Honey I'm home!

We finally made it home! Seems like it was a long trip. I think I am getting a bit more "americanized" than I want to admit. We really enjoyed our week in Mexico to serve our friends and spend time with friends we haven't seen in years. The first picture is on the plane, with my daughter who celebrated her 16th birthday on the way back home! Nothing like a trip to a celebrate 16. This wasn't your normal "Mexico" trip tho, and she ended up at some really remote clinics getting Rociphen shots for a bacterial gastro infection. Yuck! She was really brave though.
My other daughter did great as well, and was a true trooper. We got to do some wonderful site seeing in the beautiful state of Chiapas, I'll be adding more photos later. Those are the Mayan ruins in Palenque. Quite impressive--I love archaelogy, but seems as if the rest of my family doesn't share my passion. Hmm-

The last few days have been awful. Hubby came back with strep, loads of dirty clothes and I feel the pressure of the coming Holidays upon me. I must get all the details finished for the show with SEI in Philly asap, and need to get busy. We did get our Christmas tree up finally, and it looks nice! I'll have to show you our wonderful zebra ornaments-they turned out cool!
Well, I've got to get some sleep as the exhaustion point has been exceeded hours ago.

more later, just wanted to let you know we made it back safe and sound!

I'll post more photos from the trip later.

Crazy!!

It's 1 am and the suitcases still aren't packed!!! Oh I have to hurry! Nos vemos pronto!! Night all I'll be back to blog land in 8 days or so!

Total insanity+stress= frentic impulses! New Orleans art finished!

Sorry for the delay in my blogging. It has been an incredibly insane week or so here. My youngest daughter came down with acute tonsilitis last weekend, and was so ill. Then my oldest burnt her arm last week cooking, and I ended up with the throat stuff as well. Results were 3 doctors visits and a huge bill at the pharmacy. The events of last weekend were crammed packed with birthday parties, and different functions.Needless to say, being pumped up on high dosage antibiotics and the strangest decongestant I've ever taken made me all the more pleasant to be with during my "medicated" stint. The polyvent the Dr. gave me made me feel like an alien was sucking the life force out of my lungs during the night and I would wake up around 3 am feeling like I had no fluid in my body at all--almost dehydrated and painful to breathe...I hate medicine!!!!!

I've been trying to get caught up on my commissions before Christmas. The two paintings above were the last on my list! I'll be off to Fedex in a bit to ship them out. Now I can focus on my art show in Philly--although the parameters seem to be changing and now I have no clue as to what I should take--I spent the whole day at the mall looking for a "cocktail" dress and low and behold our sweet po dump town has nothing suitable for such an occassion! UGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH--another snag in my plan before we leave. So now unless I get lucky I'll have to travel for 1-2 hours to a larger city and see if I can find something appropriate.

On a family note my poor hubby has had his own load of insanity with his work as of late and has made huge attempts to remain unstressed--but the kids sense something and it's been a tough one. We are leaving tomorrow for an 8 day missions trip to Mexico to see old friends and cook thanksgiving dinner for missionary friends. I hope this will be a good relaxing trip as we all need it. But before we go it's utter choas, getting all the details of his job, my job, the house, the dogs etc all ready to go!!! I wish we could detour for around 3-4 days and head down to Cozumel just to bum. Not happening! Wish me luck at getting the cranberry sauce into Mexico intact without being confiscated. Since 9-11 it's just really hard to take anything on an airline..I feel for those who work in the industry--it's got to be tough.

Well.. I won't be blogging for a week or so, so I thought I'd update quickly just so people will know that the madness still exists around here-I've just been so busy I haven't had time to share it.

Oh--and the makeup company is doing great. People are wanting the product so hopefully after the Christmas the big launch will take off well.

Gotta run!!! times a wasting and there are tons of details to attend to today!!!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Lazy Sunday afternoon

Well, it has been a lazy Sunday afternoon. I cooked a big lunch today and we enjoyed our family time. Pork Loin, sausage, baked sweet potatoes, and turnip greens for my honey (ick!!) rolls and sweet tea. Then we all took a long nap since most of the family hasn't felt well this weekend. My youngest has had tonsilitis, and we both ended up at the doctor. So, we are trying to recuperate. I'll need to get busy painting. On a good note, most of my commissions are caught up and I had a great response to my mini sale. I'll be preparing for our family vacation since we are leaving Friday! Yeah!!! More later just wanted to touch base.

Art Quote for Today, Shipping Day and Working Woes-Mineral Makeup Obsession and New Orleans Shotgun houses

Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet

I've been busy as usual. I had all intentions in the world yesterday of getting some painting done, but as of yet I still haven't gotten to work on the pieces I need for my big showing in Philly. I did get alot of legwork done yesterday. There are so many details to settle, I need a full time manager to get the loose ends tied up.
I designed and ordered 2000 new business cards, found a place that can get me envelopes and backings for the prints, tried to no avail to get the bank to get me the info on the visa setup, fielded several calls about lighting and finally got through to someone who could help. Sonya Paz is a phenomenal artist in Santa Clara, you really should check out her art. I love her use of color. She has been so helpful and supportive to give advice on the details of an art business. Surf on over and see her works.. you'll love them.

We went to our traditional Friday night football game last night, but it had been moved to Thursday. Yuck! Football Friday night is on Friday for a reason. No fun when you have to get up for work the next day. It was cold! Then on over to our local Mexican haunt, those guys will be able to retire early off of us!

The compounding of the first batch of mineral makeup went extremely well. We are testing the wearability of our foundation, blush, eyeshadows and liners. So far the results have been much better than I anticipated. Hopefully I'll have the website and our products ready to launch right after the New Year. I just don't see how I can push the time frame up any closer with our family trip to Mexican for a week, then the Philadelphia trip.. So, I'll keep you posted as to the details.

Oh, and fortunately.. the fingernail polish situation was fixed!