Totally Tubular

Here's Madison's Velvet Belle, a masterpiece of velvet artwork if I do say so myself. We got this for her at Christmastime, and recently she tried coloring it in. She didn't do too bad of a job, actually. We might hang this one up, perhaps in our gallery room, beside the framed velvet Elvis, and the velvet John Wayne. Okay, so those who know Daddy know that he's kidding about having those hanging up in the house - and yet you probably also know that he'd love to have a Velvet Elvis somewhere. To think that these were all over the place, and easy to find. Now, they are probably as valuable as works other fine works of art! But nothing is as valuable as the work Madison puts together - at least to me. That's one reason why I scan a lot of it: just in case we lose it somewhere down the road. Madison has been prolific with drawing and creating art, and we'll have to come up with some effective storage system soon!

Here's a place to put things: it's a tube! Not the Tube. This one is something that Ye-Ye and Nana got for Madison two years ago at Christmas. It rests on the floor beside her pink castle, and serves as a secret side entrance. Or, in this case it serves as a large vertical column of pink. The neat parts are the little windows she can peek out of. She just sort of scoots along and swallows up things on the floor along the way. I think this would be an ideal costume at Halloween, actually. Just deposit the candy in the top, and maybe put some lining around the waist to keep the candy from dropping to the ground. Then, slowly but surely the candy will pile up around you! Oh yeah, I've got it all planned out for sure!