Saturday, November 14, 2009


This is my latest set. I fell in love with these little guys. I made a necklace and earrings with them. They are pewter. They are posted on Etsy and Artfire

http://www.ktdesigns.artfire.com
These earrings were made by Wooleycreek, another Artful Senior on Fire.
She is from Oklahoma. I grew up in Kansas and Missouri.
I love this kind of beed work
I can't do it. I made one pair of earrings and took me a monthe to figure the pattern out. So I respect anyone that can work with tiny beads. The colors in this pair are what caught my eye. But do go into Artfire and look at her other jewelry. She also has medicine bags and little dolls.
I want to post some of the items made by artisians in
our Artfire guild,
Artful Seniors on Fire. This stuff is just awesome.

This pretty item is from
Dorthy Louise, from Saskatchewan.

I just love the name of that place.
Go check her out.
Success! After 3 days and no help from Blogger, I have a nice background and all my stuff back that was lost. Pat myself on the back!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009



I love making jewelry and I love doing a collage. So I put the 2 together and this is what I got.This is a domino with a charm on it. This is a just for fun piece. Sometimes I can work so hard on a piece and end up with nothing I like. Other times I don't try as hard and things turn out great. Well, to me anyway.
This is just one of the pretty carvings that Sandra has done . I was amazed at how smooth they are. Takes a lot of time and patients

Cottontail Rabbit Carving : SandraHealy - ArtFire Sculpture

Cottontail Rabbit Carving : SandraHealy - ArtFire Sculpture

Monday, October 26, 2009


This is where our beautiful grandson died. This is Loma Linda Childrens Hospital in California. It is a wonderful place considering it is filled with sick children. They have a very caring staff. And great doctors. They save the lives of many children. Our little Bobby was just too sick to live. But he fought hard for 3 and 1/2 months. And during that time so many people loved him.
He went through more suffering then many people do in their lives. But he still squeezed out some smiles and gurggles and coo's. He had a wonderful Mother who spent many nights by his bedside. And 3 sibblings that had to be so good during a trying time. And had to give up their time with Mom for the baby. What suprised me is how strong the kids were. Oh, they cried when he died, just like the adults. But I was so proud of them. I didn't know if they really understood what was happing. The 6 year old twins anyway. But one of the twins said "I know what's going on and it's not fair". That was how I felt, too. And I know all the medical reasons. But I don't know the "whys". I know eventually I will accept that this is Gods will and that he has a reason, and that it isn't to hurt us. We live in a time when they can put computers in little tiny IPhones. You can walk all over town talking to you friends on the phone. How come we can't save all the little kids so they can grow old? Bill Gates needs to run this world.


Sunday, October 25, 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009



Our Grandson




Our three & a half month old Grandson, Robert Dominique Tidwell, was born on June 12,2009 & passed away on Oct. 3,2009. He fought very hard but his tiny body could only do so much. We only got to hold him for a short time, but We couldn't have loved him more if we had held him a lifetime. He was in Loma Linda Hospital in Ca. It is a very good hospital with very caring nurses and doctors. Now, however hard it hurts us, we know he won't hurt anymore. And he is an angel in Gods Kingdom and our family will reunite someday.


WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU BOBBY

Cardinal painted wood carving : SandraHealy - ArtFire Sculpture

Cardinal painted wood carving : SandraHealy - ArtFire Sculpture

I love the work these artist do. Check them out.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Sent by flowerart on September 22, 2009:

i love your pressed flower collage!:-)

the tissue paper was a wonderful idea!:-)

thanks for letting us see:-)

rebekah:-)

www.flowerox.com



This was sent to me shortly after i posted my collage. Wow....Made me feel so good!