Remember when I talked about Andrea Joseph last week? Well, if it’s at all possible, I’ve gotten even more obsessed that I was last week. I’ve been saving all the sketches she’s done that speak to me and using one a day to make my own. I am nowhere near as talented as she is but she’s the first person who inspired me this much in a long long long time. And I am deeply grateful that I am sketching daily all thanks to her.
On Friday, I decided to try my hands at this and here’s my version.
and then on Saturday I did the can of sardines:
and Sunday I tried the Adidas sneakers. Here’s the drawing:
and shaded.
on Monday, I wanted to do something less time consuming since I have work but I didn’t want to skip it, so I did the travel toothbrush:
Tuesday was all about the zipper. This one is much harder than it looks.
I have a long long way to go but I have finally found my happy place where I have her sketches to inspire me so I can really really practice. After I’ve done a whole bunch, I can venture to do things in my house but I am so in need of practice and I am deeply grateful to Andrea for her amazing inspiration. By the way, if you think she’s as amazing as I do she has an etsy shop. (I don’t know Andrea at all, just a fan.)
Here’s to more and more sketching!
Today was a weird day where I was wildly unproductive for no reason. I did the basic stuff and that was it. I guess some days are just like that and thankfully we’re taking some time off the rest of the week, obviously I need it.
I know this photo is blurry but I love it. It’s Nathaniel’s “smile” to the camera.
And here’s the other boy smiling.
And here he is “really” smiling. See those eyes smiling?
Nathaniel watching his brother play on the computer.
And his brother focusing hard.
I have book club tonight and I am going even though I haven’t read the book, even though it was my pick and even though I really should be packing. I am going. That’s that.
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful for book club. I always enjoy it.
2. I am grateful for a quiet day when I obviously needed it.
3. I am grateful for fun art videos which I watch as I exercise.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I am going on a trip tomorrow {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that I finished one of my workbooks.
3. I am grateful for mommy and daddy.
I made this layout a few weeks ago for something that didn’t pan out. I love these Compendium cards and was glad to get to use them. All products are from beautiful The Girls’ Paperie. The two-pager is something unusual for me and I don’t think I will be doing it often. Or like ever again… Heh.
The journaling is using your word stickers, and it says:
“I need to remember how you enjoy yourself and have fun with my art, too.”
Forever was one of my kids’ book club books. As a young teen, I loved and adored Judy Blume and read many of her books. But I had never read this one.
And I didn’t like it.
I can’t even really put my finger on why. I felt the characters weren’t as developed as I would have liked. I never really liked the main character as much as I wanted to. The writing felt too simplistic. The big change in the story wasn’t really expected in that it didn’t fit in with the character of the girl, in my opinion and kind of came and went all too quickly. I guess maybe that was the point.
I know it’s a young adult book but I still figured I’d enjoy Blume more than I did. I have one more of hers scheduled in book club so let’s see if that one fares better for me.
This is the lego we built on Sunday night, David wanted me to take a photo so I can preserve it.
Have I mentioned that Nathaniel adores stickers? Have I also mentioned he sticks them all over himself?
After naps and work and meetings and some yelling over nose picking that resulted in a lot of bleeding, we decided to sit outside for reading time. So, I couldn’t resist taking some shots with the beautiful light.
He laughed.
And laughed funny. But he’s so handsome. His eyes are so stunning. I can never get enough of them. ever.
Nathaniel was scared of the grass but we walked him across gently and he played while we read.
He was also being his cute little self.
I couldn’t stop myself I just snapped.
and snapped.
Besides the drama with the nosepicking, it was a quiet day. I exercised, finished my book, sketched, worked, and spent time with the kids and booked a short holiday for us. I am feeling exceptionally tired today so chances are that after the kids are in bed I will work on my art journal for a bit and then go right to sleep. I have some emails to return so if you’ve been waiting for one I am so sorry I will try to reply tonight. Other than that I think I am pretty much caught up with life. Let me know if you’re waiting on me for anything.
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that we might be going on a nice, short, sweet vacation.
2. I am grateful that I can go to bed early tonight. I think I really need it.
3. I am grateful for my husband. I love love love him so.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that in five days it will be Easter {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that I played on the phone.
3. I am grateful that we read our book outside.
And here’s another one of my weeklong pages. This one was inspired by Pam Carriker.I love her journal pages. It was also my first sepia page.
here she is — closer up:
I just added some fabric for fun. Stitched it on the page:
Since it was sepia, I decided to journal in sepia too. Here’s the left side, filled:
some details:
Right side:
some details:
And here’s the filled page:
Here’s the left page:
This is one of my favorite pages so far. I love the sepia look.
Weekly Art Journal is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here. And you can find out more about the weeklong daily journaling here.
David’s on spring break so both boys have been home this week and while I work, they’re keeping busy. The little boy got creative with his toy fork.
Sticking it right inside the lego box.
And making as big a mess as possible in the smallest time possible. He’s great like that.
David worked on his workbooks.
And then made some faces for me.
He loves making faces.
And wearing funny glasses.
His brother asked him to put socks on him which he kindly obliged.
Then he put the glasses on him, too.
Which definitely made his day.
And then while David played, Nathaniel read his Thomas books.
All in all, a quiet day, I did all my daily work first thing in the morning and I will try to get some blog posts done tonight. We’re thinking of maybe taking a super short vacation later this week so I want to be ahead of the game this week. Oh and I did a lot of work work, too. I got another Beta out and actually caught up to my mail which is a miracle.
Plans for tonight include art journaling, blog posts, and possibly furthering my pinterest addiction. How was your Monday?
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful for how kind and quiet my kids can be and how they let me work when I need it.
