Mary Tafoya

This Christmas Eve was, I think, the most laughs ever, despite techno difficulties and colds and just plain tiredness. The posole was excelente and the guests were easy going. Aunt Alice had hugs for all, newcomers and oldtimers alike. And who needs Christmas carols when you have a Wii...

My motherboard crashed. So I bought a new tower. My hubbie gave me a cell phone. It doesn't work. I exchanged it and that one doesn't work. Ya think this is a not so subtle hint I might want to let go of the technology for the holiday...

My favorite present to myself this year was a discounted "Christmas Crafts Fun Kit" from Dover, and I didn't even notice it included a CD of clipart until the box arrived. Here are a couple of samples -- they look like unaltered scans to me (except I added the blue to the angel below)...

Three more Ouled Nail photos. Click on the images to get to the larger versions.

About 12 years ago (which is eons in computer years) I purchased a multi-CD volume of clip art that was so bad I never opened it again, until recently...

Woot! After seconds in every tourney he's been in the last year, Junior got his first First Place finish last weekend in Vegas (grappling). Please notice the guy who got second is about a foot taller and probably a couple of years older. Hehe.So yeah, that's where I've been...

1. What did Precious's mother called the oldest baby?2. What does the letter F stand for?3. What was Lenny Kravitz's first line in the movie?4. What did Mariah Carey say when Precious asked her what color she was?5. How did Precious pronounce the word "incest"?

Wow. Last night I saw the best movie I've seen in years. On so many levels...

That's right. And if I ever get them put onto cards I'll be selling them up on the gallery wall at OFFCenter's Holiday Gift Show, opening Friday, Dec. 4 (5-8:30 pm). The show will stay up through mid-December...

I find these little displays all over my house. I think of them as "accidental altars" because they display things that I think are too precious to throw out, but their arrangements are not deliberate. If I was more deliberate, people would call me organized...

I used these clip art images recently for an inchy ATC swap. Regardless of how they appear here, you should be able to click on either image to get to a 1-inch square image to use in your inchy art.These two images make nice alternating patterns...

I thought I was on the 5- to 7-day blogging plan, but obviously I missed even that mark this week. Ah well, it's the last couple of weeks of the semester, and I have taken a rare fancy to keeping the house clean, which leaves a bit less time (make that ZERO) for making jewelry or blogging much...

Have you found typoGenerator? You type your text into the box, they generate it into an artsy image. You can create the most inspiring color combinations here . . . makes me want to go slather paint on something. Here's what I made today: ~~~~~~~~~~

Click on the image above for a slightly larger, ATC-sized imageA nice lass for this time of year, I thought. She's holding . . . an evergreen bough? A sprig of rosemary? She's perfect for coloring with pencils, markers, transferring, etc. Have fun!