Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and Me?

What do Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet and I have in common?

We are all Artists!

I went to a "Painting with a Twist" painting party a few weeks ago with some friends and loved it! We painted "Looking Up".

I fell in love with painting. I ran out to Hobby Lobby and bought painting supplies and an easel!

Here are few of my masterpieces (so far...)

This one is my take on a Claude Monet painting "waterlillies".

I tried a method I learned when I was a kid. The cross is put on with a long piece of yarn!


I googled "how to paint an evergreen tree" and this is the result. It turned into a winter theme. I think I will hang this as a Christmas decoration.

I bought a book of "Venice" paintings and copied one. I have more to go, but I think this one turned out pretty good.

I wanted to redo the orginal "Looking Up" that I did, I thought it was pretty dark and ominous. So, I redid it.

I am painting more tomorrow.

Look out family and friends, you may be getting paintings for your Christmas presents.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, No, It's the Blue Angels!

On October 30th, I went to the Alliance Airport Airshow and watched the Blue Angels! (My Favorite). Here are some great pictures from that day.

The Thunderbirds didnt fly that day, but they had one out on display!

There was a huge crowd!

The blue Angels before they took off.

This a good picture of all 6- there are two close, but if you look lower you can see the group of 4 circling around! So fun...

Awesome close ups... Lucky!

Here are some of my favorites.

Wish this one had been a half a second later.... oh well.

I loved this one. Had a blast this year. Next year, I would like to go with my dad! Sorry you couldnt make it this year.

Blog Confessional

Dear Friends and Family, Its been 6 months since my last blog!

Phweeeew. 6 months. A lot has happened so get ready. In the next few days I will post it all. And, I will get back to work posting the 'boring' details of my life as a traveller!

First of all, I am out of Sherman. Enough said, lets not talk about it anymore.

I then went to downtown Ft. Worth and stayed in a downtown apartment. It was great but on the 4th floor of a building- lots of stairs or a slow elevator... but not bad.

I loved the view from this apartment! But...

My contract in Ft. Worth ended quickly due to staffing, so I moved to north to Keller - Again!

I moved into an apartment in Keller and went to work in Denton at a hospital.





I am doing inpatient work with adults. I like the work and I met some great friends. I am going to spend the holidays here in Keller area and then on to other adventures. (Possibly Florida!?)



That was the quick version of my work adventures!