The other day I noticed this old and I must admit nasty, now that it’s enlarged, outlet at work and had to laugh at the face staring back at me.
Now I am noticing faces in other strange places and objects. It just makes me smile.
I’ve been doing pretty well keeping up with the daily prompts for the photo challenge from Mrs. Brimbles. I honestly am now unclear if this is a current challenge on her blog or not but there are definitely people using the #mrsbrimblesboodaily on Instagram so I’m playing along.
10. Writing…results of a brainstorming session about my blog
11. Preparation…home canned goods and wine
12. My poison…Corona with lime
13. Halloween memories…J circa 2004 as Link
14. Magic…Magic the Gathering card
15. Selfie…I improvised with my reflection
16. Favorite…painted, decorated edges of altered books and art journals. The wonkier the better.
17. Color orange…Castle Danger Cream Ale…gorgeous orange color
18. Words…dictionary pages covering my tired old fridge.
I did do some actual creating the other day…you can take a peek at the previous post at my art journal pages. I’m also thinking about setting up my sewing machine temporarily. I have a project in mind and do have a deadline so I know it won’t be out forever. Unless I can find one of those tables that the machine folds down into. Gotta keep my eye out for one of those!!
My day will consist of making lunches, work, quick grocery store stop, dinner and laundry.
Living the dream, folks…living the dream.
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I had Thursday and Friday off work for MEA (Minnesota Educational Conference). Since I wasn’t attending any of the conference I was able to get a bit caught up on things around home. The kids and I did yardwork while the weather was gorgeous. So many leaves!!!!!
Yesterday brought rain…no yardwork to be done. That left time for indoor pursuits.
When I sat down to create I didn’t realize that I’d finish one page much less two. I was on a roll. It felt amazing to get my hands dirty with crafty goodness. 
This tea tag quote spoke volumes. Bliss…that’s what being creative again felt like.
The dimensional line of purple circles are actually tiny shells that have been dyed. I have no idea where I got them, I just happened to notice that they matched the punched flower and felt it would add some balance to the page.
This page came together from two parts that didn’t feel as if they belonged at first. The lavender is a napkin from Patty from some long ago gift she sent. Thank you Patty! Anyway…I had adhered the napkin over book text on a piece of cereal box and there it sat…for years. Yesterday it found a home.
Along with a few bits of this and that that spoke to me. The bit of lace helped mute the loud orange color down to a soft complement.
As I prepared to take photos for this post I realized that I made two pages that would work beautifully side by side in the journal. I didn’t even plan that. Obviously I had a palette in mind without thinking about it.
The pages flow. I love it when things work out like that!!
Linking up with Art Journal Journey for LANDSCAPES OF THE SOUL.
The weeks are flying by…sort of…they are long in the fact that I’m not getting my creative time in anymore. But also short…as in I haven’t gotten everything marked off my to-do list…not even once.
I am having fun with the photo challenge I picked though.
Here are my photos from the first 9 days….
Since #8 also is my usual beverage it’s counting as my obligatory photo for T stands for Tuesday as well.
This past weekend was homecoming at school. Mini-me was in the parade then went to the football game on Friday. The dance was Saturday. A group a 7 girls went and had a blast.
Sunday had us doing yard work and helping J apply for college. Wow…can hardly believe it!
Monday night was the Fall choir concert and this time we saw both of our kids performing. What a treat.
Thanks for sticking with me through my meager and sporadic posting.
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Aside from the daily Instagram posts I plan to do a recap of the photos periodically here as well.Welcome to T stands for Tuesday! Won’t you join me for a cuppa and a brief chat…
Since time is still fleeting for me I’m going to try something new this month. A daily photo challenge. I know at this point I’m already behind but that’s ok…I’ll catch up. I figure I should have time to snap a quick photo with my phone and upload it to my Instagram.
Now to decide which one I want to play along with…. I’ve narrowed it down to 3 choices, sticking with current challenges.
Regardless of which challenge I chose, I plan to do a recap of the photos periodically here as well as the daily Instagram posts. It should be a fun challenge keeping up with things and thinking outside the box at times especially with limited time.
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I was talking with a co-worker today about game nights…be it family, friends, youth groups or whatever group gets together to enjoy a bit of (hopefully) friendly competition, laughter and relationship building. She mentioned Settlers of Catan which is a favorite of mine. My family isn’t quite as excited about it. In fact sometimes they say in a very loving way….”Oh sure if we just want to watch mom play. ” I may have won by a landslide a few times….not that anyone is keeping track. ;)
Anywho…I thought I’d share for this month’s Second on the 2nd my WIP Catan board pieces.
Take a look….
I’ve working on painting all of the Settlers of Catan pieces in between playing nursemaid. Mini-me has influenza. I’m beginning to think that Typhoid Mary is camped out in our house.
See those little tiny bits of white in the green hex tiles. Those are teeny tiny sheep..complete with black faces. I have to take off my glasses and hold the tile a couple inches from my face to see to paint them. BAH!!! Getting older isn’t for the faint of heart.
The attention to detail is worth it in the end though. Once I get all the pieces completed, we’ll decide in the border color for all the tiles. It must be consistent throughout the tiles. I’m leaning towards a cream to taupe tone so that the paint job on each will really pop.
I also have to share this Model T Mr. G printed. He had to modify the original CAD file as it wasn’t going to print correctly. He designed the wheels, axle pieces and the mounts for the axles.
The penny is for scale. This is for a history presentation J is doing today. He and his partner thought a 3D model would add some punch to their project.
Time for a bit of tea before some errands and more nursemaid duty. I’ll do my best to get around to visit my T stands for Tuesday friends as soon as I can.
What are you doing today?
Over the weekend we had the last of the super hot and humid days. People who aren’t from Minnesota think that we couldn’t possibly have tropical dew points like our far southern states…well they are wrong. I’m assuming its due to all the lakes..the sheer amount of water around. I could be totally wrong but that’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.
As some cloud cover rolled in I decided it was time to pull up the garden or perhaps I should say what was left of it after the critters had chewed their way through it. I didn’t bother taking any after photos as it’s pretty much just dirt and some fallen leaves now.
Over the weekend while enjoying the comfort of the air conditioning we watched or I should say re-watched a couple movies. Some laid back family time was definitely in order.
I actually did a bit of sewing over the weekend too but was totally unhappy with the results. I wanted to make a little pouch to hold my hand-sanitizer that would attach to my lanyard. I’ve already gotten one cold from all the germs. Anyway…I didn’t love my result so Mini-me found a store bought one in her room for me to use. Perfect.
Slowly I am finding time for more things in life. I think I just had to get over my old way of thinking and re-prioritize.
I’ve been thinking about trying some new things with my blog…stay tuned!
What are you doing today?
