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LeeAnna  has asked spending time outdoors: would you rather: resting in a hammock or digging in a garden? Oh my gosh, without any doubt, I would rather rest in a hammock.  Or floating in a pool would be even better.  I have done tons of gardening over the years and was mildly successful until our huge maple tree became so large that our backyard gets no sunshine.  Everything died off and I have given up.  Now it is the same in our front yard.  The tree out front is huge and needs to be trimmed.  At least it is on city property and they are responsible for that. I love flowers and wish they would grow here.  But I am enjoying my small potted vegetable garden.  I have harvested enough lettuce for three salads so far.  I have harvested a few cherry tomatoes.  It looks like I will have a bumper crop of cucumbers.  I am so grateful for the small area outside my kitchen door that gets enough sunshine to grow some veggies! While diggi...
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Mandala Monday

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 Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery hosts a free Family Day once a month.  My granddaughter loves to go and I love to take her.  It is such a lovely, special time for the two of us.  We went yesterday and when chatting with the facilitator, I was dismayed to learn that we were the only visitors they had that day!  What a shame!  They set out four stations with a different art activity at each.  The activities are fairly simple so that any age can participate. My granddaughter loved working with the modelling clay yesterday.  We were there for almost two hours!  She made a terrific underwater scene.  She didn't need much help from me so I made a mandala collage.  One simply can't sit around ignoring art supplies!
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Slow Stitching Sunday

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  It feels good to be back on track with my tree per month project.  It is funny how ideas morph and then cause challenges.  I love figuring out a way to make the challenge work.  Sometimes it takes a while but that's okay. This tree was started on a piece of cloth that was stitched by someone else but was never finished.  Can you see all the nice even cross stitches?  They were not done by me.  I added paint to the cloth to make it my own.  I cut out the tree shape and used the buttonhole stitch to adhere it in place.  That wasn't the best stitch to use but it got the job done.  The tree is slightly askew.  I like it that way even though it wasn't intentional. I am linking with https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/
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  LeeAnna  asks do you like picnics? Are you a sit on a blanket on the ground person, or a table outside? Tell us about some picnic that stands out in your memory ( who was there, foods, time and place, etc) I love a picnic!  I will sit on a blanket, I will sit on the ground, I will sit at a picnic table. Potluck picnics are wonderful.  Well, any potluck is good!  My absolutely favourite picnic happened when I was single but engaged.  My fiancé picked me up from work for a lunch date.  He had the day off and had spent the morning preparing a lovely picnic lunch.  We went to a nearby park and ate while on a blanket.  It was the park where he proposed so it was extra special.   I have been enjoying some Jane Davenport videos on YouTube.  She is a talented artist and she makes some cool art supplies!  Her videos inspire me to try things.  I also want to buy her products but have resisted mainly because they are not easil...
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Work in Progress Wednesday

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 I have been working on some altered books lately.  It is funny how I go through moods of wanting to work on certain things.  I created this little monster after watching a video by Tamara Laporte.  I love her style!  I don't generally like to copy another artist.  However, I liked the message about her little monster, so I wanted to create one of my own.  It is similar to hers but not exactly the same.  The opposite page has some journaling about self-acceptance even when I am a monster!
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Mandala Monday

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 This is a bit different from my usual mandalas.  Drawing these circles was very therapeutic and meditative.  I used a fun multi-coloured pencil crayon.  The journal is also interesting.  It is made of homemade paper that is very textural.  I found it at a thrift store for just a few dollars.   The paper is highly absorbent, and the ink is wicking through from the other side.  Now, I am not a perfectionist but sometimes things like that can really bother me.  So I am working on finding acceptance for those blobs.
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Slow Stitching Sunday

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 My granddaughter requested that I make her a mandala.  She picked out some old jewellery for me to incorporate into it.  She picked out a LOT but I narrowed it down.  I stitched it a while ago but hadn't given it to her.  I felt like it was lacking something but wasn't sure what.  It finally came to that it needed one more circle of stitches so I added the feather stitch.  It now looks complete to me.   I wonder if she will like it.  I wonder if she even remembers asking for it!   I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/
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