Wow what a wild ride lately

So definitely been a wild ride lately. On the day after Christmas Lubbock got 12" of snow. That is the 3rd largest snow fall for here. Largest since 1982. It was nuts. Was snowed in to the point i could not get my car out and was stuck for days. Luckily I had planned and Roxy and I were nice and safe. So did some coloring, watched some movies and then got a little cabin fever. :) It was so pretty though. Here are a few pictures:
 



Roxy wanted to play in it so bad but since breaking her leg the cold really get to her. So she would play for a couple minutes then want in to cuddle and be under the blankets with mommy:)



I have been beginning to feel better again and trying to start my weight lose again and hoping to do great at that this year. I have also been trying to do more with my craft work and even joined a great group called art abandonment on face book. Group can be found here. I am excited to get started and make some stuff. Back in November I went to our local Painting with a Twist with some Girl Scout friend and had a lot of fun. Here is what we painted:




That is 2nd row left (blue and white shirt) My mom is in the red shirt right below me. :)

So I decided to paint on some of the little 2.5" square canvas that I found at Walmart and maybe abandon those. :) We shall see. More to come on that. Here is my first one. :)



Well coloring wise I have been playing around with that to some. Did a nativity for mom for Christmas, and some others for gifts. Here are a few:


This one is for my Best friend Jake. But gonna redo cause got coffee split on it. I decided to stain the rest of it and kinda like it.


This one is also for Jake in memory of his little girl that was taken from this world way to soon. Her name was Carlie Rose Conley so I made this for him. Him and his mom both like it so much that they are considering getting it as a tattoo.


Moms Christmas present. When she opened it she cried and then latter noticed i missed a lady bug upper left had corner. AHhhh. ;) She collects Nativities so that is why I did this one.


So here are a few others I have done.

Whats been going on.

So last post I posted about Martin's death. Well i think it knocked me down more than I thought. Not to mention the kidney stone problem and then not even a week after Martin's death my great uncle Kent passed away very very suddenly. I have just been really lost and sad and in pain the last few weeks. Hopefully today I will get some answers on my kidney stone just really worried that either there isn't one or its something else. And if it is one that i will have to have surgery.

Then Saturday morning i decided why not add to it all. and caught my pinkie toe on the Sheetrock in the hall and broke my toe. :) Yup lets just add to it all. :)

On a positive note Dad's permanent port surgery went just fine. The only bad thing is they did not tell him they were gonna do a nerve block on his arm so when he woke up and could not feel anything he was really really scared. No we just wait for the two months for it to heal then they can start using it.

I found a couple new groups on facebook for Adult coloring. And that has really helped with everything the last few weeks. Since i really dont have a lot of brain function and trying to pick patterns for zentangle I have just been coloring. Some of the groups have some challenges so been doing those. Here is some of what I have been doing.

I did do one zentangle inspired drawing for the fourth of July. :)




For Asma's Coloring group she does a monthly color challenge and an Aroco color challenge. They are both really fun.

In this challenge the Asma posts 4 colors and then the next person has to to the selected drawing in those colors, that person the says four colors for the next person. We are all given the same drawing. This month there were two to choose from. When I got into it the colors were denim blue navy blue sky blue. So here is my entry:

I then decided to do another on and selected the neon pink, orange, red. After all the entries are in Asma put all of our names in the hat and draws a name. You only get one entry no matter how many you do. AND guess what i won this round. By winning you get a free book the Mrs. Asma had published. I am so excited to get the book and play with it.  Here is my second entry and this time i chose the more difficult pattern.

Every month Mrs. Asma also does a color challenge and you use one of her drawings ( you get to choose which one) and use the color pallet. Well here is the color palette and my entry for it. 

In another group I joined "Adult Coloring" they had a competition for the release of a new book that is coming out. I decided what the heck. Did something a little different with this one I saw a tip that said for back grounds use eye shadow. It is kinda hard to see here but the back ground is do with a light blue eye shadow, :)