Nobody has prettier, sweeter, more talented nieces than I do. :) This is my youngest niece, (she's 8)http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa67/deadlyblondearcher/?action=view&current=Carrissa-and-Aunt-Cindy-in-.jpg who came to see me this weekend, and this is the angelhttp://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa67/deadlyblondearcher/?action=view&current=CarrissasAngelSketch001.jpg (in her own words... "she scribbled for me while she was eating her peanut butter and jelly sandwich)I calculated it took her just a little over 3 minutes to sketch it ..[at 4 am this morning, mind you... I'm afraid she's wired a little like I am :)

I can't help it, I'm HAPPY and I want to share a little of it :D :D :D :D

she looks like my niece :) although this is not a great picture and is old: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/redgem72/L1000144.jpg
I saw that sillyass clock of yours in the pic too :) I'm glad you had a good time

Lots o cuteness goin round heh

Oh she is just cute, and ou gotta love that expression. Like aunt like niece. LOL.

And what is it about your family that produces such beautiful blonde flowing locks?

haha... lori... they really don't look anything alike... the similarity is that "wild-eyed" southern girl look" :) (the "silly ass bee clock" is keeping good time now!!!! :) I was disappointed that my other niece, Chloe, didn't get to come... she went camping with her friends (she's very independent like that..) My nephew Cade came, when the fish weren't biting he looked a little dejected and bored, so I dug through my closet and found a brass adorned collectible 30.30 rifle and said "Hey, I don't know what do with this thing, anybody want it?" His eyes lit up and he was a "happy camper" for the rest of the weekend. I took some photos of him while he was here, but here's one that was taken of him at our ranch that I thought about painting here[url[ http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa67/deadlyblondearcher/?action=view&current=Cadewrifleinthepasture.jp

g[/url[ edit: this link is kind of weird... when I click on it it goes to the album page, but at the heading it says "the file no longer exists"... and I click on deadlyblondearcher album, I can view the whole album and then I have to click directly on Cade's picture. Strange.

Sweet: the blonde thing... I don't know, I guess it's a combo of Irish/Dutch, Finnish, German geneology. Don't know for sure.

if I had a better picture you would agree!

She's beautiful... but the resemblance I see is that "wild-eyed ... well, "southern girl" look I call it, maybe it manifests itself in other places, as well. :D She's awfully pretty, anyhow. :)

I like the ashtray

Yes, well, we've been trying to get the little darling to cut back on her smoking, but you know how that is... kids these days. :) It is rather in need of emptying, I notice.

My husband dug that up with his backhoe on a construction site and brought it home to me years ago....it's the most interesting thing... it's multipink glass and it weighs a ton (even without the cigarette butts :) We were using it to prop her 'canvas' up.

Today I found out I've had pneumonia for a couple days now. I have a cool ashtray too.

Sweet niece, cool sketch! And I spotted the clock in the back, right?
Take or let someone take good care of you, get well soon Axil, pneumonia's are no jokes.