tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73862523855389578932024-03-18T09:09:28.722-05:00Word Weaver ArtHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.comBlogger910125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-5095746887046971582024-03-09T20:14:00.004-06:002024-03-14T08:35:31.540-05:00Easter Bunny & Some Springtime Bunnies<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLB_ZAVQo5GBM-pqZeymIbsiwpLl25EUm-n4vSm6_ShnuwAuzK5c9TxPLBEqvsVodKSc2crFFkN2tjwRd-OjMITg-vwuYFGrlUSLH-eUls0kl3N0-KAUV-PHTpeHkmM7DVUF34hWalF4j3qjZ4tbXmyqfUogFKAW4blR59jXkPXJio8inWbGSKb8bPgQ/s2825/685%20Easter%20Bunny%202-24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2825" data-original-width="2104" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLB_ZAVQo5GBM-pqZeymIbsiwpLl25EUm-n4vSm6_ShnuwAuzK5c9TxPLBEqvsVodKSc2crFFkN2tjwRd-OjMITg-vwuYFGrlUSLH-eUls0kl3N0-KAUV-PHTpeHkmM7DVUF34hWalF4j3qjZ4tbXmyqfUogFKAW4blR59jXkPXJio8inWbGSKb8bPgQ/w298-h400/685%20Easter%20Bunny%202-24.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I painted this Easter bunny...</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Then all of her springtime friends!!!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTyvK3pYTK11GBp91I7p0d97iUEnyEZPl2CiaxefMLIDP12wa6_IeL86QCSPqYO9do7nZvXjGRqIjOaoUcIwPFFSi32L8J_o3LxSF10wFbji4pXkYeIbH9nTCJ3Uk-QcDSGgpa0Wtn5liRb6YJWqOCRVM6w7yJRjkjnLJkYZkROI-CilrNrsQ8nKoCAA/s2830/20240127_203030.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2830" data-original-width="2132" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTyvK3pYTK11GBp91I7p0d97iUEnyEZPl2CiaxefMLIDP12wa6_IeL86QCSPqYO9do7nZvXjGRqIjOaoUcIwPFFSi32L8J_o3LxSF10wFbji4pXkYeIbH9nTCJ3Uk-QcDSGgpa0Wtn5liRb6YJWqOCRVM6w7yJRjkjnLJkYZkROI-CilrNrsQ8nKoCAA/w301-h400/20240127_203030.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzUafKghEJHLTpVCNRtVNVMa_lHknG4DoDP50RxraEP_1vtbRzDFZYcYJNMOyXdtjwqkGDanYKnlH-OoehmQrA67sS48t8WsQFFF0V727ZQUVuF_GwWEdyUVnUocPOUvH1o9RQvUy_xl5hsNWez2-wlIaRi5A-Ds-FHD5H-rBKbvx4XKK3ZtbvARWNQ/s2371/20240309_111137.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2371" data-original-width="1738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzUafKghEJHLTpVCNRtVNVMa_lHknG4DoDP50RxraEP_1vtbRzDFZYcYJNMOyXdtjwqkGDanYKnlH-OoehmQrA67sS48t8WsQFFF0V727ZQUVuF_GwWEdyUVnUocPOUvH1o9RQvUy_xl5hsNWez2-wlIaRi5A-Ds-FHD5H-rBKbvx4XKK3ZtbvARWNQ/w294-h400/20240309_111137.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;">Whenever I'm planning to teach a painting lesson, I want to practice until I can do it without much thought. So... My bunnies multiplied... as bunnies do.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivdl_bkcpcfbVoGXKAONuJ9uWz5ugsiZIjRVwvcmaFb5_upeFZnaPVdjeEXlcItUsTvbjlmk2Z7IaLbhgz0c5Fg0Zs0tKwfg0KoGbbToNkIeQKNCgz2LFFzu52jsLOimz9FJvsGIvp7lJbqgWwhzetdCy0Vq5uuzEcXlI70hMubD96bGk5QADlaIUmzg/s4000/20240308_182117.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="4000" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivdl_bkcpcfbVoGXKAONuJ9uWz5ugsiZIjRVwvcmaFb5_upeFZnaPVdjeEXlcItUsTvbjlmk2Z7IaLbhgz0c5Fg0Zs0tKwfg0KoGbbToNkIeQKNCgz2LFFzu52jsLOimz9FJvsGIvp7lJbqgWwhzetdCy0Vq5uuzEcXlI70hMubD96bGk5QADlaIUmzg/w400-h140/20240308_182117.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;">These lovely ladies of my church worked (and played) so hard and painted some lovely bunnies of their own.</i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2i-L3GT1MHHK9hBXUg1w8pBEKW5WsvqwE1fvxqCQPbULDypwJilb3rVELKXKCqIzSD4f_YN99Fze5VfvEXxNUEq0h1R1-Okpi0W0Pb8-kCzeajEOu7f_NoL3IYOtCXwEwCJ0C3QP3KZT0FIuTM4I8pIWS2um6s48XQgNkwXG60aKb6PnjlrlBDX7McQ/s1104/Bunny%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1071" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2i-L3GT1MHHK9hBXUg1w8pBEKW5WsvqwE1fvxqCQPbULDypwJilb3rVELKXKCqIzSD4f_YN99Fze5VfvEXxNUEq0h1R1-Okpi0W0Pb8-kCzeajEOu7f_NoL3IYOtCXwEwCJ0C3QP3KZT0FIuTM4I8pIWS2um6s48XQgNkwXG60aKb6PnjlrlBDX7McQ/w388-h400/Bunny%201.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">It all started with a Weekly-ish challenge which was "All the Colors of the Rainbow." That's when I painted the Easter bunny with the R.O.Y.G.B.I.V. eggs in her basket.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">Acrylic Paintings on...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">12"x 16" Canvas Board</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">Click </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1693223239/easter-bunny-acrylic-painting-white" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"> if you'd like to purchase the first one.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">9"x 12" Wrapped Canvas</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Click </i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1679093394/gray-bunny-acrylic-painting-9x-12-tulips" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a><i> if you'd like to purchase the last one.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">9"x 12" Flat Canvas</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">9"x 12" Watercolor Paper</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Let me know if you'd like one of these others.</i></span></div></div><p></p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-11769717377464540322024-03-07T03:00:00.000-06:002024-03-07T03:00:00.145-06:00I Like Thursday 3/24<p> <i style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Thank you to Leeanne of </i><a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><b>Not Afraid of Color </b></a><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">for reminding me to notice things I like. </i></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"></b></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjskEyuuieWceu1Ow5ov7LEqFsct-xKq1Gk7H_BDmIn6U_H3ZUBw8gNcs5L12TbhJYUIa9xijGVW7_xvg_kacr6pNLngMtEJB30ue8mEIJDFbHl7K8MY_XpDoNlZsFjUuE_1cpt3dWOzuUJ1r9-sJT6jf_LuWBYXuMqjnOZPyTAe5BuiFWl3dwwu4-fZQ/s3515/IMG_1629%20-%20Copy.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3026" data-original-width="3515" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjskEyuuieWceu1Ow5ov7LEqFsct-xKq1Gk7H_BDmIn6U_H3ZUBw8gNcs5L12TbhJYUIa9xijGVW7_xvg_kacr6pNLngMtEJB30ue8mEIJDFbHl7K8MY_XpDoNlZsFjUuE_1cpt3dWOzuUJ1r9-sJT6jf_LuWBYXuMqjnOZPyTAe5BuiFWl3dwwu4-fZQ/w400-h344/IMG_1629%20-%20Copy.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">I like having a friend to paint with and to get to share our art with.</i></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzXxiqEaNR7K-HERxSkjWL4_MTfoBjdkP418N62OLsWk16DzhJPVLMNcxSyP73M4okBZEmYluZXMF6KKyT4STh8c9KbV9KDCTrrgaZA_t56h3mFaryfgghm2Pxn0ojbP1oh-t4FFGpu6n0o7in809ZjrhfwzFfLz3XvNJKd7U8I5IIAaMJ-VFe-crNpQ/s4000/20240202_171812.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzXxiqEaNR7K-HERxSkjWL4_MTfoBjdkP418N62OLsWk16DzhJPVLMNcxSyP73M4okBZEmYluZXMF6KKyT4STh8c9KbV9KDCTrrgaZA_t56h3mFaryfgghm2Pxn0ojbP1oh-t4FFGpu6n0o7in809ZjrhfwzFfLz3XvNJKd7U8I5IIAaMJ-VFe-crNpQ/w400-h225/20240202_171812.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">I like walking around the bend and seeing deer. <br />They stand still and stare... until they raise their tails and run.</i></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJG84LRa1Ot-dbKaJwJrXXMxjty5bf6qE1oqKu01tc7FNJ0kMm_MuZBL4N0ShjlOBhvJR6glbikl8LdDUtINx-RZpYgz8af687KoTh974mqGlh4Hw2ui-TE6Dzl5W93J8z2Z79IEKjFzL9EGAuZatMMc4J1JTuvmStnD_JJfcrTmVNkM4qA2I0ogyHFw/s2419/20240205_062610.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2419" data-original-width="2036" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJG84LRa1Ot-dbKaJwJrXXMxjty5bf6qE1oqKu01tc7FNJ0kMm_MuZBL4N0ShjlOBhvJR6glbikl8LdDUtINx-RZpYgz8af687KoTh974mqGlh4Hw2ui-TE6Dzl5W93J8z2Z79IEKjFzL9EGAuZatMMc4J1JTuvmStnD_JJfcrTmVNkM4qA2I0ogyHFw/w336-h400/20240205_062610.jpg" width="336" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">I like flowers on the table. So does Buff.</i></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs9ixeWqWsg81q4g8n5zuN-HDGYnivd7xpuN55Ofur7b1RQTckroqSj6DHkOJ8uGJlx-DmmoF_rqunX1Yh4pSky0UJHVfxG2n0vNVzWhK5yQ3mob-AIU8qlYvuJBAfy3Iwyd5QvXxZpCxgKWlVcwkaJdbJzKhjA-O1kZMDfgGZN_Ed9qHBdhM6hQdhCg/s4000/20240218_124835.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs9ixeWqWsg81q4g8n5zuN-HDGYnivd7xpuN55Ofur7b1RQTckroqSj6DHkOJ8uGJlx-DmmoF_rqunX1Yh4pSky0UJHVfxG2n0vNVzWhK5yQ3mob-AIU8qlYvuJBAfy3Iwyd5QvXxZpCxgKWlVcwkaJdbJzKhjA-O1kZMDfgGZN_Ed9qHBdhM6hQdhCg/w225-h400/20240218_124835.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">I like Pete. <br />He's a good protector of his hens. <br />But Lordy, he does crow all day and all night!</i></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpcNE8yPUIBN1BAgOcNmBEX9P_7UpISpmKGLuCTb4ZPSsigkFIsQQTYFabil-urvKYrzGKrRzgeJt7UxeeDZGtVNVZ-lTUEbR6dcwC3n2AVq5OULdwteLy3nZF0BMb3d4mg_-afYJ-UpFycAqhJzMHu4myC2xF-EwAeGPkysroNMVuiHuhu2Tq0jGelw/s2727/20240210_071533.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2727" data-original-width="2252" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpcNE8yPUIBN1BAgOcNmBEX9P_7UpISpmKGLuCTb4ZPSsigkFIsQQTYFabil-urvKYrzGKrRzgeJt7UxeeDZGtVNVZ-lTUEbR6dcwC3n2AVq5OULdwteLy3nZF0BMb3d4mg_-afYJ-UpFycAqhJzMHu4myC2xF-EwAeGPkysroNMVuiHuhu2Tq0jGelw/s320/20240210_071533.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">I like collecting colorful eggs.</i></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Of2wAJwblbpKRSWYDLh26qOyV0u2Wilzpb_8kdPgXsDD6PdElyeuOla8f3Wl1AphdVUgRlGXMf6HvWUbZdm7A8hnViRL0yC1kZzfMK_RwfaqB6tJAOse07zCHriw280bHdskUUd1hP-HRjiUSNyfTaQf2Pd4kItNy2tCO2_QjGnGeb55Xy5a4CfSkw/s4000/20240224_092440.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Of2wAJwblbpKRSWYDLh26qOyV0u2Wilzpb_8kdPgXsDD6PdElyeuOla8f3Wl1AphdVUgRlGXMf6HvWUbZdm7A8hnViRL0yC1kZzfMK_RwfaqB6tJAOse07zCHriw280bHdskUUd1hP-HRjiUSNyfTaQf2Pd4kItNy2tCO2_QjGnGeb55Xy5a4CfSkw/w225-h400/20240224_092440.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">I like the beginnings of spring!</i></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiycbmnukA6viOqUp3lEZtekRErb0jmD1SiRkTpAm9sAA3B2cyfRj7ebDZYPSOOlLtRwE2vKWnSfwQi3mF64RyHtlGz_ATg80_F6v3PVfrSAsQDq39IgAHz7w8fiJGubSDU_hnjn74VxrNVekdUDZ32cldrkFFAQUcOBjzekgjWtgiiYItJukwR8kogLg/s1600/IMG-20240303-WA0004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiycbmnukA6viOqUp3lEZtekRErb0jmD1SiRkTpAm9sAA3B2cyfRj7ebDZYPSOOlLtRwE2vKWnSfwQi3mF64RyHtlGz_ATg80_F6v3PVfrSAsQDq39IgAHz7w8fiJGubSDU_hnjn74VxrNVekdUDZ32cldrkFFAQUcOBjzekgjWtgiiYItJukwR8kogLg/w300-h400/IMG-20240303-WA0004.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv65qqYN-_MATMH-CzeAw3yvAMiVHXx7PnBjx9nf3S4JPV1z7EnPsGBlFuecO8Je6U4soSzILwNksCUbaaaJh2KqW-6oYm3Mg8cchXHPHRTa8c7_Z2h0I7gbtP6RsaIZbXi5fqG6-pQEZxmE_DPQ-5StWNp_nU9tWZWVKO9-06nAen-6KI3K96cuBbJg/s3423/20240304_120241.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3423" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv65qqYN-_MATMH-CzeAw3yvAMiVHXx7PnBjx9nf3S4JPV1z7EnPsGBlFuecO8Je6U4soSzILwNksCUbaaaJh2KqW-6oYm3Mg8cchXHPHRTa8c7_Z2h0I7gbtP6RsaIZbXi5fqG6-pQEZxmE_DPQ-5StWNp_nU9tWZWVKO9-06nAen-6KI3K96cuBbJg/w264-h400/20240304_120241.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">I like our YELLOW March yard!</i></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><b>LeeAnne's </b></a> get-to-know-you writing topics this month:</b></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><br /></b></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Describe something you experience with each of your senses every
SPRING </span></b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">taste, touch, sight, hearing, scent </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">I wrote this the year after I retired. I think it's a good description. I re-read my words and still love them. </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>You can tell these words were written 5 years ago as some things have changed... I only had 5 hens... I had an outside cat... I had a little dog. And some things haven't... I still don't know which birds make which sounds.</i></span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4h1ybG3RkqtLISB-abtYNwHVIEPSMbtMZZVEhcjovYRvaDKXYlxYjUKoymfjk3yZH51eF0wy0mg1Mug0R0wtBfJcYYdjQXLqjeiMr7ktggX9nUKoXlYR-WrwbIyO4Z-dcITnZXHj8S2Nl-Rpn9bPmBiNVH0guc8GNJvVHfaouOt1EUFagglfKlBZ2bw/s866/Someday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="684" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4h1ybG3RkqtLISB-abtYNwHVIEPSMbtMZZVEhcjovYRvaDKXYlxYjUKoymfjk3yZH51eF0wy0mg1Mug0R0wtBfJcYYdjQXLqjeiMr7ktggX9nUKoXlYR-WrwbIyO4Z-dcITnZXHj8S2Nl-Rpn9bPmBiNVH0guc8GNJvVHfaouOt1EUFagglfKlBZ2bw/w506-h640/Someday.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><p></p><p><span><span style="font-family: times;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: small;">What is your favorite spring flower and do you try to grow them in your
house or yard?</b><i style="background-color: white;"> </i></span></span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="background-color: white;">Daffodils in March... then irises in April... then lilies in May.</i></span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">What Spring creatures
might you see in the wild where you live right now? </span></b><i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> White-tail deer and squirrels every day... possums, raccoons, armadillos on occasion</i></p><p><strong><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Baby animals are
often born in the springtime. If you could choose any baby animal to be your
pet, what would you pick and why? Don't worry about space or legal
restrictions, just imagine having it. </span></span></strong><i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> Sorry to be boring, but I'll pick kitten.</i></p></div><p></p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-29718947303164274782024-03-04T21:44:00.000-06:002024-03-04T21:44:45.405-06:00Yellow Daffodils of March<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2_jMPaSKNRci_ZKXEbQB_gG-yE2JZeSvICV31A5cfBcS1JnAIqjUd-2gw8VgiHiXwyERkWPOp6u6s192s9fP-7RRzKB4f6reNkz2mYl1OEqjvBM2L9mOGKkFi4_vYsNZFd8kzaCTavJKX3lq3OOsqZaRDE2DJsg-OqmTtleb40JANaDsFzab_NsL4w/s3082/IMG_1811.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3082" data-original-width="2500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2_jMPaSKNRci_ZKXEbQB_gG-yE2JZeSvICV31A5cfBcS1JnAIqjUd-2gw8VgiHiXwyERkWPOp6u6s192s9fP-7RRzKB4f6reNkz2mYl1OEqjvBM2L9mOGKkFi4_vYsNZFd8kzaCTavJKX3lq3OOsqZaRDE2DJsg-OqmTtleb40JANaDsFzab_NsL4w/w325-h400/IMG_1811.JPG" width="325" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>This painting was so fun for so many reasons. </i></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>The combination of turquoise and purple... Yummy!</i></span> </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>Smearing paint with a palette knife... Yes please!...</i></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>Daffodils... Love!</i></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;">March is the month of yellow where we live.</i> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FyITFWCqjcRHzvvU44Cd6TIGD_7iHb6wB_Y5NAc5Ehs4I8EoRcBK1YxnHQDxAnwUohpl__IGO8a8USilMT4KJzOKFD_wW3u6srUDWljMemc0TPGYr64DWRSjrqBG5JXQ3lyM7yvlUYaky89kUYm_qQZbgzrgEJvv7x6i9-Sp5yAWNeu03Z5emPa45Q/s4000/20240304_120241.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FyITFWCqjcRHzvvU44Cd6TIGD_7iHb6wB_Y5NAc5Ehs4I8EoRcBK1YxnHQDxAnwUohpl__IGO8a8USilMT4KJzOKFD_wW3u6srUDWljMemc0TPGYr64DWRSjrqBG5JXQ3lyM7yvlUYaky89kUYm_qQZbgzrgEJvv7x6i9-Sp5yAWNeu03Z5emPa45Q/w225-h400/20240304_120241.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzmZzR5SK7TZttImudbcVnSUzOYeuLswmBGVdleBI_mFOwwzmkhfq06IuIUWwvQRewwihz5Qag4_vhZ49ZnKf4kkrCD8XHtn-EzBOcesfQ41iyQI8TLCRglHw4h49xkSpNZofNj0YEbezVnrVj1gDW6gb4gquVsZ8S5ERaiDu5EA-AKw971OO6hELDw/s1600/IMG-20240303-WA0004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzmZzR5SK7TZttImudbcVnSUzOYeuLswmBGVdleBI_mFOwwzmkhfq06IuIUWwvQRewwihz5Qag4_vhZ49ZnKf4kkrCD8XHtn-EzBOcesfQ41iyQI8TLCRglHw4h49xkSpNZofNj0YEbezVnrVj1gDW6gb4gquVsZ8S5ERaiDu5EA-AKw971OO6hELDw/w300-h400/IMG-20240303-WA0004.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>The Weekly-ish prompt was "March." </i></span></div><div><br /></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>Thanks to </i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/saraharley.studio" target="_blank"><b>Sara</b></a> <i>for a reference image that I used once with irises and again now with daffodils.