FallingLadies

There are some blogs i follow where every post seems well planned out around one central theme, beautiful photos and art that all evokes a mood... This post will not quite manage all that as i am just going to throw my whole week at you in one big jumbled lump....

There...

here's my week the haphazard way it happens...

Cluttered mind commencing...

Blam...

Mandal making

In the sun for no purpose

It needed to be

Then, i have been sketching, or rather watercoloring like crazy in my sketchbook that i carry everywhere...

Yesterday i showed my seagull sketches, today it's leaves and mushrooms and cemetaries...

There's always cemetaries!

I haven't felt like starting in pen, or outlining in black at all, which i used to try so hard not to do but then just had to do it anyway. Now i suddenly like it better without!

I was loving the color brown... I had planned an ode to all the beatiful shades of brown, tan, burnt sienna, burnt umbre, raw sienna, hazelnut, walnut, russet,( i had to look that up in the dictionary by the way), Linen, auburn, the dreaded beige...And i have photos as well as sketches, from places i go on my lunch hour... The cemetaries, the fish hatchery, etc. Loving the last of the fall color!

Then since i started talking about my vegan diet and a few people acted intersted i have a vegan update for you... If you could care less what i ate then skip this paragraph...


My husband and i stuck to it all week except for last sunday when we went out for lunch. Living in a small town area it is hard to eat vegan out at a restaurant unless you just get a salad  and then it's even hard because some places already have cheese on there, or whatever. Anyway, i ate 6 shrimp last saturday and some cheese on my salad, other than that i was totally vegan for 3 weeks. I haven't lost only another few pounds after the first quickly lost 8 lbs. But yesterday we decided it was just too hard to stick to: the older kids at home don't want to eat that way, my youngest is on a gluten free/caseinne free diet anyway but eats alot of meat,  which is hard enough to deal with without adding vegan for us. We tried some really good and some really  bad foods...tempeh was horrible, we added it to a chili type veggie dish but even my 17 year old son, who will literally eat anything said "throw that stuff out". Then we tried some things from the new sushi area at wegmans, which does have some good vegan stuff, but "rice balls with bean jam" is not one of them. Again my 17 year old tried it and said "that is the wierdest substance i have ever eatten" it was horrible and also got thrown out. The seaweed salad was edible barely. We tried tofu and turk- y. I could live without most of that stuff. The home made larabars were a huge success though. I love Odwalla drinks and larabars but both are expensive so I make my own green smoothies and now we made our own larabars. you can google how to do it but it is very easy. We just seperately ground up equal parts  cashews and dates. and then knead them together with your hands then shape them into bars & wrap. I love them.
 So last night we had regular old pizza and it was sooo good. My goal now is to be just 80-90 percent vegetarian. We'll see how that goes.

I had planned to tell a great story about my son as well , nothing monumental, just a small moment that felt huge... but if I do, I will be late for work so I will save it for another day! happy paint party friday and see everyone at Haiku my heart later today!