It's a little known fact ...

That I've always had the desire to do watercolour painting. I've got it in my plans for an activity during retirement. And my style really is a lot like the Impressionists. Who knew?

My result for "What Your Taste in Art Says About You" Test...

Balanced, Secure, and Realistic.

Impressionism is a movement in French painting, sometimes called optical realism because of its almost scientific interest in the actual visual experience and effect of light and movement on appearance of objects. Impressionist paintings are balanced, use colored shadows, use pure color, broken brush strokes, thick paint, and scenes from everyday life or nature.

People that like Impressionist paintings may not alway be what is deemed socially acceptable. They tend to move on their own path without always worrying that it may be offensive to others. They value friendships but because they also value honesty tend to have a few really good friends. They do not, however, like people that are rude and do not appreciate the ideas of others. They are secure enough in themselves that they can listen to the ideas of other people without it affecting their own final decisions. The world for them is not black and white but more in shades of grey and muted colors. They like things to be aestically pleasing, not stark and sharp. There are many ways to view things, and the impresssionist personality views the world from many different aspects. They enjoy life and try to keep a realistic viewpoint of things, but are not very open to new experiences. If they are content in their life they will be more than likely pleased to keep things just the way they are.

Take What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test at HelloQuizzy

Christmas added to my stash ...

Since the Holidays are now over I should up date you all on a few of the interesting goodies I got.

First, a lovely oil painting by our son in law, Mike.



You know how I love Art (all kinds) and artistic talent and receiving a gift by the talented person who did it themselves is one of the best gifts ever. [well after all, they might get something homemade from me also] Isn't this oil painting beautiful? Now we have to find the right spot for it in our home and I'm thinking ... the Dining Room.

And here's a beautiful gift the DH gave me for Christmas... well he gave me the Gift Certificate from Seed Stitch Fine Yarn and this shawl pin jumped right into my basket along with all the yarn I got on sale.



What yarn did you say?


and three different colors of Lamb's Pride ...
Never mind how many skeins, LOL. Especially the Cashmere ... you'll just have to check it out in Ravelry or wait until I finally knit up some FO's.

Now I REALLY have to stop shopping! Honestly, a gift certificate for the right place just burns a hole in my pocket and drags some green stuff right along with it. Even plastic can be affected.


So while I work on the next project, here's an up date of me with a few of the grandkids taken at out little family Christmas party.

Aren't they absolutely adorable?



The girls all got Knitted Sock earrings from me and note that they're even wearing them for the picture. And even the slippers I made for the Munchkin fit. They stayed on her feet the whole day too.



So if the Munchkin and her gang are happy with what they got it's now time for me to get down to business and make some FO's appear for 2008.

Happy New Year!

[Late on the New Year's cheer but the new year doesn't start for me until my Birthday ... Tomorrow!] ;-)

I just got the best birthday gift ever ... a call from a sister to let me know that Dad has been off the ventilator for 24 hours now and the doctors say that his condition is "this side of a miracle" ... just what we've been praying for. He may be out of ICCU soon. Of course he's not out of the woods and things are still serious, but this time 2 weeks ago we thought we'd be facing something totally different. There are choices that our Dad needs to make and we would rather they be his choices and that he's at home to make them. We love you Dad!

Win some, loose some ...

Went to see My Little Felt-tea Farm Tea Cozy at Marblehead's Festival of Arts. Yesterday was the last day for the art exhibits and I wanted to check out the competition, see if I won anything, and then take my cozy home when everything was over after 5. I didn't win anything ... nope, no ribbon ... but we had a good time looking at all the art; crafts, paintings, drawings and photographs. I really did want to look over the competition in order to make my plans for next year's entry also. I have an idea now of what I'm up against and plans are going on in my head for what I might do next year. It'll still be Needle Felted, but I'm working on the project idea.

So here's just a few pictures for you all to see. The guitar got the People's Choice and the Clock got Best of Show in the Craft division [which is what my tea cozy was in]. The guitar was gorgeous but my DH wasn't impressed with the clock. But then, he's not usually fond of the unusual [like me, tehe] anyway.


The only other needle felted project there were these cute little puppies ...
Lots of painting and drawings ...

And we walked around to see what else was going on. Nice walk before we had dinner at The Landing. M-m-m-m, I had wonderful crab cakes, yummy. Wish we could have walked around for a while longer but ...



Then we went back to pick up the tea cozy. While my DH and SIL went to get the car, I waited for the pick up time and talked with some really nice people. Hope I see one or two of them at the Seed Stitch sometime. Maybe in my needle felting class in the Fall?

In the meantime ...
let's see if I can get those plans from my head into Needle Art.