</i></span><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 8"x 10" Wrapped Canvas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;">If</i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i> you'd like to have this painting, click </i><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1690360653/daffodils-spring-flowers-jonquils" target="_blank">Yellow Daffodils of March.</a></b></span></div><p></p></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-7356233020621287232024-03-01T12:10:00.003-06:002024-03-01T14:48:28.611-06:00Parrot<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXUp6zzkdhtNJcVHQCga_Gt7XZFdcEO4oOL4jZ3ofdkPbZ3Nm3bVI8NgCNTtvVKKWg3-4OYleBx3B1BVj-pJrDEyk2rglDGqI1oMTXIhkNOF25AUmwjO_5jOxFD_7JyyqI0FoW9W7ntvdC8TIVFqAgxRX3gZZgw6po1jGSb6xWfbnYDRPa-tB_hr-DA/s3385/684%20Parrot%202-24.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3385" data-original-width="2605" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXUp6zzkdhtNJcVHQCga_Gt7XZFdcEO4oOL4jZ3ofdkPbZ3Nm3bVI8NgCNTtvVKKWg3-4OYleBx3B1BVj-pJrDEyk2rglDGqI1oMTXIhkNOF25AUmwjO_5jOxFD_7JyyqI0FoW9W7ntvdC8TIVFqAgxRX3gZZgw6po1jGSb6xWfbnYDRPa-tB_hr-DA/w308-h400/684%20Parrot%202-24.JPG" width="308" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>I don't think I know any parrots personally. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>They're pretty.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>It's amazing that they're that beautiful and just go about their bird business in the rainforest.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>It's fun to see someone walking around with one on their shoulder.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>I'm not a fan of seeing them in a little cage.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>It's crazy that they can "talk."</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>I wonder if they have personalities. My chickens do, so surely parrots do too.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>Their feathers are simply fabulous.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgor8o8LNafVjc7sBlfVLFtPxra5aIQqirrG8mcPXJGK3FW0nV3wmL8r3kr7qsYcMuGe0e7TEbhHPLotszcz2kWmxg0_m1D-kTSQPincOPlqshG3-xHKynQlsdWYTRvb1ij0x1lOI451-puDv8xmTa3-GHTVqOOpgmKjRloHGXPdI4aq6hKP9H8hBV1uA/s2680/20240212_164548.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="2680" data-original-width="2041" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgor8o8LNafVjc7sBlfVLFtPxra5aIQqirrG8mcPXJGK3FW0nV3wmL8r3kr7qsYcMuGe0e7TEbhHPLotszcz2kWmxg0_m1D-kTSQPincOPlqshG3-xHKynQlsdWYTRvb1ij0x1lOI451-puDv8xmTa3-GHTVqOOpgmKjRloHGXPdI4aq6hKP9H8hBV1uA/w306-h400/20240212_164548.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>The very first watercolor I ever attempted was about a year and a half ago. It was a feather. I thought I'd give that first lesson another try. If you zoom in and look closely, there are some hidden words on that feather... some goals... reminders to myself.</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;">The little painting trio I'm in finally chose a name for ourselves.... Wordspark. (I'm not sure if that's the name of the project or the name of the group.) Each month we'll get one word then see what kind of creativity sparks from that word.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;">This month's word was "Feathered." </i></div><div><br /></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on <span style="background-color: white;">12"x 16"</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> </span>Wrapped Canvas</span><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>If you'd like to purchase this painting, just click </i><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1664813154/red-parrot-macaw-original-oil-painting" target="_blank">Parrot.</a></b></span><br /><p></p></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-78582208139133066012024-02-28T19:44:00.000-06:002024-02-28T19:44:09.394-06:00George's Miss Conduct II<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQxrSuJZXkpmi6Lwxt4DRNpMB6P_5-n53RXs2hL2JofVl_ttTAqzOh9DgIHlplxd-OLai-ObAfL095RQRGDXjEMdfxjjN-3xvvwg4VfeKzhjUpbNxPf0JuDXBE6YyJXtjneync4ttu6LLc5dhqnugY2yYXYVpe7pEACra-LjAS1f0Kxfm-YwMA8JKzqQ/s4576/687%20George's%20Miss%20Conduct%202-24.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2261" data-original-width="4576" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQxrSuJZXkpmi6Lwxt4DRNpMB6P_5-n53RXs2hL2JofVl_ttTAqzOh9DgIHlplxd-OLai-ObAfL095RQRGDXjEMdfxjjN-3xvvwg4VfeKzhjUpbNxPf0JuDXBE6YyJXtjneync4ttu6LLc5dhqnugY2yYXYVpe7pEACra-LjAS1f0Kxfm-YwMA8JKzqQ/w400-h198/687%20George's%20Miss%20Conduct%202-24.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I've been lucky enough to have two strong mentors in my creative life, and how interesting... they're both named Cheri.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I've often mentioned my painting mentor Cheri W. Today I'm thinking of how much I owe to Cheri O. who I consider to be my writing mentor. We taught fourth grade literacy together, participated in the National Writing Project together, and taught taught a summer writing institute for teachers together. She helped me to discover and develop the writer within myself and taught me to be an encourager of writers. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Although she moved to the other side of the country for many years, she's always been a forever friend. And.... she's moving back!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>She texted me that she wanted two paintings and that they'd be the first ones she'd hang in her new place. First she wanted one she had seen in my </i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/wordweaverart" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Etsy store.</span> </b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihtxyu2tD8QcICtP9mYpMyGajfHBBmZDXMrUkCh1zy5X3mpMBtNQsFrIcXou1INLmYSjiHGYx9hMwXM6EYcegyPJXkC78Wd4qxplQLHqTrWDykFdqi1u8_fk-wI97FT1iMl6Cs9gX3ItaZ268p7PWLFUjSB-FAc0ekPkZmP0XzDrmmeTzQ2TS5bqiuTQ/s3992/389%20Farmers'%20Market%20III%201-18.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3164" data-original-width="3992" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihtxyu2tD8QcICtP9mYpMyGajfHBBmZDXMrUkCh1zy5X3mpMBtNQsFrIcXou1INLmYSjiHGYx9hMwXM6EYcegyPJXkC78Wd4qxplQLHqTrWDykFdqi1u8_fk-wI97FT1iMl6Cs9gX3ItaZ268p7PWLFUjSB-FAc0ekPkZmP0XzDrmmeTzQ2TS5bqiuTQ/s320/389%20Farmers'%20Market%20III%201-18.JPG" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I have to say that this was a very special painting to me. I didn't list it for sale for a long time, and I've loved having it on my own wall. That's my farmers' market on my town's square, and that couple in the middle just might look a bit like me and my husband. I thought I'd be so sad when/if it ever did sell. But, no! I'm thrilled that it will be on her wall! (I went back to the </i><a href="https://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/2018/01/farmers-market-iii.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">post I wrote about it 6 years ago.</span></b></a><i> How appropriate the I compared it to writing a story on canvas.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>She also asked me to re-create a bigger version of a symbolic painting I'd done a few years ago. The boat had been built by her dear friend, and she'd be moving here to move into the house that had been his. She wanted it to hang on the wall in his memory.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I'd be happy to do that.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>It honors me that she'd ask.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I do love the honor (and the pressure) of an important commission. </i></span><i style="font-family: arial;">And, more than a few times, I've agreed to take on something then wondered how on earth I'd manage to pull it off.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Here are the references I had to work with.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMMAptpQJCBYHpCX422zDp8vdavSyFna0637ONaCf1rQ0U3w1RDrqeo8qDDzEtxAcDwYCI17w-BwOUKv41PKlqgGNg1IS2mpKw5gj7IkGSAo1Xp-CT5EZHWaBNM0Wf_vJINBaqP3lgWQWm03LySdX0tCNHcDIT9nzUKwWpJW4QGKj0ndLO5dxtAq-IEg/s1280/23254.jpg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMMAptpQJCBYHpCX422zDp8vdavSyFna0637ONaCf1rQ0U3w1RDrqeo8qDDzEtxAcDwYCI17w-BwOUKv41PKlqgGNg1IS2mpKw5gj7IkGSAo1Xp-CT5EZHWaBNM0Wf_vJINBaqP3lgWQWm03LySdX0tCNHcDIT9nzUKwWpJW4QGKj0ndLO5dxtAq-IEg/s320/23254.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyMKUxfKHFV3ws5wun81cbnUeYy2tDkrpukhfBR-jV4PXo9t-3Y0MdTnnKxa-TKN4AuS4c6As92mwI2BD0oN_xa2cnwP0sMiAnvcQm4VKtISews_74qiC8I-L2KAeVkAitbkGVOeG_OafmqBmZE06mfYi0J3L32fcM8QbrUVJf8rUJcBnGThZGQ60iPA/s960/23252.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyMKUxfKHFV3ws5wun81cbnUeYy2tDkrpukhfBR-jV4PXo9t-3Y0MdTnnKxa-TKN4AuS4c6As92mwI2BD0oN_xa2cnwP0sMiAnvcQm4VKtISews_74qiC8I-L2KAeVkAitbkGVOeG_OafmqBmZE06mfYi0J3L32fcM8QbrUVJf8rUJcBnGThZGQ60iPA/w200-h150/23252.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>I love that I got to have a part in preserving this memory.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl1oGoN642cF5wvEiZjQA-0hoHOYkGbLiTY_2uXM5bJwSbViUw55rZQ1dyfbAHA49hFcXsgBCyVfIxmwlCP2rwx1AvUM3ClbCMbKdSteySj7Bg0uUO3vq98uh3jrEyfcSgpDDkUs-TO7TVDW09ODhhka6GT3u2ASyeMxy2VCg3VLAzr0ljE_oSlHwASQ/s1852/20240227_192450.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1852" data-original-width="1852" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl1oGoN642cF5wvEiZjQA-0hoHOYkGbLiTY_2uXM5bJwSbViUw55rZQ1dyfbAHA49hFcXsgBCyVfIxmwlCP2rwx1AvUM3ClbCMbKdSteySj7Bg0uUO3vq98uh3jrEyfcSgpDDkUs-TO7TVDW09ODhhka6GT3u2ASyeMxy2VCg3VLAzr0ljE_oSlHwASQ/w200-h200/20240227_192450.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 10"x 20" Wrapped Canvas.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>[SOLD]</i></div></span></div><p></p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-9280220620601545652024-02-24T11:07:00.001-06:002024-02-24T11:07:09.380-06:00Hot Tea<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPNRqJP20ZH4Yg4QF7-_iChI7NiZuo8f5oYDZJ-sm-vrPPZxyTL4ivgCMlbJE0OXv-3nxzVpDuHoUve62gf1w9St2SmBIKTqiypxvp0FzpCvA0VIcbv_yjbuH644XGIsy0d6N4O728R56XedKrlmfCJPs_m544vJa-MRWvq5tVgsnE7VBW3oKTepE8JQ/s3364/IMG_1756.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2352" data-original-width="3364" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPNRqJP20ZH4Yg4QF7-_iChI7NiZuo8f5oYDZJ-sm-vrPPZxyTL4ivgCMlbJE0OXv-3nxzVpDuHoUve62gf1w9St2SmBIKTqiypxvp0FzpCvA0VIcbv_yjbuH644XGIsy0d6N4O728R56XedKrlmfCJPs_m544vJa-MRWvq5tVgsnE7VBW3oKTepE8JQ/w400-h280/IMG_1756.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i>Some of the most decorative and elaborate dishes are meant for tea... teapots, teacups, saucers, sugar bowls, cream pitchers... So pretty... so dainty... I do enjoy drinking out of a pretty cup or glass.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i>Now, what can I say about the hot tea? Let me think</i></span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;">... It's brownish, that's one thing. </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i>The thing that bothers me about hot tea is that you're expected to drink it. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i>I don't have anything against hot tea, but if you could just add heaps of sugar and then enough ice to make it really cold... or even better, if you could pour it out and fill the pretty cup with something else... Like maybe coke or orange juice or hot cocoa or cold milk... that would improve it so much!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 5"x 7" Wrapped Canvas.</span><br /><i>Click </i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1681517049/hot-tea-teapot-cup-of-tea-original-oil" target="_blank"><b>Hot Tea </b></a><i>if you'd like to purchase this little painting</i></span>,</span></div><p></p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-52672480628294092122024-02-22T08:11:00.002-06:002024-02-22T08:11:46.918-06:00Paint-iversary 17 years ago today... <p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb5kkq3dBOvdW8kxj7hfaLuiOQllCEyYb_p6epzjjerw22IdE-Lc692RNDVcaNvdm8i-w2uLq_nHSNjmCoCOXq6h72kE_udNuvWZrh8CGLCsNZqtGjGA28fBnCr4fexVZhFjhyQIz-N8omhpukUBx9gLfgwUWmCn_hDTayQHnDNmOz9p6HWBqeQq8pw/s1476/001%20Summer%20Trees%2002-07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="1476" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb5kkq3dBOvdW8kxj7hfaLuiOQllCEyYb_p6epzjjerw22IdE-Lc692RNDVcaNvdm8i-w2uLq_nHSNjmCoCOXq6h72kE_udNuvWZrh8CGLCsNZqtGjGA28fBnCr4fexVZhFjhyQIz-N8omhpukUBx9gLfgwUWmCn_hDTayQHnDNmOz9p6HWBqeQq8pw/w400-h297/001%20Summer%20Trees%2002-07.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>My first painting...<br />17 years ago today.</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>It's not often that when we say something "changed my life," that we really mean it.<br /></i></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I was so nervous walking into that first painting lesson 17 years ago. I wasn't a painter. I didn't even consider myself artistic. I was just 42 and found myself with a little extra time to try something since my youngest was old enough to drive himself.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I was so unbelievably proud of this painting. It actually did look like trees!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I am forever grateful to </i></span><b style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/cheriwollenberg/" target="_blank">my teacher and friend.</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Oil painting on 8"x 10" Canvas Board</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;">Not available for sale... This one's priceless... :)</i></div><p> </p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-37461700933853244182024-02-13T22:00:00.000-06:002024-02-13T22:00:11.769-06:00VW Van<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGTpqzsFbnCIjYzw52rAU6xvUX1l2vQw5lNUtuRlgzri-cjWnEBEP1kIiV8PSy_ZKMKWV7FnG9aN8czIvOSFUR6yt7eZfgtv3H3vO2L6NdmMyreSMCU1PVZBnp8pzMmx0_N336I3YhC-q9CxwVWLq20rwl4d84v7VoxJWH7XtaBUKgg4hm4nVfBjNPg/s3973/IMG_1702.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3071" data-original-width="3973" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGTpqzsFbnCIjYzw52rAU6xvUX1l2vQw5lNUtuRlgzri-cjWnEBEP1kIiV8PSy_ZKMKWV7FnG9aN8czIvOSFUR6yt7eZfgtv3H3vO2L6NdmMyreSMCU1PVZBnp8pzMmx0_N336I3YhC-q9CxwVWLq20rwl4d84v7VoxJWH7XtaBUKgg4hm4nVfBjNPg/w400-h309/IMG_1702.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Most people have a VW Bug story in their life. I do. My best friend in high school drove a candy-apple red one... good times.</i></span><div><p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>And, I drove a red one for 10 years until I traded it in for the green one I drive now.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoLuR39aWKAuYpMXnwhutfvA6QcLvRJzxHwo_FPDr5-yF3zDzyk9pVI5foKUBTXJB1Rg0eYoV12Y0SmNy0i1FpJXazMDXp_nm4Ki2JuiX5M7N3yFE_lwSdGwE81aW6gj2TAKLiqPcBQRadOE4_C9eZYGnbybaC4ccvWo2SvtUQWZrtFNzrjqnNBBv4ZQ/s2048/IMG_0720.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoLuR39aWKAuYpMXnwhutfvA6QcLvRJzxHwo_FPDr5-yF3zDzyk9pVI5foKUBTXJB1Rg0eYoV12Y0SmNy0i1FpJXazMDXp_nm4Ki2JuiX5M7N3yFE_lwSdGwE81aW6gj2TAKLiqPcBQRadOE4_C9eZYGnbybaC4ccvWo2SvtUQWZrtFNzrjqnNBBv4ZQ/w400-h300/IMG_0720.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>But how about a VW <u>Van</u> story?</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>What a funny and recognizable vehicle. Somehow I always think of them being painted crazy with peace, love, rock & roll, or flower power symbols.