Some great students !

Here are some other cute kids from my last batch of students.

Really great kids !! Doing a creative job on their wire and cloth sculptures.!

Grace

Grace is really responding to voices and faces, and it's so much fun !

I held her while her Mama took a shower... all of us enjoyed it !

What better way to finish out the weekend, than with GRACE..

Teddy and Diane had us over for dinner, barbequed Chicken, on this lovely Spring afternoon. Seeing Grace puts things into perspective for me.

Kristi's shower was so much fun--(her baby is due the end of May) and she and her hubby have decided NOT to find out the sex of the baby yet.. big surprise, although we all "voted" with our guesses, and it came out a boy !!

--Closure--

Retirement Dinner- 25.00

Thank you gift-37.50

20 year pin- 7.25

Having all your friends give up their evening for YOU,

Priceless !!!

the Piano Man- WOW- WHAT A SHOW -

OH SO MUCH FUN !!

The Billy Joel Concert,

especially cause it was with my daughter Tracey.....

Pictures wouldn't take, there was too much light on the stage, but boy was it fun, listening, dancing, hollering, jumping, (be careful Sandy, watch that hip !)

Wrong website address, sorry

Sorry everyone.

My other blog should be :

www.paper-plate.blogspot.com

I sent you to some other guys site, good thing it wasn't obscene. ! ha !

Cleaning out the Studio !!!!

I'm cleaning out my crowded STUDIO !!

In preparation for retirement in a month or so, I've got to get rid of some art !!

There will be postings of the offerings on www.PAPERPLATE.blogspot.com where you will be able to pick up some artistic bargains !!

I will be offering everything from old paintings, classroom project examples, books I've made with my students over the past 15 years or so, plus lots of ATC's, and other one-of-a-kind goodies....

Heres a few sneak previews.....

Pictures are coming through, I hope

Here are the pictures from my last post...... It wasn't cooperating, so now hopefully it will !~!!

Easter pix

Grace is the star of the show !!

Easter Weekend/ K C and baby Grace

We spent a fun weekend in Kansas City with my sis and her hubby, at my nephew and his wife's new "old" house in a great neighborhood called Crestwood, a suburb of K.C.

We shopped and estate saled, while the "boys" played golf in the unseasonably freezing cold weather. We ate, and laughed, and visited, and shopped, with the highlight of the trip a hysterical game of Balderdash that had us all in stitches Sat. Night !!

It was home Sun. morning to get ready for the family to come for a tasty Easter Dinner with darling new baby Grace !!-- Grammy Haynes was able to give Grace her first Easter Basket filled with goodies..... (no chocolate just yet ) but fun toys and clothes, at least !

Posting Problems--

Having a Heck of a time !X@##!

This is my Altered Book/ A Geometry Book I've Been Altering for awhile now

What better use can we have for a math book ??- Math majors, Just Kiddin' !!

ha ha ha ha

Here are a few of the pages

I haven't been blogging, honestly, no lame-o excuses., BUT, My camera somehow "walked away" from my room at school, and I bought a new one. Long story short, (ha!) I haven't been able to post pictures since then- bummer ! The new camera is great, but, the docking station is supposed to let me download from the camera to the computer, and IT WON'T Let Me. !!

My daughter spent at least an hour and a half trying to talk to the tecky guy at Kodak, but still couldn't make it go. Unfortunately, the model was a close-out, and was reduced 80.00, so it was probably the last one they had- don't ya know..... Ah, TECHNOLOGY !

Here are a few of my pages from my altered book, Which is a "Work In Progress" done in an ancient Geometry book from the 20's----GeOMEtrY was the only math I was any good at, because it was more visual-with triangles, angles, and stuff I could make sense of, because I could actually "Look" at it !!! Heaven help us Right Brainers !!

Grace, Grace, Amazing Grace !

It took awhile, but Finally I had my camera, and got pictures of my darling new grandbaby,

G R A C E

(Her middle name is Ann)

She is so precious, and her mommy and daddy are so thrilled to be new parents. ! She didn't open her eyes for us today, but somedays she actually seems as though her eyes follow the different voices around her. Her dad turned 31 yesterday, so this was one SPECTACULAR week, and her grandparents had their 40th anniversary on St. Patricks Day, too.

W O W

What a Day !

Hi all ! If you are not able to post a comment, please sign it anonymous, and it will work. For some reason the site is not recognizing the passwords, and it is not allowing comments to be posted..... If you sign with anonymous, you can put your name within the text of the message....

Grace Haynes

We have a grandbaby, and I left my camera at school, and we are off for Spring Break !!

Grace was born yesterday, March 13th, on her great aunt's birthday !! She is beautiful and Mom and Dad looked exhausted, but are doing well too. We are babysitting for their sweet Golden Retriever, Mojo, and that is fun for us. She is so well behaved and such a great companion.
Pictures of Baby Grace will be coming soon !!!
Being a Grandma and Grandpa is SO SPECIAL- I can hardly wait !!

More Conference Artwork

Here are some more examples of the entries from the teacher competition portion of the Conference in Springfield.

Springfield Mo.- MAEA conference

We sure had fun and learned a lot at the Convention. Between the workshops and art we had time for a Gallery tour of the city... It's a joy to get to work with such cool friends every day !!