Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins...

This semester's OLLI class was this  week!  I absolutely love guiding seniors along the way to complete a painting. Just look!  They're masterpieces!!! We had such a good time, and each of them should be so proud.

These ladies worked so hard!

We even made the newspaper!!!

When I teach one of these classes, I always create a few models and examples.

As is always true, theirs are priceless.

My examples, however, are for sale in my Etsy shop.

AND...

*** DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER THESE PUMPKINS AND ALL PAINTINGS AUTUMN RELATED WILL BE ON SALE 50% OFF! 

Click HERE to have a look! (Or send me a message. 😀)

I Like... (8/25)

Thank you to Leeanne of Not Afraid of Color for reminding me to notice things I like. 

Click on HER BLOG to see what positive things others like.

I like looking outside the backdoor and seeing
Fancy-like and her five crazy-fluffy babies.

I like nachos topped with vegetables from the garden.

I like making a little Lake Bag for each G4 (great grand kid)
at our yearly 3-day family gathering.
(**cat inspected and approved... below)

I like this big wonderful family!

I like having a yard full of happy hens.

I like a big garden tomato... actually any tomato from the garden.

I like an art lesson that tells me to start with a walk
around where I live to collect things I find. 
In my family, we call that a Serendipity Walk.

I like seeing flowers bloom
 and knowing a friend gave me the bulbs for them.

I like to see butterflies in my garden and on my flowers.

I like tomatoes.

I like my pretty daily harvests.

I like knowing that  although much has changed in the last half century,
somethings are exactly the same. :)

LeeAnne's  conversation starter topics this month:

Did you get school clothes and shoes for the start of school? My mother sewed everything I wore. I always had whatever clothes I needed, but I don't remember specifically getting brand new clothes made for the beginning of school. Did you look through the enormous Sears catalogue at all the possibilities and dream?  Absolutely.  But I don't think I bothered looking at the clothes.  I went right to the toy section. Remember going to the store with probably a mom, and trying on clothes?  I honestly don't have any memory of shopping for or trying on  clothes in a store. A shoe store for your "school shoes"  We had two shoe stores on Main Street in my town.  One was called Quality, and the other was called Budget. I do remember going to Budget. The guy would put my little foot in that measuring tool then bring a stack of shoe boxes. He'd put them on my foot and push on the toe to see how they fit. 

Did you take your lunch and did you use a little brown bag or have a lunch box? 

 I almost always ate the school lunches. In upper elementary I did get a lunchbox and pack myself a lunch sometimes.  It was in the shape of Snoopy's yellow doghouse. I usually bought lunch tickets too, for days when they had a really good meal like salisbury steak or sloppy joes. Ha ha... yeah, they did make a good sloppy joe didn't they!   What meals did you look forward to?  big square cheese pizza slices... fish sticks with tartar sauce... jello with fruit "cottontail"... applesauce... 
**Extra credit if you show a pic of one of your lunchbox.

Did you get a new notebook and paper to use that year? I remember having to have a red Big Chief note pad for practicing letters in first grade. The thing with those was that you needed to make all your pencil strokes or eraser strokes from top to bottom.  If you went up instead of down, you'd get a rip in your paper.  I remember picking a notebook was a big deal. I remember the year I got thin ruled paper instead of big lines. That was a big deal! I remember getting flair pens to use instead of pencils.Yep. 8th grade!  Do you still like having notebooks and calling them journals? Oh, my goodness... Do I "like" journals and notebooks? Ummm... I need a bigger word... need, appreciate, love, collect, accumulate, amass, hoard...

Did you do the pledge of allegiance every morning and then sing a patriotic song? Yes. And, as a teacher, we did that too.

What is your learning style, then and now? The main styles are auditory (hearing) rote or memorization, visual (maybe reading or seeing charts)  kinesthetic (that's me, learn by doing something like writing or making or touching) Are there other ways to learn I've forgotten? Is it still your style today? Can I just be a little of everything? I know that if I write it down and use color I am much more likely to remember.