Wishfull thinking...

I am going to try and do more new art to post more often.  This picture is of a trip I took with my grndter in 2011.  We went to an art show of illustration for children's books.  Several artists were featured and examples of their works were shown.  Their bios were also displayed, so you could put their faces with the work each one did.

The display was in a castle like building that is the entrance to the Edsel Ford Estate in Michigan. Note the "rope" of hair hanging from the ramparts. This show was at the time TANGLES was released at the theaters.

Woe is me

Woe is me!  Here I am again making an attempt to get back on track.  Hopefully, this post will be part of a series of days that I can remember to come here and post.
Here is a picture of my current vacant rental.. comes with fenced yard ,maintenance and plenty of food.  Ha Ha Ha!

Enough of the explaining here goes.....  I have been doing mostly jewelry lately, I am taking a metalsmith class.  I make "real" jewelry - meaning I use silver, copper and brass from sheets of metal to fabricate my pieces.  I love the sawing, pounding, soldering and polishing my projects.  I will post a picture of one of my pieces, as soon as I get one taken and sized.

What a change!  It seems like forever since I have been to see this blog.  I guess it has, everything has changed.

Present and Accounted 4

These last few months have been a black hole for me.  I was upset and confused about the following:
   1. On August 23rd I received a call that my brother had died that day from a blood clot, he was in the hospital for tests.  He was 10 yrs my junior and the last member of my family, leaving me with only a few aunts, uncles and cousins. He lived in South Carolina, so I had not seen him in a few years.
   2. I had a stroke, soon after he passed.  I was taken by ambulance to a stroke center in a suburb of Chicago, 40+miles away, for treatment.  It was a hard time for me knowing that my brother had just died from a similar incident.  I have done a good job of recovering from the stroke, not having insurance made it hard.  I have been on meds and a regiment to recover.  I had some lack of balance and inabilty to write.  I had just started a class in silversmithing at a local jr. college and was terrified of losing all my art skills.  I spent alot of time recovering my motor skills.  I couldn't even sign my own name, which would mean the end of alot of my art.

I hope that I can be forgiven for not being on line during this time.  I have been able to recover from most of the primary problems of the stroke.  I now know that there is a GOLDEN WINDOW for a person who has a stroke, this window of time is 3 hrs. If a person is taken to the ER within the 3 hrs, it will allow the doctors to inject an anti-stroke medication that can stop the stroke.  I missed that window because of  not having insurance and thinking this was just a bout of extreme mental strain.

 
  

Finally I can....

I am not doing a good job of relearning how to post from a borrrowed computer!  I can't seem to figure out how to know what picture is actually going to be posted.
   This is my first post for the latest exchange I am in, I hope it comes up on the blog right.  I don't like that photographiing a negative image shows all the small imperfections.  Most of those small scratches are made visible by the camera (both by the flash or abient light), and are not as visible to the naked eye.
    Here is one of my ATCs from my series, Full Moon Series.  It is of the leaves of the Feverfew plant.  It is a plant I have grown for over 30 years. 

Krap, I can't get my pix from this puter to upload to this blog, nother stumbling block for me to get past! 8-(  Back to the darn pix section to see what I need to try and what might work.  Life w/o your own puter is for the birds,

No pictures to post.  Since my "puter" died, I haven't figured out a way to edit and post from my Hubby's computer.  I have been busy getting my garden in shape.  For the last 2-3 yrs I haven't been able to work in it as needed.  I fell yesterday as I was opening the door and sprained my ankle on the same leg that has a new knee!  That is the way things seem to go right now. The fall scared the dickens out of me, no one was home and we live in a sparse area, so I looked up at the sky for awhile and then made slowly inside.  Ankle is wrapped and I put ice on it and the knee.  Hope to get my computer situation straight and back to normal.