Just to add a little note to the post I just did below.....the very artistic people listed below and did pages for this book are from all over the country and a couple from the UK. How cool is that?

Here I am.......I've been MIA for quite sometime now. Thought it was time I got back to my blogging. I have something very exciting to share also. I've received my Chunky Book back from Teri this week on Leonardo Da Vinci. This was a project started last year and organized and put together by my wonderful "art" friend, Teri. She did a great job and put lots of work into this project. The results were amazing. Below lists all the people who collaborated together in this chunky book and I've shown quite a few pages out of it. Sorry some of them are a little blurry, I was in a hurry to get them taken. Didn't do my best! I plan to color the rings with alcohol inks and add fibers and ribbons to the rings. Once it get that done, I'll post another pic of the outside of the book. Seeing it in pictures does not do it justice; in real person it's just beautiful and a piece of art to treasure. Thanks for looking and I promise I won't be gone so long this time. Enjoy, Beth

I Won!

Exciting news...I won a copy of Altered Books 102, Beyond the Basics from Sally Turlington. I commented on her blog about new techniques I would like to try and got picked out of those comments to win! Yipee! Thanks, Sally. Please go over to http://www.artpubstudios.typepad.com/ or http://www.sallyt.typepad.com/ and check out her beautiful work. You will be very inspired after viewing it.

Took down my tree and all the Christmas decorations today. It's later than I usually take it down, but spent much of my time last week painting. So now everything is back in "order". Now for my craft room, quite a mess. Kind of an organized mess, but a mess non-the-less. Have work to do and need some space to do it in! LOL

Thanks for stopping in to look, and please take a look at Sally's sites. You'll be glad you did.

Happy New Year everyone! DH and I went to see "The Great Debaters" last night on New Year's Eve. What a wonderful movie, inspirational. Densel Washington and Forrest Whitaker did an excellent job and I see awards in their future for their performances.
After arriving back home we sat down to watch the new year ring in at Times Square and went promptly to bed at about 12:05. Hey, we made it up past midnight, which we failed to do last year!
My "goal".....notice I didn't say new years resolution.....is to remember to call and send everyone close to me a birthday card......on time!! That's where the problem arises. I am making a birthday reminder folder and making all my cards this year, hopefully. I'm such a bad procrastinator when it comes to getting cards off on time. So far one's already on it's way to a daughter-in-law whose birthday happens to be January 4th. Happy birthday Dawn!!
I wish everyone great health and many blessings over the new year! Beth

Hello there. Thought you would enjoy an updated pic of me. This is what I look like! Seems as time has flown by, now it's the day before New Year's Eve. Now it'll take me a couple of months to remember to write '08 on everything! :-) Today was a quiet day, we went and spent time eating dinner with our daughter, Angie and granddaughters Ashley and Allyson and went to Barnes & Noble to spend gift certificates. And of course, the trip would not be complete without some wonderful Starbuck's coffee. I did purchase a couple books.....Pretty Little Things by Sally Jean Alexander and the winter 2008 issue of Stamper's Sampler take ten. Pretty Little Things has some beautiful, fun projects in it I would like to try. It involves glass, soldering and vintage images. Some really nice bracelets and such.....just what I need, another project!! But I know certain people they would make very nice gifts for.
Moving closer to our time in Destin. Just about a month and a half. The temp today in Destin was 69. I think I could handle that. The way things have been here lately I could just use some sun!
We'll be spending time in Destin twice this year. Again, the first of May with family....my parents and sister and her boyfriend are going. May is a wonderful time to spend there. Not to extremely hot, just a wonderful comfortable temp. Great for swimming in the ocean, my fav!
I thought about taking down the tree today....but decided against it. Just not ready. Seems you just get it up and it's time to take it down. It's kinda sad after Christmas is over. You spend all that time building up to it and it's over in no time. I still have gifts set out to look over occasionally and working on learning how to work my new camera, a gift from my DH. It's a Canon digital with a 12 zoom. Had a digital that I love, but wanted more zoom than I had before. I'm excited about using it. Just have to take that first step. Electronics are always so intimidating to me. But I need to learn about it so I feel comfortable using it.
Hope you all have a happy and safe New Year's, Beth