Bridal Shower

My oldest daughter had her Bridal Shower on November 2nd....Feels surreal and can't believe she will be married in less than 60 days. Soooo very happy for her though :o)
Creating ART is a rare occurrence for me these days. Teaching ART and spending my days with Elementary school children takes it all out of you and when I come home in the afternoon my own ART is the last thing on my mind. With wedding planning and soccer for my youngest daughter on the weekends my ART has to wait. I did make a quilt though....a smaller one for my future nice arriving any time now. Pictures are not existing....of the quilt or anything else I do lately and that has to change. The picture above is one of the arrangements my daughters future Mother in Law and I created (she is the BEST).
Now I have to work on tomorrows art lessons for 5Th grade....back another day...

The seasons first RAIN and weekend BLISS!!!

How come weekends go by so fast??? and they always seem to be so far apart!!! As much as I love my job and everyday stuff I love my weekends the most. If I plan them right I might have time for some ART :) and that always is a winner when it comes to me. This weekend my youngest daughter did not have a soccer game!!!! How rarely does that happen? NEVER...

We also had the seasons first little rain shower overnight....that makes me feel hope....for darker and cooler days. I find myself ready to do a rain dance at the end of each summer here, so ready for fall. Growing up in Sweden I always had the almost extreme seasons. Here in California we really only have 2. Summer and Fall. The sun will beat down on us day after week after month until I am ready to move to Alaska. Finally it is now dark by 7pm and I can light a candle in the early morning when I have my coffee.

The rain last night produced just enough for a nice smell and cleaning of my car....we could sure use more. Welcome FALL, I have waited so long....

Wishing for more hours in the day

How I wish there was more hours in the day!!! Between work and wedding planning I have no time left for fun blogging and Art projects. I have not created anything for weeks :( As much as I love and adore my job and the wedding planning is so rewarding.....I miss my ART. Hopefully at some point I can dust off my paint brushes and get back to creating.

Wedding Planning

You sure do not ever think about the day your daughter will get married when she was born....Then one day she will tell you...I am getting married...and you wonder where all those years went.

We are looking at places for the reception and found this!!! The Lucy Stern Community Center here in Palo Alto, California. It is perfect... OH and we have a date for the wedding...

JANUARY 11th 2009 is the big day.

Today is the first day of school, have to run.....busy busy busy

What a busy summer

Don't know what is happening to this summer...it seems to just run away from me. I have created way less this summer than I had set out to do but...I have also had some wonderful relaxing days that I will need to look back on when I start working in 3 weeks. Today is a happy day since we get to see the kids from Folsom for a long weekend. We have so much wedding planning to do and some movies to see...can't wait. Other than that I am behind on my lesson planning but have started finding some fun new art projects for the kids...we will see how it all works out. My youngest starts 5Th grade in a week and my middle one starts college in late September...my oldest at the same time and she is starting her senior year at Sacramento State University :) Proud Mama of all 3.

Creating plenty of ART but no pictures to show...

I am out of town for a week....staying at our best friends house in Folsom outside Sacramento when they are on vacation. Sort of like a house sitting vacation for me and my youngest daughter. We are having such a wonderful time and we love the Air Conditioning....it was 102 here today and sooooo HOT. We lived here for 10 years and just moved away two years ago and we have sure forgotten how hot it gets here. The other major change is the change in pace...people here are not stressed like they are in the bay area and I miss that so very much. It looks and feels like a Sunday morning at 7 am here in a Friday afternoon. I am painting and scrapping the days away and it feels nice not to worry about work, dinner and soccer games. I will unpack my camera any day now to take some pics of my art....plenty created today. Summer is here, it is Swedish Midsummer today and I did nothing to celebrate it. Guess I was sort of homesick since my oldest daughter is spending the whole summer in Sweden... She did the true Swedish Midsummer with dancing around the midsummer pole with flowers in her hair. Glad Midsommar to all Swedes out there.