Absolute ridiculousness, oh and a giveaway!

This posting infrequently thing is actually driving me a little bananas. I am storing way too much up in my head and then the pictures, I can barely get through them let alone pick a few from each day to share. 

Despite the fact that I have been enjoying the break by painting my butt off I am finding that I now need  a painting break, so here I am. 

Vicious circle here let me tell ya!

Like I am chasing my own tail, sheesh!

Anyway, feel like a give away?

I have a few up my sleeve, so here are the first two.

This is a little birdie pendant I made and painted and below is a set of magnets. I shall call them flight or fancy. Flight for the bird and fancy for the fridge bling. 

Now here is your challenge. Make it through this mammoth post and when you get to the end I will guide you on what to do to get your chance to win....see you at the bottom.

And for a better shot,  fridge shot with funny shadow. Hmmm.

This is a major catch up so I will do my best with patchy memories, here goes!

This goes way back to over a week ago. We hit up this little ceramics studio to create a mother's day gift. I had intentions of making gifts there for Dave's moms too but after choking out the money for what we started we have decided they will have to wait for another trip.

Sorry mom's, your gifts will have to wait till we see you, we love you though, it is just a breakable issue. Both to the items and to the bank.

However we had fun. Well, I had fun. The kids were a little intimidated by the jolly French shop owner who joined us at our table with stories from the globe, but after a few minutes settled in to work on their master pieces.

 OK, maybe that was a bit of a stretch.  Ethan got distracted by the napkin, he is into disposable art I guess.

I worked on a mug as fast as our 30 min time constraint allowed. It was a gift to me, sweet me, ha, ha bawwhaha.

I was going to gift it but then decided it was so me I just had to keep it...well that and the fact it came with a to-go lid. That sealed the deal....ha, ha no pun intended.

 Sheesh, I am cracking myself up tonight, you would think I was drinking or something but nope, just a little squirmy in the brain.

Sorry folks for the corniness, I am sure when I re-read this in the morning I will just shake my head and groan.

 Now mom's---as in Grandma A and Grandma Grumpy if you would fancy something like this please send some vibes so we know what to get started on for your way belated mothers day gifts, thanks!

Oh, yes and here are the flowers from auntie 'TT'. Thanks my sweet sister, you really put up with so much living here! I am sure you can hardly wait to get into your new condo...the peace, I can hardly imagine it!

Kaitlyn delivered the cup and saucer to Grammy. Tea pals.

The gift from 'TT' was this fun Chinese tea set with tea flowers. I cannot remember the real name for the whole thing but I love it. I have been eye balling one of these for me but my collection is near the bursting anyway. This will have to be a special treat time at my moms.

On with the week.....

Ever noticed how much I love my kids crazy hair?

Or crazy antics?

They just give me more reasons to love.

Pic-nic. It lasted a whole three minutes. Then the kids took turns running around in between bites, it sure was a treat!

Geese feeding play date.

Kaitlyn was quite infatuated with the "mama geeses baby chichens."

Oh, right, I almost forgot, here is the completed mug. After the glazing and firing the colors turn out quite vibrant.

Green makes me soooo happy!

The size is a happy size too, well for me and coffee, mmmmm.

Did I mention the hair?

Yup, I love it. If she wasn't mine I might think that her mommy was  a little nuts and should get out a brush and pony, but hey I love the whimsy of the wildness.

Bubbles.

Can't get enough.

Or chalk, it is an every day thing.

And painting, can't forget that! We have been working away, the show will go on! Tuesday actually is the date set for delivery. I still have a few to finish so this weekend I have to buckle down big time!

Speaking of buckling down I did so with my roller blades.

 I am loooooving the evening heat!

Playdate with the neighbors. We have been doors away for a year and a half now and we finally managed to get together. I hope it is a habit we get into. Being close is so nice and having new little friends to share swings and orange slices with, even better!

Jaunts in the park round out the day. No wonder I barely get on here!

I think we are trying to  pack the whole summer into a few days. 

I guess we are just a little excited to finally be getting out and enjoying the sun.

Once again some flyaway hair. I do love me some wispies, guess it could be because mine are so out of control. I choose to embrace!

Now back to the giveaway part.

This is going to be tough. I want you to go back through all the photos and name the one that you loved the most.....JUST KIDDING!!

Actually all you have to do is tell me if you prefer flight or fancy in your comment and then I will do a random draw for both choices and declare two winners in my next post. 

Getting this far deserves a prize without any more work!

Once the winners are announced I will ask you to e-mail me your mailing info and take it from there.

Good luck and have a great weekend!

Cheers!