T Stands for Tuesday & Altered Playing Card Challenge

Playing catch up again.... story of my life is to be always catching up. :) 

I finally got my garlic planted today and that makes me very happy. Just a few garden chores left to finish and then it's over for this season. 

Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to work in the flower beds as they are in desperate need of attention. They have pretty much been ignored since July when my back went out. So I'll have my scooting bucket lid  out there to set on so I can get thongs cleared up a bit and the new Iris bulbs into the ground.

Everything is all leggy and falling over and nothing was deadheaded all summer. :( 

I did mange to get the  AP cards caught up on the weekend and that will be today's art. The new weekly challenge came out today and it looks fun so maybe I'll get this one done on time.... don't hold me to that though :)  

I finally finished the Inspirational Quote Deck too :) 

 Tonight I'm feeling slightly congested with an itchy throat so this weeks T is  a hot 

tea from Celestial Seasonings..♥

 I love their teas and this is just a selection of the ones I own and use. 

Plus all the herbal teas I make from my own herbs out of the garden. I just ordered more empty teabags today so I can start making up a supply of teas for the winter. 

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Paint Party Friday October 17, 2014

YEAH!!! It's FRIDAY AGAIN :) 

It's been a busy week here... another visit to the doctor and my first ever spinal injection. I think it's actually helping too. At least during the day I am feeling much better and taking less pain medication...which makes me happy . I go back in 3 weeks for another one. 

I've done a lot of art this week. When feeling better it's much easier to do and I have to keep busy so that I'm not out doing something that would be too active and set me back. I struggle with that... I want to get outside so bad and clean up the flowerbeds and all of that kind of stuff. I'm not a very good sitter at all. LOL! 

So the first art is one of the bigger pieces on wood I started a while back . I thought I was done with it this morning...however after taking it outside and taking pictures I'm thinking the face maybe needs some more work. She is supposed to be a spirit .... but something just isn't setting right with me now.... opinions appreciated. 

... I just couldn't stop so here is what she looks now ...

...still not sure if she is done but do like her much better now :) ...

 I worked on anther Quote Card...

I added color to blank note card I made in Feb.2012

I didn't post last week.... just not a good energy week but the high light of my week was one of the Monarch Cocoons I've been watching hatched and I got some pretty good photos. I was a few minutes late getting back outside so I didn't get a photo of it actually coming out of the cocoon but he was still wet and unable to fly yet so I got some good ones.

One more has hatched since then But I didn't get any pictures at all and I still have one cocoon left and I'm hoping that the freezing weather doesn't get here before it gets to hatch and fly south for the winter. 

There have been several Monarchs in the flowers this week so they are hatching somewhere near by :) Next year I will have about 3 times the number of milkweed plants to attract more I hope. 

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T for Tuesday

                 T Stands for Tuesday

                     Another week has gone by and here I am again running late. 

                It’s  been a couple of crazy days here with doctors visits and my treatment at the pain center. So I took a very long nap this afternoon.

                On the weather  side we are having tons rainy days here….too many in a row and lots of gray clouds…which means lower energy levels in my world….I thrive on SUNSHINE!

So “any WHO” here is the art…. My very first Mandala J

               I love them but just never thought I would have the patinece to do one….and then I realized they don’t have to be super intricate or large. So I have joined a challenge to make Mandalas… supposed to do 100 in 100 days and I know that won’t happen. I’m ok with that and will enjoy what I do manage to get done.

Here is # 1 …

                                   

I also managed to get one Quote card finished…only 4 more left to do …..

ALMOST forgot the picture of my herbal tea for today…this     weeks mug was painted my the other granddaughter… LOVE IT!

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T Stands fir Tuesday and Art Journal's Journey and Altered Playing Card Challenge

So far it's been a restful week...following a restful weekend. ♥ Which feels great ! 

This months theme at Art Journal's Journal is Deep in the Forest . So here is my first entry for that...

This was done with watercolors , pencil, and fine tipped ink markers. After finishing that I did a pencil sketch while watching TV ...

She was inspired by one of the characters in the show we were watching..." Hell on Wheels" The tree was just a mindless doodle that I added as I watched TV. 

 I also managed to get caught up on the Altered Playing Card Challenge so here are Weeks Four and Five....

Here's the Quote Card I managed to get done, only 5 more cards and this deck will be finished...

Drinking coffee form one of my favorite mugs that was painted for me by one of the Granddaughters. Just noticed it has a little chip in it :( 

Have another dentist appointment today to get my options on replacing the tooth I lost last week. I'm seeing BIG dollar signs :( 

Then when I get home I get to start on the apples again. I am giving away one of the buckets full so that's a relief. As much as I love having the applesauce and pie filling I'm really getting burnt out on working with apples. 

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Paint Party Friday... or should I say Sunday? ... so very late this week ....

Sunday Already?

Days are speeding by at lightening speed these days. My brain just can't keep up with it all. I finished the art on Friday and then totally forgot to post it here. I guess when I posted it on Facebook my brain figured I was done .

Friday was a "Taking Care of Me Day"  

Once again I have had a totally crazy stressful week and I needed a day to relax and just be me. It included a 4 hour nap and lots of Art and a very long and much enjoyed spa type bath. ♥

Monday we had a small stove fire in the kitchen... no serious damage....other than the lose of a good pan and a cheap plastic handled strainer. But said strainer is what caused all of the problems. It melted because it was too close to the burner and then caught fire... sending out this horrible black smoke that got onto everything in the kitchen and most of the living room. I cleaned up rather easily... which is unlike smoke damage in general... but it meant actually vacuuming and washing almost everything in both rooms. Not something I like doing to beginning with... but also very difficult with my back injury. :( So what would normally take me a day took me all week . I did threaten to leave the smoke on the ceiling until after Halloween :) 

But it would have probably permanently stained the ceiling so I cleaned it up first :( 

Strainer has been replaced with an all metal one :) The pan hasn't been replaced yet but will be soon as it's a size I use a lot. 

So now for the art.

She is a mixed media done on watercolor paper...

Another little Inspirational Card 

Today's Random Thought

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