good morning campers.....so i had a great idea for this blog.....seeing as how christmas is upon us.....but i cannot find the video of the thing i was thinking of......well it was a vhs, but i believe.......it got turned into a dvd.......but i can't find it anywhere....found all sorts of other stuff...got very distracted with other stuff.......but not exactly what i was looking for....but the whole point of looking for this dvd is that i was gonna try to post it so you would see the actual reaction from my kids....and the fantastic 90's style attire too......yeah...probably best i couldn't find it.......but ...i'm gonna tell the story anyway.......it goes like this...
       i wanna tell you a story bout a man named jeb.........my bad........
     so many moons ago.....ok disclosure... for those small children reading this...avert your eyes at certain points..........ok so back in let's say 1990...."1990"......echoey sound with that.....also i'm not sure of the exact year, but it was around that time........but our twins....having been going to public school....had been hearing tales....young children close your eyes for a moment...... of santa not existing ........what???.........anyway....young children you can open your eyes again........well how could they tell that i said they could open their eyes if  they had their eyes closed......hmmmmm....dilemma.........also i just tried to check the spelling of the word exisiting....1 s not 2.......and all of a sudden i have my groovy angel cards on here.......i really don't know what i am doing.....remember to save...no repeat of last time....on to the story......
        so our twins had this thought in their heads of the non existence of you know who.......and hopefully you know who i am referring too.....at this time we only had 3 kids.....so our son was a couple years younger and had not heard such devastating news.....and we would like to keep it that way...........so a friend of mine had mentioned awhile back how she found presents on her roof.....santa is a wiley charactor.........well, i thought, lets get in touch with the big guy and figure this out........but how do you get in touch with the big guy?.....so we sent a letter.......hoping for the best........well christmas eve comes around....we've already been to christmas eve service...no one burned the church down with their waving candles around.......always a good practice to give young children lit candles to hold.....so we are back at home.....and our son loses a tooth......ok so we are going to be visited by 2 instead of 1.....it's all good.........he puts his tooth under his pillow, and we tuck them all in to go to sleep.......which of course doesn't happen that quick....
         so while waiting for the kids to go to sleep, our good friend from farmville shows up.............of course the kids think santa and the tooth fairy had already come....but no...back to bed.......well we stay up for awhile talking...it's getting really late and ta da....the kids are all asleep.....we hear commotion on the roof....no kidding.....freak us all out.........we look out front and nothing is there........hmmm.....we look  out back....and see nothing.......it has started to snow though.....and our friend is getting ready to go home.......but first , we walk out back and on the roof is a bag with presents spilling out......what!!!???.........and a couple presents have landed on the deck.........since it's snowing, we thought we probably ought to bring them in....we had a mini trampoline laying beside the deck...our friend uses it to stand on to get the presents, when we hear the kids....our friend puts the mini tramp back and we run back inside......put them to bed...again.......and our friend says he needs to get home .........off he goes......and us being so tired, we go on to bed......
               next morning...or should i say 4 hours later.........the kids run in yelling ... "yeah it's christmas....get up...get up"........so we drag ourselves into the livingroom with frantic kids....and their faces drop..........you see, the only presents under the tree were the ones we had wrapped for them...they had already seen those....but, no new presents.....what??!!....no santa gifts.......ahhhhhh!!!........but alas....where do you ever get to say alas, but during a christmas story.......but alas we knew they were on the roof.........so we told the kids "we don't know what happened"...lies all lies........but "go feed the dog"...."out back".......so off goes one twin and when she opens the door to feed our dog she sees a present........she runs outside and yells at the other kids...."there are presents on the roof!!!"
            we all run outside....they are soooo excited......we pull the mini tramp over to get them and the kids gasp and say  "look at the footprints on the mini tramp....they don't match any of us".....a moment of awe........awe........we go back inside and there is a note on the bag, it says......."dear kids, sorry i couldn't bring the presents in , i ran into the tooth fairy and dropped the presents, hope you enjoy...love santa"......"the tooth fairy" shouts our son and runs into his bedroom where under his pillow is a quarter!!!!....yeah so it seems the tooth fairy has increased with inflation now........but anyway.........the tooth fairy is like a ninja....we were up the whole time....heard nothing.......well we possibly heard santa.....who also possibly had too much eggnog and is not as lithe as the tooth fairy...but is still pretty fabulous.....
           so belief was restored to the twins!!...yeah!!!.....the tooth fairy and santa are still friends....accidents happen.........our friend got back to farmville safely.......and the dog finally got fed!.........cause ya know what they say..."if you don't believe, you don't receive!"......have a merry christmas!....in case i don't get around to another blog before then!....be groovy
         

    Good morning campers.....it's wonderful wednesday.......what a fabulous day........well i thought i would update yall on what's been going on with my art....and what's not been going on.....and everything in between.......like a pb and j......gotta love those sandwiches, you can't go wrong with them, and they can go on long car road trips and not go bad.......now pb and alfalfa sprouts is super delicious, but it needs a fridge after a bit.......anyway, where was i.....
       ....so yall know i opened an etsy shop...yeah......and i got my first sale.....double yeah....i've got to add more items and work on the site itself, but overall i'm happy to have achieved that.......
        my dear friend billie, we are like identical twins, but not.....ok we don't really look alike, but we are alike in pretty much everything we do.....freaky...... but we are doing 2nd sundays in williamsburg va......so it's this arts and crafts show that was supposed to happen every 2nd sunday from march thru dec.......we did march, then everything got shut down.....then opened up to do nov, and yes dec.....so this sun we will be there again......hurrah!!..........so arts and crafts shows.....i've done a couple, but they were more craft shows...and when people come for a craft show, they want crafts, not original artwork, they are crafty people that way.............but since this was an arts and crafts show....we both decided to try this together for a year.......so since it's only been 2 times, we don't have a real good feel for how we are doing.....which is very little..........but we are still trying!!!...and having a grand time hanging out together.......we figured it would push both of us to create more........i think we are getting there.....we have improved our booth a bunch......baby steps!.......we can do it!!!
        i've updated my website with some prices for artwork, but need to change the headings around a bit so people can find what they are looking for.....if they look..............of course the whole facebook thing and instagram thing too...need to step that up a little.....
           oh and this blog post....it's not like i'm writing on it now, and i forgot it......it's like i'm walking out the door talking on my cell phone, and then walk back in to look for my cell phone so i can go.......i'm even telling the person on the end of the line.......great song by the way.......that i'm looking for my phone so i can get going.......scary that i'm allowed out in public.......
        so this streamline thing i talked about in the beginning of the year is kinda working, but still needs some organization...........ok alot of organization....and a cleaning person, cause my house is a disaster.............the cleaning person we have now is horrible.......that's me, by the way........so i gather the only way to make the streamlining  work is to do it......what a revelation........i amaze and astound myself all the time.......
          ya know  i might not be selling alot of artwork, but.....i actually have it up and priced....in places.....so that's a big plus......well better than just continuing to create and having walls double lined with artwork and tables filled with cards and prints, and tubs of stuff everywhere........at some point if i didn't put stuff up for sale.....all my artwork was going to take over the house and you'd have to tunnel through the art to get anywhere....hmmmmmm...that could be really interesting....and fun.............slides from one room to another........stairs made up of artwork and boxes.......there's a place in arizona i think, that has this art experience museum place where to enter it you go through a fridge...love it.......
           so i feel i'm accomplishing things.....and forgetting alot of things....where's the keyboard?.....but overall....i think i'm moving forward.......or is that sideways......or could be upside down........but as long as i have a pb and j, i'm on my way!!!   be groovy!