Tolentreasures

It started with no coffee.  None.  Zip. So I jumped in my vehicle and headed to the shop and had to drive around a dead skunk at the end of my driveway.  I should have gone back to bed.  It did not get better.  Disappointed  in a friend's behavior that really hurt my feelings.  I should have thicker skin by this point in life, I guess.  But I am still counting my blessings,  time with some of my grandchildren... well spent.  Those little arms around your neck  a little boy laying in your arms in his blanket "color with me, Mamaw" are all the healing  a heart needs! And the ladies in the picture? A yard sale find for $1!  A pair just like that hung in our living room  throughout my entire childhood... I could not pass them up! 

Not PaintED Ladies, PaintING Ladies. Although we have all be known to have a little paint on us. Many years ago, I happened on a small Yahoo group. Long before Facebook or blogs or anything like that. It had to be serendipity, you know fate, stars colliding, divine destination. Something like that, or maybe just a magical push of a keyboard button. Most of them were already there. They welcomed me in, We shared our painting, our crafts, then later, our families, our troubles, our happy moments, our rapidly growing families. Well Patti, Kathy and I at least. We became friends. We "talked" daily. We never met, yet these wonderful ladies shared my life daily. For TWO years! And then we met face to face in September of 2007 in Canada. All except Patti. It was as if we had known each other all of our lives. A fun-filled weekend with plans to do it again, we met again in late April of 2009. Here, at my house. Minus Marie this time. It was another fun time. We ate, we shopped, we ev...