For a little boys party

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Meet Lilly and Daisy the family pets of my friend. She asked me to do simple low detailed portraits of “their girls” for their new little boy’s nursery. The little man’s room now has portraits of these two eager to be best friends.

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My son rolled off the bed while playing with my Dad – our 70 yr old teenager.

Little guy only two and three quarters snapped his collar bone in two separate pieces!

All well just keep his arm strapped for three weeks. Come again WHAT?

No school, no bike riding, too cool to swim as autumn is here… So I am in charge of entertainment.

Today is “all go to work with Daddy day” and so Short legs and I have been cutting and sticking and then he cuts for another hour more because he just learnt how. 

I got creative with Easter coming I had chicks on my mind. Why? Easter would have more to do with a lamb than any other animal if you went back to the story. 

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… That I should write about anything but not him. My dad is where all the adventure is though.

I am taking a quiet moment in the car now as I have a hankering to write but type it will have to be.

With my Husband away on business I have been doing the morning school run aswell, to the delight of some children and parents of the school.  I substitute at times for the pre-primary montessori – so seeing me every day is some great novelty for the kids. We call out and great each other. I find myself far from an adult on school grounds and now also at home. I was singing ” a zebra’s a horse of course ” in different musical genres in the bathroom the other day. That’s my teacher of little people side mixing with the year of singing training. 

Mixing all you have learned in life makes for endless possibilities.

Well I am off to find flannel for my sister’s pj’s another project I am working on. 

Check out my latest fix a stained shirt in one hour

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Draw on in pencil and then fabric paint. My little guy loves ‘Hellcopters’.

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Some of my friends had birthdays and I painted water colour images of them for cards. Hopefully they will keep the little paintings to remind them of this time in their lives.

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I was asked to paint a mural for a friend in her little boy’s room. She had seen a simple forest design with a deer in the plascon magazine/catalogue. We used similar soft colours but also made our deer a bokkie – a lifesize impala ! Well we do live in Africa.

I so enjoyed drawing and then painting this. It brought me such peace and added artistic confidence.

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Sketching as I am looking for a certain pregnant lady.

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What have I been doing to rid my self of the creative juice build up? Sewing.

Me in a sewn head band and long night shirt that I made the pattern for and then sewed.

I’m just gonna make all the styles I like and can’t find.

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It is easy to make a favourite desert list but a favourite healthier food list is harder.  A required special diet then really needs all the encouragement you can get.

I have battled chronic fatigue – as in crashing every afternoon for a two to three hour nap, crashing every so many weeks so that I stay in bed for a day or two and then more recently crashing for over a month.

A new round up of medicines and vitamins got me more awake but a new diet really helped.  Low… very low carb diet.  One small slice of very whole grainy dense bread is all I can eat a day.  No dairy. No fat. Only two pieces of fruit a day.  Plenty Vegetables as many as I like.  Protein in the form of lean meat and fish.

Raiding the veggie patch did not seem thrilling at first but I have found some likes their.

Carrot salad (with bit of chopped pineapple and a little orange juice)

Slaw (cabbage, carrots, apples – i cheat with a little dollop of mayo)

Crisp red apples

Water with lemon slices

 

My body really does better with out having to digest carb sludge at present.  I can iron so I know I am doing better.

 

 

Taking a photo a day along side my husbands daily quest to do so. It makes an interesting documentary of my creativity and life. Take a look at some so far. 

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I find myself doing a word search and already in bed.Lamp glows and distant tv echo’s an American conversation that no one seems to be watching.  My mom slowly receits the words she types in a business letter as Dad dictates sentances here and there in his cut throat professional tone.  He just thanked them for co-operating and so I threw a word down the passage,  “assisting” he is thanking them for going out of their way actually and not blackmailing them after all. 
I know my husband is somewhere infront of the tv reading a tablet – he has three tablets now. 

Hello mosquito – swat swat slap.  Mosquitos vampires samething.  Half an hour into the evening and Hubby had already made a double trip to the street garden first with the handsized arachnid and then a pious mantis I found praying over me on my shoulder. It was all an act, his real intent was using me as human bait for the above discribed vampires. Well if he thought the females of his manti species were bad, he won’t ever be crossing a human girl with his tricks again. I freaked, screamed, jumped, and got totally creeped out by having his spindly scratchy, flicky and tickle intense touch in my hair and on my skin. To think those crackling wings were so close to my ear no wonder dispite the heat I find myself tucked into my hoodie now jerking with each tiny crack of noise.  Complete paranoid person ready for the summer of bugs. Making extra special friends with Moodley Man with the killer paws of stealth. He really enjoys a good crunchy critter that cat. 

Amazing how such a small creaper can change my whole mindset and blog post. 
What was a pleasant peaceful space of time spent at home changed to a multi legged horror moment. I’m trying to say that I enjoy the atmosphere of my home, even though a few things creap in and disturb the equilibrium, generally home is a place that loves my soul. 

 

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Found the need to hash these two pictures out

 

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Silliness wondering what my husband and other peoples sweethearts would look like in their prince charming form.  This is my cousin’s scottish heart throb and hubby. 

 

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Models, thats what my family members double as.  Saw this pic of little ‘Leela and had to draw.  Love the feminine curves.  

 

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Had to get this man cave design out of me it has been haunting. Want to build it for my sons in the old art studio I was tutored in.  In essence convert it back to a garage with fire pole entrance, gaming area, fitness corner all around some shiny collectable parked cars.  Where did my femine musings ever go? I’ll get you Clarkson! I’ll make a total girly show you will be addicted to!

 

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My last drawing before I withdrew from the world for a bit

 

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Still drawing faces. I’ve been reading more in the last month than I have my whole life providing me with endless character sources. This cute guy is a farm labourer I saw in a magazine

 

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Under and over sketch

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