1550 Gallery Kerrville ,TX

The show has ended & what a pleasant surprise on pick up day. Victoria (SEE BELOW) has a new home in Kerrville with a very nice lady. My step sis drove me there all in one long day .8 hrs. on the road & we hardly knew how many miles had passed. She stated she wasn't tired as the new car's seats are so comfortable & adjustable to your body plus the ease of driving this vehicle is pleasurable rather than a task. I injured my driving leg so had to have a chauffeur.

It's SPRING time & runny noses!

Can't believe I have NOT been here since last year??? I'm sure I posted but probably lost it, & whatever else sense I possess. LOL Latest doings : Figures are now in several venues, 1550 Gallery in Kerrville ,TX, Clute art Gallery in People's Choice, TX City Art Festival, and then in Baytown this week. I'm running out of figures & creation time has been slow or non existing. I went to MG retreat in Feb. While there I watched several demos. When I got home I was inspired to workso set my sites on learning a new technique. It was successful. I'm now bogged down in costuming once again . Costuming realistically as one sews for themselves is that BLOCK for me each time I decide to try again. I did make a coat for myself & that helped me to make a coat for Dr. DewLittle. He wears it well.

Before & After

It snowed here in south TX on Dec. 11! Amazing as never before have I seen 5 inches here. The holidays have been busy as friends arrive for visitation, organizational parties to attend with huge amounts of mirth! 

My friend , Gail Lackey honored me with a gift that arrived today . It's her small album of ghosties which I adore. 

Victoria sneaked her puss in here where she does not belong . She didn't see the snow or get involved in the festivities of the season. More is forth coming.

Still in recovery mode

Here it is into another MONTH with everyday filled with workers & work of one nature or another. My furnace had to be replaced with a brand new unit totally. At 17 yrs. old & numerous repairs to exchangers or replacements it had lived long enough. Hopefully the new one will fare better than the old. One garage roof has been torn off & replaced with a new one. Solar screens have been created & installed once again. Skirting has been mended. Next more roofs to be mended or replaced. I'm saving the big fence til last as the tree is holding it in place. Thank goodness for it. This has been one expensive hurricane for me. My savings has shrunk too much for a new car purchase. I don't fore see saving enough in 2009. So goes life!

Maybe I can play tomorrow for a few hours. Quilt festival set up is next week & the dolls must be packed & ready to roll. No Gypsy entry ready this year. Maybe next yr. I won't be able to attend Quilt festival to shop as I have in the past years. Boo hoo! Just get to go on Sunday to pick up the dolls from exhibit. Boo hoo ,boo hoo. 

After Ike

Here it is a week later. Ike came in like Gang Busters rattling all the trees in his path. The trees here are 100 yr. old oak, pine, 60+ yr. old pecan,Cedar, live oak, and maple. He uprooted the oldest & biggest pecan tree ,laid it down in the dry way crushing a security light & pole. Today I checked the security lamp bulb which was still in tactbut the housing was flattened. Can u imagine? It has been many days of cutting up the downed trees & getting them to the side of the road for county pick up. There is other damage but that will be taken care of in time. 

The water in the pictures of the previous post rose above the equipment ,then flooded the road called Market street Rd. The water then backed up onto I-10 ,flooding it & stranding several vehicles. This is one block from my house. The water rose to my corner & Mkt. St. was impassable on Sat. Pumps opened one lane so interstate traffic could be diverted to our small new bridge over that flooded bayou & park shown below.

It was hot as the power went off Fri. nite @ 9:15. The rest of the area went black at 11. There has not been power since then for others around me. I was w/o for 5 days. Praise Be when it came on as my feet touched the cool floor @ 6:41 a.m. Thurs.

It is so hard to keep track of time as each day was worrisome w/o any type of communications with the world outside my house. Those were the longest days of my life which I do not want to repeat. Food in the freezers spoiled & have been tossed. I cooked what I could on my gas stove.

More later.....

Eve of Hurricane IKE

I'm staying & not evacuating. I walked down the road to our county park that empties into the Houston ship channel & San Jacinto River. Both are right around the short bend. What is so remarkable is this flooding occurring before a storm & NO RAIN.We moved here in 1940 . I built my house in 1991 to be next door to my mother. I can remember when this small bayou was only a stream .U could jump across it then. Now the little stream is a small bayou .U can see the silt that has been pushed up next to the rail. To the right & down to the striped pole is part of the parking lot.

Latest doings NOT

Here it is into Sept. & more gulf storms brewing. My van was side swiped over a week ago just before the holiday. Seems events like this always occur on a holiday weekend. Hopefully it will be back with me sometime this Wed. Not getting doll work done has been eating at my muse who wants to play DOLLS. I have tried to work on retreat homework & seem not to be making much progress. The head I have made is all cloth as I want an Asian Elf in Kimono as my rod puppet. If the paperclay one that we create at Lone Star is not what I envision then this one is ready!