I'd Like to Introduce You to Marley...

Hi everyone... 

Hope you survived the Holidays.  Gosh, it's just crazy the weeks before, with shopping and decorating, and wrapping, and getting groceries for that ONE day!  You'd think we were preparing for the Apocalypse. ...And then it's just gone.. over.. one day.. then poof!

...and I'm like what the hell just happened

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Anyway, after doing a commissioned painting that about ruined me for painting forever... 

quote -  

" I am never doing a commissioned painting again !"

 I finally got my creative juices back and painted a couple of sheep paintings.  

Here is the last one

His name is "Marley"

I had been trying to think of a name for him for days. 

When my daughter came over for Christmas she saw him and she said 

"Mom you painted a rasta sheep"... 

 ... and then i knew his name was "Marley" named after Bob Marley. 

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I did get some really cute pillows for Christmas from my kids

check these out...

I had seen them at Kohls one day when i was with my daughter, 

but they were too expensive, and i was like no way, not spending that much for these even if i love them

but she went back and they were on sale, so she picked them up.

It was really sweet and thoughtful of her to do that, and I was very touched...

i don't really like the feeling of my kids buying me stuff, 

it feels weird for them to spend their money on me

but if they feel they must, these pillows were the deal!

I finally switched out my iphone 4s for an android after being stranded in a different town, on a freezing cold night, in my friends car with a smoking radiator and having a dead phone battery because my iphone battery had been draining really fast since the last upgrade

for a person who is anxious about everything 

that was up there on the list of worst case scenerios

there are about a thousand things on my worst case scenerio list

the main one's involving tornadoes, throw up viruses and airplanes 

anyway my friend was standing outside of her car, and i overheard a guy nearby say to her, "do you know your car is smoking"?

and i heard her say "don't tell her that"

meaning me...

she knows me well

so the next day i went directly to Verizon and i got a Galaxy S4note 

they didn't have any ipone 6's

so anyway, so far, it's great!

I was soooo all about my Iphone

I LOVED it like my child 

and was reluctant to change 

but the Galaxy is just fine!

easy to use

great graphics

amazing battery life

just thought you might want to know

anyway, the point of this long story about the phone is this - 

check it out - 

you can take the little S pen and write on photos!

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 Also, i imagine you've seen this print online of gold lips 

You can buy it at Joss and Main or One Kings Lane or one of those types of places...

I thought it was cute, soooo...

I decided to make one like it as a gift for my daughter

 ...hope i don't get sued for copying it, so don't tell anyone

i just bought a canvas 50% off for $12.99

and a gold leaf kit for around $12.00 too

and did it!

It was kinda fun to do!

I just found the center of the canvas

(believe me, find the center, you do not want to do a cute painting and then have it all off center)!

I painted on an outline to follow with pink oil paint

brushed on the glue from the kit in the lip area, leaving some areas uncovered with glue for lip cracks

peeled off the gold foil stuff, which was crazy..

it was light as air and stuck to everything

then i laid in on the gluey area and rubbed and brushed it on

that took a couple of passes

then you just brush on a sealer, and it's done!

Anyway, other than the gold leaf being floaty and wrapping around my hands and in general being tricky

It was pretty fun !

and they really ARE shiny lips!!

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 Looks like I'm back to my usual rambling posts for 2015 

I feel like it's ok to do that since ya'll told me to be myself and ramble if i want to and you'd like me anyway... 

...So thanks for saying that...

...the end...