29 Faces in September 2015 & Paint Party Friday

OH MY!!
It's been one of those absolutely insane and busy two weeks here and right off the bat I fell behind in the 29 faces Challenge. 

The last two days have been calm finally and I was able to push my self to catch up... although yesterday I probably shouldn't have tried. When you see 4 & 5 you'll understand :) 

Face 1 was done on time...

...and so was Face 2 ..

....Face 3 was almost finished on time...

and then 4 & 5 were done yesterday ... I had taken 2 pain pills for my back and for some reason decided to draw and paint with my left hand---my non-dominant hand. What was I thinking? Oh ...that's right I wasn't LOL! 

4

 5

After 5 I gave up and went to bed. :) 

Today went much better..

Face 6

She was inspired by a YouTube video by

 Christy Sobolewski

Face 7 

A brush sketch inspired by a magazine photo

Face 8 

Another brush sketch inspired by a photo of

Jimmy Fallon 

Faces 9 & 10 

Painting of the same face sort of :) in the reversed pose. 

The garden is winding down and I have more free time now... 

which is good because I've adopted 14 Monarch Butterfly caterpillars and I'm raising 8 of them inside.

It's been a fun experience  and a learning one. I put half of them outside on the milkweed and brought the others inside to hand feed and raise. I have discovered 3 of the ones I placed outside dead already...attacked by wasps. So I'm going to try and find the others outside and bring them in too. They move around so much it's difficult to find them sometimes. 

Hopefully I'll be able to get some photos of the butterflies as they come out of the cocoons. It will be about 2 weeks before that happens. 

SO that's what's happening in my world this week. Tomorrow I get another injection in my back and the pain should go away for a few months. I just had too much going on this month and it all made things flare up :( 

Today's Random Thought

Got this from a fellow blogger this week and I love it. If only more people lived by these words ♥