Old Artwork

I've been doing some cleaning lately and came across many interesting old things, including some of my old drawings from when I was a teenager...back when I could actually hold a pencil and create things that is.


Rohan Sketch - Lord of the Rings

A View From Hobbiton


Ceilidh (my dog)













Velvet (our pet rabbit)

Kitten with Milk

Our new bed!

OK, it took me almost a week, but, I finished our new bed Easter Sunday! I went out to the woods, just me and the dogs while Eddie was at the recording studio, and spent about 4 hours gathering the lumber; all the while designing the piece in my head. The larger posts I actually gathered with an ax! because I am scared of that bloody chainsaw, hehe. I loaded it all up and drove home, and began the piecing together process. I needed Eddie's help towards the end, and while I had the general idea, he was the one that came behind me and told me where we should brace it. (Something that had not quite crossed my mind! I had the aesthetics down, though!)
Check out the finished product in our room! (I also made the bedspread and curtains a few months back.)

My latest artistic endeavors

In the past week, I was seriously bitten by an art bug, and instead of knitting as my source of relaxation and artistic outlet (though I still love knitting!) I have begun painting anything I can get my hands on! It started with Eddie painting the beat-up old drum a few weeks ago that we found at a thrift store, which turned out gorgeous. I will post those photos in a separate post. I was then inspired to paint the entire entry way in our home, a junky old white mirror, a blank slate (literally!)....and it seems like something else I might have forgotten...Oh yeah! Not painted something that I painted, but I made a coverlet with Celtic knots all over it and matching curtains for our bedroom. (Which I will post photos of when our room is a little cleaner!) All of this I began since last Tuesday. *g*
Not to mention my awesome new belly dance outfit I just ordered which arrived a few days ago! I needed a different costume, without making one...so this is really belly dance on a budget.
Soooo....enough banter, here are the photos! (And all of this with very limited funds and very little previous art experience, too, lol)

Entry way...(I will take better photos in the daylight, and when the room is cleaner, hehe)

The slate with our anniversary and the view from where we were married; (my first project)

The mirror's new look, though still needs to be cleaned and hung up...

Mirror border (I designed the knot)

Top of the mirror border


The new outfit...and very messy hair...

Photos from Christmas Season, 2007

Here are a couple of photos from our Christmas, I've added a link on the right to the rest of my MySpace photos....

Stealing Dad's pint at O'Connel's Irish Pub, in Old Town...

My knittin' sisters..Stacy and Brynn

Dad and I


Eddie and I at O'Connel's, early December

Eddie decorating our tree...with some pooped pups on the floor!



Our house all decorated for Christmas....


Welcome home...

Finished Scarf Pics :-)

Well, I finished Eddie's scarf (my first knitting endeavor!) on Monday....here are the pics of him wearing it....I think I want one now!

My first attempt at knitting...

The scarf for me on the left and Eddie's cabled scarf on the right...

After years of saying "one of these days, I'm going to learn to knit..." I finally took it up over the fall..though I didn't get very far with my first attempt coming back from Texas. The project (a basic scarf) was the bane of my knitting existence. Evil little thing!
Fast forward to early December, and I started on something else...another scarf, imagine that?!
That one is coming out quite nice, though I haven't really worked on it due to recently starting on yet ANOTHER scarf (this is waaay to addicting!), but a more complicated one that I am knitting for Eddie. That is my favorite so far, and I'm quite amazed that as my first attempt at "cabling", I actually designed my own knit pattern! Thank God it is actually coming out quite beautiful. It alternates between dark grey and dark burgundy. Once that one is done, I am itching to try something even more challenging: I have a book of Celtic/Norse knitting patterns, and there is a unique and gorgeous Celtic knot-work sweater that I want to do!
Here's a pic of the first scarves!

Welcome to the family!

While TRF was immensely fun, it is so nice to be home, and just in time for Christmas, too.
The other day Eddie and I were trying to decide what to get each other for Christmas this year, and I confessed that I have been seriously considering adopting a second dog for a long time now and have been doing a few searches online. Well, it just so happened that last week Eddie ended up near the animal shelter and came home to tell me that there were two malamutes up for adoption. Hmmmm....

We went the next day to visit them, only to find that one had been adopted already, and the other was pending adoption. I didn't want to really pay attention to the dogs - and they were SUPER gorgeous and WELL MANNERED - because I didn't want to get attached to them since they were adopted anyway.

Saturday, the lady at the animal shelter called us up and it turned out that WE could adopt the remaining male. I was out in MD when Ed called, and we decided that he would go pick him up and adopt him!

So, now we have a new dog! And he's a BIIIIG one: a 110 pound malumte mix, but he is a total gentleman. He's very impressive. He and Ceilidh have been going for walks together and doing some occasional rough-housing; they seem to be getting along just fine.

He's already attached himself to our family and claimed us has his new pack, and will whine and wimper if we are not all in view. Strangely though, we have had him since Saturday night and he has yet to bark. He is completely silent. Though earlier when I took him for a walk, he heard some dogs barking near by and he threw his head up as if to howl. I can't wait for him to do that, I bet it is gorgeous.

We think we are either going to name him "Koda" (which means 'friend' in I think Chereokee...I could be mistaken, we looked at so many names recently) or "Hacuma" (Ha-KUMA) which is a mixture of Inuit and other languages meaning "Fire Spirit".

He's a jem!!

Smiling wolf

Our handsome boy.." 'Cuma "

...And our pretty girl Ceilidh...


My two wolf-men ;-)

He loooooves his belly rubbed!

Just chillin'