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i>I've a story that seems like it should have a VW Van in it. </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>In 2016 we took a trip to New York. We went to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for a couple of days. Then we went to a place called Inn at Lake Joseph. (It was wonderful, and I'd recommend it with 10 stars. Have a look. <a href="https://lakejoseph.com/" target="_blank">https://lakejoseph.com/</a>)</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Anyway... on our last day, we drove into the little town. We stopped in a funky little place for lunch and asked the teenaged waitress if there was anything interesting in the town we might want to see or do. </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>"Not really. There's like a museum thing down the road about like 10 miles. It's called Woodstock. There'll be a sign. I haven't been. Some people like to go there." </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Wait... Do you mean <u>Woodstock</u>, Woodstock???</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>"I guess so. </i></span><i style="font-family: arial;">They had a big concert or something there a long time ago."</i></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>What?... 10 miles? Which road?</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-sNhMmKKc1mh2PN6DPar_nnRoudraa01t6UsDMCWJSfKI2wqB_SKJyuwnjzf24FTH-JIa6eM0EqEMqldWyIAm-YI7M0n7RzCt5VUSAp1_q931Z0YWUmlYQbk2rOx68ECfgqZ4wknrNH1QrBXzDmdxQivj4aXmwT42GpAedEAqI-CSh8yDIeLsAQxpw/s5312/20160620_120134.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2988" data-original-width="5312" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-sNhMmKKc1mh2PN6DPar_nnRoudraa01t6UsDMCWJSfKI2wqB_SKJyuwnjzf24FTH-JIa6eM0EqEMqldWyIAm-YI7M0n7RzCt5VUSAp1_q931Z0YWUmlYQbk2rOx68ECfgqZ4wknrNH1QrBXzDmdxQivj4aXmwT42GpAedEAqI-CSh8yDIeLsAQxpw/w400-h225/20160620_120134.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50QzbMqG-AEsLiT0G-QFd3xtmpeGfxbtOohHiFXeXzZSZ7OXcP8bW6p81Btilhegf3ov43l1Hi3ub9aA2IharjjU_v9JdXkS8Rc6fsD5250Vgp67a3DX0bBNYuSDD3TfUGFQI41Xz5Xl7PRNcyX6PSWYH2HX8EDkqB8aSLP9SqGfZoZL9Yi38d43MnQ/s5312/20160620_120255.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2988" data-original-width="5312" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50QzbMqG-AEsLiT0G-QFd3xtmpeGfxbtOohHiFXeXzZSZ7OXcP8bW6p81Btilhegf3ov43l1Hi3ub9aA2IharjjU_v9JdXkS8Rc6fsD5250Vgp67a3DX0bBNYuSDD3TfUGFQI41Xz5Xl7PRNcyX6PSWYH2HX8EDkqB8aSLP9SqGfZoZL9Yi38d43MnQ/w400-h225/20160620_120255.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span><i style="font-family: arial;">We had such an unexpected good time! </i></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Ok, now that I've gone back to find the pictures, I see that it's a bus and not a VW van... shoot, I remembered wrong.... oh well...<br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><i style="font-family: arial;">Look back at the painting... Did you notice it? </i><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>If you <strike> listen </strike> look really closely, you'll <strike>hear</strike> see music coming from the radio and blowing away on the breeze!</i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>My Weekly-ish painting challenge was "Ride." </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>A VW Van would be a pretty cool ride... cooler if it was painted with peace signs and flowers though...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Original Oil Painting on</i><span><i style="background-color: white;"> 11"x 14" </i></span><i>Wrapped Canvas.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Click<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1678094719/vw-van-original-oil-painting-11x-14" target="_blank"> </a></i><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1678094719/vw-van-original-oil-painting-11x-14" target="_blank">VW Van </a></b><i>if you'd like to have this little painting for yourself.</i></div></span></div></div></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-84385758780550416432024-02-08T12:50:00.002-06:002024-02-08T13:08:46.282-06:00Art Show 2024 - From the Heart<p><i style="font-family: arial;">During the holidays we were asked if we wanted to put together an art show to begin on February 1st. </i></p><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Yes!</i></div></i><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><i>We'd have four weeks - although I had a previously planned trip for one of those - </i><i>So just three weeks.</i></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><i>First task, start a to-do checklist!</i></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span>C<i>ome up with a theme or name. (</i><span style="font-style: italic;">It would be during February... Valentines... )</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>"From the He<u>art</u>"</b></span></div></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Pick a warm-ish day to snap a photo in Julie's backyard.</i><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinCN8p-TG01eY0KAzr6kbUxID0AaYlOoEOtakoL-gViqza1h_GcORgnWlPdc35UVa_z0pxmbDaOmtaiLpmqHcUkrOsRmUxwlYQcQ8t2Qvyh7M_m50FWE9eAHmScMGXJUK1c54VNiyCdzaGUBvWf34DBem2hFuASw17WdHHQIMLvvhpIBiyDoVJzLSbWA/s4000/20231228_133720.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinCN8p-TG01eY0KAzr6kbUxID0AaYlOoEOtakoL-gViqza1h_GcORgnWlPdc35UVa_z0pxmbDaOmtaiLpmqHcUkrOsRmUxwlYQcQ8t2Qvyh7M_m50FWE9eAHmScMGXJUK1c54VNiyCdzaGUBvWf34DBem2hFuASw17WdHHQIMLvvhpIBiyDoVJzLSbWA/w400-h225/20231228_133720.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Design a flier or invitation.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Get fliers printed.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvtKPEMh4RPIPGoFv0bsmLDgnZyATpa1d1uuVdy8Nz7A5I-cc2CqMap8v6HryII035nQ3kzSNBTDBmzoU6uOR-6VPBgdIMkbOdcaS52YsOYv9vfdY-NnTkHvJkpsiGP_ujHceIUGbMye3kmJfXGIgxDxog6RIHDQek8ESn3G1aYAa1ryNRpbERFwk8w/s1650/2024%20Red%20Kite%20Art%20Show%20Flier%2012-29.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1275" data-original-width="1650" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvtKPEMh4RPIPGoFv0bsmLDgnZyATpa1d1uuVdy8Nz7A5I-cc2CqMap8v6HryII035nQ3kzSNBTDBmzoU6uOR-6VPBgdIMkbOdcaS52YsOYv9vfdY-NnTkHvJkpsiGP_ujHceIUGbMye3kmJfXGIgxDxog6RIHDQek8ESn3G1aYAa1ryNRpbERFwk8w/w400-h309/2024%20Red%20Kite%20Art%20Show%20Flier%2012-29.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i>Post it on Facebook and Instagram.</i></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i> Carry a few in my purse.</i></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i>Choose which paintings to take. (Narrowing it down was harder than I'd imagined.)</i></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7psMuWe5NCr0zJVzuIFmeKIZiz97t5Oe40PFJcEo_mRpmq4WCkphGFWKZBDNuznd-rL6DKHSSr3s-8RJahkLFve_O34mx5QtK4tZwG2wAwVykPCLoBoxF0kXo_1BfPhxNLsKJisX8LWT-d5Jh9a-Mayphc9XYMkVFtgsol5AO22b5kIlh-kwUMD_OLA/s2544/Screenshot%20(57).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1466" data-original-width="2544" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7psMuWe5NCr0zJVzuIFmeKIZiz97t5Oe40PFJcEo_mRpmq4WCkphGFWKZBDNuznd-rL6DKHSSr3s-8RJahkLFve_O34mx5QtK4tZwG2wAwVykPCLoBoxF0kXo_1BfPhxNLsKJisX8LWT-d5Jh9a-Mayphc9XYMkVFtgsol5AO22b5kIlh-kwUMD_OLA/s320/Screenshot%20(57).png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i>Add hangers to the back every painting. </i></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> Pack them up.</i></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8xCOPmrqxJCQiQ_4DhedEzk84EKUcy7_-AFvVPAFfHMVOOXxf9g8mYArCOkmlLK7bNfCzVvEVn4VGC4-en9_qIjE8pz-e4JkcpYFcGcjoPANJTCPhztM_FXbRFgH1ZX5vZmVgTOi2-11YiFWjkNMqAXl_m8ij6EZrkyhY9hqqFulYBqZNX8in6giwmA/s2965/20240116_170409.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2965" data-original-width="2252" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8xCOPmrqxJCQiQ_4DhedEzk84EKUcy7_-AFvVPAFfHMVOOXxf9g8mYArCOkmlLK7bNfCzVvEVn4VGC4-en9_qIjE8pz-e4JkcpYFcGcjoPANJTCPhztM_FXbRFgH1ZX5vZmVgTOi2-11YiFWjkNMqAXl_m8ij6EZrkyhY9hqqFulYBqZNX8in6giwmA/s320/20240116_170409.jpg" width="243" /></a></div></div></i></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i><i><i><i><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> </i></i></i>Order, pick up, and package 100 notecards.</i></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> Make 30 quote booklets</i></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i><i><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> </i></i></i><i>Print and cut the story behind each painting. </i></span><i style="font-family: arial;">(Luckily I had all of those on my blog. Just needed to copy, paste, and revise.)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> Make pricelist.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> Make price cards.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> Ask my sister if she'll do the food for the reception. (She did a beautiful job!)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> Ask a friend to create a sign for the reception & show. (She did a beautiful job!)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4PLBSBmyTtGmqANYV7EeWjFWv9JpNByWfK0uXgEyNgZWsD_lNW1G20uUj7cdUUrt3vu5R-9t87t31OPV8fYHEFaXBerauKH8DssTJo7Z91Vn82jg4Q6hnghu7n3WEjFNKAVI2kqqIq9YTBhOvt1u1ImG7KWV_DhrkWMt5b4p6AWkLf4rXEcVeeQSRrA/s2523/20240201_135117.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="1642" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4PLBSBmyTtGmqANYV7EeWjFWv9JpNByWfK0uXgEyNgZWsD_lNW1G20uUj7cdUUrt3vu5R-9t87t31OPV8fYHEFaXBerauKH8DssTJo7Z91Vn82jg4Q6hnghu7n3WEjFNKAVI2kqqIq9YTBhOvt1u1ImG7KWV_DhrkWMt5b4p6AWkLf4rXEcVeeQSRrA/s320/20240201_135117.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> Get a blurb put in the newspaper.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgjbkErvRe4MKLfKArM62I8caSOUjA1ibYK9CM5aMGzCVCU9a01A1dTc73CMAsYDvw6jFGr7srz5Sqva6gDdnZ2iPVn1TTXK6rrjApjPA9hXF79VeO1KvM90Fan70Ny_n_f8V5DbJYKfJL8GApGeAb7BCMztNLfYZ4R75X59LEt58qJnaJ-sHT9BwLlg/s2160/Screenshot%202024-02-04%20at%209.11.41%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgjbkErvRe4MKLfKArM62I8caSOUjA1ibYK9CM5aMGzCVCU9a01A1dTc73CMAsYDvw6jFGr7srz5Sqva6gDdnZ2iPVn1TTXK6rrjApjPA9hXF79VeO1KvM90Fan70Ny_n_f8V5DbJYKfJL8GApGeAb7BCMztNLfYZ4R75X59LEt58qJnaJ-sHT9BwLlg/s320/Screenshot%202024-02-04%20at%209.11.41%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><i><i><i><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">🗹 </span></span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></i> Lay out paintings and decide how to group them. (We decided on spring, summer, autumn, winter, and other. 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font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span>There's that feeling of telling yourself that it's fine if no one comes... then they do!!!</span><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span>Friends from church and school and college and the neighborhood and Pilates class and family... </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I got more comments and questions about that donkey painting than any other</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjphh9EOtQE1qQqsEbGunzUVcTuEMyo8F3JfvJhY6xLV2HB4MJnIxSWkGwAGmJy0_OT40XTn-houIozvoNtwuAP11zgZzxyq6cfDSIWQwBVyumYe0k3MiYr9ktdQqP71Wp-OwD840IlbbrFV_BhwWvcDt7sxUt2oFCG_VrBGF2gmMajMKzxqmZSX_0KWQ/s5184/IMG_1656.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjphh9EOtQE1qQqsEbGunzUVcTuEMyo8F3JfvJhY6xLV2HB4MJnIxSWkGwAGmJy0_OT40XTn-houIozvoNtwuAP11zgZzxyq6cfDSIWQwBVyumYe0k3MiYr9ktdQqP71Wp-OwD840IlbbrFV_BhwWvcDt7sxUt2oFCG_VrBGF2gmMajMKzxqmZSX_0KWQ/s320/IMG_1656.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">The first person who ever let me display my art in her shop.<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div></i></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-32155726856779545942024-02-02T10:04:00.001-06:002024-02-02T10:04:24.250-06:00Pond Frog<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhesmVfSc_zJSq0Qb81T25Mhw8tPqu5_hsb3s5pKOHzWstj_cyk64L0sBC2T1fU4f74sMQy43Ptdii14aqgpsis6JqnY1PfVPxB-_YVB0zi56WJYoyPaFxK2YSQLLkpRfR67qH7KZW9IT0l3IOhw42Zf9sNyNr0ya83l3pPuOdgJ_cITc_ZjgAltpzAFA/s2678/IMG_1613.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2609" data-original-width="2678" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhesmVfSc_zJSq0Qb81T25Mhw8tPqu5_hsb3s5pKOHzWstj_cyk64L0sBC2T1fU4f74sMQy43Ptdii14aqgpsis6JqnY1PfVPxB-_YVB0zi56WJYoyPaFxK2YSQLLkpRfR67qH7KZW9IT0l3IOhw42Zf9sNyNr0ya83l3pPuOdgJ_cITc_ZjgAltpzAFA/w400-h390/IMG_1613.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>My Weekly-ish challenge was "Down by the Pond." </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i> Hmmm... fish, crawdads, waterdogs, tadpoles, mosquitoes, snakes,</i></span><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"> ducks, beavers...</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;">I love this little guy.</i><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>As I painted him, he made me sing:</i></span></div><div><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><br /></i></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;">Down by the shores of the Hanky Panky...</i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky...</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>With a hip hop...</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>Kerplop!</i></span></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>He reminded me that although it's cold and gray outside, spring is coming and the peepers in our pond will return with the evening music.</i></span></div></div><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2wlT1aqV_UdNRy2EObSQvg7mtjNvK7pRKXESsLSevqp_dm_yVlOeYOrskmhgxml5y-HR8nwkaO5EJ_Q6RXWNNNCMu17NkrVe6NXZvOqkFNYAJ9kB25Yew4PoqTVsrEKiqraO-g8SkKjBkWO1cIC63RK8dDut0JckLW7EUasXlZ20hycehK5_Ei9h6Kw/s2919/IMG_1625.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="2335" data-original-width="2919" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2wlT1aqV_UdNRy2EObSQvg7mtjNvK7pRKXESsLSevqp_dm_yVlOeYOrskmhgxml5y-HR8nwkaO5EJ_Q6RXWNNNCMu17NkrVe6NXZvOqkFNYAJ9kB25Yew4PoqTVsrEKiqraO-g8SkKjBkWO1cIC63RK8dDut0JckLW7EUasXlZ20hycehK5_Ei9h6Kw/w200-h160/IMG_1625.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeaGLgIS-mDUy7QiEgEFcM4pfXISxoSXq2ksazd8BCvsBMSH6FoUMRt0tR2U6nNlLBk3Hy0a8_JcTcz2ra2ZGQsmAAS7hNiwMulPqG32RhO5ItlELQPPtJCoz_Yn4HdgX8juXLex7wPZFy_aBteYCvSSuTUB6U9OFxVoAUFdstA_Ibxk1j1coOzuv1w/s3189/IMG_1626.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2551" data-original-width="3189" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeaGLgIS-mDUy7QiEgEFcM4pfXISxoSXq2ksazd8BCvsBMSH6FoUMRt0tR2U6nNlLBk3Hy0a8_JcTcz2ra2ZGQsmAAS7hNiwMulPqG32RhO5ItlELQPPtJCoz_Yn4HdgX8juXLex7wPZFy_aBteYCvSSuTUB6U9OFxVoAUFdstA_Ibxk1j1coOzuv1w/w200-h160/IMG_1626.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 6"x 6"x 2.5" Wrapped Canvas.</span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>Click </i><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1655054210/frog-painting-pond-tree-frog-wildlife" target="_blank">Pond Frog</a> </b><i>if you'd like to purchase this little painting.</i></span></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-59540154038182023312024-02-01T05:00:00.272-06:002024-02-01T05:00:00.248-06:00I Like Thursday 2/24<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <i style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Thank you to Leeanne of </i><a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><b>Not Afraid of Color </b></a><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">for reminding me to notice things I like. </i></b></i><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaoWOfNNROBu7ftINpbFcRegiUcEJykcmL3qz4XSAM2PLpUusSCz_gQEHyF4k1cb4b0tAfWR3KnssT5tXQrE2QDTriLdGXFK6nARXiwMPfwc8Rt3HviMXN8cgWEm-uj9qoCNEY4a4VMgoITEjLgcZhoG2VcLVvRg6nj85S51tBJKKbaleo4HRZNqfWw/s4000/20240101_152307.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaoWOfNNROBu7ftINpbFcRegiUcEJykcmL3qz4XSAM2PLpUusSCz_gQEHyF4k1cb4b0tAfWR3KnssT5tXQrE2QDTriLdGXFK6nARXiwMPfwc8Rt3HviMXN8cgWEm-uj9qoCNEY4a4VMgoITEjLgcZhoG2VcLVvRg6nj85S51tBJKKbaleo4HRZNqfWw/w225-h400/20240101_152307.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I like seeing my pretty eggs all together. <br />I get around 5, more or less, every day.</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg89JQdSVjW5zFRTGUwCZfI3uFBqYC14hbaVkOP9W0Ecoq37jizgc3Z8JaO_yAGq2MfBig4qPF0WTQV1k_UfjJZBUVbGmNMRORUzjuut2tMxd2R0NW30tSg3z8mhAR5A9Ogdnnn3owd0t93J3rIL4x5tD-1o1TfhwuddQkJrYQkyRyCNEOfLG6YrUmFng/s2487/20240102_105234.