At the mall...

How was it?

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

William Arthur Ward

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving if you are American.

If not, I hope you had a great weekend anyway!

I will omit the traditional photos...

and just say that I spent some time in the car...

going from one house to another...

and doing some stitching while being driven!

(the little house is on a zippered bag I bought from Carole) It's getting time for Christmas blog posts!!!!

A Video of My Aggie Family

We had a great time at Kyle Field Saturday night!

The Nebraska fans were great! A classy bunch of people!

Now if they could just get rid of their horrible coach!

I feel bad for them!

But we had fun. I've never seen the students rush onto Kyle Field...but they broke a college record for most students at an athletic event! So there were a lot of kids sitting on the track already... one thing led to the other. (on the video...to the left is the Student Section) But it was done well and there didn't appear to be any problems other than with the coaches for Nebraska... seems one (related to the head guy) attacked a camera man. But you'll need to look elsewhere for more details. This is an art blog.

ha!

BTHO tu

Aggie Game Saturday Night

If you read my blog all the time, you know my family is an Aggie Family.

That's Texas A&M University.

My husband was in the Corps of Cadets in the 70's and a Ross Volunteer.

My kids graduated from A&M and so did their spouses.

I married into it.

We have season tickets to the football games.

All six of us sit together... which is a joy!

this was a couple of weeks ago at the OU game.

Mascot below....

This was three years ago when we beat tu at Kyle Field. So Saturday night ....it's BTHON!

ABC.... it'll be fun...we hope!

Chalkboard Paint

No, I didn't paint Henry!

But he is black.....all over...

no other color except inside his mouth and he has black spots even on his tongue!

Makes photography a challenge!

Sunday was his first birthday

and his parents

gave him a party!

Lots of people and I think about 7 dog guests!

Everyone had a great time!

And all the dogs... pretty much... wore hats... at least for awhile!

So...about the chalkboard paint.... I finally found it...at Lowe's! a few weeks ago... I painted an old gaudy gold frame glossy white. I painted a canvas with the chalkboard paint..... I need to work on my chalk writing skills. I think I need some better chalk, too... but I can't seem to remember to look for it when I'm out.

Below is an old aluminum tray that belonged to my mother-in-law!

I knew I needed to have that!

Who knew it was sooooo bumpy in the middle!

This is what it looks like on the back....

I'm hanging it in the kitchen.

I wrote Chalk on it as a reminder!

And after I made those.... I saw this..... go look! Look at this plate!! Have you used chalkboard paint yet?

What's Eating YOUR Flowers?

I think I need a new camera for these kind of shots!

What a little stinker!

He looked just like Peter Rabbit sitting there on his hind legs

with a mouthful of marigolds!

......Charley wouldn't have allowed such behavior!

Inspired Ideas

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