Lazy days....................

It's snowing again. I did some painting in my sketchbook and as I have nothing else to post I will just catch up on that.
Three unfinished pages first. These will be painted and added to in time.



I often go back to pages that are not quite full and add small things to them. These pages are ideas that I may sometime use if I ever get around to it. I want to make some cards and things at some point. I love Pinterest and I go on there all the time. I sketch ideas that I see, use faces to practice drawing and often copy ideas for my own sketch later on, some day. I would never copy someones work but will get ideas from them. I think I may be addicted to Pinterest.


I really like doing faces. STill unsure of doing men's faces, I just cant get a grip on that. They always turn out feminine.

The faces remember are just sketches and not portraits so are very simple line drawings. I am thinking some day to do a small book for Tristen. If I can come up with a story. That's right, where is that? I started a story somewhere, I must look for it. I bet it's on my old computer.

The Flamingos I saw in and add, or maybe on Pinterest and just had to copy it. I am thinking of a Birthday card using that idea and putting some netting and glitter on it somehow.





I am liking some of the flowers now. Again, they don't have to be lifelike. That's my problem and why I began all this. I always want perfection, photographic realness. So I began this journey to loosen up.






It's been a lazy day. I should be doing some housework. I should be sewing. I have to get my quilt backs ready for when my friend Barb gets back from her holiday.
This is the mess in the dining room at the moment. I got the machine out in hopes of starting in on my sewing and mending. I will get to it, just not today. Oh I so want
a craft room.


This stack is done, ready to be quilted. My friend Barb is a long arm quilter and she will put them together for me (I hate that part) then I finish them off.

The others need the backing sewn together and its not that it will take that much time. It's just so boring. Still, once done I can press everything again and move them out and get to more fun things


I asked a friend, Donna, to come over and take a bunch of my fabric stash. She just got back into quilting. I have so much fabric I know I will never use it all. What waste it. Barb, Edna and Nancy all have their own problems of overloaded stashes. So I hit on Donna to come over and get an arm full. Oh I know I will still buy more but from now on I buy things I actually know I will get done. I also need to have a huge sort out of quilting books and Cook books. Oh boy. Don't get me started on cook books.