Be my Vallentine

Here, you can see progress on one of my most recent paintings.

I went mini with this one: it is 8 by 10.

Guinea Pig

Around Christmas time, we realized that there was something wrong with Patty.

She seemed very tired.

We visited the Vet.

The vet said, "I'm afraid it's cancer."

The vet said she could remove the cancer with surgery.

The surgery was successful.

After a couple of weeks, Patty was playing and eating again as if nothing had happened.

I know that Patty would like to say, "From the bottom of my little, guinea pig heart, thank you very much, Vet:)"

Gingerbread House Competition

Jerry, Cousin Erin, Friend Amanda, and I went to the Gingerbread House Competition that they held at George Washington's Birth Place, Ferry Farm. This is something that we love to do every year.

The theme this year was historic houses.

People have amazing imaginations!

Christmas Windows

At Christmas time, Jerry and I love to visit Old Down Town Fredericksburg, Virginia, which is near our home. Here we peek in the windows of historic shops. The charm really shines out at night when the tree lined streets are lit up with Christmas lights. These are the streets that Washington and his family members walked. In fact, Georg Washington was born on the other side of the river, at Ferry Farm. His mother and sister lived in Fredericksburg. President James Monroe had his law practice here. Also, President Lincoln visited here to give a speech to soldiers after they had battled on the streets of Fredericksburg during the Civil War. At that time, Clara Barton had been nursing troupes in this city.

We love to look into the decorated store windows of Fredericksburg.

I love the mouse scenes put on every year in this set of windows.

Hair Cut

Jerry and I have been growing our hair so that we can donate it to Locks of Love. Soon I will post pictures of our hair after it has been cut.

New pots

Here are some of my new pots. You can see how small they are when you look at them next to a regular object - like a pencil. So small!! So Cute.

Here is a picture of me working on one of the pots. You can see my reflection in the mirror that I use to help me see the side of my pot as I work.

Christmas time in Bluefield!

I love it when it snows in Bluefield! It is so beautiful! The snow kept falling for several hours and I don't know how much we got, but it sure was a lot! And it was the good kind too! :)

This is the "pizza-oven" kiln, hehe, I call it that because it looks like a pizza oven! :) It takes a lot of pots to fill this bad boy up!

Professor Walter Shroyer and I worked together on some firings.

After filling up the big "pizza-oven" on Saturday we came back on Sunday, after Church, to do a raku firing! The little pots are so small! Oh dear! I'm always afraid of them breaking...:/

After we fire them in the lil'raku oven we put them in trash-cans filled with sawdust and paper to burn over night.


Oh, and this is inside of the lil'guy! Hehe!!! :)

Well that's it for now! I'll show you all more in the morning when I get up! Time for bed!

Sleep, sleep, I got to go to sleep!