And here it is :)

I'm 40 :)  

My 30's were fabulous and I have a feeling my 40's are going to be just as good...life is an adventure to be enjoyed :)  

Although I have some cruel, CRUEL friends......lmao....Sharon turned up at the CRACK OF DAWN this morning :)  Hahaha I was still in bed of course!!  But she knows me well!!!  So we sat and chatted and had coffee and I opened this gorgeous card (above) and some of Sharons incredible scones that she had brought with her - because she knows I LOVE them :) 

Apart from that it has been a fairly quiet day....a quiet start to my 40's :)  

Thank you for all the amazing birthday wishes via Facebook, Email and text today.  I feel so loved today.

xxx

Last day or my thirties......

Had a great time with this dork last night ;p  

Classes continue.....

Another week of classes is over....Some of the first series of classes ends next week....the rest the following week, and then a new set will be beginning.  This week in sculpture class we began two projects - using pipe cleaners as wire bases/ frameworks for our sculptures, and then using papier mache over the base.  We will paint them next week.  

Then we all moved over to a group project - paper sculpture - building up a sculpture using JUST circles and half circles of paper...working towards each others circles and building up and over and on each others work to create a really interesting design.  Hopefully we will have time to add to this in the next couple of weeks.  The spirals were really interesting.

Welcome to the world little Princess :)

Paige and John welcomed their little girl to the world this week.....

So beautiful and precious.

xxx

Keegan's life.....

Instagram piccies....

Laurence this week....

Laurence finished his grade 11 finals for the first semester at the beginning of this week, so had most of the week off.

We went and used up his GC at Bench where he got a new hoody.  On the way home he learned the lesson of not to park TOO close to the barricade when a train is coming!!!

He was a little worried when that barricade started coming down hahaha  :)  

snow flakes.....

Snow fell for a little while on Wednesday - huge big gentle snowflakes - it was soooo beautiful! 

candy bar :)

Carousel lights :)

One of the things that made me happy on my birthday - I reached 100 followers on Instagram :)  

Chinese New Year Festivities at West Edmonton Mall

My lovely students :)

I received some gorgeous gifts this week from my students!!

Miss T gave me the most gorgeous mug that she had painted for me!!!  My very first Teacher gift!!  

Best Art Teacher Ever <3  

I love it so much :)  

It is on the little shelf by my bed :)  

N and the G family gave me this gorgeous reusable bag made from plastic grocery bags :)  N's Mom made it!!!  It is soooo clever and so strong :)  

Love love LOVE!!!  :)  

The bottom picture shows the canvas T created on Wednesday afternoon when she and I had an art afternoon together!!  This girl is so talented!!  She's TEN!!  TEN!!!  wow!!  

Snapshots from our week.....

There was a big accident by our house on Monday - at the crossroads.  The police and ambulances were there all morning.  Sadly a friend of mine drove by just after it happened and said that the drivers were badly injured :(  

My penny jar is full:

Darryl sent me a picture of his 'morning so far' and I sent him this one in return...

Playing Mastermind with Sam:

Sitting by the fire with a snack:

Hahaha  was chatting to darryl while lying on the floor by the fire....took this to prove it:  

One of the pages I did with one of my teen classes this week:

Mod podge - I get through sooooo MUCH of this lovely stuff:

My Rosie posie:

We went swimming with friends on Wednesday afternoon:

The page I did in my teen art journal class yesterday: