Kissable Keiki...

Happy Birthday to You!

Love those Kissable cheeks on my Keiki!

(OH...if you don't know what a Keiki is...you can go to this past post...Kissable Keikis & Karate Kid...where I re-used part of the title...and see our other Kissable Keikis :o)

Local baby contest

winner of her age division :o)

Ft Rucker, Alabama

Aug 15 (8 months)

Still as sweet as ever!

Kentucky

Nov 2010

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***EDITED note added on Dec 11th***

(I've just realized that I had literally forgotten that my birthday is next week~so much going on.  I say this only because I had planned to do some more art giveaways to those of you that stop by and comment next week...as my birthday thank you from me to you!  I had wanted to do this last year, but again...time slipped by me!  


And for those that have left a comment on this post, you will have an extra entry.   If you are interested, please be sure to come take a look.)

***Thank you for bearing with me regarding this little edited interruption! Please continue with my Happy Birthday post to our sweet Girly~Whirly***

Still in the midst of completing Christmas drawing orders...so I haven't tried to do this before, but I am copying and posting a part of...my Happy Birthday post that I had done last year this time!


From my Dec 9, 2009 post...

Once upon a time... 

there were 5 lovely princesses...

...and of these lovely princesses...

was our very own darling daughter...

...Girly Whirly...

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once again...as I looked for past birthday photos, I say to myself: "I really need to organize the bazillion photos that we have "safely" stored in the many Rubbermaid boxes, and albums, and envelopes, and shoeboxes, etc...

..but thankfully, I found these that I was able to put on a little clip.

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Without further ado...

I am so thankful that we have the wonderful photos, videos (and even some old cassette recordings)  of our three children and of our family and friends... photos, videos, recordings...all help to bring back memories of those days gone by! Sweet memories...

I call our daughters similar sounding names on this blog, I call our older daughter-Girly~Twirly and our younger daughter (Little Miss, I call Girly~Whirly).

They are 3 and a half years apart, but often are asked if they are twins :o) 

When I call them and they are together, I even have to ask who I am speaking to...cuz they sound alike! haha

...so, it is our younger daughter that just celebrated her birthday...and our older daughter, who is married and has a blog (www.theluckiestmrs.blogspot.com).

*added note Dec 10, 2010*

(As a dentist, Girly~Twirly has been so so busy working long hours, 5 days a week, and driving about one hour each way...so has not done any blogging. Hopefully, when they move for our son-in-law's next medical residency "assignment", she will be in a practice that does not involve so much time).
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Joining in with

Jenny's

Alphabe-Thursday meme

for this week's letter "K".

&
Alicia's

Friday Photo Flashback.

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It takes me (like everything else with computers) a little longer than it should to scan and prepare the images of the art that I do (to crop to a closeup view with the full image) to show on my blog, my etsy shop and on my facebook business page (www.facebook.com/PersonalizedSketches ...I started the facebook page recently~please take a look and become a "fan" by adding it to pages you "LIKE")

....so I am only posting a couple Christmas orders here.

This whimsical family tree was the idea of LV. 

Thank you for another order...and sending this idea for a drawing for a Christmas gift to your sister. 

Received my sketch and already have it framed.  I m giving it to my sister for Christmas.  I attaching a copy of it FYI.
Thanks again for everything.

Thank you LV, for sending the photo of it matted and framed.

This order is a Christmas gift for a local dentist. Thank you Patti for your order. (She will pick this one up tonight).

Thank you again for stopping by! I am behind in returning your visits from my last post, but will be coming by after I get more art orders done and shipped out! ...now back to the drawing board...one of my favorite places to be...

J is for Joy...

It was so wonderful to spend time up in Wisconsin with my dad.

Thank you all again for your prayers, support, kind words prior, during and after his 5 heart bypasses.

It is such a Joy to know that the surgery is behind him and he continues to recover.

I pray you all had as Joyful a time with your families this past Thanksgiving.

