My Blessed Life and the Breathless Moments We Share: Kitty

If you haven't read my other post from today about my prayer request, please read that first. If you don't mind, please leave me a comment on that post so I can let Wayne know how many of you are praying for him. He's really frightened. Thank you all so much!

The kitty is a girl (according to the vet) so her name is "SANDY"! Donna (Dewberry) didn't sound right for a cat and I think Sandy is THE BEST, so "Sandy" it is! Thanks for the idea, Stepher, but don't think that I hadn't already thought of that and was hoping that is what you would suggest. Great minds think alike! "Sandy" sounded much better than "Yellow Ocre" or "Burnt Umber" or "Chisel" or "Rake" or "More Paint" or ""Blend, shade & highlight"! Although, "Sunflower" and "Midnight" and "Scruffy" were all candidates. All of my One Stroke painting buddies will know EXACTLY what I'm talking about! And to think, just 1 year ago all of these were just words and had no meaning except according the "Webster" and not "Donna". Okay, we all know I'm obsessed and I guess this proves it! Hey, it's MY kitty so her name has to mean something to me!

I have to tell you about my new treasures! Well, I've actually had them since December 2002, but they've been in boxes ever since my Dad brought them to me. These 2 paintings were done, in oils, by my grandmother who passed away many years ago. She was a very talented artist who did lots of oil canvases as well as china painting. I may change out the '70s frames but they are in perfect shape!!

I can remember going to her house and having so much fun staying up half the night working her latest arts and crafts project. Since I've gotten back into painting these mean so much more to me than they did when I received them and I am so grateful that they have been passed to me. They are truly treasures!

Coneflowers and Black-eyed Susans that we painted in class tonight. I enlarged this one to show more detail, though it is a bit distorted as this lower resolution. We had great fun with 6 in class and I was so excited to take the class with 3 other ladies from work. I think we got them "hooked" on painting with Sandy too! Isn't my butterfly cute?

I set the canvas on two different frames that already have paintings in them to see which I liked better. The brown frame really brings out the wooden fence...

...but the white frame really makes the flowers pop! What do you think????

I also wanted to start decorating a bit for fall and painted this 4" tall THICK glass jar that I purchased at Wally-world with some leaves and fall trees. The trees are gorgeous. I painted them with my "fan" brush. Two ladies at work kept taking it and putting it on their desks! Oh, I filled it with Pumpkin Spice Potpourri which is orange, brown and white. It's REALLY pretty! The pictures really don't do it justice.

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