Audra Jennings

I didn't get the crafting done last weekend that I wanted to... more on that recap tomorrow... but I did finish outlining this canvas from Pinocchio. I'm hoping the Disney movie canvases go as well as the Seuss ones. We'll see how they debut in 6 or 7 weeks.

I really needed a sleep-in day. Alas, I needed to be up early and out at the church for Ladies' Day to run the sound booth. Then, I tried to get some work in. I need to get some hours in on a job. I was tired of being in the office after 50+ hours of work, so I gave up. I finally got in some crafting. (Did you see my post from last night?) This one is going to have to wait a week or so to finish. My paint pen I'm using to outline it is running out, and I have to hunt down another the same color. I'm probably going to have to order online and get them shipped. This one is from Pinocchio . I think it's cute. I'm just hoping some of these older Disney movies will go over well. I have several I am planning from Snow White, Cinderella, Bambi and others. It's just a matter of getting them done.

I got another Disney book in the mail... I asked last night if you had any ideas about what I was wanting to make next. If you guessed Disney quote canvases, you are correct! Now, I'm looking for Disney quotes from some of the movies represented on the cover of this book. Think Pinocchio : Let your conscience be your guide. The Lion King : Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase. Peter Pan: You can fly, you can fly, you can fly. Bambi: If you can't say nothin' nice, don't say nothin' at all. What may go on the wall headed up to my office from Snow White : Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work we go. What are some of your favorite lines from these movies or their soundtracks?

Look what I just got in the mail! Any ideas about what I'm going to do next? I'm eager to get started!

I sure hope this week's episode is more interesting than last week's. Last week almost put me to sleep. There has got to be more than kissy kissy kissy all night long. Great for Chris. Boring for the rest of us. The previews at least offer hope. The show starts off with a visit from Chris Harrison. This week, Chris is getting help from his three sisters as to who is going on this week's one-on-one date this week. The first date card, however, is a group date card. "Megan, Kaitlyn, Ashley S., Ashley I., Juelia, Samantha, Mackenzie, and Kelsey. Let's do what feels natural..." The suspicion is that they have to go without make-up. However, most get all the more fixed up. Four girls pile in a convertible with Chris while Megan drives the other four around. They are all going to be windblown by the time they arrive to their date at a lake. They have a private beach all to themselves. Another bikini day. Thank goodness Jillian is back home so we don...

Note: I had another video here to introduce last week, but ABC replaced the video at the code I inserted and put a preview of Galavant in it's place. ARG! I don't know if I'm ready for this. In fact, I may be dreading this season of The Bachelor . But, isn't ABC and their parent company, Disney, so clever in advertising about Prince Farming? (Where is my sarcasm font?) How soon do we find out about the pregnancy test that has been teased for months? I doubt tonight. From the get go, Chris Harrison promises a season like no other. There's a live event at the premiere, and already the red carpet arrivals of past contestants seems unnecessary. We are re-introduced to Chris Soules, a fourth generation farmer from Iowa. He's a big part of feeding the world! I've had some of his corn, haven't you? I'm pretty sure I saw his farm when I drove through Iowa (sarcasm font - because it all looks alike). But alas, as great as life is on the farm, ...

I just thought I was a hoarder with all my mugs. Last night during commercials while watching Grey's Anatomy and Scandal , and during the hour following, I filled the 11 copy paper boxes that I had picked up earlier in the day. Eight of them are full of books. The others have some other things that were on my shelves, my collection of Disney clam shell videos, and other DVDs and CDs. (I don't buy CDs anymore, but I'm glad I had these left when my computer died about a year ago and my iPod didn't want to sync to the new one and bring the music back to me.) The saddest part about the 11 boxes, that wasn't even everything that was along one wall of my office. However, it was the highest concentration of "stuff" in all of my house. I wonder what I can accomplish tonight before my parents ask what all I have gotten done.

Mike is getting closer to finished. I got most of his face painted tonight and his limbs attached. He's not sitting up where you can see him all in one piece because his paint was running. I have to get his arm to stick on better on one side (and a horn for that matter) and some blue around his pupil. I'm going to have to do the blue with marker, and I layered wet paint on wet paint to get him as close as finished as possible. You can't see his awesome legs and feet here. My dad thought his eyeball was a perfect circle. Not bad for freehand with a sponge paint brush. Paige and Peyton are going to love him.

When Paige was about a year and a half old, I moved back in with my parents for about 6 months. At the time, I lived in a 'hood. Every time my friend Sammy came over to my house, the cops would be making a visit when he left. He used to tell me, "I used to live in the 'hood, so I can tell you you're living in it." One night, I came home to find the police looking for gun shells in my front yard. The final straw came when my presumably drugged out neighbor came over one night to tell me that her side of the duplex had been broken into during broad daylight (on Halloween). Whatever the circumstances may have actually been, I decided that was enough. All that really doesn't have anything to with the point of my story other than to explain why I was living with my parents. I felt a need to justify that since I was in my mid-twenties at the time. Anyway, during that time, little Paigey was over at my parents quite a bit while her mom was in night school class...