Here's My Entry for Calico Studios - Play along

Love, love, love Studio Calico - taking the Food Layout Challenge!  WOW!  What fun to challenge yourself!  Here's my entry!  Hope I win.

New Sketch Entry for Repeat Impressions Card Challenge F911

Here's my entry for the challenge.  I used stamps 118 and 1919.  I just love this bear.  Since it's winter and everyone knows bears in Maryland are hibernating, I made mine a polar bear!!  He's arrived happily at home for valentines day after plunging into the Chesapeake Bay in late January.   Isn't he the cutest?

My House that stamps built card challenge J2611

Here's my entry for Repeat Impressions card sketch J2611 challenge
Its uses stamp 4212 - love that deer stamp!!!  I know u will 2!  Why not enter too!

Things to celebrate in February

Its a new month FEBRUARY and I have so much to look forward to:
2nd  Ground Hog Day Be the first to tell me if the Ground Hog saw his shadow and u could win a prize!!
        My Calligraphy class starts at Chesapeak College
3rd  Chinese New Year - the Year of the Rabbit
         Happy New Year to my two rabbits Jonathan and Amanda
4th  My Photography class starts at Chesapeak College
10th My granddaughter Catarina turns 3!!!
12th Catarina's Birthday Party
14th Valentines Day -  looking forward to receiving lots of love from my family!!
        My Gastronomic History course starts at Chesapeake
25th Bruce and I will celebrate our 17th anniversary

Hoping to also squeeze in some birding trips - looking to add Lapland longspurs to my life list - if you spot any please contact me Thanks 

Also hoping to finish my portrait of Ahkeer at my oil painting class at the Senior Center. 

Hope to do some more weight training at the center too! 

Want to do more scrapbooking and cardmaking.  Want to make some more Valentines and enter "the house that cards build" challenge.  Taking a free on line scrapbooking class at big picture scrapbooking and another one that's not free.  LOL 

After finishing this blog, I want to brew a nice a pot of coffee for Mexican coffee by adding cinnamon to the coffee grinds and sweeten your cup with brown sugar and chocolate syrup and top with whip cream.  Looking forward to putting my feet up and sipping my coffee while doing my backyard bird count for Cornell which I do two days a week for about an hour each day.  Lots of hungry birdies out there.  I may have to venture out on the deck to fill the birdbath.  Oh, woe is me!!  LOL

Hoping to do some more cooking with Winter Vegetables this month starting with a Chinese Stir Fry tonight followed by some warm apple slices with cinnamon!!   Mediterranen Couccous, Stuffed Red Peppers (stuffed with Kale), Mashed Kalhrabi, Choucroute Garni, Mushroom Miso Soup, Ratalouille with Grapes in Wine for dessert, Pasta and Greens, Sweet Potatoe Salad with Grilled Bananas for dessert, Hummus & Crispy Kale with sea salt for snacking, Stuffed Baked Potatoes, Quninoa Risotto with oranges with honey and almonds for dessert, Grits and Collards, and Kohlrabi Parmesean. 

Well as you can see I have lots to do so lets get busy and have a great month!! 

If your feel blue take some Vit D, the sunshine vitamin it may chase away the SADs!!!