Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Become a FAN!

Monday, July 27, 2009

Bluebird Princess Birthday!!!

On Sunday my sweet little niece Sarah turned 3!!! We had a Bluebird Princess Party! You know, Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty all hung out with bluebirds! So, we were the birds, and Sarah was the princess! It was so much fun!!!Isn't she a beautiful little girl! I love her so much!

Silly Princess Sarah!


Her bird friend Madison!
Bluebird Aunt Jenny

Bird Mommy Julie and Sister Alison... bird hat didn't stay on long with her!

Grammy Bird!
Nana Bird!

Bluebird cupcakes in a rice crispy nest!

Tasty Tweet
Princess blowing out 3 candles!

I love the foot sneaking up on the table

Birds were everywhere!

The cards are always the best!

Opening the giant box of dress up clothes from Uncle Greg and Aunt Jenny!

Pa Bird, above made this below...
A dollhouse bookshelf! He made it, mom painted it and I put on the S!

It was a hit!
Lots of fun to come!
I love my girls!
Bird Sister Katie says it was awesome!

Friday, July 24, 2009

Yummy

So last night for book club I made an ice cream peanut butter pie with an Oreo cookie crust. It was DELISH and oh so easy! It will be my desert go to for awhile!

Here is the recipe...

The Crust:

Step 1: Ingredients for Oreo Cookie Crust

  • 1-1/2 cups finely crushed Oreo cookie crumbs (approximately 20-22 Oreos)
  • 3 tablespoons melted butter

Step 2: How to Make an Oreo Cookie Crust

  1. Mix crumbs and butter in a bowl
  2. Use your fingers to press the crust into into a pie plate or springform pan.
  3. If you're baking the filling in the crust, there's no need to bake the crust first. If you're filling it with a cream filling that's just being chilled, you'll want to bake the crust for 10-15 minutes at 350 F before filling.
The Filling:

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 quart chocolate ice cream, softened
  • 1/2 (16 ounce) jar crunchy peanut butter
  • 1 (9 inch) prepared COOLED cookie crust
DIRECTIONS
  1. In a large bowl, mix ice cream and peanut butter together. Pour into pie crust and freeze until ice cream is firm. Serve and enjoy!
YUM.

Book club was awesome too! We all recommend The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society! One of the best endings I've read in a LONG time!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Okay... Whirl of a Catch-Up!

So I have kind of become one of those crappy bloggers that never posts... I will try to do better! I promise! What's been going on you ask... lots I guess! This week I have been having days when I am super motivated, and then the next day the couch calls my name and I am exhausted. I think it has to do with me and Greg having totally opposite schedules. It is messing both of us up. He gets up WAY early- like 3!- for work and goes to bed around 8:00pm. I don't normally go to bed until like 1:00am and sleep until 8:00am. I just work better at night. Anyways, we are going to work on it. We have to!

My art lessons are going great! I have had lots on people who are interested, and I had a group of 4 on Tuesday! So much fun! Little Sydney painted this from my centerpiece... I love it!

I've been working on getting a gallery listing together, and also getting some dates for juried shows. I also just entered this guy in a show for Saledo. I am hoping I get in! I'd like to break into that market. I am finishing up a couple of pet portraits tonight, and then I got a commission to do 3 paintings for the new law office Greg works for. I am pretty excited about that!Tomorrow night I have my Paper[back] Dolls book club meeting at my house! I picked The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Socity, which I also need to finish tonight. I have been a reading slacker. It's pretty bad when it is YOUR book club book selection! Oh well, I'll finish it up- I really like it!
This weekend I am throwing a Bluebird Birthday for my sweet neice Sarah who is turning 3. It is going to be ADORABLE. I'll be sure to post pictures! I am so excited! I love party planning- one of my favorite things on earth!

Okay, I must get back to work. I promise I will do better about blogging!!!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Paging Dr. Edmondson

Yesterday, I took a super quick trip to Dallas to visit with the nice people at the Rising Gallery about my artwork. While I was in town, I went to visit my sweet friend and AXO big sis Dr. Heidi Edmondson at her "office," Children's Medical Center in Dallas. I can not express to you how very proud I am of Heidi. She has worked her tail off, and she is so very smart and not to mention sweet as can be!

Dr. Edmondson and the GIANT Cowboy's helmet

With the doc in front of the trains- super neat!The Trains
Me and Heidi in front of the butterflies
Such an amazing place!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

More Houston and Da BEACH

Here are some more pictures from my recent trip to Houston. We went to the Houston Science Museum and the Galveston after my art show. Super fun! I am still tired from it though!

We went to the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibit on my birthday :)

This guy FREAKED out poor Christie! I thought he was neat :)

We went to see the butterfly exhibit too!

Mural on the beach in Galveston... looks pretty good after Ike!

Little beach birds
Beachy people

Summer beach goers
Pretty umbrellas

Hot summer beach

The view from our condo



Waves!

Sunset at dinner on the water

Monday, July 13, 2009

Art Show!

I had a wonderful time in Houston for my art show at Galleria Lazzara! The opening was July 9th- my birthday! YAY! It went so well! Here are some pictures!

My area... most of my stuff was in this section of the gallery, but some was sprinkled through out

See! I do know a few people in Houston! Thanks Christina, Jerry and friends!! The Albus duo came too! Sad I didn't think to get a photo with them!

Stellar Jellyfish and Cow Love wall

My hummer and fishy made the entrance!

We with my work.
To the best girl on earth! Thanks for coming with me Christie!!!

Reclining Bovine, Bald is Beautiful and Ghost Riders in the Sky


Ghost Riders in the Sky: 48"x72"

Bald is Beautiful: 18x24

Night Owl: 16x20"
Reclining Bovine: 36x48"

Cow Love: 30x40"

Show Off: 30x40"
Something's Fishy: 16x20"
Stellar Jellyfish: 36x48"

The Original Hummer: 14x14

Tough Guy: 16x20"

Lone Coyote: 18x24"

Whooo Are You Looking At?: 24x30"
 

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