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2487" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg89JQdSVjW5zFRTGUwCZfI3uFBqYC14hbaVkOP9W0Ecoq37jizgc3Z8JaO_yAGq2MfBig4qPF0WTQV1k_UfjJZBUVbGmNMRORUzjuut2tMxd2R0NW30tSg3z8mhAR5A9Ogdnnn3owd0t93J3rIL4x5tD-1o1TfhwuddQkJrYQkyRyCNEOfLG6YrUmFng/w363-h400/20240102_105234.jpg" width="363" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like these two guys.<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyx5LMFIht1Rdhbu9Y2CoQYC1Q5WTxlH_xrhkzQtklqXl_vNkd_zjcE1JQ3jv49rjkmp-pyw5MVaVFg8-u18X2sYfgk-o45E9ZEThFq-QiR00T6KInXgnmMtfvd4Ty85PC3eZ7xRwApBj29Vg6gREwxnPkcLOICcsBHWk0sP2zMuzIuGymCQACR1vGbQ/s4000/20240105_081747.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyx5LMFIht1Rdhbu9Y2CoQYC1Q5WTxlH_xrhkzQtklqXl_vNkd_zjcE1JQ3jv49rjkmp-pyw5MVaVFg8-u18X2sYfgk-o45E9ZEThFq-QiR00T6KInXgnmMtfvd4Ty85PC3eZ7xRwApBj29Vg6gREwxnPkcLOICcsBHWk0sP2zMuzIuGymCQACR1vGbQ/w400-h225/20240105_081747.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like a good snow day.<br />It was gone by noon, but it was pretty for a few hours.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-VsKrskkUVYHwcn0ncJdDcAcgIRYbctYgMYUM9VRqOnOYlWqiRHMc95twYXA1V8yxwZZtQkDCw8nNmoW1ZXJA1VNpr3OvpHSGrTUzUeDGWxdjZ6CRg8w__2d6CTk6-CctvsQfYsyIKiHbxvUe_QL4F-S4xBrtwkOwdrfKCXtNFiKU_JpO7sNp3DhoeQ/s957/just%20around%20the%20bend.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="957" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-VsKrskkUVYHwcn0ncJdDcAcgIRYbctYgMYUM9VRqOnOYlWqiRHMc95twYXA1V8yxwZZtQkDCw8nNmoW1ZXJA1VNpr3OvpHSGrTUzUeDGWxdjZ6CRg8w__2d6CTk6-CctvsQfYsyIKiHbxvUe_QL4F-S4xBrtwkOwdrfKCXtNFiKU_JpO7sNp3DhoeQ/w400-h276/just%20around%20the%20bend.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like my favorite scene in every season. <br />I live just around that bend.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPx-xZcH_a4U28SGGOSQgj6PMDjnO_-HIp307-U8wxUgWxD8Om458F2nKswDhSAYBxNikPt0vCObzQqTgkA1RaFV1ZK-nKaemAI_6tl1gwBIuHfZK9LkSK6FN3qITeXKz4Q0sBoC3RsKtNmwG9Q2-Q5GCwOyDHDGHtfpR8lPwDNnXWKuZeBQVWDqGb1w/s4000/20240109_142726.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPx-xZcH_a4U28SGGOSQgj6PMDjnO_-HIp307-U8wxUgWxD8Om458F2nKswDhSAYBxNikPt0vCObzQqTgkA1RaFV1ZK-nKaemAI_6tl1gwBIuHfZK9LkSK6FN3qITeXKz4Q0sBoC3RsKtNmwG9Q2-Q5GCwOyDHDGHtfpR8lPwDNnXWKuZeBQVWDqGb1w/w400-h225/20240109_142726.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like the view from my kitchen window.<br />They watch me as I watch them.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-EbOxwnC_QvOF1g2N4AIssXu5EVvf6vvZjk2t3P43pJNDcSKsyG23CHoHrbTN99lHJfGgoOJHMu6HlRXP5VhH4Fwo0RQs2QqKh-GFyD6lWtTt9fmvrs2bnsDNPkUzTBqMHVLh8p5dg5HhXcHvmORTWPH4fLCDIUu_R2jR5v1_3NOCTpkzHme_iptBQ/s4000/20240114_174003.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-EbOxwnC_QvOF1g2N4AIssXu5EVvf6vvZjk2t3P43pJNDcSKsyG23CHoHrbTN99lHJfGgoOJHMu6HlRXP5VhH4Fwo0RQs2QqKh-GFyD6lWtTt9fmvrs2bnsDNPkUzTBqMHVLh8p5dg5HhXcHvmORTWPH4fLCDIUu_R2jR5v1_3NOCTpkzHme_iptBQ/w400-h225/20240114_174003.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like a good soft that makes the outdoors quiet.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_WnVdK6WKD6vkfBh7s9hGzSbx-N-Ipkx0fG92KEXuaphDCk5L_-cXqrtAiqrVBsg8MLcm7E2_1RmK2zX_DpsOxBdzjA7SZS4eD36WSdFyRZ3XwVgYVBEFH8GoDd315PL7IXA_NEi-IOIpHYbUyLRdUa8LAzxdy_uV9cl7PFDe4n84kc8IHa-NbY2UQ/w400-h266/IMG_1603.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like how the cardinals come out when it snows.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BdsfLTvgQRiPQd8XXTNRoOAiBnYSAwh3m605qWaI-Ld5bYiefGL-08EHO9-1wE4t5rAlGB6TRAUwJcjTy3W1n9XWrfY5KgN7din2ha9A4XQSW7Kr60ThwpxsnNXNhmXmuQJ0whXQi4tjtXAnUFp9eujyJEK8Ps2GJEUjreftIU2LjFaRhKV9nmXv0Q/s4000/20240117_104225.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BdsfLTvgQRiPQd8XXTNRoOAiBnYSAwh3m605qWaI-Ld5bYiefGL-08EHO9-1wE4t5rAlGB6TRAUwJcjTy3W1n9XWrfY5KgN7din2ha9A4XQSW7Kr60ThwpxsnNXNhmXmuQJ0whXQi4tjtXAnUFp9eujyJEK8Ps2GJEUjreftIU2LjFaRhKV9nmXv0Q/w225-h400/20240117_104225.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like having hot water.<br />You forget to appreciate it until the below-zero temperatures <br />freeze the pipe and you don't have it!</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPVQTH7Ioqivtaw5geWjrt5ahpbFu6e_RSYFrWCwLvGIODN7VvvpRTxB5IyzQdwiNVoXukerwm2z9il_2lStpWNxmR1E-GOJA1NMBYDLLKrTfxNolrBmotUVVGMoGMDpTa40yWkNiIwAcECS7WUDomGFL5WUVb275LxS7k30wgDLdDYRKgrwuGo9wUKw/s4000/20240116_170409.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPVQTH7Ioqivtaw5geWjrt5ahpbFu6e_RSYFrWCwLvGIODN7VvvpRTxB5IyzQdwiNVoXukerwm2z9il_2lStpWNxmR1E-GOJA1NMBYDLLKrTfxNolrBmotUVVGMoGMDpTa40yWkNiIwAcECS7WUDomGFL5WUVb275LxS7k30wgDLdDYRKgrwuGo9wUKw/w225-h400/20240116_170409.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like planning for the February show. <br />Choose paintings, add hangars to the backs, make price tags... <br />and about a hundred other tasks.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-wSXleZhR6beSuLJExsUBPf7sxw-0WR4HQEzQ_8oG_f1k_uYf9NE8xUHBdKS_7VWwwzltwRxBmJyURvI2mxYb_hjR8U1ToZWFQGG131gzjuBfx7C_D8nRWrjskXsgliC7cA4h8ojBMdyYXIQMVqySYK7HZKLx5IhHf9anO382spLmvAZzOh1gCme5Q/s2936/20240122_165116.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2936" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-wSXleZhR6beSuLJExsUBPf7sxw-0WR4HQEzQ_8oG_f1k_uYf9NE8xUHBdKS_7VWwwzltwRxBmJyURvI2mxYb_hjR8U1ToZWFQGG131gzjuBfx7C_D8nRWrjskXsgliC7cA4h8ojBMdyYXIQMVqySYK7HZKLx5IhHf9anO382spLmvAZzOh1gCme5Q/w306-h400/20240122_165116.jpg" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like meeting my favorite JOY! <br />Of all the princesses and characters, she's the best. <br />I loved </i><span style="font-family: arial;">Inside Out <i>so much</i>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><b>LeeAnne's </b></a> get-to-know-you writing topics this month:</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>What qualities do you look for/love in a friend? </b></span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"> I feel like I have many different kinds of friends. I don't know that I've tried to pinpoint specific qualities... Hmmm... I suppose I enjoy time with someone who is comfortable with who they are... doesn't seek attention on themselves... never looks down on others.</i></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>What do you look for in a mate? </b></span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"> We celebrate 39 years soon.</i></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Would you prefer receiving a box of chocolates or flowers on Valentine’s
Day? </b></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>If chocolates/candy, what kind would you like to get? do you get them? <o:p></o:p></b></span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">During the years... decades that I was teaching, I would always get 3-4 of those heart-shaped boxes of chocolate where no two were filled with the same thing. I'd keep them in my closet and make them last long past spring break! </i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">If flowers, what kind would you like to receive, does it matter that they
are delivered by a floral business or brought in by your mate? What kind of
flowers, colors, number of them would you love to see? </b><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"> Flowers are always a lovely surprise.</i></p>
<p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Who was your first crush? (Real or fictional?) how old were you, how did you
feel, were you a romantic? </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Who is your favorite TV or movie fictional couple? Why do you like them? if
not a tv/movie fan, what about books? </b></span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Oh, my goodness! I love a good romance novel or rom-com movie! My list would be long and varied. For right now, let's just go with Travis & Taylor! Isn't that who the whole world is watching?</i></p>
<p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>What would be your
favorite meal? </b></span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">It can only be served perfectly in July or August when the garden is at its peak. Tomato-bacon-tomato sandwich... Let me be very specific... White bread, toasted, cut into quarters, thick tomato slices with salt, bacon cooked to just before crisp... scrambled egg, optional. On the side... Sliced cucumbers and/or Ruffles potato chips with French onion dip (Kraft made the best but stopped making it... boo!) The drink would be a Route 44 coke from Sonic.</i></p></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-38256039226214503462024-01-31T10:55:00.001-06:002024-01-31T10:55:07.580-06:00Pond Reflections<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnKAc-G2ZwdMaFkNTT051rrARuG2Hp2yGH9WQt7lm9uJ-C0PGfrEYBIry_p4FFHPbA6Rb0zCAGfZAcGYp-lYG9JE6WSN3Tq4_ZPTNKwl452VemPo8MGg26iRKzE8eQB-hxIfWK0A2YTjOCpoAjAIsHIa9-bDIEps-81mS7IafMAHNjb65XBYS1E4P8g/s3774/680%20Pond%20Reflections%201-24.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2832" data-original-width="3774" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnKAc-G2ZwdMaFkNTT051rrARuG2Hp2yGH9WQt7lm9uJ-C0PGfrEYBIry_p4FFHPbA6Rb0zCAGfZAcGYp-lYG9JE6WSN3Tq4_ZPTNKwl452VemPo8MGg26iRKzE8eQB-hxIfWK0A2YTjOCpoAjAIsHIa9-bDIEps-81mS7IafMAHNjb65XBYS1E4P8g/w400-h300/680%20Pond%20Reflections%201-24.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>A new painting group has formed for 2024. We've come together and discussed some guidelines for the year. Those guidelines are there to get us started, but we've already started to change them. We don't all know each other or know each other's work well, so we're anxious to see what we become!</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>We don't even have a name yet! We have lots of ideas though! One will emerge.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Our first prompt was "Reflections."</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I fretted for over a week without a good idea.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Finally I settled on one that was obvious and tangible, reflections on a pond. (This one was outside a cabin we stayed in at Big Cedar in Missouri.)</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>The more abstract reflection is done in thought. For me, I think/reflect best when writing.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>These are some of my diaries and journals. That blue one on the right was my very first one. It shows my very first entry. "January 1, 1973 - I watched the oreng bole parade and traist in my coloring Book." </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLOmSqV18GrB1et6PWDdBkxE85eKs0NeZSWTFfglykHhSa_7sT1VsJBJ_r6diTKDnl3c5hKG1h0dOxTiAFuyvcuVTbBBFUcfl9yqP1K7YsFqRGnHwQtMyvBzdHTP08tapTWyj_j_Sm6fbq5txSWSeMOuQ1fus7Qzo4tyWYnhYVuY5ASYNpAAU6HYUIoQ/s2676/20240110_212025.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2676" data-original-width="2020" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLOmSqV18GrB1et6PWDdBkxE85eKs0NeZSWTFfglykHhSa_7sT1VsJBJ_r6diTKDnl3c5hKG1h0dOxTiAFuyvcuVTbBBFUcfl9yqP1K7YsFqRGnHwQtMyvBzdHTP08tapTWyj_j_Sm6fbq5txSWSeMOuQ1fus7Qzo4tyWYnhYVuY5ASYNpAAU6HYUIoQ/w303-h400/20240110_212025.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><i>A diamonte poem is something I did with my 4th grade students. It's when you take two seemingly unrelated things and find the commonalities.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>1 Noun</i></span></li><li><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>2 Adjectives</i></span></li><li><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>3 Verbs</i></span></li><li><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>4-Word Phrase</i></span></li><li><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>3 Verbs</i></span></li><li><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>2 Adjectives</i></span></li><li><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>1 Noun</i></span></li></ol></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 9"x 12" Wrapped Canvas</span><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Click Pond </i><b>Reflections</b><i> if you'd like to purchase this little painting.</i></span></span></div><p></p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-20784135908339580972024-01-14T06:00:00.002-06:002024-01-14T22:11:39.048-06:00Word Weaver Art 2023 Blurb Book<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>It came today!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Yay!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpuRJrgdSWGV2jGukZ43_sF9bBNMw77-qjsun3ckJScRqKVBvHGnKT_5Lng7Ega8EA7B5Y173GP3BcUMTCQIHeb4TGEWqlgWye_ODR9SuItUZe8gFHeSV0mgQohwkfhklgXhlinwfsb0OyD43O2CYvTOtpgOUdBgHxolRby5_sgLyrle2GlyHVnllOmw/s2716/20240113_163714.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2716" data-original-width="2195" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpuRJrgdSWGV2jGukZ43_sF9bBNMw77-qjsun3ckJScRqKVBvHGnKT_5Lng7Ega8EA7B5Y173GP3BcUMTCQIHeb4TGEWqlgWye_ODR9SuItUZe8gFHeSV0mgQohwkfhklgXhlinwfsb0OyD43O2CYvTOtpgOUdBgHxolRby5_sgLyrle2GlyHVnllOmw/w324-h400/20240113_163714.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>When I took those first lessons back in 2007, I wouldn't have dreamed that I might still be painting in 2023. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>When I wrote my first blog posts back in 2009, I couldn't have imagined that I'd keep it up, that I'd love it, that I'd "meet" so many friends.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I have a Blurb book for every year since I began. I am a huge fan of </i><a href="https://www.blurb.com/" target="_blank"><b>Blurb</b></a><i> and would recommend them any time.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbMSMKqQjho18hYpcqvsfq31NTY9oPpMeztT0wo6hy4VDCX-69VK0hQujIVw1XJGpNzctaXfX7FXJnkPNuNIriIUtWzX5gy7wj26vJJPZnQobxiul1k6k7b8sE6zYOe1Bpb48cSNO-KwhuQ-SaL_kXQLBBpiyzIzJwKK5_ws4AvxwrzJK3ExdJkvwKA/s2189/20240113_163634.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2063" data-original-width="2189" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbMSMKqQjho18hYpcqvsfq31NTY9oPpMeztT0wo6hy4VDCX-69VK0hQujIVw1XJGpNzctaXfX7FXJnkPNuNIriIUtWzX5gy7wj26vJJPZnQobxiul1k6k7b8sE6zYOe1Bpb48cSNO-KwhuQ-SaL_kXQLBBpiyzIzJwKK5_ws4AvxwrzJK3ExdJkvwKA/w400-h378/20240113_163634.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>My little collection of Word Weaver Art books grew today.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>If you'd like a peek inside, click </i><a href="https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10168407/e964b5d3153ae11bc0e63ccf5668f4d4655e3e63" target="_blank"><b>HERE.</b></a> <i><b> </b>Once it opens, click PREVIEW. Then you can click the pages to flip through the book. If you read my blog, you've basically already read it, but it's fun to see it all put together in a book format.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Ze6zW0nZqLwgMD1N7TUoqZWARGDXSSbov8G_tO3YgU0wrZOOmR84MnJlvuqgGauw3feu6EujJ06NZFNl4TLZEQh3DtDoiAc41xMUM0S_kR6TgPi9RhxvjjlIz8b2jY9VrXZBrRwd7BiQ1aGQi2VUnvCqsn9WVFenxnOs77XLirxidPp1y_J1O4CQKA/s4000/20240113_163643.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Ze6zW0nZqLwgMD1N7TUoqZWARGDXSSbov8G_tO3YgU0wrZOOmR84MnJlvuqgGauw3feu6EujJ06NZFNl4TLZEQh3DtDoiAc41xMUM0S_kR6TgPi9RhxvjjlIz8b2jY9VrXZBrRwd7BiQ1aGQi2VUnvCqsn9WVFenxnOs77XLirxidPp1y_J1O4CQKA/w400-h225/20240113_163643.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Do you know my favorite color combination... go ahead... take a guess.</i> 😊</span></div></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-29107023277409206372024-01-13T06:57:00.007-06:002024-01-13T07:06:08.739-06:00Crafty Month<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I was feeling like I hadn't done much in the last month or so. But then I started actually looking at all the things that have come out of my little garret art room.</i></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNDvKFurydyeaDw_8lRbzkC6CUBy4h-gUzUtjxP5OaHNoWNQiGINOGB6Dhdrw6QLv0ASLpzNHoLIgLeXO21VN8x4qv5KOVxtPxBCNgqkkovEdTmI1uOBOflCZ9LSvlkbYESaQzCX66UaMlULqH50S1F_PDtNg6GH13cjvG5q0TNV6adnB6QtJMJklrPg/s4000/20231202_201734.