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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>First I am honored to be the featured artist this week. Thank you to all of those who have commented and viewed my post from last week!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Thanks to Eva and Kristin for all of the work they do to keep up going here every week. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It's been a quite week here with lots of sunshine and heat. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>You would think that if it's too hot to be outside I would have gotten some art done but it didn't work out that way . </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I started a piece but only got the background finished. I just can't seemed to stay focused this week.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Temps are supposed to drop tonight and have an great week of moderate temps so things should start happening again :) </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Art is just having a bit of trouble finding time to get any work done on it. :) </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I did finish one painting though so it's not a complete loss.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It's Friday and time to share a bit of art with all of you folks. It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted... I haven't been doing art. π</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Just too busy with the yard and garden and those crazy caterpillars. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>After 24 failures with unhealthy caterpillars we finally have 4 apparently healthy butterflies. Yesterday 2 females emerged and today we have 2 more. Before the day is out today we should have 5 more butterflies. Exciting times for me anyways β₯</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I started with a prepared background that I had made by smearing leftover paints on a sheet of watercolor paper.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Then a butterfly sketched on a sheet of paper for the second one. This was used on a canvas for a mixed media piece. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Then started adding more details to both...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>The butterfly is nearly done and the other has a lot more work to be done. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>What a crazy week here! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Lots of crazy weather and rain and then more rain. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Two huge branches broke off our big Maple tree and nearly wiped out my tuck . </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>The Monarch Butterflies have visited and my tiny little milkweed plants are being devoured by the hungry critters. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I have 34 caterpillars inside and there are over a hundred outside. The most every in my butterfly garden. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Thanks again to Eva and Kristin for keeping us together all of these years!!!!! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I have been working on a canvas... just little bits of time here and there . Eventually it will be finished but as close as it is it will still probably take me a week or more. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It started like this ..</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Here we are at Friday again and I'm still trying to figure out what happened to Monday :( Another one of those weeks that just totally got away from me and disappeared. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>... and had done a sketch on a separate sheet of paper with an idea of what I wanted to do...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Major health issues with a couple of family members that will be ongoing for a while but hopefully past the critical stage. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Art wise this is what I am working on this week. Thought it would be done but didn't happen that way.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>This was the beginning...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>..and then we just kept going...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>...ending up at this point.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>...and I'm pretty sure this is what she'll look like. Perhaps a few tweets here and there. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I do want to continue working on faces every week and try to squeeze in at least one other type of art too. Or maybe just more than one face. This week I've been staring at a blank canvas and nothing is happening. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Could be that I'm greatly distracted my the Spring Like weather that we've been having :) </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>But enough about Spring and Flowers... this is suppose to be about art. So I'll go back and stare at that blank canvas again. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Time is slipping by faster and faster it seems. My list of things to get done in a week just grows and grows and the list of finished projects is smaller and smaller.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Time is not my friend it seems.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I did get a few things done this week. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://heatherlfoust.blogspot.com/">Heather Foust</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"A Life Full of Color" </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>This one is right at the top of my list of all time paintings I've done. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>When I watched the class video the first time I knew exactly what drawing I was going to use. I had originally drawn her in 2015 for the 29 faces challenge and knew I would paint her someday. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>There are minor changes but then you really never can redraw the same thing twice and have them be exactly the same. I did start off giving her bangs in the painting but it just wasn't looking right so I took them back out. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I also did or should say finished a spread in one of my journals....</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I decided she needed a playmate since I had managed to skip a page in the journal when I painted her. </i></span></div>
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Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15192378197271824011noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629751851215627817.post-68057606611012646822017-02-24T09:03:00.003-06:002017-02-24T09:03:49.382-06:00Paint Party Friday <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Another week or two has past. I skipped last week as we were busy working outside since Mother Nature blessed us with summer type weather...but no bugs yet. π We have a lot of wooded areas on our property that have become severely over grown with invasive honeysuckle bushes and vines. So it was a good time to get out there and clear out as much as possible. It's starting to look good out there again. The challenge now will be to keep it cleared out. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So I've fallen way behind in art work. I didn't get the last WIP I showed you finished before heading into the great outdoors. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>She was the last piece for my Mindy Lacefield class. I may go back and do some of the lessons again, just to help me remember that it's good to stay loose. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>The next piece I did was a play piece in my journal that was a prep for me before I started a new class with </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Heather Lippincott Foust.</span></i></div>
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Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15192378197271824011noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629751851215627817.post-3011204113431570242017-02-03T05:03:00.002-06:002017-02-03T05:04:33.038-06:00Paint Party Friday & 29 Faces in February 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Where did all of the days go ? </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Just one of those weeks that slipped by with out me realizing it had left already. Happens when ever I start reading a good book . </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So not as much art as I wanted to get done. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>On Monday I finished the piece I was working on for the Mindy Lacefield class.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Face # 1 was a lot of fun and you can see the influence from Mindy's class again. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Hoping to get it done today and then on to Face #3. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Last nights moon was another beauty... </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It's amazing how quickly the week as slipped by for me. It's been a good week and a productive week. With lots of art started and finished. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Earlier in the week I shared some of it on my other blog.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>One of the pieces I did was a </i></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>characterization of Trump and started listing negative descriptions of him on the background. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>SLIDING IN HERE A BIT LATE ... