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Cam's Art Room

These are simple shapes, they contain some of the most recognized shapes in the world from the square to the octagon as well as some of the most recognized colors in the world. I was inspired when my brother, Alex, was talking to me and I all of a sudden saw six distinct shapes behind him. So now I have created this multi-shaped to show that there is a shape in every little thing.

Cam's Art Room

For those of you who have been awaiting my post, here it is. Cam's Art Room! Here most Saturdays I will post a piece of my artwork. I will also explain each piece. What my inspiration was. How the art makes me feel. How difficult or long the piece took to create.


Occasionally, I will post art from someone famous along with fun facts to support it. Fun through the power of art.


Today, I offer you:





For fun, caption this photo in the comments. I'd love to hear from you!

Tag, You're It

I've been tagged by the lovely Liz Fichera.

1) Do you think you're hot?
I live in the desert. Of course I'm hot!! It's perpetually 100 degrees where I live. Oh. Wait. You mean, that kind of hot?! Um, no! But feel free to ask hubby :)

(Told you I was going to steal it, Liz!)

2) Upload a picture or wall paper you are using at the moment.

One of Pickyme Digital Artist's freebies. Psst, authors, she does covers too.

3) When was the last time you ate chicken meat?
Last week. We had Asian Slaw with Teriyaki Chicken. Yum.

4) The Song(s) you listened to recently?
Well, right now Higher Window from Josh Groban's Illuminations is playing.

5) What were you thinking as you were doing this?
Who am I going to tag? And I really need to get stuff done and not be playing online, LOL

6) Do you have a nickname?
Not really. Beloved sis got all the good ones. I sometimes get called Sher but it's not a favorite as I was tormented with Sonny and Cher jokes in elementary school. There's not much you can do with a name that translates into a winy cascade!

And this is where Liz cued the *creepy zombie music*

I'm tagging in no particular order:
George Allwynn
Krista D. Ball
Lindsay Buroker
Reena Jacobs
Ciara Knight
Tia Nevitt
Orlando Ramos
Jordan Summers

(I was wrong, the tags are in alphabetical order, and I didn't even plan that :shudder: Is that OCD?)

Rules: Answer a bunch of semi-embarrassing questions and then randomly tag eight more people who can then answer the same questions and tag eight more people and so on.  Go forth and have fun!

W is for Woodworking

My father-in-law is an amazing woodworker.

Just take a look at some of the gifts he's made for us over the years...

A cutting board too beautiful to use as a cutting board!

A toy car, made for Ian one Christmas.

And how about this adorable recipe card holder?

Is my father-in-law the bomb or what?

V is for Vacation

As in, I NEED ONE!

LOL

The boys were on Spring Break last week but we stayed close to home and they ended up being bored out of their minds.  Picture your worse kid related nightmare, times 4, throw in a dose of Grinchy "NOISE, NOISE, NOISE, NOISE," and it all equals last week.

It was nicely rapped up with an Easter party at Mark's boss' house Sunday night.

We're in the home stretch of this A to Z challenge and it's been fun. 

T is for Trampoline

R is for Rabbit

Because B for Bunny, D for Decorating, E for Easter, and H for Hopping Down the Bunny Trail are past.  So, here's some of our Easter decorations featuring Rabbits.

(That table cloth didn't even last 24 hours before one of the boys spilled on it, LOL, good thing it's washable!)

Q is for Quiet

A rare quiet morning!

P is for Pets

Bear is the cautious one.

Cal has no such worries.

The Great Guinea Pig Escape!

O is for Orange Blossoms

Our dwarf orange tree has flowers!  I'm really hoping we get some fruit this year...and that the boys don't pick all the budding oranges before they can mature!

N is for Nom de Plume

My alter ego was born this month. 

I agonized over whether or not to create a pen name.  I got amazing advice from Joely Sue Burkhart, Maria Zannini, and Kait Nolan, friends and mentors. I polled my family and Jewels, played a lengthy game of Pros and Cons, and in the end the need to keep the family separate from the writer won out.

I introduce to you Raelyn Barclay:

Blog
MySpace
Facebook
Twitter

I’m a long way from publishing that first story. However, donning Raelyn Barclay has made me serious about this writing dream, feeling my writing has become a career instead of a hobby.

L is for Ladle Rat Rotten Hut

Once long ago, in a country far away, a young man sat in a hospital bed recovering from open heart surgery. His crazy, fun-loving sister sent him a piece of paper upon which there were no capital letters nor punctuation nor spaces. He puzzled those letters till his puzzler was sore. By the time the letters meant words and the words made sense as a story, that young man had memorized the thing! And thus became a tradition at every family gathering for that young man to tell the tale of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.

Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder inner ladle cordage, honor itch offer lodge dock florist. Disk ladle gull orphan worry ladle cluck wetter putty ladle rat hut, an fur disk raisin pimple colder Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.

Wan moaning, Rat Rotten Hut's murder colder inset, "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, heresy ladle basking winsome burden barter an shirker cockles. Tick disk ladle basking tutor cordage offer groin-murder hoe lifts honor udder site offer florist. Shaker lake! Dun stopper laundry wrote! An yonder nor sorghum-stenches, dun stopper torque wet strainers!"

"Hoe-cake, murder," resplendent Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, an tickle ladle basking an stuttered oft. Honor wrote tutor cordage offer groin-murder, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut mitten anomalous woof. "Wail, wail, wail!" set disk wicket woof, "Evanescent Ladle Rat Rotten Hut! Wares are putty ladle gull goring wizard ladle basking?"

"Armor goring tumor groin-murder's," reprisal ladle gull. "Grammar's seeking bet. Armor ticking arson burden barter an shirker cockles."

"O hoe! Heifer blessing woke," setter wicket woof, butter taught tomb shelf, "Oil tickle shirt court tutor cordage offer groin-murder. Oil ketchup wetter letter, an den - O bore!"

Soda wicket woof tucker shirt court, an whinney retched a cordage offer groin-murder, picked inner widow, an sore debtor pore oil worming worse lion inner bet. Inner flesh, disk abdominal woof lipped honor bet an at a rope. Den knee poled honor groin-murder's nut cup an gnat-gun, any curdled dope inner bet.

Inner ladle wile, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut a raft attar cordage, an ranker dough belle. "Comb ink, sweat hard," setter wicket woof, disgracing is verse. Ladle Rat Rotten Hut entity bet rum an stud buyer groin-murder's bet.

"O Grammar!" crater ladle gull, "Wood bag icer gut! A nervous sausage bag ice!"

"Battered lucky chew whiff, doling," whiskered disk ratchet woof, wetter wicket small.

"O Grammar, water bag noise! A nervous sore suture anomolous prognosis!"

"Battered small your whiff," insert a woof, ants mouse worse waddling.

"O Grammar, water bag mousy gut! A nervous sore suture bag mouse!"

Daze worry on-forger-nut gulls lest warts. Oil offer sodden, thoroughing offer carvers an sprinkling otter bet, disk curl and bloat-thursday woof ceased pore Ladle Rat Rotten Hut an garbled erupt.

Mural: Yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers.

That young man grew up to be my uncle and while he has passed the torch to my nephew the tale of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut will always be his.

H is for Hookie...as in I'm playing Hookie Today!

F is for Forty-Five...gasp!

Who shares your birthday? I share today with:

Without cheating, how many of these fine folk can you name?

D is for Doctor Who

Yay! April 23rd can't come soon enough, LOL.  Yeah, I'm a nerd.

B is for Blog Challenge

Earlier this week I learned of the A to Z Blog Challenge. I love the idea. Basically you post six days a week, each day focusing on a specific letter, with a goal of getting through the entire alphabet by the time you reach the end of April.

I'm not officially joining the blog challenge but am going to attempt to do the blog posts in and around my regularly scheduled posts. So we'll see what fun I can get into on the blog for April.

There are over 700 blogger participating in this A to Z challenge.  April is going to be a busy blogging month!  People I know who are taking part:

Angelina Rain

Liz Fichera

Krista D. Ball Who, by the way, is gonna visit my li'l ol' blog this summer.

Ciara Knight

Jennifer Shirk

For fun, what kind of blog posts would you like to see this month?

Thoughtless Thursday

Saw this around the blogsphere earlier this week though I can't imagine ever having enough time on my hands to do something like this!

Teaser Thursday

of the brain variety, LOL

My sister and her family came over for dinner Tuesday night so we could all enjoy the 15 pound Salmon my nephew, Jeremy, caught Monday.  Somehow dinner conversation morphed to brain teasers and this one is quite good.

What common 3 letter word becomes a two syllable word with the addition of just one letter?

I'll post the answer next week if no one guesses it in the comments.

Phantom Wordle

A couple of my favorite authors were playing with Wordle recently. I decided to have some fun with my Ode to a Phantom post from last month.