Went to the Vintage Market Days at the Creek County Fairground and enjoyed browsing around the treasures among a fair-like feel!

Tonight was Homecoming in my little town.  That means parades; little kids & big kids in uniforms-band, football & cheer.  Leaves are starting to turn.  Evenings are getting cooler.  Tonight the moon was a delicious sliver of crescent orange.  Fall is upon us!!

This was the scene on the way to work one day this week...beautiful!  God is all around us!

Coming Soon!!  My new blog about art education! jenniferfoxbarretto.blogspot.com

Well, once again it has been a while since I have posted.  Seems like life interferes with this process... or is it life that makes blogging possible and meaningful... gives us something to say!? Back at work at my real job - teaching the little ones art.  Love to see my students excited about art!!  Last week one of my kindergarten kids said he wanted to be an art teacher when he grows up.  I do meaningful work...nice to be reminded.

I am working on some new ventures.  I have some new collage sheets on my etsy site.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/194848489/travel-one-1-x-3-inch-microscope-slide?ref=listing-shop-header-3

More to come soon.  I am also working on creating some digital scrapbooking kits.  It is so much fun to create these.  Here is a preview of one of the items from my "For the Birds" kit.

One of my favorite memories of childhood; both mine and with my own children was our trips to the Tulsa Zoo.  Even when I lived away, each summer when we came back to visit we would make sure to take the kids to the zoo.  We had our favorites- the polar bear, seals, & elephants usually topped the list.  Even today with my children almost grown it is still fun to go to the zoo and it isn't a summer trip without lots of photo opportunities!  That's what I was thinking when I made this collage sheet up today.  Guess it's time to go to the zoo!

One of the things I am managing to do this summer is get back to creating Collage Sheets from my vast collection of vintage ephemera.  This one has some of my favorite images.  Now I just need some great travel photos to put with this and create some artful memories.  www.sweetpeasandmemories.com