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNDvKFurydyeaDw_8lRbzkC6CUBy4h-gUzUtjxP5OaHNoWNQiGINOGB6Dhdrw6QLv0ASLpzNHoLIgLeXO21VN8x4qv5KOVxtPxBCNgqkkovEdTmI1uOBOflCZ9LSvlkbYESaQzCX66UaMlULqH50S1F_PDtNg6GH13cjvG5q0TNV6adnB6QtJMJklrPg/w400-h225/20231202_201734.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">I made a bunch more Holland Pouch Bags. <br />I never intended to sell them, but surprise surprise <br />friends wanted them to use as Christmas gifts and asked. <br />*Note the cat trying to be in the photo...</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAr0HMMr_AkLu8vPIRx1AMOra6KjLyuM_8Nujfz9WW4ItC6DJ_YKo06SrI7vXTo8hc5kkfdK0JFVC-CtVQSegSXroUvd8iRX1U5cx1gStsNXlx70mwHAxNzN-dghZtrAJMge1GJA3u5W7yJkS5aW4hjx7WWqzXPPnHvbTmGlqh9POF5ylmeQD-kHQFA/s2826/20240106_132620.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2826" data-original-width="2059" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAr0HMMr_AkLu8vPIRx1AMOra6KjLyuM_8Nujfz9WW4ItC6DJ_YKo06SrI7vXTo8hc5kkfdK0JFVC-CtVQSegSXroUvd8iRX1U5cx1gStsNXlx70mwHAxNzN-dghZtrAJMge1GJA3u5W7yJkS5aW4hjx7WWqzXPPnHvbTmGlqh9POF5ylmeQD-kHQFA/w291-h400/20240106_132620.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">I haven't given up on watercolor / mixed media.<br />I'm getting better.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPrZkkgA3JZELZwbC5ncWm7Geh447KIayeK6Yzc1EVYVuYAFw-GShHDlfNqhTOabaNJ_ZEuSHSuSpt_CuQr6s6SQaw7z0aKZpATeImw-i1jrM4578EqDzYktMQVUNwx0ATfZFmbCXF3kNJfUGH8z-HMPQUB0Jf4FohrZpR7AeRo6Cn27iZr-7PcAvDw/s1379/Publication1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1379" data-original-width="1275" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPrZkkgA3JZELZwbC5ncWm7Geh447KIayeK6Yzc1EVYVuYAFw-GShHDlfNqhTOabaNJ_ZEuSHSuSpt_CuQr6s6SQaw7z0aKZpATeImw-i1jrM4578EqDzYktMQVUNwx0ATfZFmbCXF3kNJfUGH8z-HMPQUB0Jf4FohrZpR7AeRo6Cn27iZr-7PcAvDw/s320/Publication1.jpg" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">And... I made even more of those little bags. <br />No, I don't have to even think any more. <br />I can just sew them on autopilot.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEn-s6MkNa0sHxof8l3qhBuwdar5dtI14lTWZzVne5Q-1ybvMIMbvKhyiRasi6uXbtC9Rxxq-FM0GIXUQjsda6i4Q13Bs4fkCO0U_Nu7_qP0AHSIyfVqjguNTR0ljThfP3ErrFVCFkLxbRtp4xz-B5WCKh3G48M220OfxaAlCfkv2ptfPTstUeP4ydvA/s2799/IMG_1580.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2799" data-original-width="2781" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEn-s6MkNa0sHxof8l3qhBuwdar5dtI14lTWZzVne5Q-1ybvMIMbvKhyiRasi6uXbtC9Rxxq-FM0GIXUQjsda6i4Q13Bs4fkCO0U_Nu7_qP0AHSIyfVqjguNTR0ljThfP3ErrFVCFkLxbRtp4xz-B5WCKh3G48M220OfxaAlCfkv2ptfPTstUeP4ydvA/w398-h400/IMG_1580.JPG" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Any excuse to use the palette knife is a good day at the easel.<br />True my blue heron's neck should be longer and more graceful, <br />I just decided it was a baby whose neck hadn't grown yet.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvvAfZ8NE_W1OK_JiiXk_UL_hZfP1Q1lzP2nRfS35Qz1SOCa1s8jWq1SmDNVc9JLLj_eNl8LtrpqdyUyv0QUC2TF0_-YOC4ou6bexIX7p-NzQ1VX1kYftYTLJxKFfYJFEQVb1i3dUk_fB3otZPtIcvQ2bLq7FTHwZMCCBrnyj6uAStXLwnnmvChf8Lg/s2418/20240112_191405.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2418" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvvAfZ8NE_W1OK_JiiXk_UL_hZfP1Q1lzP2nRfS35Qz1SOCa1s8jWq1SmDNVc9JLLj_eNl8LtrpqdyUyv0QUC2TF0_-YOC4ou6bexIX7p-NzQ1VX1kYftYTLJxKFfYJFEQVb1i3dUk_fB3otZPtIcvQ2bLq7FTHwZMCCBrnyj6uAStXLwnnmvChf8Lg/w373-h400/20240112_191405.jpg" width="373" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">So, of course, I made a few more.<br />Perfect little special gifts when I need one.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ9mEB5nRUgY9kvwQEfjDo7iIAlPEfjxzHhk0CFOahvQaFZSXWCwOuvCATbdauwTvMFMyNGIAB6MkNJg-AmEyQHLNs3-pxFhAw9Vvjn0QX0KkYXYZCPwVLfIrCrKJDCbQL4F0q6a3BdRmz0HD7UunpHQB_5JC3HDqNcQ7AofHpqk-bncTmlNoF0SWLlA/s2174/142%2012-23.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2148" data-original-width="2174" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ9mEB5nRUgY9kvwQEfjDo7iIAlPEfjxzHhk0CFOahvQaFZSXWCwOuvCATbdauwTvMFMyNGIAB6MkNJg-AmEyQHLNs3-pxFhAw9Vvjn0QX0KkYXYZCPwVLfIrCrKJDCbQL4F0q6a3BdRmz0HD7UunpHQB_5JC3HDqNcQ7AofHpqk-bncTmlNoF0SWLlA/w400-h395/142%2012-23.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Making a quilted fabric collage from a painting has become my newest favorite thing.</i><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho1qtn8RNVtvjRUJvF_CLxNEVlIbzJQif_LweQYV03_JtSYLrcckAqNUuqLjsisg4vG8SPl8-fywRI35-94Aiw-Fw033AlWdTfmAN9r_22K5s00pHyvsLeI76YfzUwzVRzaF65RBCXJd-pjCZL10961Mz9lxW2BtlDxorIGwVRCClfSywyC5VjEsmOjg/s3001/523%20Sunflower%20Shine%207-20.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2956" data-original-width="3001" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho1qtn8RNVtvjRUJvF_CLxNEVlIbzJQif_LweQYV03_JtSYLrcckAqNUuqLjsisg4vG8SPl8-fywRI35-94Aiw-Fw033AlWdTfmAN9r_22K5s00pHyvsLeI76YfzUwzVRzaF65RBCXJd-pjCZL10961Mz9lxW2BtlDxorIGwVRCClfSywyC5VjEsmOjg/w200-h197/523%20Sunflower%20Shine%207-20.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsYQgYgb4OJ0P8mrWc4Tnwu7904pATh9e81qwRDU-OyRoUdZgbjGyBmz_SLzSfaj6wjHW5dyMgwT92BFOyFCGsh8vftuKKfDPO4UkfXe2Jd6l_2pUAB3_FL05Bvy6oATwlrqLePPMwAEfxtS3ga3GlvEQe1C4UlRPh_FJ0qs0cMS3xDmzX7Sg8B4elfA/s2539/20240101_195024.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2539" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsYQgYgb4OJ0P8mrWc4Tnwu7904pATh9e81qwRDU-OyRoUdZgbjGyBmz_SLzSfaj6wjHW5dyMgwT92BFOyFCGsh8vftuKKfDPO4UkfXe2Jd6l_2pUAB3_FL05Bvy6oATwlrqLePPMwAEfxtS3ga3GlvEQe1C4UlRPh_FJ0qs0cMS3xDmzX7Sg8B4elfA/w355-h400/20240101_195024.jpg" width="355" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Finally, after making nearly a hundred (that's not an exaggeration) of the other little Pouches, which I discovered on <a href="https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/" target="_blank">Wendy's blog</a> a couple of years ago, she had a post about another kind of bag. I think it's time to move on to a new bag. I got the pattern and gave it a try. This one's called a Japanese Rice Bag.<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-55756596769332628912024-01-06T06:00:00.001-06:002024-01-06T06:00:00.246-06:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9_3Xbkdk4XgrqpGBfvGNJ7bgvqBs7bwvQCepKCXIZe_hMX8igZkXS87lM-ecBWZJlc78xPI5tT3s6H8ZRyP0d2hxaYUEGX81dEPX57Xz7ceKH8llJ2QOjV13v44EGEe4RWLnx6q1dcrdflmc0CRK77LISViKXUzkuUvqlE2HOBhEiUtM4tlFSuJOPQ/s1650/2023%20Red%20Kite%20Art%20Show%20Flier%2012-29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1275" data-original-width="1650" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9_3Xbkdk4XgrqpGBfvGNJ7bgvqBs7bwvQCepKCXIZe_hMX8igZkXS87lM-ecBWZJlc78xPI5tT3s6H8ZRyP0d2hxaYUEGX81dEPX57Xz7ceKH8llJ2QOjV13v44EGEe4RWLnx6q1dcrdflmc0CRK77LISViKXUzkuUvqlE2HOBhEiUtM4tlFSuJOPQ/w400-h309/2023%20Red%20Kite%20Art%20Show%20Flier%2012-29.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>This is happening!</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>So excited!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i>We'd love to see you there!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>From the Heart</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>Art Show Dates</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>February 1 - February 29</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>Art Show Reception / Meet the Artists</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>Saturday, February 3, 2023</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>2:30-5:30</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>Red Kite</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>Coffee House</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>1852 N. Crossover Road</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><b><i>Fayetteville, Arkansas</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><i><b>Reception February 3rd, 2:30-5:30</b></i></span></div><p></p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-51421455925114369632024-01-04T03:30:00.047-06:002024-01-04T07:08:35.633-06:00I Like Thursday 1/24<p> <i style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Thank you to Leeanne of </i><a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><b>Not Afraid of Color </b></a><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">for reminding me to notice things I like. </i></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"></b></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5o_qSVJcrQRcspsXwMRFuT6iEzRXtnifxkyMKMgfLNuMXLpk-GsD926NcI5oQuZQQ5oLHqsFpsRks36lQ38egxBsQyUCJLV-drSrkWK2khGuvN0ZEErdLi2-gM1kCtTVsaeTOItdBF9Elx9xBnA_84KuG0fp3c5sxRn-S1GktvXz3GUW8pa3HmBnwNA/s2913/20231212_165632.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2913" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5o_qSVJcrQRcspsXwMRFuT6iEzRXtnifxkyMKMgfLNuMXLpk-GsD926NcI5oQuZQQ5oLHqsFpsRks36lQ38egxBsQyUCJLV-drSrkWK2khGuvN0ZEErdLi2-gM1kCtTVsaeTOItdBF9Elx9xBnA_84KuG0fp3c5sxRn-S1GktvXz3GUW8pa3HmBnwNA/w309-h400/20231212_165632.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I like that my kids and grand kids each have an Amazon Wish List.<br />I can set a $ amount, click, click, click, click...<br />Then wait for the packages to arrive.<br />Shopping done!</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><i style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivTR4UePggdU8Yi7b8ZWgl2371s1IM3XYvNPKbEdDFQfv591qwAVK5MdaBzM482ctOqr_u6j6O-GmzchtY1ABH0KsECGP5ZezdOsoPlpTlrcHzVCxF_8sJD4Z1WpARGX7NGwOJV4mhAZgO6-GRO7vg3TQxzzk_m5XPOHvWkKwBLJa383N2_bORprTyvw/s4000/20231214_100624.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivTR4UePggdU8Yi7b8ZWgl2371s1IM3XYvNPKbEdDFQfv591qwAVK5MdaBzM482ctOqr_u6j6O-GmzchtY1ABH0KsECGP5ZezdOsoPlpTlrcHzVCxF_8sJD4Z1WpARGX7NGwOJV4mhAZgO6-GRO7vg3TQxzzk_m5XPOHvWkKwBLJa383N2_bORprTyvw/w225-h400/20231214_100624.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like our ornaments. <br />Each one holds a meaning or a memory.</i></td></tr></tbody></table></b></i><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"></b></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzmxETGQOhutBmMRt2Ztx0Vj33WS8hHB0-B_30QM8QP-Nw25ttHErZY-8ej9mqS26Gj0mqyvZfIiHnqyy9EDWkQeQLnNyAVlU8fKEGfnNGX6aCMUEZbx2rEh71yLkh4JOfd51vgTteFsXTYGy-GnGBzHO4vSenQD_aSYBrrjDrUWMoSNg5vcV2bauTNA/s2534/20231226_112451.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1994" data-original-width="2534" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzmxETGQOhutBmMRt2Ztx0Vj33WS8hHB0-B_30QM8QP-Nw25ttHErZY-8ej9mqS26Gj0mqyvZfIiHnqyy9EDWkQeQLnNyAVlU8fKEGfnNGX6aCMUEZbx2rEh71yLkh4JOfd51vgTteFsXTYGy-GnGBzHO4vSenQD_aSYBrrjDrUWMoSNg5vcV2bauTNA/w400-h315/20231226_112451.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like my colorful little flock.<br />Zeb, Fancy-like, Elenore, Trudy, Beauty, Judy, Pip,<br />Vendi, Twinkle, Pauline, Jolene, Foxy, Ruby Jean, <br />and... Pete.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvh8Ok1AsDWmXiHr2Xw74Nf78hTbhr_tJJETJRSCN5zA8AhJ6mS2bywI02CcoH69E_uq9BqoLFmHPoLShTjc-m1gWCFHIulMsLxritwoVGvVZiN_Z9TYs2iDOZfAcldvux6jx6dN4TTrGBEyU-NXKd-fepojS2B7y831b7ugfN0NJmF9BGj-i5HtRxg/s4000/20231227_075050.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvh8Ok1AsDWmXiHr2Xw74Nf78hTbhr_tJJETJRSCN5zA8AhJ6mS2bywI02CcoH69E_uq9BqoLFmHPoLShTjc-m1gWCFHIulMsLxritwoVGvVZiN_Z9TYs2iDOZfAcldvux6jx6dN4TTrGBEyU-NXKd-fepojS2B7y831b7ugfN0NJmF9BGj-i5HtRxg/w400-h225/20231227_075050.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like sharing our little piece of the earth with forest friends.<br />But if they can't leave the chicken houses alone,<br /> they have to be relocated to a different woods.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyLnpjnmDNA1Cf9OPPCb3r_VJLV38QD0ac_mwvwuW7VRTwpN56sggQsAgTem4oiS1c_0LaYd1WkoQe1h_AViFaU33aO0dotrGOlBFLn3zYl297YIcXDCTP83AjWZ9Au8F9MBWAwf9Uqq40IN2ce0Jz6buUt_wsrZ6wJQ-TSnBbXA1P0_qPLIZgegwX8g/s4000/20231228_074658.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyLnpjnmDNA1Cf9OPPCb3r_VJLV38QD0ac_mwvwuW7VRTwpN56sggQsAgTem4oiS1c_0LaYd1WkoQe1h_AViFaU33aO0dotrGOlBFLn3zYl297YIcXDCTP83AjWZ9Au8F9MBWAwf9Uqq40IN2ce0Jz6buUt_wsrZ6wJQ-TSnBbXA1P0_qPLIZgegwX8g/w400-h225/20231228_074658.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like our raccoons and possums and turtles and deer and birds and <br />squirrels and armadillos and whoever else pokes around in our woods.<br />They just need to stay in the woods and out of the chicken coops.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAT_UnFFOboF70WbCMilqurcCbSEcwi2P-hLqKm3TSpUX8qjrvmOKkw55iQTQDhkLIwpZxHzLDeNzS_yP29namKRgsl-JPhi2TWkfxNThf3_rzA446ALx0rTxX6pNWIuOu_dIXwvJBiMTRFXSLNXr0W0dCPx9HGvFtVWPcy0TGSNhWdhAGQTz1Za_XDg/s3195/20231228_085726.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3195" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAT_UnFFOboF70WbCMilqurcCbSEcwi2P-hLqKm3TSpUX8qjrvmOKkw55iQTQDhkLIwpZxHzLDeNzS_yP29namKRgsl-JPhi2TWkfxNThf3_rzA446ALx0rTxX6pNWIuOu_dIXwvJBiMTRFXSLNXr0W0dCPx9HGvFtVWPcy0TGSNhWdhAGQTz1Za_XDg/w283-h400/20231228_085726.jpg" width="283" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like firecrackers.<br />I love the recipe which is in my beautiful late sister-in-law's handwriting.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge1hxni3hwRy6yrq0PXoeFiOh8W0zrQYYevnJXqnWcDu2OHp9d57djEbImAiTDRi9PWDaloXfK5uQXWzNjfjaVuPv3o6PlHLbnFKeaBygQgrYm_cG7bXV0pZgKdMAu7SFKxtSieOQFoCWvgsFWZmtb8L84Ew09eEssWkxv0W12vDz_ooaepd4Mq6rmHA/s2370/20231228_081141.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2370" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge1hxni3hwRy6yrq0PXoeFiOh8W0zrQYYevnJXqnWcDu2OHp9d57djEbImAiTDRi9PWDaloXfK5uQXWzNjfjaVuPv3o6PlHLbnFKeaBygQgrYm_cG7bXV0pZgKdMAu7SFKxtSieOQFoCWvgsFWZmtb8L84Ew09eEssWkxv0W12vDz_ooaepd4Mq6rmHA/w380-h400/20231228_081141.jpg" width="380" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I like word games...<br />Wordle, Quordle, Crosswords, Cryptoquotes...</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><b>LeeAnne's </b></a> get-to-know-you writing topics this month:</b></i></div><div><span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Do you have a favorite appetizer in your family? </span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">My family loves homemade Chex Mix and Firecrackers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Would you rather have buffalo chicken dip or artichoke dip?</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b><i><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Ummm... neither... But, more importantly why did Kraft stop making French onion dip!?!? My favorite summer meal of tomato-bacon-tomato sandwich with Ruffles and French onion dip has never been the same!</i></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-weight: bold;">What do you try first when you go to a party with snacks?</span><i><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Probably a sausage-cheese ball, maybe some chips and salsa, a little fruit to balance it out.</span></i></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;">Do you have plans or desired to learn something new this year?</span></b><i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> </i></span></span></span><i style="font-style: normal;"><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yes! Always a life-long learner. But, I don't have a plan for something specific I want to learn.</span></i></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="font-style: normal;"><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Do you have a goal for this coming year? </b></span></i></span></i><i><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hmmmm...I should have an answer here. I do have daily goals, if that counts.</span></i></span></i><i><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b></span></i></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">An event that had a big impact on you this year.... and how did you handle it?</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span></i></span></i><span> <i><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">I like signed up for and participated in an year-long </i></span></i></span><i><span><i><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">on-line </i></span></i></span></i><i><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">multi-media art class called Life Book 2023. There were 30+ teachers and 80+ lessons. I committed myself to learn new mediums and ways to create. I did. It was hard. It was uncomfortable. I loved it. But, I'm ready to get back to my good old comfortable friend oil paint.</i></span></i><i><span><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b></span></i></span></i></p></span><i><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Does your family play games? What kinds and are any of them
