huggs and kisses to you guys... :-*you made me feel so good....thankyou for all the encouragement...i try really hard and have very limited time to work on this so when i do and it doesn't turn out right, it makes me mad.... i just want to do good and it to look like more than a 5 yrs. old did it....around here, where i live, NO ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, as far as I know, paints this way...sooo, in some ways it's fine...but i am my own worst critic...you guys are all so very good and i am tryig to catch up....i will get there with all the good advice from you! Thanks for helping me out here...and yes, i will enter it...even if it doesn't win, i'm just glad to be in the running....lol....
