~ New "Baby" & New Art

Still in the middle of all the "cracked eggs" and trying to make that omelet, or in plain talk get organized!
I need to figure out what to do with the closet in Sweet Daughter's room so I can store art supplies in an organized and pretty way. Not sure what, yet. The newly uncluttered boxes and bundles are making their way into that room anyway.

So here is the new "baby" who isn't actually ours. But we are in love, too.
He belongs to DD's best guy pal. Even Sweet Hubby has asked a few times if I'm going to buy a dog, exactly like this cutie! Sweet Daughter gets some visitation rights. :) So puppy has been visiting while his daddy is working or whatever. I have never seen a puppy who is so good!

And then a little new art. A new ACEO in the Madonna series. I'm still enjoying making these a lot. Hope your day is a good one!

~ An Omelet In My Living Room

A couple of years ago after a more major illness and surgery, I totally stopped caring about impressing anyone. Before I used to say, I'll get this place so sparkling clean my mother could walk in the door at anytime. Now I couldn't care less. Even if it was my mother, who likes it spotless, she would just have to see mess or dust bunnies. However, the opposite has happened after this little slow down....

Oh I still don't care to impress a soul, BUT I am crazy about not wanting one ounce of clutter. I had thought about it before and made some feeble attempts, but look out dust bunnies. I'm coming for ya'!

However, the art I love creates so much clutter while I'm creating it! I've always known that. Guess what...it's true you have to break eggs to make an omelet. And the one I made last night was delicious. Whoops off subject. That contributes to the clutter, too. Anyway, in order to get things organized I now have given away the sofa and table that was in the living room to Sweet Daughter and can you guess what I replaced it with? The biggest mess you have ever seen. :) I am going through every single box and bag of supplies and organizing and tossing out. I LOVE taking bags to Goodwill, but that was mostly clothes and that's done. Now it's time for tossing out what will not be used. It feels great! Not looking at the mess, but getting it organized. I can actually find the papers, crystals and skeleton keys. Other things I still can't find, but I'm getting there. Then some days I think I'll just get rid of all of it. Right now it does look like someone was cooking up something in the living and they had to break some "eggs" to do it.

To keep it light and not feel like too much work, I took Oprah's advice and I'm reading her latest book choice, "Pillars of the Earth" and doing a little art, too.

This one has been in my mind for a while and I'm so happy to get it done.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
If you or loved ones are in the bad weather,
we are all thinking of you and praying for you!