limeades for learning

help me get clay for my art class!! go to sonic and drink, drink, drink!! peel the sticker and go to www.limeadesforlearning.com and vote for Mud Rocks!! It's all over the country so, go and drink and vote!!

your so creative

i here this so much, people tell me this all the time... but so what?? i feel like i have nothing to show for it!! at a time in my life when i finally want to paint and create be an "artist" I'm too busy, and truly i wouldn't change anything my family is my life and i waited so long for my girls... how can i wish i had 30 min away from them to paint?? I'm so frustrated

syncronicity

with Stings synchronicity cursing through my head... in our Monday meeting this week we learned about making smart goals for our kids etc.... specifically the power of writing them down..this struck a cord for me b/c I have several goals I'm working on.... so Tuesday rolls around and the lesson for girls on the run is about CHANGE!! hello the girls had to wright down something they wanted change about them selves.. and just now I read the daily om (posted on my sidebar) about the power of writing down your intentions, dreams and goals!! so here are mine...

1. get more organized stay organized, my desk at work and important papers/bills at home
2. paint more, get something in a show
3. budget budget budget

powerless

powerless

powerless is the pit in my stomach

powerless is vomit in the my throat

powerless is time wasted
a black hole

powerless is broken, jagged

silence

exhaustion is powerless

slithering through my bones

flesh-eating

powerless is fear exploding

it is me

a river running red

by Teri McClain

at this moment in time...

i think about weird s#$%%^t!! there are many times when i just think, right now, at this very moment, someone is dieing, someone is being born, someone just experienced the best moment of their life, someone was brokenhearted, someone lost a loved on, someone...

right now every conceivable human emotion is being experienced... which brings me to my neighbor...i've talked with her over the years, chit chat, etc...s he seemed "normal" (i use that term lightly, who's really normal??) anyway... she wondered into my other neighbors yard, where we were hanging... she was very sad, disoriented, long story short. She is bi-polar among other things and was off of her medicine. She hadn't eaten in days... my friend and I called her family, fed her and took her home. Two doors down and we didn't know. You just don't know what other people are going through inside, unless you take the time to get to know them...
so I have made a new and unexpected friend, and it has blessed my life even more

Lauren

she's my heart and soul, my angel, my reason to believe their is something bigger than us in the universe, she was not born from my body, but very much born from my soul, part of my soul, and yet I can't make her better and I whine like she has some terminal disease, and I know there are parents out their with really sick children, but she is my focus, she is mine and I want so much for her, maybe it is me I am mourning for, and that is really selfish! We have tried so many addhd meds and still she is sick, she can't read or write or do math like other 7 yr olds, and I'm just torn up about what will be her future? It's supposed to be bright and sunny and full of hope and maybe it is and I just can't see it now?? I feel like I'm torturing her on these meds, they help her focus etc but are making her sick...I don't know what to do, my gut says to stop the meds for now..

doll house roof????

so i bought this sweet little doll house at a garage sale for 20$... i've always wanted one for the girls (and of course they always wanted one too)!!! I think it needs a roof, and Fred thinks it sucks with a roof... please help us solve this debate... Vote now!!... remember that the roof you see in the picture is just a model made out if foam core... if i make a roof is will be wood and painted soooooo cutely!!

Full Moon Pink

This is my first full moon dream board and I'm sooooo stoked about... you can check it at Jamie's Studio...So my dream board is about art, family, nature and fun... by dreams and wishes and well you know little things that make my world go around are about doing simple, everyday things with my girls, working/playing outside this summer, doing things together that don't cost $$ yet allow us to be close ... while I was working on mine, Lauren wanted to do one too, so here's hers...it is so sweet, I didn't tell her what I was doing... she just started cutting and glueing and humming a tune!! AWESOME!!

Nature a'la Teri

Nature is this month's them at Creative Everyday... and one also one of my favorite subjects, so I've really been busy!! which is way cool for me... I'm just proud that i did something 2 weeks in a row...I took Leah's advice and tried using objects from nature and spraying them with paint... i really loved doing this i used some acrylic paint in a little spray bottle, next time I've got some spray paint in mind.... I love the abstract + realistic look they have to them...

nature rocks

While playing outside with the girls...well really they were running around in the wet grass stripping their clothes off and yelling... but anyway, i got some great shots.... i was inspired by Leah's monthly prompt...at creative everyday for may it is nature

pure, sweet and hot

nature

slithers between your ears

and lights your soul on fire

nature

my art picnic

I spoiled myself on sat... and i deserve it damn-it... i participated in Leah's Art Picnic... @ creative everyday...it was super cool and I learned a lot. I learned that all I really need to to do is ask... ask my hubby for some time... he's so great....he didn't even bat an I he just said go!! anyway...an art picnic is just a time set aside for fun art... here's what I created during my picnic, and best of all no ants!! lol

here's....Teri

OK I'm back!! after my dark dance with national board certification, i feel alive again, and ready to roll!! it feels so good to not be chained down... i have so much to do I have to finish my online class for the fabric artists, and get caught up with poetry and prose, and any other way i can tango with the creative goddess within!!

I was thinking the other day of Lauren's first day of Kindergarten! I though she was so big, until I watched her walk down the hall with her dora backpack on, and she looked so small!! a teeny tiny fish, and now she is so big compared, yet so small, still I can't express how time is moving so fast, and she asked me today... "is my real mom in Guatemala"? not a big deal, we talk often about her adoption and Guatemala and we will some day go back... she's growing and each day a little farther from me, but not really, that's how it's supposed to be, the relationship changes...still sweet and tender, and exploding with love

I watched Oprah the other day about mom's and their confessions...hilarious!! on the serious side I love the part about "we love our kids, but we don't always have to love motherhood" so true... it is a hard job for sure, I hope I'm doing it right!! I love you Lauren and Kate with all my heart and soul..