2. I am grateful I got a lot done and feel ahead of my todo list. Phew.
3. I am grateful for kind comments. They always always always mean the world to me.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I played chess with daddy on the phone {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that mommy got a new phone game for me that has 80 games inside.
3. I am grateful that i will play robot odyssey for daddy.
A few months ago, I had the honor to be a guest blogger on the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog and here’s one of the two layouts I shared:
Journaling Reads:
I love capturing the smiles and the laughter but I do also think that it’s important and worthwhile to preserve these more tender, more difficult moments. They are a part of our life and I know that, years later, I will cherish these tearful moments, too. All of our life is magical and changes too quickly.
Details:
Happy Sunday!! I am not a fan of Sundays but I went to bed last night with a specific list of tasks so I woke up and did two of them right away. Then I exercised and then I showered and sat outside with the kids for a bit. I read to David. I also snapped some photos while the light was good. David made a sad face when I told him he couldn’t run around (he’s still got the bandaids in his head.)
Nathaniel was pensive, too.
Then he tried to entertain David by pushing his chair.
And he spotted the dirty chair on the corner of the yard so i went and got the clean one for him and he said and made his funny smile.
He really enjoyed sitting there.
I then snapped what’s likely my favorite photo of David in recent history. Look at those eyes.
This little one is super cute, too.
I feel like hugging him pretty much all day long.
We then went inside and Nathaniel went down for his nap, David played and I sketched. Daddy came home soon after and we took family shots.
with tickle time, of course.
there was much much laughter.
Then we went out to lunch but couldn’t find the cafe in Stanford that we were trying to go to so we went to our regular hangout instead. Ran into some friends, had a lovely lunch/dinner and then came home. Some wind down time and now we’re off to play legos for family time. I feel happy and grateful. I still have a few todo items on my list and my art journal’s been neglected all weekend so I will work on that next. then some resting and we’re off to start another week. Phew.
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful for a lovely day. Quiet and filled with laughter.
2. I am grateful for my family. My husband and kids are so amazing. They drive me crazy often but they are also the biggest joy in my life, bar none.
3. I am grateful for some art time tonight. I miss my journal.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I had some candy {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that I decorated my tooth brush (with stickers).
3. I am grateful we went out to lunch.
David says:
I gave this story four stars because I didn’t really like the beginning because it wasn’t interesting to me and it was a little too confusing.
I thought it was interesting that someone disguised the cat and how the two cases were intertwined. I also liked that Jupiter figured it out about the cat and helped him realize Sardon might be a disguise, too.
I didn’t like that Sardon/Freeman tried to steal the mummy and its case. The part where we found out how the mummy whispered was interesting and clever. I also didn’t like that Freeman stole the cat.
I liked that in the end everything went back to its right place. The thieves were caught. The jewels were sent back. And the cat went back to Mrs. Banfry. In the end, this book was fun to read but not as good as the other two we read so far.
Reading a book a week with my six-year-old son David is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.
jake
This was another productive week for Jake. He spent most of the week at the office getting clients and setting up paperwork for corporations. He’s made so much progress in the last two weeks that it’s exciting and rejuvenating to watch. He’s also been really a huge help to me this week. He went to volunteer at David’s school and stayed with the kids so I could go to both my doctor’s appointments alone. It was so nice to be able to have that freedom and calm.
karen
This week was productive and stressful. I’ve been having more jaw pain than I’d like but I am trying to keep it in perspective. I’ve been specifically working on having more perspective and a more positive attitude. I am quite proud of myself for not completely freaking out with what happened to David and just doing the right thing and trying to stay calm so that he wouldn’t be scared. Now that the weekend is here all I want to do is rest and recover and do nothing productive. I guess that’s what weekends are for, right?
david
David went back to school after a week of being sick and then on Wednesday he was spinning around and hit his head on the lunch bench when he got dizzy. He made a pretty deep gash but thankfully he’s ok. They closed it up with bandaids and he’s been home the rest of the week. He’s been in good spirits but I am worried cause he doesn’t really understand the gravity of what happened and still jumps and bounces around unless I remind him to stay calm and let his wound heal. My sweet boy whose spirit is unbreakable. I love him.
nathaniel
Nathaniel is doing well, too. He’s thrilled to have David around and he’s been getting into every single thing. He opens drawers, burrows through things, has strong opinions and makes sure you know them. It’s lucky for him that he’s super-cute or I am not sure how we’d be putting up with all his antics.
Us Right Now is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.
I promised myself that I would rest this weekend. I need downtime as usual. I seem to have gone into a long long funk but I will not whine cause I still get stuff done and I am proud of myself for learning to recognize that I need sleep or that I need rest. So this weekend, I have a bunch of deliverables and I will check in on my class but otherwise, I will relax and rest. So this morning I got up late and then took my time. When I got up to exercise finally, David was sharing some of his cheerios with Nathaniel.
He’s been in a really good mood, thankfully.
Then I finished my book, surfed a bit, looked up sketch inspiration, sketched and did some cleanup while Nathaniel finally napped. And then it was time for family shots.
The little one was not in the mood.
one of my favorite parts of these shots is how Jake and I hug and kiss.
David was in a good mood after the shoot, too. Always in a good mood my boy.
Then we finished our book, picked a new one and then it was dinner etc etc. Now we’re hoping to make a quick trip to Target and it’s time for bed. I plan to do some art, check in my classroom, and finally close all the tabs I have open. Love nights with no huge plans!
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful for another sketch. I am really working hard at them.
2. I am grateful I exercised. Still going.
3. I am grateful for a quiet night. Love those.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I watched TV {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that I played with my legos.
3. I am grateful I am building a game.
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