Sunday, October 03, 2010

I have way too much laundry to fold

I wanted to start by saying I'm going to be participating in a race on October 30th. Its a 5k. Its a charity event to raise money for kids with cancer in the Tampa Bay area. I've decided to take all sale money from my stamps for the month of October and donate it to the Zack Tucker memorial fund for the race. If you've been thinking about buying any of my stamps this is the month to do it for a good cause. I've got 40 bucks going to the charity so far. I'm hoping to get to at least a 100 by the end of the month. Here is my Etsy.


I combined two challenges with this card. I wanted to do the Cardabilities challenge with this sketch.



















Over on SCD they had a current challenge of making whatever you want with the colors orange, brown and gold mainly. So here is what I came up with!






























Today I think we have a grocery store run in the cards. We need items so Lewis can make crawfish ettoufee for dinner tonight. I'm thinking I'm going to write down what he does and take pictures. This is good real ettoufee from a New Orleans native. The good stuff. He's the best southern cook there is. Scratch that. He's the best cook I know period.

We also are going to go pick up some Halloween decorations. Logan wants to decorate our house. He wants it to look "haunted" from the outside he says. lol. So we'll work on that a bit today. Typically I'm a bit of a downer when it comes to decorating seasonally because of storage issues, but I'm just going to go with it and make room. Logan loves it. I think Leo will like it too. He likes to fake scream at scary things. Its cute.

Hope everyone's weekend is going great.

Oh! Yeah here's an updated picture of my painting from my painting class. Here's where it is right now.
It still needs more work to make the moon on the orange disk have more contrast and the fish still needs more contrast and work. Otherwise I'm almost done. I'm so over it. lol.

Thanks for stopping by!


7 comments:

~amy~ said...

WOW your combined challenges card is gorgeous...the colors are so rich and wonderful!!!!! Nice painting...you're so talented...Coolio on the 5K!!

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

How cool you are doing the marathon... and his last name is a name I know *wink* :) I loveeeeeeeeeeeee that card!! It is JUST AMAZING!!! WOW WOW WOW! The colors are sooooooooooooo vibrant!! And your painting is AWESOME!!! I feel like I can just reach in and grab that cup! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

Artyjen said...

So pleased you could share your gorgeous card with us this week at SCD....good luck with the fund raising
xoxo Sioux

ArtfulLee Designed said...

Love the combination of the two challenges, now that is balancing your priorities well.:)
You have done so well on your still life. Fantastic.
Good luck with your marathon and fund raising, what a great thing to do.
Lee:)

lauren said...

oh SWOON♥SWOON♥SWooOoooOoOoON! i am totally ♥IN LOVE♥ with that amazingly dramatic and beeeeeeeautiful autumn-hued card! YUMMMMMMM!

btw did i mention HOW VERY MUCH YOUR PAINTING ROCKS!!!!!!!! yeeeeowza, missus! that is utterly fabulous i cannot wait to see the finished article! WOW!!!!!! ♥♥♥


ps: crawfish ettouffee??!?!?! what time do we eat??!?! :) :) :)

Laura said...

Such rich yummy colours. Looks good enough to eat. Must be that chocolate colour! LOL Great to have you join us at SCD. Hope to see you again.

Dawn said...

Oh the card you have made is really delish and the painting is coming along nicely. Good luck with the Halloween decorations Thanks for playimg with the SCD team this week

Love Dawn xx