new ones this year? Cards? Board Games? Puzzles? Action games like
darts or horseshoes etc? </b><i><span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">My family is made up with 6 grandkids ranging in age from 1-5. Soooo... the main games played are chase-each-other-with-sticks-while-squealing, pretend-to-hide-then-squeal-and-run, or dump-boxes-of-toys-in-the-floor-and-squeal.</i></span></i></p></span></i></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-31108168740804448852024-01-02T15:19:00.000-06:002024-01-02T15:19:47.651-06:00Working Puzzles<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYSk4uhwWfCBvOiuB9b_keVjSO9JVlHTrJCZ-w5wwo5fPpH63P5YsAuVNDbstkL7m9oZ1r8gTlKoxnA8CBcrJeUDguMg8YtzDjlZ6QdIR0BM4S6LiV3oOPI3Z-m58eWS1Tuvios0HiNy6bQ13CnEKI0UOdL2GmvxOpNQrSyn_i82RHONfDA_uHFqnEg/s2483/679%20Working%20Puzzles%2012-23.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2468" data-original-width="2483" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYSk4uhwWfCBvOiuB9b_keVjSO9JVlHTrJCZ-w5wwo5fPpH63P5YsAuVNDbstkL7m9oZ1r8gTlKoxnA8CBcrJeUDguMg8YtzDjlZ6QdIR0BM4S6LiV3oOPI3Z-m58eWS1Tuvios0HiNy6bQ13CnEKI0UOdL2GmvxOpNQrSyn_i82RHONfDA_uHFqnEg/w400-h398/679%20Working%20Puzzles%2012-23.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div>We have 6 beautiful grandbabies. The youngest is about to turn 1, and the oldest hasn't turned 5 yet. We are blessed beyond measure.</span><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><i>We love to have all 6 here together. There is lots of chasing and squealing when we do.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><i>One family of three has blue eyes. The other family of three has brown eyes. We call them our Browns and our Blues.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><i>We love to have one family at a time here. We have routines that they know, love, and expect.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><i>And we love to have time with just one by himself or herself sometimes. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><i>This little sweetheart is the 4th in our line up. She's my little puzzle worker.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><i>My weekly-ish challenge was "Toys." Puzzles are toys, so I met the challenge... and added a little person too! <br /></i></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 10"x 10" Wrapped Canvas</span><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">[NFS]</span></span></div><p></p></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-22002542837103715872023-12-21T21:27:00.001-06:002023-12-21T21:27:49.015-06:00Hey, Hey, Hay! VI<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw62LdNMSqhTsIDe7_-odVknKCkeTLmypVvOu0kbbvJkKB7t6CHIH68oRMWt1fO-uzGomxFb3UxbAC0tlGD_qSVUWBsce29JshgjqRAgt3BABzs30hFaG9YVqTwLXooiN73JFEA6oEiPxeawi1NmBoChhy1-S7wPSZcmDLotASN0OVk2yOfLBCz9CjTQ/s3148/678%20%20Hey!%20Hey!%20Hay!!!%20VI%2012-23.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3115" data-original-width="3148" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw62LdNMSqhTsIDe7_-odVknKCkeTLmypVvOu0kbbvJkKB7t6CHIH68oRMWt1fO-uzGomxFb3UxbAC0tlGD_qSVUWBsce29JshgjqRAgt3BABzs30hFaG9YVqTwLXooiN73JFEA6oEiPxeawi1NmBoChhy1-S7wPSZcmDLotASN0OVk2yOfLBCz9CjTQ/w400-h396/678%20%20Hey!%20Hey!%20Hay!!!%20VI%2012-23.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><br /><i>Hey, Little Cow! Aren't you a cutie!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i>I've painted a lot of cows. No, really... a LOT of cows. I counted. I've done 30+ paintings with cows. Take a few seconds, click <a href="https://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/p/cows.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>, and scroll through. Yeah... lots. The other day I realized it had been a while since I've painted one. Nearly 4 years! </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i>This particular little "Black Baldy" heifer has been on my canvas several times. I was glad to bring her back one more time... or maybe two... or three...</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i>I've recently taken a liking to translating a paintings into different mediums. So...</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_U_3sJc67XLin5sUqjch13h_K3HPEPmYPOF2tl-vg1bRTxDD7g_NCuhV4w_wPcz-D7FWDgzdwwBkADA7rPqnzy8sO7GM_bcnqUNKAslPtpAi_BSc8SwWcDVw1AFjv9Ve8aHtpQym7qW0aNAHqFrYj-Xr-cRgK1vBVjURgUWsfPzvt_t5QLd-xVnZUbQ/s2113/143%2012-23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2045" data-original-width="2113" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_U_3sJc67XLin5sUqjch13h_K3HPEPmYPOF2tl-vg1bRTxDD7g_NCuhV4w_wPcz-D7FWDgzdwwBkADA7rPqnzy8sO7GM_bcnqUNKAslPtpAi_BSc8SwWcDVw1AFjv9Ve8aHtpQym7qW0aNAHqFrYj-Xr-cRgK1vBVjURgUWsfPzvt_t5QLd-xVnZUbQ/s320/143%2012-23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Watercolor still scares the bejeezus out of me. Mine never turn out like I imagine they're supposed to, but I'm getting better.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFH3Kdf0fWg_YXdt5i_xhoNK5mROjB1JAJMXKbF4uB2_BFSwrH9AsQMnYxWPP-0lJbqRHiaB6o_k702xLLUYK6W1wQ1QSxnHtXi3l6Hf9XwIwDbBtiUgIsIO-oqLe90-EV9UZBvNGliCDM6EsD1u37D7AOAM_GnUv39perbvUGKYF65LhdJ-VYWQBMQ/s2109/20231220_123720.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2109" data-original-width="2025" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFH3Kdf0fWg_YXdt5i_xhoNK5mROjB1JAJMXKbF4uB2_BFSwrH9AsQMnYxWPP-0lJbqRHiaB6o_k702xLLUYK6W1wQ1QSxnHtXi3l6Hf9XwIwDbBtiUgIsIO-oqLe90-EV9UZBvNGliCDM6EsD1u37D7AOAM_GnUv39perbvUGKYF65LhdJ-VYWQBMQ/s320/20231220_123720.jpg" width="307" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Quilted Fabric Collage is exciting and new to me. I'm not sure they have a purpose... a fancy potholder I suppose. I do love using the little scraps and threads to bring out the image.</i></div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 8"x 8" Wrapped Canvas</span><br /><i>Click </i><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1641215349/cow-painting-original-oil-painting-black" target="_blank">Hey, Hey, Hay! </a></b><i>if you'd like to purchase this little cow painting</i></span>.</div><p></p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-64095998766274626542023-12-17T22:10:00.001-06:002023-12-17T22:17:48.316-06:00Creative Companions 2023<p><i style="font-family: arial;">I would love to invite you to view the final product of a project that my two artist friends, </i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/JujuBeePaints" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><b>Julie Brandt</b></a><i style="font-family: arial;"> and </i><a href="https://www.artpal.com/cheriwollenberg" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><b>Cheri Wollenberg</b></a><i style="font-family: arial;">, and I have finished.</i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">Click the link to see the Blurb book we made. <br /></span></i></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">Once it opens, click the "Preview" button that's just under the bottom right corner of the picture of the book cover. You'll be able to flip through all the pages to see the whole project. You can "turn the pages" by clicking on the right side of the pages of the book.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Enjoy!</i></span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; 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They would meet on Zoom at the beginning of each month to reveal their pieces, encourage each other’s endeavors, receive their new topic, and enjoy each other’s company. </i></blockquote></span></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> The Formation of Creative Companions:<br />1. Idea Proposed <br />2. Conversation Held <br />3. Excitement Built <br />4. Ideas Brainstormed <br />5. Plan Formed <br />6. Guidelines Generated <br />7. Rules set <br />8. Name Chosen <br />9. Questions Asked <br />10. Guidelines Changed <br />11. Rules Tossed Out</i></span></div><div><br /></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Creative - adj. <br /><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas, <span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></span><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>especially in the production of an artistic work. <br /></span>Companion - n. <br /><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1. a person with whom one spends time <br /></span></i></span><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2. a pair of things intended to complement each other.</i></span> </span> </div></blockquote></blockquote>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-72420270615868879402023-12-11T09:23:00.005-06:002023-12-11T09:27:07.531-06:00Whooooo's Got Pretty Orange Eyes?<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEdLxT1Xwl9D8cKrie921jdfgr4elhmWS4f_Wcno0TXe2-EUdWm4mylSXFPDE-e8FTgDSWujK2XlOkYI4STFGHIMF5eO7ZqNVi7gOoHYMrY03jI2qvQvwg7iwA54KFSk3sKHMdpIs1_ItuNGPH2XMQpxg7MyPwdRf2B377U6iDnELoJDcscwFDLI2Bag/s3021/677%20Owl%20with%20Orange%20Eyes%2012-23.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3021" data-original-width="2396" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEdLxT1Xwl9D8cKrie921jdfgr4elhmWS4f_Wcno0TXe2-EUdWm4mylSXFPDE-e8FTgDSWujK2XlOkYI4STFGHIMF5eO7ZqNVi7gOoHYMrY03jI2qvQvwg7iwA54KFSk3sKHMdpIs1_ItuNGPH2XMQpxg7MyPwdRf2B377U6iDnELoJDcscwFDLI2Bag/w318-h400/677%20Owl%20with%20Orange%20Eyes%2012-23.JPG" width="318" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><i>I haven't painted much lately.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><i>I've had the I-can't-think-of-anything-to paint syndrome.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><i>Is that like "writer's block" only for brush and canvas instead of pen and paper?</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><i>My Creative Companions project is finished.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><i>We're taking a little break from our Weekly-ish Art Challenge.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><i>The on-line LifeBook 2023 painting class is over.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><i>So... I was on my own to decide what to paint next. How about going back to the beginning?</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUolE2ouTysSc_o16cTLdfJRzBkClkvM76yINEO7B0F-ncxzhMNWvRium_14kg5q5FgKaRpoWhZDbO0BOVlxNDslCVlTsY3aJv8-FTOJ5n9Zk7EntM_hlpQoc-GjpoLjwmjNV-99I2_bjUxdeAfdlqW38GrPXgKDsjk3_2VOHIozwSoxPQj9rNIMxODw/s1588/Screenshot%20(47)%20-%20Copy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="1588" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUolE2ouTysSc_o16cTLdfJRzBkClkvM76yINEO7B0F-ncxzhMNWvRium_14kg5q5FgKaRpoWhZDbO0BOVlxNDslCVlTsY3aJv8-FTOJ5n9Zk7EntM_hlpQoc-GjpoLjwmjNV-99I2_bjUxdeAfdlqW38GrPXgKDsjk3_2VOHIozwSoxPQj9rNIMxODw/w480-h103/Screenshot%20(47)%20-%20Copy.png" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq_9vbNvXtjzfxSn5UtAKF4QFroaANCJAR9nfUDqTA1XkwguKx5mmdHqE87YdQ0xQot2a7JWlRnXOFxAO5HyEN9OJMZwWhkskEZhQNFS5F5Dt6G1gP4AzdBTNuktfVhCBBMgp3i-0dFG6LKtcA4B10eXoKVH9IGWqkwbAODIrg_RTKSV5E4AwNxB5ibw/s1522/Screenshot%20(47).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="1522" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq_9vbNvXtjzfxSn5UtAKF4QFroaANCJAR9nfUDqTA1XkwguKx5mmdHqE87YdQ0xQot2a7JWlRnXOFxAO5HyEN9OJMZwWhkskEZhQNFS5F5Dt6G1gP4AzdBTNuktfVhCBBMgp3i-0dFG6LKtcA4B10eXoKVH9IGWqkwbAODIrg_RTKSV5E4AwNxB5ibw/w464-h104/Screenshot%20(47).png" width="464" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>These are the first six paintings I ever did. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>The first four were from the 6-week beginning painting class. </i></div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>1st 2/07 - Trees in summer</i></div></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>2nd 2/07 - Same trees done in autumn colors</i></div></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>3th 2/07 - Value study in black and white</i></div></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>4th 3/07 - Seeing the color in black and white</i></div></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>5th 3/07 - My choice... An owl from my backyard</i></div></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>6th 3/07 - Same owl, second attempt</i></div></span></div></blockquote><p><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><i>How about another owl! </i></span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><i>It's always such a treat to spy an owl in the trees around our place. We hear them often but rarely catch a glimpse of one. When we do see one, he's <strike>staring </strike>glaring down with such an attitude of disdain and superiority. I just love him anyway. Ours rarely give permission for their photographs to be taken, but every once in a while, I get lucky.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_Vvl9a6krZQ3LzSaziGs9XLfsGvjs_azfn7u7Bs6JrPGl0OUl8P2vvyHAVcZo1ChqTxLiGSEtvd8faO_tR7scsjlh1B7nDdqGwREFLH7j-2QB-XI2wjviHzTNwjClz1Po1u7_ME7Vyg-klrnWpxsYprtyX5OgdbVPXNO3zbmL6uTCoX-vVOuJiXdNA/s2893/0217201800a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2893" data-original-width="2185" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_Vvl9a6krZQ3LzSaziGs9XLfsGvjs_azfn7u7Bs6JrPGl0OUl8P2vvyHAVcZo1ChqTxLiGSEtvd8faO_tR7scsjlh1B7nDdqGwREFLH7j-2QB-XI2wjviHzTNwjClz1Po1u7_ME7Vyg-klrnWpxsYprtyX5OgdbVPXNO3zbmL6uTCoX-vVOuJiXdNA/s320/0217201800a.jpg" width="242" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicdRZrQU-_A8wvimT0lP4jHbkkyVBOBBYvARe7qFbm6MeIjQAAw-CIBQ9HJI7eRZpkJ7g2Nmu1dHqWlFSz2yWaw-ECFrJPbwlLFhT4VbZUhqyrJ-4dn4GcaAwDuAs0H3K7T2oNVCm3fkgYK_R5gOTXciZIIr5n3voNwkcUaNL1qh7WErPXuMcSRGN50g/s2057/Owl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1850" data-original-width="2057" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicdRZrQU-_A8wvimT0lP4jHbkkyVBOBBYvARe7qFbm6MeIjQAAw-CIBQ9HJI7eRZpkJ7g2Nmu1dHqWlFSz2yWaw-ECFrJPbwlLFhT4VbZUhqyrJ-4dn4GcaAwDuAs0H3K7T2oNVCm3fkgYK_R5gOTXciZIIr5n3voNwkcUaNL1qh7WErPXuMcSRGN50g/s320/Owl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">While I don't know this particular orange-eyed owl in the painting personally, I do like his spicy attitude.</div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 8"x 10" Wrapped Canvas.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Click<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1618505184/owl-art-original-oil-painting-8x-10" target="_blank"> </a></i><b><u><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1618505184/owl-art-original-oil-painting-8x-10" target="_blank">Orange Eyed Owl</a> </u></b><i>if you'd like to purchase this painting.</i></div></span><p></p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-88767470132632575252023-12-07T00:30:00.000-06:002023-12-07T00:30:00.146-06:00I Like Thursday 12/23<p> <i style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">Thank you to Leeanne of </i><a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><b>Not Afraid of Color </b></a><i style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 400;">for reminding me to notice things I like. </i></b></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUNRnBQF8gp33kYrhOK6zkLDMYv_UD8GB7ceZf5GaNPoHL-a2nXQOASKvpc2mSRnuQok3ReJU8lwdYVw85KA9kd6_SA8bO05JD_GY64ozWz6hQKAiuFYd2O7i2VyupB9Xd_58V6_3ADGyM5XbbTZ222C5KtNid2LnVfK5lIAP_v_UUHe4qNf7lzdY9w/s3526/20231029_131425.