Suziblu - Lovin' it.

Here is the last of my entries to my online art class - Petite Dolls w/suziblu. I loved this class - it brought back all my inspiration - if only for a few weeks. I loved it...

is like it never was

babies
oh-wow - babies. Arent they the greatest? My first baby was my niece Jocelyn. Oh My God...what a perfect baby to love - she was my brother's ( my hero's) first born and oh, what a beloved creature she was to me...I felt like she was mine.... she WAS mine! Oh, yeah and my brother's and my sister-in-law created her, but she was MINE! - i was my brother's sister - my brother's "girl" - it was the blood line - me - my big brother - his 1st born. no one else mattered - I love my SIL, but my brother's baby was part of me. My little sister - my first-born blood relative after the rest....I totally was in love with her. But then there was the envy. She was his "girl" - oh Diane was his wife and lover and friend and confidant now, - but Jocie was apart from that - his girl - his spawn - his "person" who was like me but different - but "related" in the same sense as "ONE".

My dad never experienced this... he left

AFTER SUZI BLU

This is me.

I am 55 years old. I've been other people's "person" for all of my life. I've been my mothers and my father's daughter. I've been my (beloved) brother's sister. Then I was my husband's wife. Then I was my daughter's mother.....and now, finally, I am me. Myrtle (oh god!) better known as Merril (and then Meryl) - Meryl now. after years and years of being Myrtle. My mother's name, her mother's name. 3 myrtles - and then recently I found out that there is a haunted hotel named the 3 myrtles - yeah, that would be me.
After so many years of filled to the brim people in my life - I am finally here, on my own, and loving it. More later.

Suzi Blu Mixed Media Class

Wow - I am so so psyched for this - I have not been this inspired since before my daughter was born - 26 year ago! I am loving this class - I am "one" with my creativity once again. Visit here at:
http://suziblu.ning.com/profile/Meryl#chatter-2186326:Comment:23300 - we're having fun!

Joining the world of artists...

I have just joined a creative group of people called, "Mixed Media With Suzi Blu" - I think this is going to be fun. I'm hoping it will help with my "blockage."

Here is Michael and Falyn in a restaurant on our Christmas trip to New York to see the Little Mermaid - had a great time.

Happy New Year!

Some pictures of life from 2007...

Here's Rich on top of the Hoover Dam. Sporting his Eagles tatoo.