Do you love a parade?

This is a little pen and ink that I'm doing for a card. I think it'll make a nice birthday card either that or a cheer someone up card or even just to write a letter in. Still working on the journal prompting cards and a hand drawn journal to possibly place in etsy once it's done. I finished pruning one set of lilac bushes. I know wrong time of year but this way I could tell what was dead and what had blossoms on it. As I was trimming I reminded myself that this will hopefully help the bushes to have nicer blooms as they were getting rather scraggly. It reminded me of a Bible verse of trimming branches and throwing them into the fire of those that no longer produce. I started thinking what needs to be trimmed in my life besides my body. No clear cut answers, however, I do think it's adding a bit of focus to things. Maybe I at least won't overwhelm myself.

I just realized chocolate chip cookies are a delivery method for chocolate chips. I think I'll speed up the process and go for the chips! My sister Bobbie suggested I freebase and add a bit rum so if you hear of a fire, you'll know it didn't work so well!

Art Journal Pages

As you can see not a whole lot has been happening at my house. I've managed to do a few things but I'm back to everything taking such a huge effort. I want to cry even thinking about it.

I've made my self do yard work as evidenced by the leaves but my house is in need of attention badly. I agreed to host the book club next week because I know it will give me the boost to do something. I would let anyone see the house if it was messy. Of course my husband and son think I'm nuts and it's just fine but we have different standards. I really need to get back to the yard but my fingers are really swollen today so I'll have to take a break. I barely made it into the normal range for the vitamin D and my doctor told me to cut back. She'll have me test again in two months. I hope she's right to cut me back so soon but we'll see. Son and hubby have been hunting. Son got a deer, hubby hasn't yet anyway. We split the meat up with some friends, it will help everyone's budget. Dennis won't be able to hunt this weekend as he'll be working security at the monster truck rally. Needless to say he's excited. Well I need to get something done right or wrong.

Fall Chores

Guess what I did today! Two guesses. I didn't finish yet. We have a ton of these. However, the sun was warm, the breeze was gentle and it was quiet.
Perfect meditation task. The tree was certainly prolific.

Sad

The title of this image is sad. I don't have the quote handy, however there is a quote about becoming like the landscape that surrounds us. It's gray right now with the threat of wintery weather. Winter is often the hardest time of year for me. Most likely I have S.A.D. on top of my depression. Do you see what she has? It's a flower. Until I can find a patch of sun, I'm hanging on to summer anyway I can. Yes I know about the lights, do you know about the cost? Not happening on my budget. It seems this is more than appropriate today. When I visited Annette's site today, I found that she lost her brother. If you know her, or even if you don't, please stop in. Offer her a word of comfort. She probably could use all the kindness and support we have to offer.

Summer Past

These are images from my husband and son's annual hiking trip. They like to hike way back in to remote lakes around our area.
The scenery is always so beautiful that I wish I could go. But I don't think I'd make it, so I have to console myself with the pictures. Besides someone has to stay home and take care of the dogs.

Quila is definitely too old to go on these trips, she's 13. The poor thing, we've had to start being joint health care pills. Yes I know the name, I just can't spell at the moment.

I hope you enjoy these images of summer past.

New Journal Prompting Card

So, I thought I'd give a glimpse of one of the journal prompting cards. I am truly working on them. I'm having fun, though the idea of completing 52 of them sounds daunting when I'm just starting out. That's right, 52!
So I hope you enjoy this glimpse. I thought about going outside to take pictures but I didn't get too far with that. It was 19 degrees. Supposedly, we'll be back up to the 50s. I'll believe it when I feel it.

Hope you have sweet dreams.

Whimsical Headdress

Well it's not snowing right now but it is cold! Oh, and the snow is very crusty and no longer pretty. It's suppose to be 9 degress tonight, we'll see. If you need to see some last vestiges of summer since fall has skipped this place, check out this blog I just found! The photos of the roses are absolutely breathtaking. I'm going to be back to visit. She has other gorgeous flowers too. Here's another blog I found this morning. Tammy even has some tutorials for making medalions. You'll have to comb through old posts because it's very interesting! Well, I just found out my dad and stepmom are coming for a visit next weekend. I'm not sure whether to panic about the house or not, probably not. I probably need to panic about the lack of food! We seem to be in a fend for yourself mode lately. Hope they bring something! Just kidding DAD! I'm sure I can whip something together, oh, buttermilk biscuits! That'll hit the spot or maybe some feather light rolls and meatloaf. Let's see what else, maybe augratin potatoes. I wonder aout some greenbeans with a bit of bacon and toasted almonds. But what about desert, thinking, thinking. The problem is, the weekend after I have book club and I don't want to cook the same menu, although that is what I was thinking for the ladies as well. It's winter and it's a great time of year for casseroles and comfort food yay!!! Well, I'll let you know how it all turns out. I had planned to pull something together for Vanessa's Halloween blog party but I think I'll have my hands full getting ready for my dad.