September 27, 2020
Experiments in watercolor and pastel!
Super Endings and Super Beginnings! December 31, 2019
What a fabulous day.
What a fabulous year.
What a fabulous decade.
What a fabulous life.
I feel ready to start the new year and am excited to practice living my best life yet.
Today was full of food and art and family and anticipation. I made chicken & garlic mushrooms with garlic Parmesan dutch baby. I get all the mushrooms to myself because no one else likes them. I made cranberry salsa in case we decided to get festive tonight (obviously we didn't - going to bed at 10pm is kinda un-festive)
My sweet niece from Alaska messaged me today and we had a long message chain back and forth for a half hour. We rarely get to connect due to family weirdnesses and these few times per year that communication opens is just the best. I kinda wish she was my kid... (sorry Beth!)
After my chat with the niece, I got to work on my art for a while. I'm still stalling doing anything real by organizing and preparing. Oh my goodness - I can prepare until the cows come home. There's always some other thing I can do to help something else be better. Does that make sense? Anyway, I organized my notebook with colored tabs so I can see where my notes for different classes are instead of thumbing through the pages each time. I made this sketchbook/notebook/thing from a stack of printer paper that I glued/perfect bound and then attached to a Reader's Digest cover. I used DUCT TAPE to put it all together. My past self just died - duct tape is probably not archival and it definitely isn't "craftsmanship". I love it.
It's funny being 51 years old and still feeling the same way I did as a teenager or young adult or older adult. We are eternal beings, that's for sure.
Spiritual enlightenment: The War Goes On & The Love and Laws of God
What a fabulous year.
What a fabulous decade.
What a fabulous life.
I feel ready to start the new year and am excited to practice living my best life yet.
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| My husband buys my clothes because I'm not very good at it. On the other hand, I do buy my nails.(see what I did there?) Thank you Impress Nails! |
Today was full of food and art and family and anticipation. I made chicken & garlic mushrooms with garlic Parmesan dutch baby. I get all the mushrooms to myself because no one else likes them. I made cranberry salsa in case we decided to get festive tonight (obviously we didn't - going to bed at 10pm is kinda un-festive)
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| Garlic-Parmesan Dutch Baby |
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| A rather unflattering picture of manna from Heaven - chicken and seared mushrooms |
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| Cranberry salsa - it looks a little like raw meat here because the cranberries were still frozen. When I brought it out tonight, it was a deep claret red and delicious. It counts as a vegetable. |
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| She looks exactly like her mom and nothing like me. If I stole her, people would know... |
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| Ooh, pretty |
It's funny being 51 years old and still feeling the same way I did as a teenager or young adult or older adult. We are eternal beings, that's for sure.
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| The white jar on the left has cookies. I'm prepared. |
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