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Journey into Collage – Week 45

The title says: when in doubt remember this: yes, yes, yes you can.

this was inspired by the second lesson of Brave Girls Art School – the one on making signs. I’ve always loved the phrase “yes, you can.” It’s my personal motto.

Journey into Collage is a project for 2012. You can read more about it here.

Art Journaling – Week 28

And here’s the next page:

The full text reads: it’s not easy for anyone. it starts with putting one foot in front of another. go for it.

More coming next week.

I am creating art journaling pages each week for now. You can read more about this project here. This set uses the Fabriano Roma papers.

The Savor Project – Week 43

And here’s the next spread :

the paper in between has a drawing nathaniel made at school and the other side is the parent-teacher’s meeting we had about David.

here’s a closer up of the left side:

the first section here is about the art day we had with friends, the book david’s obsessing about and my teaching nathaniel how to read.

And here’s the right side:

Here it’s about my coaching class on fulfillment. The next set is about our book club book and the boo fun going around in our neighborhood.

Art along the bottom as usual.

Another great week. Happy Savoring.

The Savor Project was supposed to be a weekly project for 2012. You can read about my setup here.

A Book a Week – Numbers

I will admit that I picked up Numbers because the cover looked interesting and I like numbers 🙂

The premise sounded interesting and there was an episode of Medium about this very scenario on TV a few years ago so I thought it would be great.

It wasn’t.

It wasn’t absolutely terrible but it also wasn’t amazing. Not nearly as good as it could have been. And there are sequels and I haven’t felt the desire to read them. Maybe, over time, I will feel differently, but for now, I’m ok moving on.

Daily Sketching – Week 82

Here are the sketches from last week. eh. still not my favorite. i think i am running out of ideas. got any?

that’s it for this week.

Daily Sketching is a weekly project for 2012. You can see a detailed post on my sketching journey here.

David’s BoGM – Week 23

Here is the next spread from our book:

This is some art David made. He tells me it’s soldiers, attacks, etc. Not sure I understand but he loves it so it belongs here.

David’s Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here.

Weekly Diary – November 3 2012

Lots of photos this time! Here are some snapshots from our week:

We seem to end each week with some Yogurtland ice cream. The kids love it. (So does Jake.)

It’s right next to a Mediterranean place so while they get frozen yogurt, I get rice.

nathaniel’s been enjoying the orange hat.

and he’s often my happy place during the work.

cause he loves being silly.

and makes me laugh

and laugh

and laugh.

We went to a new pumpkin patch.

David wasn’t sure he liked it.

and the train was a bit more boring than the other one.

david wasn’t in the mood for me to take photos.

and nathaniel was a little scared.

but they each got to pick a little pumpkin for riding the train.

and i wanted to take a photo of them with the pumpkins.

that night, Nathaniel woke up and threw up and then continued to throw up and be sick for two days. He had a fever of 103 and couldn’t even keep the medicine down. It was terrible.

david made some paper flowers at school.

by Tuesday, thankfully Nathaniel was all better and went to school where he got to decorate a pumpkin with his third grade buddy.

and then it was halloween!

the kids both wanted to wear the same costume as last year!

and they loved it.

i got some cupcakes for my upcoming class and nathaniel was super sad he couldn’t eat one so we got another box and he got to have one.

there was a lot of anticipation.

deliberate action.

excitement.

licking up the small mess

and finally diving in.

david brought yet another puppet home.

and nathaniel made cute faces while fishing.

then it was family photo time. where he made us laugh and laugh some more.

and made funny faces.

and we decided to give tickle time a rest for a while so now we end our photo time with a big family hug.

and here we go. i hope your week was lovely, too.

Weekly Diary is a project for 2012. You can read more about it here.

Journey into Collage – Week 44

The title says: flowers are gifts. take the time to stop and smell them. start today.

this was inspired by the first lesson of Brave Girls Art School – the one on funky flowers.

Journey into Collage is a project for 2012. You can read more about it here.

Art Journaling – Week 27

And here’s the next page:

The full text reads: take a moment to rest, it’s ok. (I used this beautiful art as a guide.)

I tried to use my tombow markers for this one too, just trying to practice with them. i didn’t have nearly as much patience as the original artist clearly does.

Well here we go. More coming next week.

I am creating art journaling pages each week for now. You can read more about this project here. This set uses the Fabriano Roma papers.

The Savor Project – Week 42

And here’s the next spread :

here’s a closer up of the left side:

the first section here is about the pancake breakfast we went to at the fire station. And then David being mischievous.

And here’s the right side:

Here it’s about building projects at home depot and playing cards with daddy.

Art along the bottom as usual.

Another great week. Happy Savoring.

The Savor Project was supposed to be a weekly project for 2012. You can read about my setup here.

A Book a Week – the knife of never letting go

The Knife of Never Letting Go is yet another young adult novel that came highly recommended. And I liked it almost immediately. The premise is a bit violent and so is the book. But there was something about it that pulled me in.

I think it was the narration and the main character. Even though I have the sequels, I haven’t read them yet so I can’t tell you if they are as good. And while I liked this book, it wasn’t the best I read this year. But it was a solid read.

If violence or strong language are not an issue for you, you might like this book. The premise and the story are quite interesting and worthwhile.