Last day/night at the house on Padre Island

Tonight is our last night at the house...jeff will finish packing the pod tomorrow and we will stay at the hotel the last two nights...the car transport picks up the cars on Monday and Tues the pod is picked up and we fly home...it's been exhausting and I've enjoyed being south for a while...had homemade tamales today yummm here are a few pics of our day out...we road the ferry and went to the beach for a bit...

More pictures

More pictures of where we are staying and we went to South Padra today and I took some pics of cotton and then some pics at the beach...

here is a picture of the house in front...and a picture of the top deck and a watercolor picture I worked on this while I was gone..

Padre Island Texas

Well we are in Texas settling Jeff's father's estate...the house is darling and right on the water...so many papers...so many piles....oh my...I took some pictures at the beach and will get some of the house soon...we will be here another week and a half...but wanted to check in and let yall know what I'm up to...

Shane and Shaybree wedding today

Well today the middle son Shane got married...he and Shaybree have been going together for 7 yrs...it was a beautiful wedding...I didn't get many good pictures but I know there will be some that were taken by other so I can share those later...but here are the grooms men and shane waiting for pictures so they played cards...then I did get one of Shane, Shaybree and her sister... then the kids cutting the cake...hopefully I will be able to show just how awesome it was later...

A beautiful sky after yet another thunderstorm

Just need to add details

well my little no name elfin just needs a bit of embellishments and something about her little face makes me smile...

Nice to create

I have been working on a new doll...had the head done before the floods...so spent today working on the body and doing laundry...it was sunny yippeeee

What's new

Hello all,
Well the storms and flooding have taken it's toll for sure...we are still at mom/dad's and chance of more rain to come...OH MY....however the good news is that Kate Erbach took my Watercolor faces book and did some wonderful things with it...it's avalaible on CD for 20.00 at http://www.clothdollpatterns.com or
http://www.dollmakersjourney.com
or for 15.00 downloaded pdf file from http://www.dollstreetdreamers.com...the cover is new and soooooooo many new color pages and info...truly like a whole new book...I'm so excited and think you will be also...

Almost finished....yippeee

Well he still needs work on his boots but almost finished...

wow life

It's been a wild few weeks again...the floods and storms in Iowa have made this a rough spring...I started working on a piece like way out of the box with the push of Jean and Sprite...and Sprite said how about a troll...OH MY...so I began the adventure of the troll...he is still a WIP but so far here he is...did I make it out of the box rofl

Scarlett's 2yr bday tomorrow

Well Scarlett turned two on Thursday and her bday party is tomorrow...so I decided since she IS a little girl but oh such a tomboy that I would buy her an outfit and play with it a bit...so here is what I came up with...I added a bit of paint, some yoyos and buttons...

A new piece in progress

She is kind of weird looking at the moment

Being a Gma

Well I had the girls yesterday and we did "Art" funny Rhi prefers coloring pages that are printed and works hard to stay in the line...Scarlett loves a blank page...here is what Scarlett did with pastels...Rhi wants to make a doll and I have them again on Friday...so maybe gpa will keep scarlett busy so rhi can work on a doll...we shall see...time sure flies as Scarlett will be two next week...OH MY

Finished...yipppeeee

I'm finished with what I am doing...jean is making a medallion for the front cover and Sprite is making two little dragons one to sleep in the cave/stand behind and one to peek over the edge of the top of the book...but I'm tickled and know Jeff will be thrilled...

coming along...

well my piece is coming along...it's a piece for Jeff (hubby's) 20 year clean time bday...I figure he has been a good boy that many years he deserves something special...you will notice that we now have bear tracks...that is his totem and so they needed to be added...she doesn't have her eyes yet...so she is spokey and is tied down so that she will dry in place...

more updates on wip

well the piece is coming along...more to be revealed
Oh people keep asking what the poem is on the one side it was written for me by Jeff

Just For You!

What then is love a little boy cried
This pain that I feel, is this love deep down inside
And the Gods smiling down
In their all knowing way
Told him no that’s not love but I’ll show you someday
Is this love came the voice
Of an angry young man
Is it love that my father
Inflicts with his hand
Once again came the voice
From above on the skies
No this is not really love
But a clever disguise
Some several years later
On a passionate bed
This has got to be love
Cried the voice in his head
And god chuckled softly
With patience untold
Said you’ll know it’s not love
When the bed grows stone cold
Then god you’re not real
And love but a lie
My life but a joke
To you up on high
Then god took my hand together we cried
True love will be yours
Came the voice from inside
Tonight as I lay
Holding you near
I questioned my god
My hart filled with fear
And the voice came again
And I know that it’s true
This is it, this is love
Just for me just for you…

By Jeff Goshon 1991

my new project

there will be a fairy coming out of the book but so far this is where I am...I made the book out of a canvas board and covered it with leather....it's 20" wide X 16" tall....

A bit of a play day

Well after taking my spring pictures...I played with some of my photo programs...did the center part of this piece...then of course more is always better teehee

Finally Spring in Iowa

Well I took time to take a walk while checking the mail and YES it's Spring in Iowa...