Here are a few photos while we were at my dad's home. I will only post a few here. And later, I'll get more beautiful photos in a slideshow.

My last post shows us only one month ago when we were visiting with my hubby's family who all live in Hawaii...beautiful warm tropical temperatures.

My hubby and I arrived at my dad's and it wasn't too cold...there was only a teeny-tiny bit of evidence of snow that had fallen previously... But on the second morning that we were up at my dad's (just a month later)...we look out the window to see the beautiful new fallen snow! Amazing :o)

~taken from the lake looking up to my dad's home~

~this the picture window from the living room~

(looking out onto the lake)

 ~this was taken from inside the house~

(looking out my dad's bedroom window onto the front deck)

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Thanksgiving Day

An early dinner at Whitetail Lodge.

 Dinner in this gorgeous location with great neighbor friends.

 The log's used to construct this building are real! They were huge!

And it was so good to stop on our way up north and spend the night at the home (after the 15 hour drive to their home, it was a good stop, before another 12 or so drive from there to my dad's) of our daughter (Girly~Twirly, aka the LuckiestMrs., aka Dr. B) and her hubby (Awesome J, aka the LuckiestMrs' Mr, aka Dr. B :o).

...and then also spend time, eat an amazing Thanksgiving part II meal, and spend the night on our return drive back to Georgia with them, our other daughter (Girly~Whirly), our son (Heartbreaker) and our son-in-law's parents at their home. 

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Here are a few orders that I was able to get done before we left.  Thank you for your interest and orders. 

Will post more again.

Nancy ordered this frog for her second grandson.  Her first grandson has one that was a giraffe drawn with his name.

"This sketch turned put as beautiful as the last one and I was so surprised at how quickly it arrived. Thank you so much--I love it."

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This one I was able to ship out from the post office in my dad's hometown. (I hoped that since he lives closer to Canada, it would not take as long as the last orders I shipped to Canada from our home in southern Georgia. ...and wow! It surely was a lot faster! Shipped it on Nov 24th, received it on Dec 2nd.)
Stephanie ordered this for a gift to her husband to display in her husband's Pharmacy.

"I received it today!!  It is SO AMAZING!  I love it so much and I KNOW that my husband will love it.  You have been so great to deal with and I knew right from the start that I could trust you.

Thank you for sharing your talents and for being the great person that you are!  I'll be ordering more art from you in the future and I will definitely let others know about you!!"

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These two sent to Tracy in Canada took so much longer. Shipped out Oct 23rd from Georgia...into Foreign Customs on Oct 29th, and arrived on Nov 11th.

Tracy ordered this one in memory of their precious unborn granddaughter.

(color may not be the same as the original, since I took this and the previously shown frog with my camera...our scanner does not scan the color)

and this Eagle was her second order.

"...What a strong tube that is,it protected every thing!

I love love love the drawings!!!

What wonderful gifts they will make this Christmas,the Eagles beak is perfect!

The rose is more than I expected, the colours are perfectly done,just the right colour red.and thank you for adding all the names...thank you so much."

I ship all the orders in a heavy weight shipping tube; however, I do ship orders sent outside of the continental United States in an additional PVC tube within the sturdy heavy weight tube, for extra protection from crushing or water damage.

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Linking on with:

Jenny's

Alphabe-Thursday meme

for this week's letter "J".

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J is for Joy and also for Jesus! 

Our family enjoys celebrating the birth of Jesus.

(My hubby was also born on Dec 25th :o)

Hope all of you are enJoying this special time of the year with your loved ones.
Thank you for your time in leaving your comments. I will be sure to come and return your visit.

(My dad does not have a computer up at his place, so I did not do any computer-related things, such as blogging...so I do appreciate all of you checking in and I look forward to catching up :o)

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Now, it is catch-up time around the house, back to work cleaning pearly whites, drawing orders, and getting Christmas gifts wrapped and sent.

