Long time no post...

 It has been so long since I posted I probably will break it up into a couple posts.  In this first post, I will show some of Lorelei's art.  

These above were all projects from school.  If I recall correctly, she was given the heart design and the 'L,' how she decorated them was her idea.  The hearts were painted with water color...the L, she added the vine and the stripes and the decoration on the toe tip.  I don't remember how they were colored.  She was told to fill a sheet with a shape, so she chose the simple leaf shape repeated over and over, varying the size and the color.   I think the pumpkins and fence were given to her...maybe she added the bats.

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At home, she is in the process of drawing the second girl...she is drawing it from a how to tutorial.  Still, I think she shows so much promise.

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The following she did here this weekend...

She just sketched this in nothing flat...I was watching her and wondered what in the world the jagged line was going to be...then she colored it in with watercolor pencils and I realized the lighthouse was high on a cliff.

This is a Christmas card she designed...if you will look closely, you will see where she erased 'snowflakes' in the background.    So simple, but I just love it.

Then what was amazing to me about these is how quick she drew them.  And she did a couple other sheets of just one rose and one of the other flowers and colored them, then touched them with a wet brush, but she must have taken them home with her.

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I know, not a lot more than the last time I posted a pic, but there are a few more.  and I have 5 or 6 more cut and basted to the paper and ready to be sewn together.

Update

I will try to catch up on visits in the next day or two...just did not do many today.

 I had my Mohs surgery today....no more cancer on the first time they did it!  I am so very thankful and Roger is beyond relieved.  My appt was at 10:30....my daughter came and took me.  I hated for anyone to have to go and sit and wait.  And wait we did.  I got there early and got in right away...and was back out in the waiting room at 10:28.  It was around 2:00 or a few minutes past before they called my name to come back...she told me on the way that it was cancer free.  So they had to numb me again and stitch me up.  

Anyway, wanted to share the good news... and if I was capable, I felt like doing what the guys are doing in this video:

Grands

 That is Lorelei on the left in the back...a photo her mom took.  That is two of her best friends with her.  The skeleton, E,  is a couple years older than Lorelei and the one in front, S,  is a couple or three years younger.  (Sarah babysat her and that is how they became friends.)  This is at S's neighborhood.  Her mom and dad go all out and have the yard really decorated, as do her grandparents that live a couple houses down.

Well, her grandparents were sitting out in their drive...her grandpa was dressed as Jack Skellington...I forget what her grandma was dressed as.  But her grandpa had a big spider...I think a foot high or so...I was not there.  Exact size does not matter except that it was big.  And it is controlled by a button....it can be made to lunge forward.

A grandmother came along with her grandchild and sent the grandchild up to pick up candy.  about that time S's grandpa hit the button and the spider lunged.  It didn't bother the child, but scared the grandma so bad she spit her false teeth out!  Oh, my, what fun tales come from these parties.  

Now for some Fur baby photos:

 

She wanted whatever toy Delta had...she has all kinds of toys but no other would do.  She has since learned to get Delta all revved up to go outside, and after Delta goes out, she runs and gets the toy.

The following are from the weekend...

You got to admit he is quite the cutie...

Notice the ears in both photos...they make me want to giggle.

Here he is all tuckered out...after a day of play.  

He met a lot of his neighbors this weekend...there are two boys across the way that want a dog so bad, but one is allergic to some dogs and others not.  So our daughter told them, it may be what they are bathed with, or how often they are bathed.  If Delta is out a lot and gets a lot of pollen in her coat, she has to be bathed.  The one boy wants a German Shepherd so bad, but the parents are considering a Golden/Poodle mix.  They have to be good kids...they have two different neighbors with small dogs, and they go walk them for their owners.

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I will end here is a short little video sure to bring a smile: