Halloween and Day of the Dead Paintings

for sale on Ebay now - HERE

 

 

I'M NOT A GOOD LIAR.

Even if it's a lie by omission.
So here's what happened:
I go out for lunch almost every day.
I run errands and sometimes go through a drive-through, but when I do that I always order something that I've researched the nutritional value/info on first.
So that I can stay with my healthy eating lifestyle.
If I don't go get lunch, I nibble on pretzels or fruit or turkey while I'm at work and then just run my errand.
So a couple of weeks ago I went to the ReStore.
I was so psyched because I got this cool white table with black trim that adjusts to different angles like a drafting table....for $20.00!
I drove through McDonald's and opened my mouth to order the Berry Chiller but instead of MY voice, this strange Linda Blair voice came out and ordered a Mocha Frappe! Suddenly my sanity returned and I spurted out "No Whipped Creme Please!"
I drove up to the window and my hands were shaking as I took the paper off the straw.
AAAHHHHH. Damn that was good.
I returned to work and walked up front to the office and told the girls-
"Guess what I got at lunch!" and then I told them about the table and what a bargain it was.
They all congratulated me on my great find.
I stood there for a moment and then blurted -
"You won't believe what happened to me a lunch!"
They all turned and waited to hear.
I told them that I went through McDonald's and....
Ordered a Mocha Frappe!

They all gasped.
It was like I told them I had stabbed the girl through the window.
"What made you do it!?"
"I don't know!" I exclaimed! "It just happened!"
One of them said, "I won't even tell you how much FAT is in one of those things!"
"I know" I replied, my head hung in shame.
(It was SO good.)
But I immediately went back to eating good.
Then last week I went through Taco Bell and a similar thing happened. Instead of ordering a Fresco Soft Chicken Taco, I ordered a regular Crunchy one!
I didn't tell anyone when I went back to work.
Then this last Wednesday, I had cereal for breakfast.
and for lunch and for dinner.................
I've hit the wall.

I think it's because the scale isn't budging.
OK, it budges.
Total weight lost so far - 31 lbs. 28lbs. 30lbs. 29lbs.
Those numbers go up and down every day.
I'm kinda freaking out.
I'm trying to remember that this wasn't about weight.
It's about being healthy and making right choices for LIFE.
So...I'm going to start brown bagging my lunch

and try to force myself to walk.
Any other suggestions?

Something Different.

I've been busy painting again!
and then yesterday my friend Nita, from

wrote this wonderful post about my paintings
HERE
and directed her Followers over to my Ebay page.
                                                                            HERE
I figured I better get busy and list as many as I could while there's an increase in traffic.
THANKS SO MUCH NITA!
Several  of my paintings now have bids!
WAHOO! Blog Buddies are the BEST!!!
So I was puttering around my art room (though I end up painting at the kitchen table) and I found these rain drop shaped craft crystals and thought of the quote -
"Some People Walk In The Rain, Others Just Get Wet".
- by Roger Miller.
This is the result:

and here's a close-up -

The dog is painted paper and the grass is tissue paper.
The crystals are firmly attached with gel medium.
Everything is sealed in a matte finish.
and it's currently listed on Ebay along with a few others that I listed today.

and these I've shown on the here before:

 

"It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been"

Several years ago I painted a painting VERY similar to this.

 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320988178975

I sold right away and then I had several emails for more.

But for some reason at that time I thought each and every painting I did had to be unique.
No repeats.
I then had a woman email me about making a larger painting in different colors for a Christmas gift and I relented.
I mean it was for Xmas!
I don't know where I got the idea that I couldn't repeat.
I now see many artists painting the same thing over and over, varying it just a bit.
This makes a lot of sense. So I plan on doing that.
Sometimes the same, sometimes not.
ANYWAY... I've listed it on Ebay and I'm hoping that it's popular again.
Alpha dog has bills to pay! LOL!

SICK

I'm sick today.
I tried to deny it.
I could feel it creeping up but I chose to ignore it.
Sometimes that works. Ignore it and it will go away.
Or buck up and muscle through it.
That's what my Dad always said to me.
He didn't believe in being sick.
He never had a cold and if something hurt he didn't talk about it.
So he didn't allow me to be sick either. I had to go to school every day. No matter what.
He always said "If someone asks you how you feel, say FINE because no one really cares, they're just trying to be nice."
I woke up this morning and didn't feel so great.
I got to work and my head ached. I felt dizzy and my joints hurt.
My stomach was upset. ( and I have this jaw/ear ache thing going on but that's been going on for awhile.)
So I decided that I was going home.
I got my boarding dogs and cats feed and cleaned.
Did the paperwork and documentation that was needed, showed one of the vet techs what needed to be done later and left.
It was odd to drive home in the middle of the day.
It was dreary out, only in the 50's and sprinkling.
Such a grey day.
I had Blue and Jimmy with me and when we came into the house, we startled the others.
I think they were all sleeping. 
I opened the door to silence, then a hesitant bark followed by a chorus.
I let everyone outside for a few minutes and then back in.
They all looked at me and I back at them.
What now?
So I put them back into the laundry room and went upstairs with Blue and Jimmy.
And went to bed.
So odd. I never sleep during the day.
Guess I needed it.
I feel a little bit better but guilty.
I wasted a day.
Thanks Dad.

I wasn't lying...

when I said I painted ALL last weekend.

Listed on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320986905598

This one might be my favorite.

I'm not really sure why.

The cat doesn't even look like any of my kitties.
Or any of the clinic cats..
But I just kinda like it.
It's done in acrylics and ink and the bumblebee is watercolor on watercolor paper and ink.
Then sealed in a matte finish.

Listed currently on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320986286920
and I also listed Cat & Spider last night -

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Folk-Art-Mixed-Media-White-Cat-Spider-Primitive-Naive-Outsider-PopArt-Painting-/320985666894?pt=Folk_Art&hash=item4abc3c954e