Welcome to the year 2013!!!

I'm back for a brief moment it seems.

Well, I’m a little late with that one, but better late than never-correct? 2012 was year of trials and tribulation for me and my wee family.   Hubby still hasn't found a steady job, daughter number 2 decided she needed “space” so she moved to my sisters,   I now have osteoarthritis in my knees and my wrists, and perhaps “fibermyalga” brought on by stress and physical wear and tear and last but not least, (big gulp) we nearly lost our house to the bank, we were, as hubby says, “one foot out the door”. We are now 95% sure we have managed to save our home. We are however 100% sure that any saving of our home was done by God.  I don’t think I have appreciated my home so much as I do now. I praise God for whatever accommodations He provides for us.  He, in His wonderful awesome wisdom, has taken hubby and I on a crash test course.  He has shown me some pretty interesting and painful things about myself and my-cough, cough- flaws.   Onward and upward is where we go from here. I have decided that in the wonderful event that we successful remain within our home; all those who blessed us with food and financial aid, for those who took our requests before the Lord, they are all invited to one honking’ celebration pool party this summer. 

Do you see the cream coloured enamel pan at the bottom of the back steps? That is for my girl Buddy to drink out of when she is strolling the back yard.  It is also there for the chipmunks to drink out of; it keeps them from certain death in the pool.

    I have been keeping sane with my watercolours; without t.v. or internet there isn't much left do to on a cold winter’s eve.   For Christmas my girls bought me some wonderful Bienfang Water Brushes, they are so kewl.  They also bought me watercolour paper of quality, what a difference it makes…WOW!

I was ¾ finished this when I took this shot. My watercolour experience is still a work in progress, but I am having a wonderful time learning.

  Funny story about this picture; I sketched this using a picture in a Romantic Homes magazine, but I forgot to take into account that I turned the magazine sides ways, which meant the shading was on top and not where it was supposed to be.  It wasn't until I was almost finished did I realize why I was having such a struggle.   My brain knew that the shading should be under, but the picture showed it on top.  I had quite a laugh at myself when I realized it, so I adjusted where I could and the rest –ehh- it’s all good.
Well, I guess that is all for today.  I hope you find joy in the smallest of things today!
May God who gives Grace and Mercy enable you to share grace and mercy with others this day! Blessings, Cynthia   P.S. I have decided that I am going to TRY and use my given name of “Cynthia” rather than Cindy.  Cynthia is so much more creatively satisfying to write, don’t you think; the swirl of the “y” the swoopy tail of the “t” and the hearts on the “i”.

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