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    T Tuesday: art class edition

    September 16, 2019 - By 

    What a quick week! I have no idea where it went or how it flew by so incredibly fast other than school, school and more school.

    Today’s post actually does tie into school. I’m supporting a handful of students in a required Intro to Art class this semester. I’m finding the class very informative. Putting words to the techniques I’ve self-taught over the last decade or so.  Such as the elements and principles of art….the actually words and definitions behind drawing technique. The students in the class are creating a Zentangle in which they need to show the 13 elements and principles of art. It made me go back and look at the one larger scale Zentangle I created years ago to see if I could pick out these key components.

    I’m not sure I hit all 13 in this Zentangle. It’s funny because I created this in 2006…this page is officially older than the children in that class. 🙂

    Today I was able to play around with watercolor pencils.

    Again…so much fun. I was able to work alongside one of my students as they wanted to practice their technique.

    I’m having some ice water while I write this post. The temperature and humidity have ramped back up around here as you can see by the condensation on my glass.

    It was much nicer over the weekend when Mini-me and a few choir friends sang the national anthem at the boy’s varsity soccer game on Saturday evening. 

    They sang from the booth…not on the field. So proud of those girls!

    ME…I’m still sewing when I can…I’m trying to get caught up on some household chores that have been piling up…emhem…laundry.

    T stands for Tuesday
    What are you doing today?
  • Blog - Crafts - Creativity

    T Tuesday: all things crafty edition

    September 9, 2019 - By 

    Since heading back to school I think perhaps I’ve done more crafting than I did all of August. It always works that way. What’s that saying?… “Busy people get things done.”  There is whole lot of truth in that statement.  Grab a cup of coffee or whatever and stay awhile…I’ve got lots to share.

    I think I’ll start with the travel journal I made with ephemera from our trip. It’s still a work in progress but here’s a sneak peek at the journal with some of the goodies tucked inside.

    I’m still sewing like there’s no tomorrow.

    In fact this photo was taken 10 mins before I had to leave for my first day back to work.

    No games will be played at the game table anytime soon. I’ve kind of temporarily taken over. I’m nearly done with the paper foundation stitching on all the blocks…at least I think so. Once I start doing the layout I’ll know for sure.

    I also did a bit more cleaning and organizing in my art zone. I wish I could call it a studio but that would be like putting lipstick on a pig. It’s functional…just not pretty. 

    Check out my new washi tape organization….

    Mini-me has yet to do her color organization on the washi…I know she will though and it will be much prettier.

    While I was organizing I decided it would be a good idea to make some more card bases or backgrounds..which ever you prefer.

    I picked up the paper pad above at Tuesday Morning (no affiliation) and was itching to use it. So many pretty patterns.

    I have a nice stack of cards started now just waiting for the right sentiment or occasion.

    I’m heading back to the sewing machine to finish up my blocks. Can’t. Stop. Sewing.

    T stands for Tuesday
    What are you doing today?
  • Blog

    T Tuesday: state fair edition

    September 2, 2019 - By 

    Last Tuesday Mini-me and I decided to go to the MN State Fair. We hadn’t been for 5-6 years. We got up early to take the express bus to the fair which is about a 45 min trip via bus during rush hour.

    As you can see by the long shadows, we were there early. In fact so early that most of the things we wanted to do and eat weren’t even open yet. Hmmm…makes me wonder what one does at the fair before 9 am.

    Eventually, we had “breakfast”…Sweet Marthas cookies. They are fresh from the oven. This bucket holds an entire tray of cookies…of course you have to eat a bunch to even get the lid on. Challenge accepted. Ok, we failed but did have a baggie with to put the extras.  You may not see a drink in frame but trust me …there was lots of water consumed. I wish we had thought about getting milk. Now THAT would have been good.

    We toured some of the barns, the education building and checked out the crafts entered in the state fair competition. After the fact, I found out that at least one person I know had entered her knitting and received a ribbon.

    By about 11:30, it was starting to get a bit crowded. Not overly so but enough that we began thinking about what exactly we wanted to see before heading for the bus.

    I think we left at a good time because I looked up the attendance on the State fair website site and saw that last Tuesday set an all-time attendance record for that day of the fair,

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    I know that we weren’t the most efficient at seeing the sights of the fair at least according to my Fitbit data for the day.

    I know that all those steps hardly made a dent in the calories I actually consumed that day. Oof.

    Tuesday means back to school for me and Mini-me. J already has a week of sophomore year college under his belt. Mini-me said the other day…”Do you realize that now I’m an upperclassman and J is a lower classman?” It’s the little things I guess.

    T stands for Tuesday
    What are you doing today?