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#33 gather

This morning's harvest:

When I make a pouch with my shirt to carry something, I always think of other women in my family. Pretty sure I've seen everyone on my mother's side of the family do this.

I also gathered scraps and made a book.  The class was called "Seeded notebook." With a name like that how could I resist?

The image to the right is a photo copy of a project I stitched.  It includes an edge of lace made my Grandma Iside.

I am pretty sure I won't ever buy a book to journal in again...

I'll just keep making them.

food in fridge but which beasts do you feed?

Today's 15. Six layers, 2 different filters.

This wasn't quite the assignment for the last class with Lewis Rossignol, but I couldn't help myself. 

house-hold humor

I needed a little intermission yesterday.

Lola had another go at a dental cleaning.

The good news...she will never need another one.

The bad news...she has no teeth now!

The good news...It's finally been determined what is causing some of her health issues.  There were a few more scary moments yesterday.

The bad news... She now has enough medications that I might need an organizer for her.

The best news, she is sleeping beside me.

Now if I could just get her to take all her meds... we are just about at the second to last resort, fake cheese stuff in a can. If that doesn't work, a different prescription.

Dr. Kim says she is a funny little dog and a trouper.

Despite all this, I continued to work on the lesson for the class I am taking.

This wasn't what the assignment was, but it's what I liked the best...

I tell myself, "Just keep going, it's all practice."

All this brings me to a thought...

finding the humor in the everyday.

second draft

I wrote one post.

Sat with it for awhile and then got caught in hmm...where does influence start and stop? So this is a second try.

Some drawings from a class I am taking called Sketchbooking with Lewis Rossignol (Carla Sonheim).

My "15" for the last two days.

I had to remind myself to be not compare.

To just enjoy the doing.

And then I went and listened to an old favorite because it came to mind.

This video is a little quirky but it's what I've got at the moment.

 

 

it made me smile

This year I signed up for 2021 Carla's Year Long Class in hopes that I would do a bit more...

15+ minutes of playing with the art supplies.

15+ minutes of wondering why?

Well...it made me smile and I hope you do too.

 

#71 journal page, altered

#66 silly advice

Don't eat cherries and then brush your teeth...

Good advice:  remember to play.

#28 blink

Don't forget to play...

 

The photos are layered in an app called "Image Blender" and the filters used are either in the same app or "Hipstamatic." 

Filters can be helpful to soften edges depending on how photos are layered.

Sometimes just layering one image on top of another and adjusting the opacity is nice, other times I layer image over image. Or the same image with different filters. 

There are classes. I signed up for one but never really spent much time on it.  I started to play and well... never went back. What I am sharing is what I've learned by just playing.

The class on animation (a Carla Sonheim presents class with Kara Kramer)that I took awhile ago was lots of fun and a place to spend more time. I've been playing with the app used in the class in lots of ways other than animation (mostly as a slide show)...maybe it's time to actually try that.  There is an upcoming film festival!

Field note: First dragonfly sighting in the garden.

 

#19 coincidence?

Following a prompt from a Carla Sonheim class, I squeezed a bit of paint on a page and pulled the paint down with an old bus pass.

After three swipes I realized I'd made a robe...the hearts were added later.

 

comfort food

Otis went to his sulky place.  He thought to himself  "I wonder what would make me feel better?"

Recipes you know so well you can make them without looking...

Scones.  Recipe from Alice Bay Cookbook.

Vegetarian Shepard's pie:  split peas + onions + walnuts + cauliflower + kale + spices, topped with mashed potatoes and baked.

Inspired by a recipe at 101 Cookbooks and one from My New Roots.