5 things

Another busy week.

Here's 5 things that made me happy...

1. Going in to work early for some overtime let me see some amazing sunrises!

2. Going for rides with my son, I got to see some wonderful animals.... Deer, a bear just outside of town about 30 yards from a woman having a yard sale who never even knew it was there, bunnies, Hawks, cardinals, and this 

heron.....

3. Harvesting all this from my garden! My daughter is juicing 3 times a day while she quits smoking and will probably juice this all up in no time. She's made it over a week now so I am proud of her!

4. Searching through fabric for a new project. (I know... The voice in my head says "another new project! You haven't finished the last projects yet!") but I am shushing it because it is fun to plan, and technically it is not a NEW project if it has been rattling around I my head for over a year.

5. Playing in my sketchbook just for fun. I had no plans to do anything with this piece, I just wanted to practice more monsters, like I have posted the last few Sunday's to "Sunday sketches", but This time I wanted to start with random water colors instead of with a sketch, to see if that would change them up a bit and trigger some new ideas....

5 things

Busy few weeks lately.... 

So here's a list of 5 things that made me happy....

1. Rain after so much summer without it.

2. The smell of wild phlox (true wild phlox) on my desk at work.

3. 40 years with this man... We celebrated our 32nd anniversary this week! This is us in high school...

4. Made a little pouch for my gift cards and credit cards out of my own fabric. It took only 2 8x4 pieces and 2 4x4 pieces and fleece for lining.

5. More alphabet kids painted.

5 random things

1. I have added so much to my charm quilt pinterest board that I needed to make another one... called english paper piecing. They are my most popular boards. One thing from it I would love to try is making this fabric scrap twine....

Or to make these with scrap fabric instead of scrap paper...

Or buy this book... 

2. I have put no effort into my cafe press shop in over a year but I have had one thing continue to sell regularly....

This peacock mandala on wall clocks, throw blankets and magnets.  

I really don't make much per sale but it is really great knowing people out there in the world have a clock with an image I painted!

3. Another thing that seems to sell with no help from me anymore is the 8x8 swatch of fabric for the Bee Queen doll on my spoonflower account....

I love thinking a little girl (or adult) has a little Bee Queen doll on her shelf or in her pocket!

I keep telling myself to get the picture book done. 

Technically the art is done and it has been all completed in book form on blurb except for the last page. All I have to do is add the artwork to the page and finish the back book cover and click "done". It has been 3-4 months since I finished the art work yet I cannot get myself to click done. What am I waiting for? why am I procrastinating?

Am I afraid of failure once it is out there?
sometimes i think I should redo the art as it's not quite right...

I just don't know.

Maybe saying this "out loud" on here will force me to get with it and finish it.....

we shall see!?!

4. I have been painting daily again!
But i don't have them photographed to show yet, except this little guy...
My latest addition to my etsy shop is here.

I painted this little owl named Worsted a year ago and kept him in the box with the other painted stones but I never photographed him or listed him. He's been biding his time in the dark but now he needs to go out into the world. Maybe he was just a slow learner or maybe he had failure to launch but I think he is finally ready now. 

5. The winter here in the Fingerlakes region of NY has been very mild but we did get a storm recently.
The roads were really bad but it was beautiful.
My photos don't do it justice at all. The best parts of the road are too dangerous to stop for a photograph because there's no place to pull over on the side. These were taken a day after the storm and bad roads...
It was like driving through a glass forest with bright sun shining through it. and then snow on top of that!
so pretty....

5 things from last week

This week we have been sick with colds but last week I managed some watercoloring painting and other stuff....
1. i want to make this paperweight with my mandalas...
2. I laughed at this video, and actually any of Ellen's videos, especially with Melissa McCarthy....
3. So surprised this instalation is made with tape.....
4.and fell in love with this artist's pieces that are a mix of fiber, crochet and paint
5. And I finished something!!!!....my coloring book, "Unruly Flowers" is ready on Blurb.com. it's 6X9 inch and 24 pages but as they are one sided images it contains 10 different wildflower scenes. You can see it or purchase it by clicking on the image to the right. Finally.

here's some watercolor paintings of the flowers in the coloring book....

5 more things with rhubarb but this time with strawberries too

1.  Made rhubarb frosting to go on graham crackers for my son, by adding the rhubarb syrup that i made to butter and xx sugar.

2. Made two more strawberry rhubarb pies because the family liked them so much....

3. Made rhubarb- strawberry waffles to put the rhubarb syrup on.

4. wish i had time to have made this too...

5.. I sketched some quick pieces in my sketchbook...