oceanstarr

I was in a car wreck on Wednesday. The last couple days have been a blur of Xrays and CAT scans... I've gone to the ER twice, but it looks like nothing is seriously wrong. I'm sore and it'll be a while until I'm totally back to my normal self.  I am really lucky that I have some good friends who were willing and able to help me deal with all the crap around the wreck. I had people to stay with me and help when I've been in hospital and drive me around etc.  People have cooked for me and fetched things for me and all the good things one wants when injured. I hate having to miss class, but I can accept that sometimes that's just the way it is.

Life has been full of adventures lately. Since the art show on August 1st, I've been swamped with excellent networking opportunities that have kept me away from my computer. One good thing that has come of it has been an inspiration to redo the oceanstarr.com site again.  I didn't like the way the navigation worked in the painting section. The new design is much improved I think. If you happen to stop by and check it out, let me know - especially if you know how it was before. I hope it works more better lol

I don't like to call today my birthday. I think of it as my personal New Years Day. I'm not doing anything particularly special today... kind of the same thing I do all the time except I am going to meet a good friend for dinner and drinks tonight. In celebration of my New Years Day, I've posted a couple recently finished embroidery pieces and a new painting which is pretty different from my past work.  The embroidery explosion is all preparation for an embroidery show I'm going to be having at Unarmed Merchants in downtown Knoxville on August first. This is the first time I've shown all embroidery which is framed to hang on the wall. I'v