you get what you pay for

I’ve been watching these awesome YouTube art tutorials. They are so cool and finally I decided that I wanted to try one. I got out my oil pastels, some painter’s tape, and a few different markers and pencils. Then I got to work. I quickly realized that they have much higher quality oil pastels than […]

trading one project for another

I never have enough time for all the things I would like to do. Most of the time, I try to keep my list fairly narrowed down: here’s what’s actually mine. But when you do special projects, you sometimes just have to let stuff drop. This past weekend, I painted our bedroom. It’s been on […]

cats and inspiration

I found the cutest little mug with Carl from Up at Home Goods last Friday. (I’m not a shopper but I should not be allowed in that store.) He was my first art project idea for this week. pencil sketches of Carl This was the one that convinced me to not to do the big […]

Delights 7: practicing gratitude

This week has been hard. We’ve been snowed, rather, iced in to our home. I haven’t been anywhere since last Saturday night. The kids have been doing remote learning. A friend asked me how it was going and I responded with “There’s a reason I don’t homeschool.” Nothing against homeschooling, it’s just my particular mix […]

weekly photos vol 24

Albus featured quite prominently in pictures this week. He’s been quite cozy. Scampy has loved the snow. The sunset at the horse farm was even more stunning when one didn’t have to look through a dirty windshield but we’ll take what we can get. And this nice mug with Carl came home with me. We […]

Practice, practice, practice

Practice, practice, practice. But Kesh has been teaching me that there’s a right and wrong way to practice so this week, I’m starting to try taking some notes abou tmy work.

Delights 6: library

Our library is undergoing renovations. They’ve moved small sections of books to a community center a block over from the library and put the rest of the books in storage. You can still browse their catalog and put books on hold and eventually they will be back in their own building. Before Christmas, I dropped […]