This week’s question is: “What are you eating right now?”
This week’s tag was interesting. I originally did it a completely different way but I wasn’t happy with the results so I redid it last night. I will show you both versions just so you can see the stark difference. I love this one much more but the other one had me trying techniques too so I wanted to keep it here to remember.
As soon as I saw this topic, I knew I would make it about my morning coffee and my favorite lunch which is a poppy bagel toasted really dark with cream cheese and tomatoes. I cut out the definition of each from the dictionary and just did my art around them making sure they are highlighted.
One more detail.
The original idea I had was to create a cup and a bagel and use flocking with glossy accents to create the poppy seeds on the bagel and some inking and glossy accents to create the glass with coffee. Here’s how it looked:
I just didn’t like the way it turned out.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
Another one from the zoo trip. Have you had enough yet?
Nathaniel’s recently started to make use of his legs/feet as well as his hands and I am always amused to see how much more he can do when he’s using all four (arms and legs). Quite fun to watch how flexible he is.
He also turns five months today. Happy five months my boy. You’re growing up so quickly and I am so glad not to have to miss a moment of it.
Long and sort of a frustrating day today. Nathaniel didn’t want to nap again. At all! Yet he was whiny the WHOLE time. But I did get some quality work done so I spose that should make me feel better.
You are welcome to play with these as much as you want and use them anywhere you’d like. You are NOT allowed to sell them ever. You don’t have to but I’d appreciate a link back if you do use them.
This is part of a weekly digital download series. They are posted every Wednesday. You can find all of the ones that were posted here.
A little flower shot from the zoo. I love flowers, I can’t help myself.
I caught Nathaniel digging through my bag today. Naughty naughty.
Today was one of those days where I feel so very thankful for my life. I am so thankful for how supportive everyone at work has been with my wish to work from home. How incredibly kind and generous they are to me. I know that sometimes I get burned out or forget how amazing my life is so it’s best to write it down here so that I can come back and read. I am so so thankful.
I also want to thank my sister for her incredible support. My sister is far away but she is one of the most supportive people in my life. She goes out of her way to find ways to support me and she is so kind, so generous, and so wonderful to me. I know these are words we use often and they have almost worn out their value but I mean them with the depth they actually have and I mean them purely. Sometimes I forget how I am blessed to be among such amazing, genuine people who are there for me. It’s such a treasure to have that.
So today I am taking a moment to give thanks. I need to do this more often. Thank you, Yona, I love you so so much.
Another beauty from our zoo trip. I love owls. The are so soft and mysterious. I will never forget the day I got to touch one years ago at the Pittsburgh Zoo.
So Nathaniel must have slept all his sleep yesterday cause today he wouldn’t sleep!! Argh. I work upstairs in my bedroom for now so I’ve moved this little chair next to me so Nathaniel can entertain himself while I work and he’s been playing until he gets annoyed.
Feeling a little out of it today. Here’s to a more productive tomorrow.
Here’s another simple layout. Just about the photos and words. And a little bit of border punch fun.
Journaling Reads:
david, for the longest time
you weren’t into dress-up at all
you never did it at school
never asked for it at home
i figured you were just one of those
kids who didn’t care for it
i was wrong
yona sent two costumes for you
the last time amore was here
buzz lightyear and the hulk
now you wear them at least
twice a week
so i guess it wasn’t that you weren’t into it
it was just that we didn’t have the
right costumes
thanks so much auntie Yona.
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Another one from our zoo trip over the weekend. Love the meerkats. They have a special place in my heart. Lion King was the first movie Jake and I ever went to and it will always be special to me.
Today’s Nathaniel is just a snapshot I took in a hurry. Today was one of those magical days when Nathaniel didn’t wake up until 8:15 in the morning (even then he didn’t wake up, I had to wake him up so I’d have time to nurse him before we had to go drop David off at his school.) and then he came back home and took another long nap and then we picked up David and Nathaniel took another super-long nap when we came home. As if all that wasn’t enough, he took another nap at 4pm (brief one cause I didn’t want it to mess up bedtime. Holy cow! If only I knew today was going to go this way, I would have planned it so much better!!
This weekend I did some digging in the garage and opened up a few of the leftover boxes. One of them had David’s bike and batman computer in it. Today, he decided he wanted to play with them simultaneously.
We also got a headboard today. Our first one ever. I love it already. How I want to get a bedskirt but we don’t have a frame so it’s really hard to find short bedskirts that are just for the box.
I’ve just started my book of the week which is “Love Walked In” and I am loving it so far.
Journaling Reads:
i remember asking my parents for this computer for my tenth birthday. “you just want to play games,” they said. “no” i insisted, “i will learn how to program, I will use it all the time, I swear.” they were reluctant, I could tell. everyone else just used theirs as a fancy toy but i wanted one. I knew I wasn’t going to use mine as a toy, mine was a keeper. I don’t know what finally convinced them but I still remember the day my commodore 64 arrived. i fulfilled my promises, I took lessons, I worked, I played, I tinkered with that thing all the time. As it turned out, that was the beginning of a lifelong love of computers a career in programming and the internet. now i help build browsers. and it all started with one little machine. a present that changed my whole life.
Karen Says:
The Commodore 64 my parents bought me when I was a little girl was the very first computer I ever loved. Today, I have eight computers and I love them all. I made a career out of working with computers. I cannot thank them enough for believing in me, supporting me, and of course giving me my first computer.
Thanks to kids woot, I get to have this wonderful treasure that reminds me of my childhood. I’ve always ALWAYS loved Pink Panther and now I get to have it. David’s been watching it incessantly too.
And Nathaniel’s been sitting it up more and more. (Lest you worry, Jake was right next to him, just in case he tipped over.)
A quiet and wonderful Sunday here. I spent most of my day reading. I remembered that everything aside, my first is and always will be reading. To more days like this.
I have mixed feelings about this book. Maybe cause it came with so much hype.
The first chapter was absolutely impossible to read. I tried three times before I could get myself to finish it. The story for the first half of the book was interesting but not amazing. I liked the characters but there were so many of them that I kept losing track and wondered how important it was going to be to remember them all.
For me, the book started getting good halfway through. Once the case started unlocking a bit. But then it got really scary and creepy and I am not such a fan of that. I didn’t see it coming at all. I did read the last 500 pages in one sitting and I loved most of the characters.
All in all, I think it was a good book. I’m going to have to sit with it for a week or two to decide what I think.
Since Jake was out of town last week, we were scheduled to celebrate my birthday this weekend (and next!) so we went to the San Francisco zoo. It was teeny tiny compared to the San Diego one was but it was still a lot of fun. I’ll share more photos throughout the next few weeks but I love this one of the two penguins.
And Nathaniel was snuggled into his Daddy the whole time.
David made a face about half the time but I did manage to get him to giggle a few times.
And here’s the handsome man. Love him.
The book post is hopefully coming tomorrow. Still reading the book.