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3526" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUNRnBQF8gp33kYrhOK6zkLDMYv_UD8GB7ceZf5GaNPoHL-a2nXQOASKvpc2mSRnuQok3ReJU8lwdYVw85KA9kd6_SA8bO05JD_GY64ozWz6hQKAiuFYd2O7i2VyupB9Xd_58V6_3ADGyM5XbbTZ222C5KtNid2LnVfK5lIAP_v_UUHe4qNf7lzdY9w/w255-h400/20231029_131425.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I like that first fire of the year.<br />Actually I love every fire in the fireplace.</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ5mazDFZm8i3BsmrZpOurfdUDk5EtvBu9hPEJx6Fr418fiG_ILStFWIFRAw6FWhvtJT0m8Svjszv-rmzee9xzNn27iSbF3AKJqt6L-jI7o7cj3yIqdvHUMk8ru76t4QNY8q6QiWq8azcOLF3DGJt2j5nMZ3saKPI-4P8W4CWJ-m3nGDaLhoGxS68Ruw/s4000/20231026_164709.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ5mazDFZm8i3BsmrZpOurfdUDk5EtvBu9hPEJx6Fr418fiG_ILStFWIFRAw6FWhvtJT0m8Svjszv-rmzee9xzNn27iSbF3AKJqt6L-jI7o7cj3yIqdvHUMk8ru76t4QNY8q6QiWq8azcOLF3DGJt2j5nMZ3saKPI-4P8W4CWJ-m3nGDaLhoGxS68Ruw/w225-h400/20231026_164709.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;"> I like the weird mushrooms that appear in fall.<br />My friend says these are good to eat. <br />Ummm... no.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDxglF8MrxWvwTqKL3divRcvpxZKCuTjjBO_SUdfpyJf1zrnG-zDWr5D0Q86iryy0zmXQw_c53ogQzgDnzAvDFQRMIoiPggpmyXjcYK3uNaHrH2g8qtt7J3SYn9XrzTwlDadpJ7omp8NWvH43wIBttA3d2jqtqEgg8Y9e_sH5pVAtGjk8jxKNxTeY5A/s1367/Nelson-Atkins%20KC%20Favorites.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1367" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDxglF8MrxWvwTqKL3divRcvpxZKCuTjjBO_SUdfpyJf1zrnG-zDWr5D0Q86iryy0zmXQw_c53ogQzgDnzAvDFQRMIoiPggpmyXjcYK3uNaHrH2g8qtt7J3SYn9XrzTwlDadpJ7omp8NWvH43wIBttA3d2jqtqEgg8Y9e_sH5pVAtGjk8jxKNxTeY5A/w400-h225/Nelson-Atkins%20KC%20Favorites.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;"> I like visiting art museums.<br />These were my 3 favorite paintings <br />at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBluWq3n8ydIjuq4iK8piebhyhqMfMHt2z6b-OnRhPl1cRUqGmITxJHbGLqtztmnemqZC13m4uDw2FbDhc_FJXdsY9x_noHmBNw6k3X4P6Fbedd-FJecbIQmcqPX2I1kwKWbP4B02XYf6qKeX3kDghz2jMu49NUQYfuIJHxDD5QQ8a_o_7dpehV4SzHw/s3216/20231104_172640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1484" data-original-width="3216" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBluWq3n8ydIjuq4iK8piebhyhqMfMHt2z6b-OnRhPl1cRUqGmITxJHbGLqtztmnemqZC13m4uDw2FbDhc_FJXdsY9x_noHmBNw6k3X4P6Fbedd-FJecbIQmcqPX2I1kwKWbP4B02XYf6qKeX3kDghz2jMu49NUQYfuIJHxDD5QQ8a_o_7dpehV4SzHw/w400-h185/20231104_172640.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;"> I like the deer that live in our woods.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZl7JFb_8ZsyS40xUjbTCd8AQAtGyggNGmghHIzZlt2IzFUp4hmeyW847MGfqkaSbCiiwEIem15bIvgJiA8ZUAnWo6q7oX5Hg6-k3HJ8NlSGP2ZenMFkEVS98UjSrwP3POXcSVbxpRCLB32wwM1OqIp4JgBKiq74oFSbnBnQuzpTNrPVtKu5_s2MLXRw/s4000/20231107_071512.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZl7JFb_8ZsyS40xUjbTCd8AQAtGyggNGmghHIzZlt2IzFUp4hmeyW847MGfqkaSbCiiwEIem15bIvgJiA8ZUAnWo6q7oX5Hg6-k3HJ8NlSGP2ZenMFkEVS98UjSrwP3POXcSVbxpRCLB32wwM1OqIp4JgBKiq74oFSbnBnQuzpTNrPVtKu5_s2MLXRw/w400-h225/20231107_071512.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like the tree at the end of our driveway.<br />It's fabulous in every season.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FUOV-f145uYQiY8q4Yc54GArDRbafOf9hP3UGYWxgqUO2ysRBCTpgPj1k8gK5xd1_zQftTRBg62V34106jdMCrJ1wmlLxq9nM0NLy4zrE4PM96ZE-tadS9SQZjrBERQNCNrh8CUnBLPZZt4-UvHgJTByS3Et140DYQsYAXD3DAQndtV_G9yiHwrf7w/s4000/20231117_114123.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FUOV-f145uYQiY8q4Yc54GArDRbafOf9hP3UGYWxgqUO2ysRBCTpgPj1k8gK5xd1_zQftTRBg62V34106jdMCrJ1wmlLxq9nM0NLy4zrE4PM96ZE-tadS9SQZjrBERQNCNrh8CUnBLPZZt4-UvHgJTByS3Et140DYQsYAXD3DAQndtV_G9yiHwrf7w/w400-h225/20231117_114123.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like like it even after the leaves fall.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_kXFwrIxfUn39NCgmdxrxv-NfkQyJZOkbtYMZx7AeCbn6X_OWCDuIAW1A65vdPS9DTSIhmJMatDt0JdmmvhmepEyURaFl6pS4vKlbPnxgLXg1KrtdkObFg5A_5gQ9DOOpl6vTGZqNFb2J37vM-vRIR9wlRBD4Pyotl7X47WZXv141MpFM8mg6Dz8XA/s4000/20231112_121801.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_kXFwrIxfUn39NCgmdxrxv-NfkQyJZOkbtYMZx7AeCbn6X_OWCDuIAW1A65vdPS9DTSIhmJMatDt0JdmmvhmepEyURaFl6pS4vKlbPnxgLXg1KrtdkObFg5A_5gQ9DOOpl6vTGZqNFb2J37vM-vRIR9wlRBD4Pyotl7X47WZXv141MpFM8mg6Dz8XA/w400-h225/20231112_121801.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like my painting workspace.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIpsBmWEivRhKOyvbnbBAd6I5NCjNwcUMHfqlUClBpwefF8yfnfc4yXOsS-Tsm9XIOHxAPXUqoMqyuJVCpl2GftfLsmHU191w2ZaJjyd5MZE1dEDcC1RjVJJpnoug2q0VbN9OgAxACuxVbPxNv1CJDAv906kjAVuP2Vk2kuXCPge2Nt_RNo4Z78Wtlw/s4000/20231118_120305.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIpsBmWEivRhKOyvbnbBAd6I5NCjNwcUMHfqlUClBpwefF8yfnfc4yXOsS-Tsm9XIOHxAPXUqoMqyuJVCpl2GftfLsmHU191w2ZaJjyd5MZE1dEDcC1RjVJJpnoug2q0VbN9OgAxACuxVbPxNv1CJDAv906kjAVuP2Vk2kuXCPge2Nt_RNo4Z78Wtlw/w400-h225/20231118_120305.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like my pretty little flock of backyard hens.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ5j_4__PWidmqw9-L10MUOU78X_SXhgmyhVbL5bIR2Ccy7xtNInYu3R3K2B0hB4bUfpSQyRYtMXGY-COdHFE-gljYGpRgdqdkdVhU23Ll8-F1czdHWmOv2F98HVoeHc4yUdWpLVjTk8fZH1_DWLsplgQqkLblB8YPkupHcckUc718X55hPRZL-W_r2Q/s3216/20231130_181124.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1484" data-original-width="3216" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ5j_4__PWidmqw9-L10MUOU78X_SXhgmyhVbL5bIR2Ccy7xtNInYu3R3K2B0hB4bUfpSQyRYtMXGY-COdHFE-gljYGpRgdqdkdVhU23Ll8-F1czdHWmOv2F98HVoeHc4yUdWpLVjTk8fZH1_DWLsplgQqkLblB8YPkupHcckUc718X55hPRZL-W_r2Q/w400-h185/20231130_181124.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;">I like this guy. He likes me too.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><i style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><br /></b></i><div><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><b>LeeAnne's </b></a> get-to-know-you writing topic this month:</b></i></div><div><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><br /></b></i></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Tell us a funny story about a Thanksgiving you spent...
we all have things happen unexpectedly at holidays so share a funny
moment you have had over the years. </b> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>I am completely blank on a funny Thanksgiving story, so I'll tell our funny Thanksgiving weekend tradition. We always decorated our house and tree for Christmas on Thanksgiving weekend. For many years there would be a moody teenager on the couch being less-than-helpful and less-than-joy-filled. There came a day once the kids were grown-ish that we realized that neither kid was a moody teenager. That's when my husband it was tradition, so he'd take that role and lay on the couch while we did the decorating.</i></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b>Do you send Christmas cards?</b></span><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: times;"> Are they unique like
a photo from this year, or say, hallmark boxed ones? When will you aim to
send them out? </span></span></b><i style="font-family: arial;"> Oh, I basically never did for years and years. As a teacher, December is such a hectic time, I just never got around to it. I still forget to get around to it in time, but... for the last couple of years, I've done a Valentine card. That's been kind of a fun thing. At the top of the card, it's said something like "<strike>Merry Christmas... Happy New Year... </strike>Happy Valentine's Day!" It was kind of an accident the first time, but I liked the surprise of it. I think I'll do it that way again.</i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b>Extra credit: do you do craft projects with your old
cards? </b></span><i style="font-family: arial;">When I was teaching, I always saved them. My students would use them their art projects. </i></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b>Describe your perfect Christmas party, where, who's there, what food and
drinks are served, etc </b></span><i style="font-family: arial;"> Only family... Our 6 little ones do plenty of running and laughing and squealing. Food would be kid friendly. Drinks would be soft drinks or juice (with lids for the kids).</i></p><ol start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Real or fake tree? </span></b></span><i style="font-family: arial;">Fake and pre-lit.</i></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b>Star or angel? </b></span><i style="font-family: arial;">Nothing.</i></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b>Tree up before or after Thanksgiving? </b></span><i style="font-family: arial;">That weekend.</i></li></ol><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b>Unwrapping gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? </b></span><i style="font-family: arial;"> Christmas morning was always our tradition. But as we now share our kids with their in-law families, we're fine doing it on a different day when we need to. </i></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;"><b>Do you prefer Christmas or New Years? </b></span><i style="font-family: arial;">Christmas<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> </span></i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times;">Do you have a usual way to spend NYE
and or NYDay? </b><i style="font-family: arial;">Not a very interesting answer, I suppose. Just being home.</i></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Would you rather kiss in Paris or kiss in a tent in the woods on NYE? </span></b></span><i style="font-family: arial;">How about my house (which is in the woods) instead of a tent.</i></p><p class="MsoPlainText">
</p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Would you rather be at a big fancy party where you all scream happy new year
at midnight, or at home on your sofa or with a couple friends playing cards etc </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> </i></span></b></span><i style="font-family: arial;">100% I'd rather be at home, preferably sound asleep at midnight.</i></p></span></span></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-33211193532865953232023-12-01T20:12:00.004-06:002023-12-02T20:54:52.951-06:00Reindeer on December 23rd<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQb0H1aTIkO1DBIbIHoRnTx6rjmtP9btxAf_A6MDx-tJ02H1xebeP8l8IoYjxHKyzHXFKmmYpj8KjNxpebwdBB8fJjDnKVRhImqK6sAaOF_BcUFyHtEEavsXmVpuea15YfgMj4t6aBfEwPjLnoaRvYq9FyPxSovnhGIvf7DVuVqeBR6YuwNfsG7GuBw/s3679/674%20Reindeer%20on%20December%2023rd%2011-23.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3679" data-original-width="2779" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQb0H1aTIkO1DBIbIHoRnTx6rjmtP9btxAf_A6MDx-tJ02H1xebeP8l8IoYjxHKyzHXFKmmYpj8KjNxpebwdBB8fJjDnKVRhImqK6sAaOF_BcUFyHtEEavsXmVpuea15YfgMj4t6aBfEwPjLnoaRvYq9FyPxSovnhGIvf7DVuVqeBR6YuwNfsG7GuBw/w303-h400/674%20Reindeer%20on%20December%2023rd%2011-23.JPG" width="303" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>Isn't he a handsome guy!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>My Creative Companion topic was "Winter's Eve." Hmmm...Now I had to think about that one for quite a while. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i><b>[My thinking process]</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>I didn't want to go Christmas-y, but I couldn't get away from the "Eve" part. </i></span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>According to my Google Merriam Webster:<br /></i></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">Eve-</i></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">1. evening </i> </div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">2. </i><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">the evening or day before a special day </i> </div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">3. </i><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">the period immediately preceding</i><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAgzJLGQCL01Gjf5VLjIIFqx1t7aKyeOdZA4EXOa1oOQtEW-uCZz1pYD1Lqfp8KNu9BZbfPSUStauCRTwAEr3XmJFAvK2p1OduRHl9U0zs5GJJ3YDggwrnt9LP_49IA3Vb9j3gXra3rKDJyREg87u_Ieece7ghpoz5_p5DWKlPkH1UDVSQTNjTHiowtQ/s3216/20231104_172640.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1484" data-original-width="3216" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAgzJLGQCL01Gjf5VLjIIFqx1t7aKyeOdZA4EXOa1oOQtEW-uCZz1pYD1Lqfp8KNu9BZbfPSUStauCRTwAEr3XmJFAvK2p1OduRHl9U0zs5GJJ3YDggwrnt9LP_49IA3Vb9j3gXra3rKDJyREg87u_Ieece7ghpoz5_p5DWKlPkH1UDVSQTNjTHiowtQ/s320/20231104_172640.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>We see a couple or even a dozen deer every time we walk down our road in the evening... or 'eve.' I think how cold they must be as winter nears.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>I wonder what their "cousins" are up to at the North Pole as winter days are nearing their big night.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCBQJRnxubAfQGMoZiS8930zXIwegRK-2mPvPVkiFjhW59HqM9lS9Ywxdox09bwEgk1h7dnjUmddmY_06a3GSx8iEF7Efr0xrUgm9TToLfAJcbgqhz1gkysO48Cd_WLKfldsoRWs3OURUoePxv3grgz2LjvN601hM1wp_CkJHzYX7XsqU7h0qoWc65Qw/s1916/09%20Elk%20Refuge%2006.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1916" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCBQJRnxubAfQGMoZiS8930zXIwegRK-2mPvPVkiFjhW59HqM9lS9Ywxdox09bwEgk1h7dnjUmddmY_06a3GSx8iEF7Efr0xrUgm9TToLfAJcbgqhz1gkysO48Cd_WLKfldsoRWs3OURUoePxv3grgz2LjvN601hM1wp_CkJHzYX7XsqU7h0qoWc65Qw/s320/09%20Elk%20Refuge%2006.JPG" width="320" /></a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><i>I remember being in Wyoming for my 50th birthday and going on a wagon ride through an elk reserve. I asked why they would sit in the patches of snow when they didn't have to. The guide told me they were hot with all their fur and were just trying to stay cool.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9OkTMUWfAVPZDnNKBLEzPihcD3n-CtNph3YpIe10vVu3qGRotfB_KnIH_bKb3Y5034dPt90zlCesjge8zGvpCIQGLZfWywAi_oLHSczidmtMAo9inzXDs7IM-Qsx8UBBc5fe6nGh__QT_ZsYFBy1_QKW2cumRnNCnswQ5z0KWDVZtxUPJJQBeVAQxDA/s1916/09%20Elk%20Refuge%2008.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1916" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9OkTMUWfAVPZDnNKBLEzPihcD3n-CtNph3YpIe10vVu3qGRotfB_KnIH_bKb3Y5034dPt90zlCesjge8zGvpCIQGLZfWywAi_oLHSczidmtMAo9inzXDs7IM-Qsx8UBBc5fe6nGh__QT_ZsYFBy1_QKW2cumRnNCnswQ5z0KWDVZtxUPJJQBeVAQxDA/s320/09%20Elk%20Refuge%2008.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><i><b>[My working process]</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.pexels.com/search/reindeeer/" target="_blank"><b>Pexels.com</b> </a><i>is a great place to find free photos to use as references. (Thanks to </i><b><a href="https://www.pexels.com/search/reindeeer/" target="_blank">Frans van Heerden</a> </b><i>who took the reference photo I used.</i></div><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Bl2Te6EBRq9fV0Awy1rwEL-jlvrD0_mdCfdD9wOlT3yImfcVh4mZ-yGoW6Sg28nIh1fai0wwxlFv-X3uLhqiV0hgm6dyj_IhDtMAM97Q6B4RSOHtimXHqle5jCVjI5O2ZPAiX1pxdO9_oFkydiL2IWXhVQpFx0SBnRqtpYV6qUi1EH3ahOqzsk2cVw/s3840/Screenshot%20(37).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Bl2Te6EBRq9fV0Awy1rwEL-jlvrD0_mdCfdD9wOlT3yImfcVh4mZ-yGoW6Sg28nIh1fai0wwxlFv-X3uLhqiV0hgm6dyj_IhDtMAM97Q6B4RSOHtimXHqle5jCVjI5O2ZPAiX1pxdO9_oFkydiL2IWXhVQpFx0SBnRqtpYV6qUi1EH3ahOqzsk2cVw/s320/Screenshot%20(37).png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I get the main lines on the canvas then start with the background. Before you know it, a reindeer is on my easel. My painting area has everything right where I need it. (Why do I have 100 different brushes when I use about 5? I don't know.) I love having a photo viewer. (You can get one at any estate sale you go to. --I've picked up 5-6 over the years.-- It will most likely still be like new and in the box with the $129 price tag still attached. You'll spend about $7.50 if you go on the last day of the sale when everything's priced to go.) I put my reference photo on a thumb drive and voila. You can see I have another one on the right. (It has the reference drawing propped against it in this photo.) There's a different reference photo on that one.