Today Chuck and I went here.

Where I was a participating artist and he made me wear it.

We checked out my sketchbook. I wanted to see if

it made it in one piece which it had, yay!

Chuck looking at my sketchbook.

Some of the other viewers.

I met another artist, Vlora who came from Clearwater to see her

sketchbook. She filled up the whole book with oil

pastels - really pretty. I wish I'd thought to take a picture

of it. You can see some of it here. She was so cute!

I wish I hadn't closed my eyes.

I also saw Thomas Thorspecken and went up and introduced

myself, well sort of. I went up and asked if he was Thorspecken and

told him I was a friend of Megan's. I was actually a little nervous and

I don't think I told him my name. Ahh, anyway at least I went up and

talked to him something I wouldn't have done a couple of months ago.

Since being diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer I feel like why not do

things that I wouldn't have before? It's given me a sort of freedom and

some things I feared before seem extremely trivial.

. It was a really neat experience today. You should go if you get the chance.

Full Sail University (Full Sail Live auditorium)

3300 University Boulevard
Winter Park, FL 32792 July 29-31, 2011 12:00pm-5:00pm each day

If you can go my sketchbook will be there.
The Sketchbook Project 2011

July 29-31, 2011
12:00pm-5:00pm each day
Friday 6:00pm: talk with Art House founders
Winter Park, FL
Touring with The Fiction Project
Full Sail University (Full Sail Live auditorium)
3300 University Boulevard
Winter Park, FL 32792

Today was a inspiration day at Paper Plate Studio.

We played with paint and little canvas'. This was Tracy's.

And another of Tracy's.

Tracy hard at work in her studio

I mean playing

One of her really nice pieces

My playing today, it was actually a lot more colorful

She likes to use her fingers to paint

Really nice pointillist drawing

Tracy did

Fantastic natural art

beautiful tissue paper piece

Shell inspirations

Great, fun, idea time!

Ooppss almost forgot.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!! Love you!!!!

Saturday's beach trip was cut short by a storm

moving in. But before the storm the water was

perfect. Usually I'm a little afraid to go in but it

was so calm and nice.

Playing with something different, tissue paper.

I could not get it to photograph right too many

reflections. It was fun to do.

Last Sunday we had a family birthday celebration

for Me, Dad, Jesse, Patsy and Mom. Our birthdays

are the 15th, 25th, Aug. 3, 6, and 7.

It was nice. Mom and Dad always make t - bones

baked potatoes, and a bunch of other yummy stuff.

Then the traditional card game. Really enjoyed it.

Here's Trish looking at pictures.

Mom putting the cake away.

Stuart relaxing.

Jesse and Chris

Chuck and Patsy

Here's a t shirt I'm working on for my Dad.

I down 3 more to go.

Yesterday Chuck and Jesse took me out to Olive Garden for

lunch for my birthday, very nice. Jesse took me took me to Kohl's after

where I got a shirt and coffee. I didn't know they had coffee but

they had the flavor we both like, blueberry. I know that sounds

weird but you have to try it. I also found these placemats on sale.

They were the perfect color that matches my wall. I had a fun

day but have to rest today kind of went a little overboard.

Thank you Jesse for all the fun I had a very nice day, thanks baby!!

Flowers from Jesse.

I got a surprise last night while eating dinner.

The doorbell rang and more flowers from Corey and John.

Pretty, pretty and sooo very sweet!!! I really like this color.

and for some reason this color

from Corey and John

Birthday surprise!

I came home from my radiation treatment

and Jesse surprised me with this! She's so sweet!

Thanks baby!!!

and a funny card

laugh everyday it's good for you

Corey, we finally got the curtains up, before

after

The girl all the dogs love...

Actually on the 4th celebrations

We had some bottle rockets left over from

like a zillion years ago and we still didn't use

them all. It's serious business for Chuck.

I've never seen so many fireworks in our neighborhood.

We didn't know which way to look and these were good

as Disney fireworks. People must have spent a fortune.

Chuck playing with his sparklers

Jesse and her sparklers

And in other news; Jesse trying to fix the carpet

glued her fingers to the super glue bottle, yay - fun!

Happy 4th!

We did our celebrating yesterday with a trip to Cocoa

to see the fireworks. Our neighbor was fishing and caught

this skate.

I thought these were wind surfing kites.

I don't know what you call them but I thought

you used them with a surfboard on the water.

Nope this is the guy on the beach. He was really moving fast.

Chuck was doing shadow puppets. You can't really

tell in this picture but it was funny.

These birds were tiny smaller than my hand but they

don't look tiny in the photo.

This is the pier.

This is how far away from the pier we were.

and the fireworks started, yay!!!