A couple people asked me what I’ve been up to lately… since I haven’t been online much and I hadn’t been doing too much with my clay and kaleidoscopes.
First of all, I am still alive and kicking and I’m doing pretty well. 
I’m even thinking about re-doing my website again although I’m not sure when or what I want to do with it. It’s starting to look pretty dated and I haven’t added anything new in awhile. (Let me know if you have any suggestions)
So what have I been doing? Trying to exercise more and eating a bit healthier. We repainted and refloored most of the downstairs in our house. The original off-white walls became a rich yellow, a happy lavendar, and a delicate pale green. And alot of stuff got dumped in my workroom as we worked – I’m still digging out surfaces and trying to reorganize while I’m doing it.
I haven’t done much with my artwork, but a sculpture of a baby turtle emerging from his shell did make it into a local juried show. I’ve take a few sculpting classes with Chris Long at the Mystic Arts Center. They were well worth it and I’d recommend them for anyone in the area. I have done a rather cute relief of a flying squirrel which had a couple problems but I liked overall. I think I want to do a few more like that.
And we started a butterfly garden. The milkweeds were a huge success with the Monarchs. We had a bunch of caterpillars last year and we’ve got more this year. Their chrysalis’s (I have no idea what the plural for that is) are so beautiful – translucent jade with raised gold trim.