The Art Crawl

Susan was invited to be a featured artist at The Paper Collector Art Gallery & Professional Framing for the Saint Cloud Art Crawl, September 17th, 2010, which was open to the public this evening from 5-9pm...

Jon's mother, Pat Ramsey, attendee of the Art Crawl, is surprised by a painting Susan did of her granddaughter a few years ago with requests to please pass on to the artwork's muse:


Susan painted her "mom's home" as a birthday gift to her mom (September 23rd) which she showed at the Art Crawl before her mom got to take it home:
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"Smokey" a favorite old painting (painted 16 years ago of pet cat) was shown there:


an artist's Wizard of Oz hand-sewn doll creations:



Susan really liked this artist's sea creatures paintings hung on a different wall:


art viewers:


A tipsy lady married to a lawyer who was interested in two of Susan's paintings:


art crawl wanderers who are probably more interested in the wine and cheese:


The most popular of Susan's work amongst the public:


susan with Ben's friend from high school, Adam Seutter:


artist angst:

Long, long ago (in a galaxy around the corner)...

We, Susan & Jon (awkwardly pictured below) went on a trip to Duluth this past June:



While there, we saw beautiful scenery (Canal Park lighthouse):



(ship coming into Canal Park harbour):



("sea"-gulls):



...and on the way home, Susan played "self-portraits" with their camera, a game which Jon does not love very much:

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...and the sun shined over a field of windmills on the way home:




Later in June, we went to Susan's niece's wedding where there were pretty flowers:




In July, Jon played a beautiful Nina Simone song at his in-law's 50th Wedding Anniversary Party:




Susan inherited her Grandmother Miranda Henrietta Rose Denbrooke Heath's skill for horticulturing african violets (the trick is to not get the leaves wet, ever):




Susan made her ward's YW girl's camp flag:



...and did NOT act like a camp leader - she's the 2nd one in from the left:

(note: Susan got asked daily at camp if she was a leader or a camper).


A Monarch visited the Ramsey house of royalty:



Bonnie Wright stole Susan's face:


(screen still from a new film to be released soon).


Our neighbour gave us our pumpkin that was growing on their side of the fence; it is turning a nice bright orange on the kitchen table now:



and Susan colored her hair red:



In other non-photographed newz:

Susan's art will be published next month in Melvin Lans' online art magazine (Jon's artist friend from Colombia, South America)

Jon has been patiently teaching Susan quantum mechanics (while enduring her lack of basic math skills)

Jon started helping coach his niece Breanna's soccer team

and Susan started leaving fewer carbon footprints on the planet by taking the bus to work, which she likes because it feels like school.

dogs in springtime...

susan and margie like to cuddle and watch tv:


Piper, not understanding the game of "fetch the ball", fetches Margie instead:


...and is pleased with herself when she feels she has successfully fetched Margie:


Margie offers the ball to anyone willing to throw it for her again:


susan planted holly bushes last summer, and this year they are blooming, which brings so many possibilities for christmas decorations:


susan never noticed how the quaking aspens budded like pussy willows in early spring:

Stuff only my Mom would care about:

AAAhhh, the family blog update. It will be severely boring to you unless you are my mother. So, Margie and Piper will try to take you along on a journey through our latest happenings...

Here we are waiting for Sue to throw the ball. She makes us wait too long, But we'll stand here forever, drooling, until she does:


One evening, she made an oven-roasted chicken and we couldn't stand the torture of being forced to smell it all night without being able to eat all of it. A lousy small treat portion was given:


Here's Leo who, just as he got good at climbing trees, has been quarantined inside after a neighbour complained of the cats pooping in their flower beds:


Here's sassy, jerk Napoleon. He whines a lot when he can't go outside. and whaps us and bites sometimes. what a jerk. but Susan seems to like cuddling with him for some reason:


Here's fat cat Phineas who lies around, eats, and meaows when he gets lost in the basement every 5 minutes:


Here we are running the ball back to susan so she'll throw it again to us for us to chase. our job is hard, but we love doing it:


We got to poop in this area of the yard for a year to get susan's garden all fertilized. then we got to eat all the grass out for her. then she planted her seeds yesterday, so we don't get to go in there anymore. But we do still have to eat all the grass around the fence, so our work is never complete, until winter (then we have the "stick project" to worry about):


Here's soem Spring litter susan found in our front yard after the snow melted. It was the most interesting as of yet! Half a Cinderella doll, a kid army jacket, energy drinks, and meat sticks... mmm, good stuff to chew on i'd say:


Here's all of us pets lying on susan as jon takes the picture. we like to all lie on her because she gets really warm and scratches our backs:


here's the front yard flowers this year. some sort of animal must've eaten all the Black Beauty tulips this year:


but here was a stray black beauty:



and an orange spikey one:


the parrot kind:


purple:


and a home-made hybrid:


The End. We hope you enjoyed our update... Do we get a treat now???