Happy Valentine's Day!

It began early this morning....

pushing the storm door through the snow in order to get out.

About 24" fell totally.

Yes there is a van and a car under there :)

He is back at it again, this will take the better part of the day to dig out.

The birds came..

Rocky dove in...

Finally the sun and it is a beautiful winter wonderland.

(From my window.)

Even a visit from a woodpecker. You have to look carefully just 

below and to the left of center.

I wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day!

And Yet Another Snowy Day!

Here we go again.....

 The visibility really is this bad.

 I always do a wonderful business at the bird feeder during a storm. The birds

use up so much energy during this kind of weather so I went out last 

night to restock before the snow came in.

 Rocky is a 90 pound Chocolate Lab and he is having so much trouble

moving around in this snow.

Thank you for getting me back in mommy! I don't like it out there.

 

 

My dear husband is overwhelmed with the snow, he is running

out of room to put it! (and for health reasons the doctor said

no snow shoveling for me, so he is on his own ...)

 

 

But the cavalry showed up.....

 Thank you neighbor Ted!

 

 

On another subject, I had a 50% off coupon for Michaels and treated

myself to yet another glass dome. I'm thinking spring display, maybe

a small nest with eggs....spring can't be too far away, I hope!

Snow Day Here in the Northeast!

Last week all our snow from earlier in the season had pretty much all melted away,

but today is a different story....

My husband is running out of places to pile the snow....

 Even Rocky is upset with the amount of snow out there in the back yard.

The birds are not minding it too much as long as I keep the feeders filled. 

They do show up a lot on a snowy day.

I am inside working on a new doll to list on EBAY.

This one will have a linen dress and something to do with this pretty

pink polka dot fabric. Bunny ears will be in store for this one also.

Little Hannah, Queen of Hearts is listed here on EBAY:

ebay.com/itm/161216730873?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

(I hope this link works :)  )

Thank you for spending a few moments with me and have a nice day!

Merry Halloween!!

Looking out my studio windows toward the road.

Still smiling our halloween smiles!

My mother would hang this black cat on our front door on halloween night.

Here in the Hudson River Valley most of us are tucked in and waiting out this historic storm.
We are ready with our generator if the lights go out and hopefully we will
be able to hook up the tv and watch Hocus Pocus! (My favorite Halloween movie!)
Of course the party is postponed till next weekend, but more poeple will be around so that is good!
(especially our son who will be up for a visit from DC :))

Santa and Snowman Paperclay Dolls

                                                                                  I know....... I know....... we haven't

had Halloween yet.........

But I have these guys made.....

and they are so sweet....

I am going to list them on ETSY this weekend.

Snowy Day #3

Well three days into my Painting A Day experience I messed up! We went to DC to visit our son and I brought my watercolors and pens and paper with all good intentions of doing some quick little paintings in our down time but it didn't happen. Just too much to catch up with and enjoy our visit and it went so quickly. His new home is lovely and we had a great time.
However my husbands back started to bother him a little last thursday after the latest snowstorm he was in a bit of pain over the weekend. But after the six hour drive, he couldn't get out of bed on monday morning and has been in pain all week. A trip to the doctor and some meds but he is still hurting.
So I am hoping to start up again tomorrow, we'll see how it goes..........

A Painting a Day #2 Snowy Bird

A sweet little gray bird watching the snow fall. I wanted a soft subdued palette of colors and I think this does it nicely. This will be listed on etsy later tonight.

New Year New Projects

Hello and Happy Belated New Year! I hope to be posting here more often this year. I was busy during the fall and into the holidays with a few craft fairs and some local stores that I have items in. But what I want to challenge my self with this year is a painting a day. I want to be able to commit to that daily process, document it and hope to see a growth in my abilities. So today I am listing the painting that I did yesterday on etsy. I will probably focus on birds since I just love painting them.
This watercolor and pen and ink painting is done on a page from a vintage ledger book. I am not sure what the paper is made from, but it is lovely paper to work on. I titled it "Snowy Day Bird" since here in the north east we are getting pummeled again!