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>and the sliding is a real thing around here today. We are in an ice storm that has </i></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>crippled a great portion of the Midwest and it's only the first day of a 3 day storm. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I was in the process of getting ready to go to work and just decided it wasn't worth it... good call because 45 min. later we were covered with a thin layer of ice. Thin is all it takes! </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So I've finished with the last of the storm preparations.... made a big pot of beef stew and a pan of quick bread. Now I can set back and do fun things while we wait out the storm and just pray that the power stays on. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>from way back when.... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>... and started slapping layers of paint and marks on it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Happy Belated New Year to you all out there. I decided to take the month of December off with art and posting about it. I just had so much going on with the holidays and fighting off a sinus condition that somethings just had to be put on hold. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So I have started working on that this week. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It's out of my comfort zone but I am loving it and letting loss a bit more than normal for me. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Then blending it out with a calming color...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>....Next was adding a few of the details ...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So this is where it's at tonight... will be working on the faces more next and blending in some calm spaces too. Who knows where they will end up but I'm totally enjoying the effort. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It's been awhile again :/ </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>No particular reason other than playing with the puppy. It's kind of like having a baby and all of your time goes into caring for it and training it . </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>There has been a wee bit of art done. I made a couple of cards with Mandala's on them. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>The first one I did right before election day. A form of meditation in a way. A pulling together of thoughts and prayers toward a positive outcome in a no win situation. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>The second one was done after the election when the world was shocked by the outcome. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>A prayer for guidance and unity . A gather of forces to stand again what may happen and striving towards a peaceful outcome. </i></span></div>
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Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15192378197271824011noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629751851215627817.post-29176821420813420142016-11-04T08:26:00.005-05:002016-11-04T08:26:47.119-05:00PAINT PARTY FRIDAY <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>I'm still having difficulty getting back into the swing creating art here. :( I come in to so something...anything and end up on the computer surfing the net just looking at nothing in particular. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>I pulled out an old sketch this week that I was never happy with and tried to improve it and then do some watercolors on it. I'm still calling it a </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>as I'm not pleased with how it looks at all. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>is what it says to me. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>So after a frustrating art adventure I grabbed the garden tool belt and heading outside to plant a few more bulbs. </i></b></span></div>
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Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15192378197271824011noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3629751851215627817.post-6971662772002927212016-10-14T08:39:00.001-05:002016-10-14T08:39:13.592-05:00Paint Party Friday <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">Well it seems I've been missing in action much longer than I realized.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">Just an extremely busy time for me in the gardens and training the puppy :) </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">No art was done the entire time I was away from here ...just didn't even think about it during that time. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">Now that cooler weather is here and most of the outside chores are done the art supplies are back out again. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">I started with a old pencil sketch I had done for 29 Faces a year or 2 ago. This is where she is today and haven't decided if she is finished or not.</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> I'm moving extremely slow today and it is totally my fault. We had a long holiday weekend in the USA and the weather was mild and comfortable. Absolutely beautiful!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>SO I DID TOO MUCH! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>On Friday evening my husband and I decided that since the weather was to be so mild for Saturday that we would get up early and get some long neglected yard work done. It's just been too blasted hot or wet to do it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Well the morning chores turned into an all day event as we just kept going from one chore to the next. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Then on Sunday morning I was up early again..... because the puppy doesn't know you can sleep in on weekends :( So I decided to get some tomatoes canned and more cucumbers picked and pickled. Which took way longer than I thought it would. I must be moving slower and slower :-/ </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Then the youngest son came over and he and the husband did some target shooting while I stayed inside and comforted the scared puppy and older dog. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Friends were supposed to come over for pizza but canceled at the last minute which was actually fine by me .. I had used up my energy for the weekend. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Come Monday the heat was back and we were wiped out from the other two days. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>We laid around and read, watched some old movies and took naps. Today I am still dragging but not as sore as yesterday. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Here's my drink for today... iced herbal tea again and a small piece of wood I worked on over the weekend. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Some of you know that a few weeks ago I rescued a Yorkie puppy off the highway . The owners didn't show up until after 9 days and I was totally attached to the little guy. Plus it was obvious that the owner was not a responsible pet owner and it broke my heart to leave him there. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Well this week my husband surprised me with this little princess...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><span id="goog_1900534633"></span><span id="goog_1900534634"></span>She's 6 months...completely house trained and came full loaded with accessories. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Her precious owner did not know she was pregnant when she bought her and with two other very small children she didn't think she would be able to give the puppy the attention she needed. So she made the decision to re-home her while she was still young. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Her name is Mini Me and she has completely stolen my heart. She and our other dog get along fantastically and he is so happy to have a playmate....even if she is only weights 7.5 pounds and he weighs 50. :) </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> This is my husband getting lots of attention from the two dogs β₯</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It's been a roller coaster week for me and I'm having trouble getting back into the swing of it. It's happening slowly though. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>The rescue puppy that I had fallen in love with was claimed by the owner which broke my heart. After 8 days he had wormed his way into our lives. The saddest part is that I know in my gut the the owner is not a responsible pet owner and the little guy will be running loose again soon. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So now I'm trying to catch up with the garden, my sleep ,my peace of mind and squeeze in a bit of art too. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So this is what I started tonight ...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It's time to party and what better place than Paint Party Friday !!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Still not a whole lot of art going on here... it's still summer and then to even have less time I manage to rescue this adorable Pup from the highway and no one wants to claim him :( </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So guess who is trying to teach him how to be a respectable dog in a multi animal home. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Amazingly he and the other dog get along great.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>They think he's an alien and he thinks he needs to catch them. It may be a while before a truce is settle there. </i></span></div>
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