WIP and a new picture

Haven't named these two angels yet.  Don't forget to go to my art page to see more of my art!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-of-A-View-from-a-Heart-of-Mersea-art-by-Julia-Ruane-Smith/344090671048?ref=mf

Guitar Angel - finished picture

Lute Angel - new work in progress

What do you get when you mix an Onc visit, a boob, a pecker, and a leak ...

It happened two days ago.

I started off going to my Oncologist appt. Everything was “perfect” they told me, that made me happy! I was asked if I had any pain and I said “Yeah, Lucy (my right breast) is hurting, some pain where the scar tissue is and then pain running from right side of breast to beneath my arm pit. She checked it out and said everything was fine. Then she said “Coming from the person who breaks a bone every 11 months, how did this happen?” I looked at her, smiled, and said “It started hurting after doing my “Snicker walk” 5k yesterday.” “Now how can you hurt or pull a boob muscle while “Snicker Walking?” (Go to You tube and find “Mr T and the Speedwalker,” I’ve renamed it Snicker walking) “I have no idea but I’ve been icing the girl since.” She laughed and said she loved it when it is my visit time because she knows she will have a wonder adventure to hear about. Ha Ha

Later I was sitting in my office working on a picture when I suddenly heard this banging sound like someone was having some work done on their aluminum siding or some such thing. After an hour I was real irritated so I went outside to see what was going on. There was no one around! Huh? Suddenly I heard it again coming from my roof! There was a wood pecker playing music on my air vent! (Ha, you can put your dirty minds away now! Bwwwwwaaaaahhhhhhhh!) Idiot bird was pecking away on my metal air vent! I picked up some sticks and threw them up on the roof near the bird thinking that would scare him off. Nope. So I walked to the garage side and threw them at the bird but he wouldn’t budge. Then I went for the big guns: the water hose! I turned the water on and began unrolling the hose. About the time I got enough hose out so I could spray the bird, she saw what I was doing and flew off and hasn’t been back. More than one way to skin a skunk!

Then after dinner and NCIS LA I was doing dishes while hubby was walking the dishes. After finishing I reached under the sink to get a counter cleaner and discovered that the area was flooded. I grabbed everything out and wiped up the flood and proceeded to look for leak. Didn’t see anything. I texted my husband “Houston, we have a leak and it ain’t me!” (I must have seen the future on that one.) He came home and checked it out and said the garbage disposal was leaking but being as it is almost 10pm it can wait.

Welcome to one day in the life of Mersea!

Here is the Update on my friend, Linda Biggs, trouble with Jeep over the Jeep she bought that doesn't work!

http://itsabiggsworld.blogspot.com/

"Starlets in Action" - Fashion Show Fund raiser for "Beyond Boobs, inc"

Will add pictures as they show up online!

Me after getting make-up and hair done! Don't look like me at all!

My casual outfit.

Me and the gals with Mark from HGTV.

Me the day after the fashion show!

Bruce Davies, another Scottish bard I love!

Celtic Love and a Dougie Mclean concert to boot!

I am an Irish-American, an Irishman free to enjoy my background!

(This is me in my 3rd Chemo Outfit being as it was just about St Paddy's Day it was appropriate!)

 Tee shirt I made of me in my Chemo Leprechaun Outfit.

Here's some of the Leprechaun's that live in our house.

 I've always loved Celtic music and listen to it often, puts me in a dreamy, faerieland state of mind which is helpful when dealing with health issues. This evening my husband and I are going to a concert by Dougie McLean! Love his music!
He received an award for his music and for his work with charities . His song "Caledonia" has practically become Scotlands countries  National Anthem!                                                 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14027910

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And tonight my dear husband and I are going to a Dougie Concert! Listening to his music makes me want to fly away to the magical lands of Ireland and Scotland!

Getting fitted for a fashion show...

Okay, now I’m the first to admit that things do seem to happen to me but today took the cake! I had to go to the store that was letting us use their close for the “Starlite Fashion Show” for “Beyond Boobs” (this is a non-profit group to help get information about Breast Cancer out to the youth of ALL ages). So, I went to customer service and told them what I was there for and this French lady comes us and tells me to follow her then starts talking about bras. I again told her I am her to be fitted for clothes for a fashion show I am in. She says “Yes, yes, come, I will fit you with bras.” So I am figuring we are to be wearing their under garments which doesn’t make sense because once the show is over the store takes back all the clothes to the store to be sold. Whatever.

She puts me in a room, has me take off my blouse and begins to take my measurements. Now this lady barely stands boob height and I’m wondering how she is going to measure when suddenly I am in a bear hug with her wrapping the measuring tape around the top part of my breasts very tightly then across the peaks! I’m like ‘what in the world…’ She goes out and comes back with a handful of bras. She has me trying them on and declares I look best in a 36 DD! I’m a 40 – 42 B! Believe me, I couldn’t breathe!

She tells me to get dressed and then come out front. I did and she has me fill out a form with my information. After I did that she tells me that if my name is drawn I will get 30% off the bras I buy. I’m like “Huh? I don’t want to buy any bras.” She says “Well, some of the ladies will want to.”

I took a deep breathe then once again explained to her that I am going to be in a Fashion Show in which I am suppose to be fitted with two outfits. She looks at me and says “Why didn’t you say so? For that you need to go up the escalator, take a left, take another quick left and head all the way back here but you will be upstairs.” And off she goes.

So I went upstairs and found a cashier and asked her if she knew about the Fashion Show which she did and she called the lady in charge of it. The rest of the fitting went fine except the clothes they had for me were exactly what I would chose to wear but hey, they looked better than some of those creations you see on the TV runways!