Looking back

Looking back over this year i have accomplished quite a few things i had hoped for in 2014.....

I tried out a few new hobbies and really liked them....

Wood carving, see the post here...

Woodburning, here

I also had fun hiking with family...here

 And did a lot of paintings....some are  here, 
 here,  here, and here

And tried some new foraged foods.... here., and here,

And started a garden...here, here

And canned tons from our garden...

and made a lot of smoothies from my garden... here and here...

 And i worked on  a children's picture book..here and here..and .. The bee queen's message

And wrote almost a complete novel... here and here and  wild phlox season

I joined Nanowrimo, ICAD, PPF,, and Creative Everyday month in November...And i am sure there's more.... But i am starting to really plan goals for 2015 over the next couple days... Once i get the tree down and all. I'd keep it up longer but with the extra pets here over Christmas it's too hard to keep them all out of it. (With my two cats and a dog and with the two cats my oldest daughter brought home with her for the week, and the 3 animals that belong to my second daughter who is living back home again, that makes 5 cats, two dogs and 1 bunny).

It's almost as hard as keeping my son (or myself) out of everybody's christmas chocolate or the christmas fudge!

Hope everyone had as nice a christmas as we did here!

the Bee Queen

I posted some watercolors awhile back that have been turning into a story... here's another piece towards that picture book....

 This illustrates the conversation the Bee Queen has with the leader of the crows, to ask for his help...

Hopefully more to come soon...

white on white

I love white on white, and decided to stay with white gel pen on these white bits of ocean glass....I think they would look good in a little white tea cup on  someone's desk or in bird's nest or a little bowl crafted by tiny hands of paper clay....

This last one is drawn on a pottery shard, it's about 2 inches across.
They're listed in my etsy shop if anyone is interested.