Easter Patterns!

Looking for some last minute projects for Easter? Check out these Easter patterns on my website....

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I hope you're having some nice spring weather! Its been pretty nice here, besides some thunderstorms. I have lots of flowers blooming and planted a few veggies. Can't wait to have my first vine ripe tomato of the season! My last project on my studio was putting up a wire fence to grown some vines on. I got that up and all my plants and seeds planted there. We tried to recycle as much as possible and did pretty well! All I had to buy was the wire. We had all the fence posts except 2 (they came with the property), someone gave us some they didn't need and we picked up the wooden posts on the side of the road. My next project is an arbor made from 2 metal gates that were here when we bought the property. I'll share pics as soon as I get all this done. I am STILL hoping to open in the fall. It looks like a lot of work still needs to be done, but my husband thinks it can be done by October. I hope so....can't wait to have my first visitors!!

Senior pictures

My nephew is a senior this year so I did his senior portraits. I was pretty proud of how they turned out! I took some of the rest of his family too....I've had my eye on several of these places to take pics for a long time and we had lots of fun, or at least I did! I love how they turned out, but it helps when you have good looking models! I wanted to share a few of my favorites. I've even had a few requests to do other peoples' photos, which I would LOVE!! I guess with my new nephew, I have another cutie to photograph too...Enjoy my other pics!

Smart Kitty

I'm thinking Hadley is one smart little kitty! She learns fast and I've taught her to shake & "give me 5"...so I was wondering what other tricks I could teach her. Any suggestions? I know you're supposed to teach them things they are already good at. (She was always pawing at me and reaching for me, so that's why I taught her that trick.) Lately when you try to walk into a room, she runs in front of you and jumps straight up and grabs the door knob with both paws. She'll hang there a few seconds waiting on you to open the door. I'm not too sure I want to turn that into a trick though! LOL!! I'd love some suggestions...never really trained a kitty before!!

New drawings...

Lately I've been in a "drawing" mood! I love doing these drawings on paper, just black and white. I may add color later, or maybe not! I'm not sure what I'll do with them, but have had some t-shirt suggestions, which I thought was a great idea! We'll see...right now I'm just accumulating a big stack of drawings! haha!

Besides drawing, I've been dealing with some sick kitties too. Mr. Spock (my oldest kitty) is having inner ear problems again. Last Monday I got up to find him wobbly again and barely able to stand. I got him some antibiotics hoping to keep from taking him to the vet because he gets SO upset when I take him. After a few days, I didn't think he was better so I took him to the vet on Friday. He has kidney disease too and I was worried he wasn't getting up to drink enough. He was dehydrated so he got some fluids, a steroid shot and is on 2 different antibiotics. He's still unsteady but seems to be getting better. He is definitely eating and drinking more now with his steroid shot kicking in! It surely won't hurt him to put on a little weight. He had lost from  18.5 to 11 lbs the last time we weighed him. Its hard to see him so small since he has always been a big, healthy kitty until about the past year. He is 15, so I guess it is just something I have to deal with....he has been getting plenty of extra attention and I'm sure he's enjoying that! He goes for a checkup tomorrow and I'm hoping to get some good news that his ear drum is healing!

Welcome Little Oakley!

I am now a GREAT AUNT! My great-nephew, Oakley Chandler Reynolds was born today. We are all excited he's here and ready to spoil him!!

Oakley's Mural

Today is the today...I'll be a great-aunt! My nephew's baby, Oakley, is on his way today. Can't wait to meet him! It seems like we've been waiting forever...while we were waiting, I painted this jungle mural in his nursery. I told them to tell him about me every time he looks at it. ha!

How spoiled is my cat?

I have been worried about Rusty because he stopped eating and has lost a lot of weight. (He needed to lose weight, so at least there was a good side to this story!) He has IBS and food allergies, so he is on a special diet and has enjoyed the food so far. The vet orders the food and he always liked Salmon & Green pea best, so thats what I have them order. It comes in a case, so he's had the same kind for a while.

A few weeks ago, he started leaving his food on the plate. I'd leave him all night and come back to find that his food is still there. I had to stay with him and pet him, stick the food in his face and coax him to eat. I had decided he was sick--went to Petco to get more food and bought a variety of canned food that is okay for him to eat and had planned to take him to the vet. But I just wasn't sure what was going on--he plays, purrs when you pet him, would even eat some samples of dry food that I picked up at the local pet store. I came home with the food yesterday and of course some of his salmon & green pea was still on the plate. I give him 1/2 can at a time and he never eats the whole thing. Yesterday evening I opened a new can of Venison & green pea and he ate A WHOLE CAN in no time! He just did the same thing this morning, so I now have a diagnosis....SPOILED ROTTEN!!! Ha ha!! AT least he's not sick!