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Oh! One more thing...it gives me Joy when I am able to get computer-related things to work...so with the awesome help from Addy, another dear blogger, fellow-etsyer (she creates yummy cakes), fellow Georgia resident, I was able to change my ridiculously lo-o-ong facebook url for my new facebook business page to something short and sweet...well...at least, shorter.

Please take a look. And if you have a facebook account, please become one of my page's "fans" by hitting the "LIKE" button for my page:  www.facebook.com/PersonalizedSketches  ...this will be where I eventually will post more past orders into separate categorized albums.

H is for Hawaii...

Here are a few more photos from when my Hubby and I went to visit his family in Hilo, Hawaii.

In October of this year.

Taken before crossing over the bridge to Coconut Island.

On Coconut Island there are other amazing trees.

Fun branches to climb on!

I thought I would share a few of the "past and present" photos I wanted to take of a couple of places.  My Hubby so nicely accommodated my request and we took a quick drive to a few of these places.

So...For these next photos... I say "Hana Hou!"

*meaning in Hawaiian for: Once again, encore, repeat....One more time...

pronounced: "Hah-nah  Ho"

These from 1982, I shared on an earlier post. 

Hm...even the coconut tree looks older... (The leaves you see are from a different tree that was nearby). You can see the same hotel in the background.

In 1982, sitting on one of the rock walls.

Here's pretty much the same spot...

 You can see the buildings in the background in all three photos.

Oh and of course...this photo of my Hubby "back in the day" wearing those short military physical fitness shorts :o)  On the bridge going over to Coconut Island.

The same bridge and hotel in the background, but the handrails are new... and so are my Hubby's style of shorts :o)   (Still my Handsome Hawaiian Honey! :o)

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Also,  We Honor and thank all those in the military...past, present and future...

Happy Veteran's Day!

Here are a few past posts,  that make mention of some of the military men in our family...

If you do get a chance to take a peek at any of these past posts, please leave a comment at the ones you do stop at...

1. Veterans & Vaters...

2. Our Handsome Hawaiian Hero...& Thank you...

(This is neat to me that the title to this second post also has a lot of "H"s in it)

That is one of the things that I find I do a lot without realizing it...use a lot of alliteration!

3. Purple Pirates

4. Wings for flying...

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Linking on with:

Jenny's

Alphabe-Thursday meme

for this week's letter "H".

&
Alicia's
Friday Photo Flashback.

Here are some past drawing orders completed.

Thank you Amy for your order for your boyfriend.  Please send our thanks for his service in the Fire Department! (My hubby, when I first met him, was in the Air Force as an EMT/Crash/Rescue and Space Shuttle Rescue Crew member.)

Amy sent me this email:

"Wanted to let you know that the sketch came today...that was quick! I figured it would be here tomorrow. It was in perfect condition. Thank you so much! I love it & I know Josh will too."

Thank you Nancye, for ordering this one for a wedding gift. 

Nancye has been ordering Personalized Sketches art for wedding gifts since the 1990's,

 as well as these for graduation gifts.

This is the War College Chapel that the couple was married in.

Thank you Susan for your order of this Major's insignia.

"I recently saw some of your beautiful work displayed in my neighbor's home.

I would like to purchase something as a promotion gift. 

Would you please tell me how I do this.

Someone in my husband's office is being promoted to major and I thought it would be nice to have the major's leaf with their name on it.  Is that possible?"

"I received my order today!! It is beautiful!!

Thank you so much for the wonderful item.

I'm sure it will be a special promotion gift."

*Added on Nov 12th*

I tried to add these last two photos before I published this post, but the upload was acting up, so I am adding these now... (Mr. B had Veteran's Day off. so while I was at work, he stopped and left an unexpected surprise for me...this beautiful rose and sweet note....a "thank you" for supporting him throughout his years of military service :o)

Thank YOU, honey!

Thank you for stopping by and for your comments. 

I will be sure to return your visits :o)