I had two big finishes in quilt making this week the posts are here: HERE
and HERE
I've been slowly doing the lessons from Sketchbook Revival and learning a lot. I've had a lot of trouble with concentration this week, and the weather didn't help. 80 deg F one day, snowing the next... when it's hot our bedroom is uncomfortable as it gets full sun all day and won't cool off with open windows.
a few pics from my sketchbook this week:
I always do a small portrait of the instructor to start my lessons, and remember them. I put their name the lesson title, the date and then take notes right on the sketch
this day we were told "if you can see it, you can draw it" and I used this pic of Milo as inspiration
It's hard to draw a black poodle, and I wanted to capture his tilted head, so cute
I tried to draw the teacher's folded hand as she leaned on it, hands are also hard. I like my sketch a lot, and the shading done all with pencil. The next lesson was brilliant in that I can use the techniques in fabric too... paint on heavy paper (or stabilizer) and apply to a collage on paper (or fabric)
I feel I captured the instructor's look, and just painted mushrooms into my sketchbook, but will follow up on the 3-d aspect soon...
I had to paint this instructor several times til I got the essence of her on the bottom left image... what makes a person look unique? Have you ever thought about that?
Watching on TV
same stuff except I'm also enjoying the silly romance finding show "the courtship" where modern would-be mates dress and behave like Regency era English. I'm in solid mourning for the last season of This is US.
sadly I saw the Oscars where someone didn't like a joke told, and physically assaulted the host. You can feel everything you want, but you cannot by law or decency act on it by assaulting another person. Is anyone else showing self control these days? I miss decency in action.
Find Dining
I tried out my candy mold (from Michaels ) to make these peanut butter cups... well I used what I had... which was sunflower butter (dh is unable to digest p-butter) and dark chocolate chips. Basically you melt the chocolate pour a bit into the mold, then mix the nut butter, powdered sugar, and butter and spread on top, then add in another dollop of chocolate. They tasted good but were too hard to bite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLfFxxAF5lM
I think my favorite segment was the dog in bed saying "today is not the day and I am not the one"...I feel that way a lot lately...
Milo's Moment
Mama: "Milo, there is a squirrel right outside the back door!" (rumbling of big poodle feet running down the stairs at a gallop)
Milo: Mama! Did you know there is a squirrel outside? Lemme out!
Mama: oh let's let her live, just keep an eye on her and try not to bark!
Milo: later this week I needed to break down a toy... whew!
it wasn't easy but it needed to get done. See that octopus has been needing his legs chewed off for weeks! It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it and I'm just the poodle for the job!
I am also the toy inspector here, and I declare I need a new octopus!
now sit stay and visit mama's friend's to see their list of likes, and we always like new friends here so if you write a list let mama know the link!
craftscaviescontras
which got too scary but then listened to
which was fun and just started the next in the series
