City Museum!

Check out the photos I took on our trip to the City Museum in St. Louis!
OMG these don't begin to show how fantastic it is. If you ever get the chance-
do go there! We had a fun group of 14 people from the Washington Fine Art Society & CI|Creative + riends and family. It was a blast.

I like this idea...

An Easy Way to Plan Meals for a Month

Do you have a hard time with meal planning?(yes!!!) Do you find yourself at 4:00pm still trying to decide what to fix for dinner?(yes!!!) Just having a really simple plan will give you the freedom of not having to stress over dinner all day. This can work if you love to cook or cooking just isn’t your favorite thing to do. At least it can relieve you of the pressure of having to over think dinners. Adjust it to what your family prefers to eat. If they like seafood or Chinese food put that into one of the days of the week. If you choose to have ground beef every Thursday, then you know you’ll have to thaw it out before you go to work or go about your day. Your family will also know what’s planned for dinner everyday so you won’t here, “Mom, what’s for dinner”. Or if you’re running late coming home, someone else can start dinner for you. Plan your grocery shopping around your weekly schedule. If you can get about five meals planned under every category you won’t duplicate any meals for 35 days. Here’s a sample meal plan:







Monday-Mexican: Tacos, Burritos, Taco Salad, Enchiladas, Fahitas, Quesidillas

Tuesday-Crock pot: Soup, Stew, Chili, Casserole, Stroganoff

Wednesday-Chicken: Chicken and Rice, Scalloped Potatoes and Chicken, Sweet and Sour, Cranberry, Barbeque

Thursday-Ground Beef: Casseroles, Spaghetti, Hamburgers, Meatballs, Meatloaf

Friday- Anything Fast and Easy: Hoagies, Hot Dogs, Grilled Cheese, Salads, Frozen Meals

Saturday-Meatless: Pizza, Tortellenni, Stuffed Potatoes, Macaroni and Cheese, Pizza Spaghetti

Sunday-Crock pot: Roast, Steak, Stuffed Peppers, Pork Chops, Ham

very behind

Ahh I'm so far behind in posting! Sorry. It's been tooo long of a winter and I"m so happy to see
some green buds peeking out. It energizes me!

I got the SWEETEST surprise today. My friend sent me a card...just because! She is sooo good at
making cards and doing paper crafts! She has lots of yummy tuts on her website: Go see!
http://www.carlas-scraps.com/  Here is the card and inside it says "Wishing you an awesome spring".
She even polka dotted the envelope.

I have been lax on getting my classes going. I didn't have much energy all winter but spring is helping me alot.
I decided to make a couple Fairies out of clay! The shop, "Moon Dancer" had a Fairy Tea Party and so I made a few things to put in there. (It was a sold out event!)   Here is a write up on an artist friend, Amy Boettcher's website at Something Unique Studios - she has a photo of a table with my Fairy, dragon, 2 butterfly shadowboxes and a tiny fairy sitting on one. I did another fairy but her pic didn't work.
Hubby is making something that smells yummy so am going to go eat and then start on a canvas for a class. yeah! Have a great day!
Pam

Hello yaalll

Boy its been too long! Christmas was hectic but great! All of my kids and their kids were here and we saw

both sides of our families. Much driving but so important. I've been in "overwhelmed" mode lately I think but

I'm trying to get back into gear with my classes! I miss my students! Soooo wanna see my next painting class? Isn't this snowman teapot delish! fun to paint too.

I'll send out the dates and info to students very soon but must go to work asap. I"m also having a clay class(yipee) on Feb 13, Sat.  1-3:30 or later. We are making hearts, hearts, hearts.   Later yall!

success rocc's!

Wow What a week! The "Art Works" event was a huge success. I was shown painting at the civic center on the evening news! Wish I knew how to capture it as a video. (giggle). I taped 2 channels and watched another. They showed me in the blurb of upcoming news and hubby and I are like "what"!! He's like" Why did they show you first???" (Got me! grin) I still have to watch the other 2 that I taped, but have had a few"I saw you on the news!!" "can I have your autograph?" comments. (yea right!) ha.

To get a great rundown, visit Amy's blog for pictures and details: http://tinyurl.com/yzuhc42 I am honored to be included in her "army"! What a blast. Also it made national news in the NYTIMES! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110818085.html

The Windows!

Stretch & Play

Yikes I've found new muscles. Its been awhile since I did the ladder,stretch,bend type of painting on BIG stuff but I did have a BALL! Amy Boetcher, Tom Gross, Phoebe (sorry I didn't
get your last name) and I painted 5 of the 7 huge Windows.
I loved what we ended up painting in just a tad over 3 hours! These windows are just outside of the theatre area where the play "Rent" will be presented this Friday evening in the East Peoria High School.
Rocco Landesman, the newly appointed Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts will visit Peoria to kick off his Art Works Listening Tours. He is spending the next 6 months highlighting the ways that "art works" in neighborhoods and towns across America. He will be attending the play "Rent" (tickets: online at http://www.eastlighttheatre.com/ or at the Eastlight Theatre box office at 309-699-7469. Rocco's activities on Nov. 6:
9am-tour Peoria's downtown warehouse district.
10am-Economic roundtable discussion of "Art Works" at the Peoria Civic Center
(Several of us artists will be doing our art just outside of the discussion area at the Civic center.)
1:30pm- Q & A between Rocco & the Peoria Arts Community at WTVP studios
( to attend the discussion at the civic center or the Q & A: call 309-676-2787 or email admin@artspartners.net )
5:30 Reception at Eastlight Commons (by or windows!)
7pm- The play "Rent".
This is a pretty big deal for Peoria! Pictures and a video coming...Please watch the video!
Heres the video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgVrnM4H0Q8