Is it just Wednesday?
It seems there's been so much going on this week, too much to be just Wednesday!
This is the last week of school here...tomorrow is the last "half-day", actually, and tomorrow night is graduation. My oldest grandson, Cody, will graduate...
He and Jonathan are only from June to November apart in age...but because of how their birthdays fell, Cody is a year ahead in school.
Seems impossible...
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My week started off wonderfully, though, receiving this amazing package in the mail on Monday...
Back in January, my artist friend Wendy Dewitt (aka Golders) posted a "pay it forward" suggestion on Facebook...the first 5 responses to her post would receive something hand-made from her within the year...providing they re-posted, offering the same to the first five responses, and so on.
I'll admit I already knew that anything from Wendy would be fabulous...;^)
(My Leo was already in her Art for Critters 2012 Calendar (see the calendar on my sidebar), "Mr. April" and "Cover Boy", actually...we were so proud!)...so, I jumped at the chance!
(I have fulfilled two of mine so far, sending off flower seeds and painting a gourd-doll for a friend...)
What I got from Wendy was a delightful tablecloth, (designed by the Artist herself), in my favorite watercolor florals and crisp blue and white stripes...a vintage ME Home Companion magazine (one of my favorites ~ Halloween ideas ~ mine being lost in the fire), and last but not least, notecards of Leo's calendar page art...SO beautiful, all of it!
Thank you again, Wendy...you made my week!
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When I went out to the mailbox late this evening, the sun was shining so prettily through these petunias (and they smelled so good)!...
Of course, by the time I got my camera and got back outside, I had almost missed the moment...but there were a few golden rays remaining...
These are hold-overs from last year, by the way...not "volunteers" from seeds, but the entire plant is from last summer...it just didn't get cold enough this past winter for them to freeze...
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Cyrus is checking out some flower-heads from the catnip in my herb bed...
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Here comes Tallulah ~ "Woo" ~ to look at them, too (Woo is all healed now from her spay-surgery, thank you all for asking!)
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Leo decided to eat his flowers.
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Do any of you have "heirloom rocks", or is it just me?
This chunk of quartz crystal was left as a doorstop in a house my Grandpa and Grandma Collier bought in the 1940s...
I latched onto it early, evidently, as I remember always having it...being the little "sparkly rock" girl that I was (and am), it was the ultimate prize!
It has traveled with me from house to house, for 50 years! It lives in my herb garden, now...;^)
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This big chunk of petrified wood was brought to me from the Petrified Forest in Arizona by a family friend who knew how much I loved rocks ~ (I was about five years old)...back before things like that were frowned upon...(I'm sure it would get you a huge fine, now...)
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This chunk of marble (I think) was one of the many rocks that were in my Grandma Collier's flower beds...after Grandma passed away my Mom had them, and now I do.
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And finally, a pencil-portrait I did of a friend's three-and-a-half year-old grandson, Levi, who passed away suddenly in March. I didn't know little Levi personally, though I have know his Mimi since I was sixteen...
This Friday Levi's family and friends are holding a fund-raiser for an addition to his favorite place to visit and explore, the Discovery Playhouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri; my portrait of someone's child (or fur-baby, or house, etc.) will be in the silent auction...this drawing of Levi (to be shown as an example) will go to my friend. I knew it would be difficult to do this drawing, but I didn't realize how much so...
They will also reveal an artist's concept of what the new wing of the Playhouse will entail at the event. I wish them much success!
Bless you, sweet Levi...it was an honor to do your portrait ~ ♥
And that, my friends, has been my week so far...
How about you?
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Anne
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