a week of no sleep...

well hardly any sleep, My son goes through streaks of not sleeping, the worst was wednesday, he didn't fall asleep till 6:00 am,............ then when he actually slept the last 2 nights I woke up feeling sooooooo goood, I could've danced around flinging glitter on everyone I saw.

It's true the old folktale.... we used to tell this story to our 4 year olds with felt figures to illustrate it when I worked in HeadStart..... about the man who couldn't sleep because it was too noisy in house with his wife and kids so the wise woman told him to make it worse by adding another animal to his little shack, he did but still couldn't sleep, so he asked for advice again, she told him add another, a cow to his little shack, again it didn't help, so she told him to add a horse, and on and on until he couldn't fit into his shack hardly at all. Of course he still couldn't sleep at ALL so he went back one more time and she told him to get rid of all the animals. He did and the house was so quiet with just his wife and kids that he slept wonderfully!!!
Anyway, I did get a few things done... a painting of our fall leaves... just for fun. I wanted to leave the background white like a botanical but just couldn't stand all the white space... I need to work on that.

and some photos taken while going for rides on dirt roads in our foothills, my son's favorite thing to do lately.... I may try to paint the deer...

and some photos from the Naples Grape festival. The grapes smelled sooo wonderful just walking past this vineyard... I'm pretty sure I want to try to paint the grapes! We HAD to buy a grape pie, of course!

And I finshed one of the needlefelted ornaments I showed about 3-4 weeks ago...I think it's done. It's hard to know when to stop with the beads and embroidery etc.

 I'm hoping next week to have more detailed photos of how I make the ornaments as I have a few more started. Have a great week!

What I've been doing this week

Well these photos don't represent all I've done creatively this week as I finished 4 paintings at work.... I start a ton and work on them all a little here and there so when I finish I finish a lot.I only have a photo of one though as I left the rest at work and we have a snow day here in NY. My daughter and I have been needlefelting again... Can't wait for warmer weather to get outside more though...

She's obviously falling for you....

The cat even "helped" us create... I'm almost finished with the butterfly this little lady will ride...

This little mermaid has a story to tell but she hasn't shared it with me yet..... something to look forward to!

To see more creatinve things try these 4 sites....
http://themagiconions.blogspot.com/  for their friday nature table
http://naturalsuburbia.blogspot.com/ for their creative fridays
http://madelinebea.com/blog/ for theme related creativity in the sunday creative and to
http://creativeeveryday.com/
and these will be available at my daughter's etsy shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/barefootbananas?ref=seller_info and/or at my etsy shop which you can click on at the right... Thanks for stopping by,say hello if you have time...