Every year we take our grandkids camping to a lake in the cascade mountains. First order of business is find a walking stick in the forest.
This year for Christmas I carved and painted their sticks custom for each of them. This is where my creative energy has been focused for months.

When I moved into our new house 3 years ago, there were three things I didn't like. One was the fireplace. I finally had it redone. I did the tile and painting and I hired the drywall work.
Just in time to hang stockings.

Good morning!
Watercolor on paper “Beach Stream”

When I started having grandkids, I wanted to build them a dollhouse. Something I had always dreamed of as a little girl.
Because I am into recycling and not buying plastic, I built one out of cardboard boxes and paper mache. I added an old cabinet as a base and painted troll caves on the doors.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
For anyone who wants to ask who I thank…..
My son-in-law for roasting the turkey and my daughter for the rest of the meal and hosting the party.

I have a facination with the security patterns in envelopes.
I saved them up for years and did a collage…...
The results. Zoom in to see the patterns.

I guess the new “name above all names” is Trump.
“every knee shall bow and every tongue confess…..”

When I asked my granddaughter for her Christmas list…..

This is a “news story” on my local cbs television station.
Not an advertisement.…..a news story. Trump guitars.
SMH.

My 10 year old granddaughter wrote this message to her sister because her cat was dying.
How sweet is this?

Christianity has abandoned anything close to Jesus’s teaching. He would flipping over tables in the churches of america.

Looking at blue skies from now on!
Acrylic on canvas.

On this Veteran’s Day. I want to share a clip from a letter my father-in-law wrote to his mother on August 11-15, 1945. The atom bomb was dropped on August 6.
He and his troop in the Philippines were anticipating the end of the war. It officially wouldn't come for a few more weeks.

My daughter in law gave me this lovely Christmas ornament during covid 2020.
I need one for 2024 and at least the next four years.