My new space

Finally took time today to unpack the boxes that have been sitting in my stamp room since we moved in. Although it's still terribly cluttered, the boxes are gone and you can actually see the room. Here's my computer setup.
This shot shows the wonderful view of our front yard that I get to enjoy each day. The boxes used to cover all the space in the corner and around the table.
My wall of iris carts. My goal for the summer is to sort through the drawers and reduce the number of items I just "have" to have.

This is the closet. The purple/white stack of drawers are for my stamps. I hope to add additional shelves.

Dierks!

Well, it didn't take long for cool things to happen to us when we moved to Middle TN! When we opened our bank account, I noticed they were having a drawing to attend an interview session with Dierks Bentley! We listen to country music and he's one of my favorite artists, so I filled out the form and WE WON!
The interview was held at the Country Music Hall of Fame and from the minute we walked in, we were treated like VIP's! There was a line of people waiting to get in, but we got to walk right by all of them, through the door, down the steps, to the FRONT ROW! It was awesome. The interview was 2 hours, with Dierks playing two songs during it. He is such a nice guy and so cute! After the interview, he was hopping on his bus to drive to Kansas City for his concert tonight.

Graduation Day

We spent last weekend celebrating our daughter's graduation from Kansas University.
This is the building where she attended her classes. Here we are at the reception following the Journalism graduation ceremony.

The day before, we got a little crazy decorating for her party. She wanted me to help her make huge cut out letters of "KU". After we had cut the letters out of cardboard, I mentioned how we had a great stencil from the leftovers.
Here's what we did with it and spray paint.
It was alot of fun!
This is the scene on Sunday when they held the outdoor ceremony for all graduates.You can never have too many pictures with celebrities - here they are with the Men's Basketball coach - Bill Self.
Peyton and her friends right before they walk through the campanile and the traditional "walk down the hill".
Like the cake says - WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!

Pocket-FULL Art

In the middle of constantly packing boxes, I did manage to finish Andi's pocket-full book. She used file folders as the base of her book. I covered the folder with this great aqua tissue paper.

This is the tag pulled out of the folder. The background is paper I made a few years ago at Art and Soul in Dallas in a class with Tracy Baustica.
Not sure you can see it well in the picture, but the sunflower theme flows over to the back of the page on the hats. These are playing cards I picked up on my trip to Europe in 2006. I love the simplicity of them. We're moving next week and I look forward to life returning to some kind of "normal".

Perils of Moving

Oh, the perils of moving! As my husband packed his gargage/shop items into the back of a trailer, I was right beside him loading up my SUV with this: my STASH! The entire backseat was full of yarn. I kept waiting for him to comment on what was in the bags. But he never noticed as he was too busy himself. I couldn't bring myself to let the movers handle any of my favorite things.The back was full of a few of my stamps and iris carts, stuffed full of items from my stamp room.

All went well as we drove across TN, all my goodies safe with me in my automobile. A friend helped me unload and left all the bags in an empty room in my new home. But then disaster struck! My husband decided to help me "put away" the bags. As he made trip #3 to a hallway closet, he commented "what is all this, anyway?". So the jig was up and I had to confess. Luckily for me, he has his own "stash" that fits into a 30' x 40' shop, so nothing further was said.

Pocket-FULL for April

Here's my work in Santa's pocket-FULL book where the theme is about Life Lessons. Her book is an old LP record album. The pages each have a hole in them where the name/artist of the record would show through. I thought quite a bit about her theme, then decided that I would do my spreads based upon two things that I think the world could use more of. Below is my artwork from the pocket.Here is the back:

New Home

Well, it's not ours just yet, but in about 10 days it will be. This is a view of the front.Here's the back:

And this is the kitchen. Since we made the decision to relocate to Middle TN, life has been very BUSY.