFCLAY.NET called "The Summer Marketplace"



Another Artist, "Beady Eyed"
The cute little Yellow and Blue bottles
were bottled "Sunshine" and "Moonglow".. they wer kind of
like snow globes, that when you shook them, they had sparkly
things in them. Cute!
Love the "Meal Worms" sign in the background.. lol.

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Sister Susan, and Kelly, one of the Spirit of Clay owners.
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I spent all of Saturday printing images, and didn't make it into the artroom untill 8pm.
Then stayed up till 5:30 a.m. trying to finish them!
The show was from 1-5pm
I had alot of fun. There were only five tables of artists, and two
of those belonged to my sisters and I. But it was fun. The
only thing that spoiled it was, .... guess.... yep....THE HEAT!
Thank God we were sitting in the shade. Not that it helped much,
Between the heat an hotflashes.. I thought I'd burst into flames!!
I sold a couple things, and made enough money to buy myself dinner!
But I enjoyed hanging out with my sisters. sister Rita wasn't there,
she had other plans.
So now I'll put my new collages on Etsy. that's such a coolwebsite.
www.etsy.com check it out!
Debbie's photography was amazing, and her cool Mirrors were a hit!
you can check out her amazing photos at: www.webshots.com search:
STONESTHRO.
I can't believe the weekend is gone. I hate Sunday nights, because, I know
I have to start planning for work ugh.
I am anxiously looking forward to Autumn! When it get's this hot, I
can't stand it! I just love the Fall. It's my favorite season. Although
when Fall comes, Winter isn't far behind.
So Relunctantly, I will go to bed.
Have a great week!
More hot weather here in Cleveland.
ugh!

Peppers as Baseballs....

Yayyyyy it's FRIDAY!!!!
The week went so fast. I'm so glad.
Yesterday, I helped my nephew Michael
get his work website up. He brought his
adorable 2 year old son, Carmen, who
I got to babysit for about an hour.
Carmen became addicted to baseball,
last week at my daughter Allison's graduation
cookout. He screamed bloody murder, when
they took him off the baseball diamond, where the
older kids were playing. He went in search of
a glove, and tried to catch, and bat at the same time.
So yesterday, he had a New Red plastic bat in tow,
and anxious to play! "Ball? Ball?.... Ball?".. is what he
kept saying. Well, his father forgot to bring it... so...
I went on a hunt, looking for a ball. Hmm.. he's only
2, I bet I can crumple up a sheet of paper into a ball
he won't know the difference... right?.. WRONG.
He examined the paper "ball" intensly, then started
uncrumpling (is that a word? ) it.
"Ball?.. Ball?... Ball?"... ok.. OK!... I'm looking! So
there in my basket on the kitchen table.. were my
very real looking, but fake Red Peppers. ok.. let's try it.
I handed one to Carmen.. he examined it... off to the
front door he ran..."Ball! ball! ball!"
YESSS!.. he thinks it's a ball!
So out we went, into the driveway, and I pitched the
Pepper, he was too busy swinging at the air, but giggled
everytime I made my best exaggerated pitcher moves.
The wind up... leg high... and the throw... .. gotta make
noises too.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrrrrrrrrrGHhhh.
Carmen loved it! The fake Red Pepper held up well too,
and looked even more real after being tossed around,
and rolled on the ground. "Wwwwhinggg".. ( swing!)

Numbers....Inspire Me Thursday

....Turning 50.... Me?????.... whoa.