</div></i></span></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhauOu6LcDC8NWrBjH9IFAoz-1U-wj_yCKDOLY1lq38hjiBSHaZNy_j60FdJm195Aav-wI27ER7_4UZhU0NB7q3ju3vqjz2Gyga3JvzQJgLD8dnJmjOOfVvyV4EH4ct4WIAY-gxx8ClPrfUNUudJX5i1oUuggNuqc_nm6HFVb1okrtC9Z6rHoKh725IZQ/s4000/20231112_121801.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhauOu6LcDC8NWrBjH9IFAoz-1U-wj_yCKDOLY1lq38hjiBSHaZNy_j60FdJm195Aav-wI27ER7_4UZhU0NB7q3ju3vqjz2Gyga3JvzQJgLD8dnJmjOOfVvyV4EH4ct4WIAY-gxx8ClPrfUNUudJX5i1oUuggNuqc_nm6HFVb1okrtC9Z6rHoKh725IZQ/w400-h225/20231112_121801.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">While I paint I usually listen to an audio book... or music, country or some 80s rock... Sometimes the television is on if it's evening and Ron's watching a ballgame or flicking through channels. Or, maybe, I'm letting my mind wander and wonder about what I'm painting and composing a little jingle in my head about it...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"><i>What do the reindeer do on the twenty-third?</i></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><i style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They eat well, relax, walk through the snow</span></i></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i style="color: #274e13;">take it easy, have a nap, and just lay low.</i></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"><i>But what of the elves in charge of the herd?</i></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"><i>They're the ones who must persist</i></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"><i> to tend to each detail on the long checklist.</i></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"><i>They clean out each stable and muck every stall</i></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><i> make last preparations for the next night's long haul.</i></span> </span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;">They bring plenty of water and hay and oats.<br /></span></i></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #274e13;"> massage sore muscles and brush shaggy coats.</span></i><br /></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;">They test every harness and each jingle bell.</span></i></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #274e13;">trim every hoof and check antlers as well.</span></i> </span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="color: #274e13;">There's much to take care of on the twenty-third</i> </span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><i style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">when your an elf in charge of the reindeer herd.</span></i></div></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEippw-CS6krVXT9y41mugy01woiEmbOMbl9SI9Yy9_I2ZCir74PMBFCsnbFv0gEQuiQctt2MfuDoyvbbSw-soVkdcLJyOIdZOZ4-vfQka47k7EwDwgYM_CoaZgZDuGRuATnX8qsI00yPvWnqBpFldZ6FEAbzZTTm0-4hvHWa6wwdt-RjU5_B5RRvaEyrQ/s2776/20231116_193847.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2776" data-original-width="2100" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEippw-CS6krVXT9y41mugy01woiEmbOMbl9SI9Yy9_I2ZCir74PMBFCsnbFv0gEQuiQctt2MfuDoyvbbSw-soVkdcLJyOIdZOZ4-vfQka47k7EwDwgYM_CoaZgZDuGRuATnX8qsI00yPvWnqBpFldZ6FEAbzZTTm0-4hvHWa6wwdt-RjU5_B5RRvaEyrQ/w303-h400/20231116_193847.jpg" width="303" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>For my companion piece, I thought I'd just whip out a watercolor of this reindeer... It was a disaster. So I thought I'd "fix" is with colored pencils... then pastels... then paint pens... All disasters... Finally used acrylics to cover all the previous attempts... Better, but pretty boring and near ready for the bin... But... then... I was thinking how my handsome guy had become so silly looking and thought how the reindeer must party after their big flight. How about a few stickers! Ha ha ha... a party animal!</i></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>My friend </i><b><a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">LeeAnna</a></b><i> loved him, so I put him in the mail and sent him on his way to her.</i></span></div></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Original Oil Painting on 9"x 12" Wrapped Canvas</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Click </i><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1609886811/reindeer-wall-art-original-oil-painting" target="_blank">Reindeer </a></b><i>if you'd like to purchase this painting.</i></span></div></div><p></p>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-1236611723030675102023-11-25T18:04:00.001-06:002023-11-25T18:10:49.208-06:00Stargazer Lily on a Stem<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfeKlRHZdW4iwkZkuuiWRXBSW3Eevse6NX7od9LNwSxeEbktc8i3PiIq3GXT3UDuztDmlkCS5Hy7pHeazgzPpEn49PBssh-OJAgpwjBOLsb3IBxQ20jl7oLBYyWz_bkgPXAN35Fn3RjENlwxyzSreOGlyxCJstd4fAqwHaui4qIznY_30R7E0UJyHpg/s2828/20231018_100542.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2828" data-original-width="2077" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfeKlRHZdW4iwkZkuuiWRXBSW3Eevse6NX7od9LNwSxeEbktc8i3PiIq3GXT3UDuztDmlkCS5Hy7pHeazgzPpEn49PBssh-OJAgpwjBOLsb3IBxQ20jl7oLBYyWz_bkgPXAN35Fn3RjENlwxyzSreOGlyxCJstd4fAqwHaui4qIznY_30R7E0UJyHpg/w294-h400/20231018_100542.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>I've always loved stargazer lilies. They are easy to grow. They have a gorgeous bloom. They smell fabulous. What's not to love!</i></span><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>I'm planning to teach another senior adult oil painting class soon, and this is what we'll work on. Before I paint in front of a group, I want to be completely prepared so there are no surprises. (Well... there's always something unexpected, but I try to be as prepared as I can.)</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>Click the video below to watch the process in 1 minute.</i></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx-Aj1-WdDTkhzXbnkxiu5fIi2bxXt9Ybm6lAZoAEA-sQCdJOlWAB08BH-5Xlho5GMm34rfvILJOcu4YbtNsg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>Shifting gears a little bit... How about a completely different version! I've recently become obsessed with "collage quilting." I didn't even know that it was a thing or that there was a name for it. I first became aware of it when my blog friend <a href="https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">LeeAnna</a> showed one that she'd done.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><i>I hesitate to show it because so many of my blog friends are real quilters, and I'm aware that mine is so elementary. Oh, well; comparison is the thief of joy. I loved making it and love how it turned out.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnqfFep_Cld3skb69jxU0Gu4hW2ih0RR7ZIYdjXpzx_SndnEWKXTpJ4pPvXSZ6hc1aC1vX3A9YBkE988O4TdrDFRmJkAo42RprO5dLBo2VaaNH2-FSxbR7y6etFS9Dk224GY0YjcO45Wn4uLXEpBFZtvXGLLF2lHR06_4hybVYm1CoKDwx4YUzN1mdg/s2791/141%2011-233.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2791" data-original-width="2113" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnqfFep_Cld3skb69jxU0Gu4hW2ih0RR7ZIYdjXpzx_SndnEWKXTpJ4pPvXSZ6hc1aC1vX3A9YBkE988O4TdrDFRmJkAo42RprO5dLBo2VaaNH2-FSxbR7y6etFS9Dk224GY0YjcO45Wn4uLXEpBFZtvXGLLF2lHR06_4hybVYm1CoKDwx4YUzN1mdg/w303-h400/141%2011-233.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 6"x 8"</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;">This one will be available for sale after it gets used as an example in the class.</i></div><br /></div><p></p></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-64848312869456993302023-11-08T19:23:00.000-06:002023-11-08T19:23:55.753-06:00A Weeping Willow, In Memory<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdTrLVpM9x_kj_66yueIRxUAKZqA5xfLW9qrEkDb5xAwmwdYe3KuZ7Se_ROeibAkJc8NpfQMjzQF9-HPPpKQD7vmYxuxgOcfMpadeiYT8JEB648v0YK-DLoyCmd4150XURdur7i3UnkSBSAxn9pv9BgAcQd6PetK7dTpahqwNwNF0rESIrCs6AiqHfQ/s3927/IMG_1451.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2926" data-original-width="3927" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdTrLVpM9x_kj_66yueIRxUAKZqA5xfLW9qrEkDb5xAwmwdYe3KuZ7Se_ROeibAkJc8NpfQMjzQF9-HPPpKQD7vmYxuxgOcfMpadeiYT8JEB648v0YK-DLoyCmd4150XURdur7i3UnkSBSAxn9pv9BgAcQd6PetK7dTpahqwNwNF0rESIrCs6AiqHfQ/w400-h297/IMG_1451.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>What an honor it was to be asked to recreate this willow tree painting. I first painted one like it a couple of years ago. (You can see that one </i><a href="https://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/2021/10/weeping-willow.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a><i>.)</i></span><p></p><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>I love painting commissioned pieces. I love knowing why a particular painting is wanted. Every story is different and often surprising. This one took my breath away. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>The message came through </i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/wordweaverart" target="_blank"><b>my Etsy shop</b></a> <i>as a simple request. I was asked if I might paint this weeping willow again. The chat went along in the usual way... what size... the cost... when I could get to it and have it finished... All very pleasant.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>Once all was agreed upon, I got the next message... "My son passed away last week. He had a willow tree tattoo and he loved the sun. So it's a fitting symbol of his life." He went on to share the son's young age and his name.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>As I said, what a privilege to be asked to paint something so meaningful. Of course, I immediately dropped all other projects and focused on this one. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><i>Sometimes art is just play. </i></span><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">Sometimes art is emotional. </i><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">Sometimes art is important. </i></div><div><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><br /></i></div><div><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">When I sent a picture of the finished painting, the reply email contained a photo of the beautiful young man with his weeping willow tattoo, and my own tears spilled.</i></div><div><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><br /></i></div><div><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">And, a third time I say, what an honor and privilege to get to paint this weeping willow tree. I hope that over time my simple brushstrokes of paint on canvas bring a bit of peace and remembrance.</i></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Oil Painting on 12"x 16" Wrapped Canvas</span></span></div><div><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial;">[SOLD]</i></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386252385538957893.post-22341105296067118882023-11-07T16:15:00.002-06:002023-11-07T16:17:00.083-06:00Strawberries in a Bowl<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4X3duWn0k2r04XXJKAKSkMCPdLUSOupsZvt6vaEj2vSOHH1bvsTqmLJnaiiQOp7o3BohoZRq7v3ToIS-ROlCP5icrljyS8nMbltnhnONCCPAzRwMBa94W9OHQSwTuzOv7mhoA0olR8RCJp-hFziRfa5RpivCQoeBaxuqKkjJ5cBJ3l5nF-URPLLkErQ/s3122/IMG_1425.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3093" data-original-width="3122" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4X3duWn0k2r04XXJKAKSkMCPdLUSOupsZvt6vaEj2vSOHH1bvsTqmLJnaiiQOp7o3BohoZRq7v3ToIS-ROlCP5icrljyS8nMbltnhnONCCPAzRwMBa94W9OHQSwTuzOv7mhoA0olR8RCJp-hFziRfa5RpivCQoeBaxuqKkjJ5cBJ3l5nF-URPLLkErQ/s320/IMG_1425.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><i style="font-family: arial;">I started this painting... hmmm... maybe 2 1/2 years ago. I read about my quilting friends having UFOs (which I think stands for UnFinished Object or something like that... They never really say). They seem to have a lot of them. I'm really not too bad at having unfinished painting projects. I usually start something and finish it before going on to the next one.</i><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>My painting partner </i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/JujuBeePaints" target="_blank"><b>Julie</b></a> <i>and I used this little still life when we taught two beginning oil painting classes. I think you'll notice a pretty obvious clue as to when this class took place. (I suppose there's no need to blur out faces when you can't see them anyway!)</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJbgBW2lz9nTYq9SRo1BXKz7oJLfSyc8g3sdL4CxWF5lTrueSZBzfGEq_DMmhgzQ6mZ7Plu1ft1FRfz4GYcORh5ZnrppICKf97N5_IfykkvzvXHEw77L9WGevhWh14QTM7ibX2f_7wKPNQL9qb4tj2QhW8SwQoMaHmcHdMMF-JaSogJE7t3gTCC0lKw/s4656/0216221054b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1999" data-original-width="4656" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJbgBW2lz9nTYq9SRo1BXKz7oJLfSyc8g3sdL4CxWF5lTrueSZBzfGEq_DMmhgzQ6mZ7Plu1ft1FRfz4GYcORh5ZnrppICKf97N5_IfykkvzvXHEw77L9WGevhWh14QTM7ibX2f_7wKPNQL9qb4tj2QhW8SwQoMaHmcHdMMF-JaSogJE7t3gTCC0lKw/w400-h171/0216221054b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjOmHUayigsA8wgx1KAnKtvPXJ_awKfO6Dq7PSUIo5jv2ywn8PfOD4096MsRu41cH6oxLVxb2VQ9PFLOLxgHAFaNxGHuCSVzBTSOCtOkkVspXoKpBTO1_YN01c12sbgZSZpByqwN8MrGQhHtQ3WlgBKqpnLTNETT8etxvQp6b9g2290QtexdOMWXbng/s4407/0216221504_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1955" data-original-width="4407" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjOmHUayigsA8wgx1KAnKtvPXJ_awKfO6Dq7PSUIo5jv2ywn8PfOD4096MsRu41cH6oxLVxb2VQ9PFLOLxgHAFaNxGHuCSVzBTSOCtOkkVspXoKpBTO1_YN01c12sbgZSZpByqwN8MrGQhHtQ3WlgBKqpnLTNETT8etxvQp6b9g2290QtexdOMWXbng/w400-h178/0216221504_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>When we team-teach, we also team-paint. One will talk about a step in the process while the other paints it, then we switch. The other talks about the next step while the first works on the painting. We paint quickly and don't particularly finish anything as the purpose is just to model the process. Anyway, we end up with a couple of unfinished paintings (UFOs, I suppose.)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUG0sHgRwfyt4UNQ-QwKfrxK9c6T6e9MHxtRZKbWoYzwuxEiJWkqzC17CvoPqK2WLzrL3DZktdgpBzLHcpkrRZq6R7Gsrv5Kz0VsJ3NJr-wlMhntm2D3PIG0WPpH7DFa46AfnkXQJT2gzGgnftylWA17Ir9wUn4SnVBzb3NGEnnvOfUJ19o468d-3wBg/s3492/0216221026.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3092" data-original-width="3492" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUG0sHgRwfyt4UNQ-QwKfrxK9c6T6e9MHxtRZKbWoYzwuxEiJWkqzC17CvoPqK2WLzrL3DZktdgpBzLHcpkrRZq6R7Gsrv5Kz0VsJ3NJr-wlMhntm2D3PIG0WPpH7DFa46AfnkXQJT2gzGgnftylWA17Ir9wUn4SnVBzb3NGEnnvOfUJ19o468d-3wBg/w400-h354/0216221026.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i>After the classes, I brought one of them home and put it in the art room intending to go back over the whole thing, spruce it up, finish it. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>But... life... terrible ice storms... grandson born... time in the NICU... kept granddaughters... COVID... dad got COVID... time in hospice... family in town... life stuff, you know... The little painting got under art room stuff and was forgotten.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>The other day I read a meme that said something like this, "Statistics show that people who have messy art spaces and too many art supplies tend to live longer lives than those who point it out."</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Anyway, after rediscovering it, I gave it new life. </i></div></span></div><div><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">Original Oil Painting on 8"x 8" Wrapped Canvas</span></div><div><i style="font-family: arial;">Click </i><b style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1590181804/strawberry-still-life-original-oil" target="_blank">Strawberries in a Bowl </a></b><i style="font-family: arial;">if you'd like to purchase this little painting.</i></div><div><p></p></div></div>Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410396096264457223noreply@blogger.com6