My Book of Days

I have started a new watercolor journal. 

I am calling it My Book of Days. The book will 

consist of different days or events that will

 bring back memories for me.

Such as my trip to LaConner and dining with the seagulls.

Or maybe the fact that we have had little to no rain.So it

becomes an event when it happens.

I swear I saw the flowers turn their little heads upward to catch the raindrops.

I am still doing the 75 sketches in ink everyday but a girl has to 

have a little color every now and then. Therefore the journal.

Hope you are all having a great weekend. I am off to sketch the

 Festival at Mount Si.

Another New Journal.

The person who bought the last journal asked me 

to make another.  This is a terrible photo as the glare 

of the finish distorts the depth of the colors. It has 

extremely vibrant colors. Could be the fault of 

the photographer as she (me) was in to much of

a hurry. I had to run outside and take down all

 my hanging flower baskets as it was snowing.

I was tricked into thinking it really was warming

up. After all it was in the 70's. Now it's in the

30's. I had spent the week planting all these 

lovely baskets with annuals. Now they are all

huddled in the corner of the deck under a 

warm blanket. I give up. What's a girl

to do......

The Great Blue Heron

About a week ago I went for a walk about the property and well
you can read the rest above. So I started these pages for my journal.
Unfortunately  I've  "been down for the count" as one would say.
No not the flu or cold but very painful stomach pains. After 
rolling about the bed for three days I was "taken" to the doctor.
Tests were run, (many tests) and so far everything is coming
back normal. One more test result to go..... 
Now really I feel fine except for the stomach pains.
 Kinda takes the wind out of my sails so to speak.
But I am still alive and somewhat kicking. Thanks to all
for your concern. YES I wish I had been doing some 
magnificent  thing such as.....mmmmm at a painting class
in Italy, cooking lessons with a famous chef , laying in the sun 
on some far off island, you get the drift. I must say Teddy my 
loyal Bichon stayed by my side every second, starring at me
with those big brown eyes. I swear he took my pulse a couple 
of times. Anyway I don't like writing "non fun" stuff so I shall close
for now. Teddy wants to watch a rerun of Downton Abbey. He's
addicted. Have a great weekend everyone of you.

Just Having Some Fun...

. A little humor about me, a sweet potato and a wine glass.

A crazy robin last year....

She was certainly preparing for just about anything

warm up...warm up

I am hoping for a long hot summer.... paleez :-)  

Just having so fun   creating a little book full 

of  things that  I have done or thoughts I have had

and things I remember. Lots more pages to make 

before I sew it all together.

Beautiful Sunday

I woke to a gorgeous day, sunshine, not hot, birds singing,what more

could a girl as for. I have to deliver a new painting to

the restaurant as they sold TWO this week. Makes me

oh so happy. Then the rest of the day will be

Hope you all are having a wonderful Sunday.

Sketching Some Flowers

I am always happy when I find  the tiny wild violets

growing in the shade near the woods. They are just 

precious.

I planted Hollyhock seeds last year and they

grew...but no flowers. When they popped 

up this year they decided to bloom. I 

was unaware that they usually wait 

for the second year to bloom.

What a sweet surprise.

TGIF.....

My week started out wonderful

with a visit from my cousin who

lives in Oregon. She was on her

way home from a wedding and 

came for  a fun. visit. She brought me gorgeous 

flowers from the wedding. The roses actually

smelled like roses.

We went to dinner at a  Chinese Restaurant and

then rode over to see the falls in Snoqualmie. 

They are still roaring. That's from all the snow

pack we had. Just beautiful with the Salish Lodge

in the background.

I spent the rest of the week painting cards and

bookmarks, framing paintings for various shops.

Now I have deliveries to make.

 Hope you all have a beautiful weekend.

June Calendar Ends & July Calendar Begins

I finished my June Calendar today. 

This was a fun way to journal about

your events for the month. Click on
photo if you want to know what I
was up to!!

Now on to July.

I hope July will bring more sunshine and

outdoor art excursions! 

Calendar Art

 

I have enjoyed Terri Kahrs calendar art

for 6 months now. Then I had a light bulb

moment.!! (duh) Since I am no good at

keeping a diary but always wonder what I 

did last year at this time, I could join this 

group and do a artsy type calendar. This 

I could attempt. So thank you queen of the arts

Ms. Terri Kahrs over at Pringle Hill Studio 

for alerting my grey cells to another fun project.

Drop over and see her calendar for May. It's a WOW!

Actually this was all started by Kate 

who lives just North of London UK.

Drop by there to see her lovely blog.

So I am off and running on another fun project,

plus filling my Grow journal with watercolors

of what is growing around Wildflower.

Click on the photo's for a closer look at what is

happening in my "exciting" (yawn) life. 
OOPS! I forgot to tell you what I used to 
make this. I used Copic markers and Micron pens!

Triple Journal Page for Strathmore

Strathmore is doing this great journaling

project.  One of the ideas was to cut down

your journal pages. This made the

viewer more interested in what the

next page would show. Above is my

first page, below is my second and third.

I really had to think this out, figuring 

how it would flow. The progression.

I enjoyed this idea a lot. Was really 

happy when my journals finally arrived.

 So now I play catch up!

Green Grow Journal Finished!!!

Just finished up this journal and thought you

might like to see what I did with my little

stitching piece. 

I decided this would be a watercolor journal. 

It has 60 pages of 140lb watercolor paper. 

It measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, has a linen 

cover with the hand embroidery with 

vintage button and beads.

Just another fun project now back to organizing 

my studio. Should be able to get my big

drafting table in today.... I hope, I hope, I hope!!!!

The Sketchbook Challenge for March

The challenge for March is spilling over. I am taking that

to mean as example a sketch spilling over into another 

project. Such as a small fiber art quilt.

So this is my starting sketch that I have just started

work on. I am playing around with the idea of a 

small quilted piece. We will see...

I love lilies and bought  many a week ago. I sit 

here waiting for all the snow to melt, planning

my garden and decided to draw one. It was suggested to

try to look at the lily 80% of the time and at your 

paper only 20% of the time. I wasn't to sure ,

but gave it a try. I think it works!!! Now back to

painting. I'll keep you posted as to my progress.

Milliande has started a new year...new art journal

Milliande has started the year off with the letter Z.

Day one had to do with z and zebras.

This was my art journal entry. Click on photo for closeup.

Check out her art community and have some fun.
The button is on my sidebar.