Team Dulin Rocks Again

In lieu of our regular Marriage & Family Wednesday night group at church, they had a Valentine's Day 'event.' Danny and I volunteered to be one of the couples to play the "How Well Do You Know Your Mate?" game. I'm proud to announce we kicked some serious butt.

We were the newlyweds. We were up against 2 other couples. One being a couple married for 19 years and the other over 40 years. The oldest couple were hilarious (not on purpose). One of the questions was "Who was the first person to say 'I love you' ?" The husband wrote down on his dry erase board: "Adam." Um, no. That was not exactly what we meant by the question......He was also the same partner that said his best friend was "Charlie Smith. She hates Charlie" when his wife answered, "I said it was ME."

Danny missed only one question -- what was my mother's maiden name. He answered: Lin. Are you kidding me?

I missed one too. The last question was "What get's your spouse in the mood?" Danny said candles and I said "Valium" which got a nice laugh from the crowd, but then said, "Your kisses."
I know, try not to gag.

The best answer was from the oldest couple. The wife answered: "In the summertime when you get a tan." WOW. The house fell down.

Anyways, we won with 40 pionts and got a nice $50 gift certificate to Carrabba's -- woo hoo! Nice! That's right, Team Dulin Rocks!

So the truth is we actually PRACTICED. Yeah, that's how competitive we are, we practiced in the car that afternoon. My hubby was so smart and quizzed us. Never underestimate the power of preparation.

Painting Class #6

Today Don the instructor and Van the man I originally thought was the instructor brought in 2 boxes of Duncan Donuts. I'm gonna get fat from painting class.....

Today started a new session and two new people joined us. Another older woman - Adele, and a recent graduate student Jenny (she looks like she is in her early 30's). Jenny had her iMac laptop in class to draw from the image. I would NEVER do this. Are you kidding? There is paint and crap all over those tables and you want to put your Mac laptop on that??? Blasphemy!

Its official. I hate my painting but have loved the process and learning how to even struggle through the process again. Today, I mainly worked on my face. I know you will find this hard to believe but I am having a hard time looking at myself so much. No, shut up. I mean it.

Take a look.....

Painting Class #5 & The Red Scarf

Well, I got my new red scarf Monday in painting class. Who knew Don the instructor was such a wiz at knitting? During class he had his huge thing of red yarn and was knitting away at another red scarf.

I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but I'm wondering if I could trade my scarf in for a different style. I think I'd like it to be half as wide and 1/3 longer. I like that skinny scarf look.

I'd intended to focus on the faces in my painting, but only managed a meager attempt on mine and that was at the end of class.

I'm feeling frustrated as I think my desire to keep painting versus being patient and waiting for the paint to dry between classes to continue is potentially going to ruin my painting. I was going to incorporate a flower in the painting but compositionally it just didn't work. I tried it 3 times before I gave up.


I added more large areas of color which I like. There's texture there too but you can't see it in the pic above. The type treatment was an idea I got and wanted to see how it would work. Basically, I have a set of alphabet letter cookie cutters. I put paint on the edges and stuck them to the canvas to make the imprints. Once they dry, I will paint in those areas.

P.S. -- The woman who fell last week was not in class. Hope she's alright.....