Lots of people with HUGE hearts!

Yes… I posted this on Pool and Chicken… Yes.  I posted this on my pool blog, too.  I LIKE to cross post.  I like to share the same stuff on my blogs.  Not everything.  Just stuff that means ALOT to me.  And to make it semi-related to my bears / art… well… never-mind, I have nothing to connect this post to my bears or art.  This just warms my heart.

Yesterday, July 26th, the Eagles (FOE) in Paris, TX hosted a poker run, pool tournament, and auction to help offset medical bills and such for Tony’s  father, Howard.  The day looked like it started off slow because the pool players were the few people that were there early in the morning.  Most of us drove in from Sherman.  Well, there was a poker run.  Where were all the people?  On the poker run. duh. 

The day was a GREAT success, Howard was tickled to death to see all his family and friends gather in his honor and to support him.  The total for the day was over 6 grand. 

We had 17 paid entries in the pool tournament, one was a “ghost player”, a person just wanted to donate the entry.  I went 2 and out after drawing Doug Winnett as my opening match.  I made 3 shots the whole match.  And when I say I “made” 3 shots, I mean I made contact with the cue ball only 3 times.  oh well.  It was Doug and he was (and has been) playing really really great lately.

My second match, I should have won.  But, as usual, somewhere right after I got into position to win, I just lost it.  again.  oh well. It was fun!

I then found out they were giving trophies for first and second.  That’s one thing I’ve been telling Tony that I really wish I could do.  Win a trophy.  Guess who won first and second?

buy my quilts!!

help me pay bills before the month is up and the collectors start calling.  no.  really.  they are fixin’ to start calling. we still owe WAY over $45,000 in Tony’s medical bills and rent is coming up.  buy my stuff.

“BBC: Baby Blue Cuddle” is up for auction at eBay.  Go grab it!

“Fall Leaves” is up for auction at eBay.  Go grab it!

I also have ACEOs at ArtCardsWanted.com and at my Etsy shop.

And, of course, my ArtFire shop has a few items in it.

AND for pool related stuff, my Zazzle stuff!

GO.

BUY.

STUFF.

NOW!!

:)

Wordless Wednesday

quilty things…

I actually finished 3 quilt projects that have been haunting me for a month or so…  here’s a peek of 2 of them before I find and/or take better pictures, then crop and pretty them up:

walking through stuff…

so I was looking through my random pictures I’ve taken and came across more than a few pictures of feet. I decided to post a few, just because I can…

here’s how we eat pizza:

of course the littlest monkey is a camera hog:

here we are on the way to a tournament (with my new camera):

here we are watching the all-star game last night:

had to get Tony a snack:

then we watched some late night talk-show:

(yeah… those “splotches” are suppose to be on all the pics, I was playing with some new gimp brushes… i sorta like it…)

September Dance

more doodling…

then added some color…

then scanned for a better pic…

doodle doodle doodle flower

just doodling away today…  chemo-boy is feeling pretty good, but very very tired.  so he’s sleeping alot.  so I grabbed my middle monkey’s oil pastels, my watercolor paper and a sharpie then tried to think of nothing.  here’s what came out (so far):

wanted to take pictures instead of scanning this time… so I also tried playing with depth (not sure how well I did, you tell me):

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THEN… when I decided to load my camera pics to the computer, I found a cool one that one of the monkeys took the other day.  not sure which one took it, I think the littlest one did.  love me some sun flowers!

all tangled up…

just ran into zentangle… love it!  gotta get me a kit.  here’s one of my first tangles: