Happy paint party friday

Happy Paint Party Friday a day late.  Lots of alphabet pages to show today. I may even have them all done now, I just have to gather them all up and check as they are now scattered throughout 3 different sketchbooks ...

 

 

      I have been sick again, another stomach bug, like last month.  I hope that is done for the winter,  it was No fun at all. So Still feeling like hibernating a bit, and staying quiet and still. 

But I hope you are all well. 

lists

I am always making lists.

Things I am thankful for, 

things to do,

things to draw, 

garden plans,

every Christmas gift I have ever gotten,

what I ate,

where I would like to go, 

things to  look up,

things to make,

things to make lists of....

I have been doing this forever.

My daughter tells me obsessive list making is a sign of ADHD.

Probably.

 Especially if you rewrite the same list over and over.

I do

I am not making light of anyone with ADHD. And I have never been diagnosed, but living with autism I can now see traits from Autism, Aspergers, PPD-NOS, ADD, OCD, ETC. in myself and almost everyone around me. I guess what makes the difference is how many of these traits we each have. and how well we can function with these traits.

I think I have just enough ... not too many, not too few.

I mean, aren't you a fan of the quirky personality?

So anyway, I have been lately posting more than just art, i am enjoying thinking of posts to do taht aren't just paintings but whatever i am thinking about...
 Posts in a series...
posts just about color....

adventures with autism....

a glimpse in my sketchbook....

sacred circle mandala photos,

and lists....

so here's my first list...
a photographed list,
or rather a list in pictures,

nothing too quirky to start with.

5 things I am thankful for lately

(apart from my family of course)

1. a gift...

2. looking up...

3. working on my future book.....

4. Muffins with honey....

and 5. Gigantic mushrooms

My news!

I have news! I will just blurt it out...

I am going to be in a book!!!!!

I am very excited! Walter Foster publishing is doing a mandala book! It's a how to book for creating mandalas and they saw my art online and asked if i would be interested in contributing! Of course, i was, so the book is already underway! I will have 6 mandalas in it, and i have been happily painting away! And, yes, every sentence there needed an exclamation point!!!

I am posting one today that i decided not to use. I like it but wasn't totally pleased so i decided to redo it before submitting to the book. 

I will add a link when the book is ready, it is all moving pretty quickly.....

2 Works in progress...

Not much to show except a fee tiny glimpses of two large canvases i have recently started, much bigger than i normally do and i am trying avoid falling ladies or mandalas in these. But i AM trying to put in pieces of things i love, just glimpses.....

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!

New Postcards

Had some of my art made up into glossy postcards.......

Available in my etsy shop after the holidays, I am putting it on vacation mode for a few weeks for the holidays...

Day 12

Had the day off; teacher conference, yard work and some time for art!

I should have written on the novel for Namowrimo.....but i didn't, not one word. I just didn't feel like it. I thought, why am i putting myself through this? I have nothing to say. 

Now today, i have ideas again... And i remembered why i wanted to write and i am newly commited to finishing this ridiculous novel but i am off to work so barely any time. But I will write today... I will.

In the mean time here is some of my playing in my sketchbook with acrylics. It's just play, nothing serious, no masterpieces! No worrying about an outcome....Just Play!

Sorry, it's dark in my house, no sun in the window to help with getting a better photo...

 I had planned a different post for today but the leaves and fall colors this week were just too pretty not to take photos of. I have also been working on the Bee Queen's message (Go here or  here for other posts about what I mean). I am even to the point of starting to use BLURB to publish it, but as I do that I am having to go back and do some new art. Here's some pieces...

 above is  the piece that will become a doll (using spoonflower) to go along with the story...

 You'll just have to wait to see it all and hear the queen message....