Happy Cat & a visit from Bambi...

 I'm middle-aged, and sometimes I get chilled… my kitty Oreo is 13 in human years (that's about 90 in cat years) and has been begging for the fireplace to be turned on a lot lately, so I got her a little heated kitty bed… she loves it!!

Jeff & I have been up to our usual stuff… church, bowling, date-nights… nothing particularly stunning to talk about, so I'll wait until there's something more interesting to mention.

I've been busy in the studio lately… this picture was actually taken upstairs in the kitchen, the clay-looking stuff is Jett Set, it has to be warmed in water to soften - thus being in the kitchen.  These are the earrings, I'm also doing a pendant… not done yet (my hands/arms got sore setting the stones)...

Last weekend had a bit of quiet excitement, we had 5 visitors… right out in the woods behind the house!  This picture was of the most active one (spotted first).

There are 4 in this picture…

All 5 are in this picture, but its hard to see them…

There were bunnies as well… so I guess you could say we were visited by Bambi & Thumper… but we've always got bunnies, the deer were the special guests.

Positives & Negatives...

I live in Minnesota… the temperature yesterday stayed below zero, I stayed home…

The temp today may reach a high of 1… guess who's staying home today…

But not one to sit around & do nothing, I turned a negative into a positive!!  I got to work in my newly established studio space, and started practicing some jewelry techniques I hadn't done in a while… this is a picture of one piece:

Torch-Fired Enamel on Copper, Sterling Silver Chain.

This piece has both a positive & a negative heart shape… I made a small series of pieces (and I'm not done yet playing with this theme)… to see more check out the latest post on my Art Blog.

Now I'm off to bake some bread & spend some more time in the studio… until next time!!

Ben's Been Baptized!!

This week I had the honor of attending a service at which our youngest nephew Ben got baptized…

There's the little guy… he doesn't seem all that impressed or concerned… but he was awfully cute in a little striped button-down shirt (his dad had a matching shirt)...

They got to take this cute little commemorative flag home…

And after church the family went for Pizza!!  About 35 (or so) of us crowded into a party room at Davanni's & spent time eating & having a good time…

Overdue Post...

So… I've been super-busy trying to get my studio set up (check out my arts & crafts blog for the latest posts), so I'm way overdue to just spend some time chattering :)

So far it's been a pleasant new year, I've lost a couple pounds I gained over the holidays (check out my recipe blog if you'd like), I'm finally bug-free (was sick for a while).

We've done some of our usual things, like checking out new places to eat & bowling…

Jeff getting his Turkey (3 strikes in a row)...

Jeff took a business trip out to the San Francisco area… the evening he returned I went with him to his hockey game…

Jeff is #4, red jersey… left of the net...

The next day he started feeling bad, yep now he's sick :(….

Hoping that soon he'll be feeling up to helping me set up a couple pieces of heavy equipment down in the studio… until then I'm babying him a bit…

I've also been back to my studies for the lessons I'm teaching in the book of Revelation (see my Bible Study blog if interested)…

Like I said, busy-busy-busy!!