EDiM: 31

Eggs

These are brown widow spider egg sacks...  We find them everywhere in our back yard.

The completed page

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Char

EDiM: 30

A bird feeder or a birdhouse

This is a vintage inspired glass hummingbird feeder.  I love this thing so much I've given them as gifts to a couple people in Seattle.  I'm glad we found another one when we moved to San Diego. We are never short of hummers here.

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Char

EDiM: 29

A faucet.

This is the wacky faucet that is outside of my front door.    It's functional, but the looks of these pipes reminds me of something I built playing "Waterworks" during rainy day recess in elementary school.

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Char

EDiM: 28

A yard ornament or statuary

I don't have any "real" yard ornaments, but I do have a little ceramic mushroom that I stuck into the bark of my jacaranda tree.  It's been mistaken for a real mushroom quite a few times over the last few years.

I made succulent terrarium centerpieces for each table at my wedding reception.  Along with the plants rocks and sticks that sat in each terrarium I decorated them with some ceramic mushrooms for a bit of "whimsy".  The terrariums didn't make the move to Japan, then to San Diego, but the ceramic mushrooms did.

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Char

EDiM: 26

A sign

This is the street I live on.

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Char

EDiM: 25

An apron or something you wear as a cover during messy activities.

I was excited for this prompt because I own many aprons.  The apron I chose to draw is one that my aunt made me (I have a couple she made).  She is a seamstress by trade and when not sewing for members of high society in Japan, she comes up with little projects like this apron she made for me.  

The apron is made out of a lovely yellow cotton with a French print.  There is a snap on terry cloth towel for drying hands, little ones tears, or keeping my ever growing belly dry when washing dishes!  I love it because it is so functional and cute.  There are even 2 pockets, and pockets make just about any wearable thing better. 

The completed page.

I also wanted to share this sweet little poem.  My husband's grandmother (the one who crochets the dish rags) gifted me a beautiful apron at my bridal shower.  She also included this poem which I've kept in the front of my cookbook of family recipes (and marriage advice) that my sister in law put together for me <3 .="" div="" nbsp="">

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Char

EDiM: 24

Some keys

I don't think I have anything too terribly interesting to say about my keys.  I have a mail box key, my house key, and a churchkey (bottle opener) that doesn't get much use these days, but came in handy in my 20's.  It's from the Brooklyn Brewery where I spend much of my mid 20's drinking Brooklyn Brown Ales, eating pizza, and hanging out with friends.  Ah, the memories.

My car key is on a ring by itself (not illustrated) because often times I leave the car running while checking the mail box on my way home from outings.

The page progression.

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Char

EDiM 21 & 22

21: The spot you regularly sit to read.

I wish I had the time to leisure read regularly.   Currently, I make the time to read my book when I also take a hot bath.  No seriously.  It's basically my only kid-free and uninterrupted time... timed perfectly with when the kiddo is in a deep sleep :).  I never multi-tasked so much until I had a kid!

22: Something that hangs from or is attached to a wall in your home.

Another Christmas gift; this was from my parents.  It's a Swiss Mondaine wall clock that has changed my life.  Theoretically, I don't need to carry my phone with me into the living room or kitchenette to know what time it is anymore.  I've been putting effort into being less "connected" to my phone/the web.  This page in the sketchbook will also include the sketches for the 23rd, 24th and 25th!

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Char

EDiM 20

Your wallet

I believe it was Christmas 2013 that my husband got me this cute little card case.  It's made out of leather and some kind of wood veneer.  It's helped me streamline what I carry with me.  In the three slots on one side are my driver's license & my military ID.  I used to also carry my zoo membership card on the same side, but that third slot has remained empty since the membership expired in February.  Boo hoo.  The other side also has 3 slots which hold a credit card, a debit card, and my costco card.  The top of the card case also is a pocket which my library card (and any cash I may have) fits nicely in.

I've also realized that the pages in my watercolor sketchbook are going to run out before the end of the month, so I'm starting to split the pages to do mini sketches in order to avoid painting on the back of the pages.... which I may have done a couple times already by accident...

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Char

Creative Sprint Day 8

Flip to a random page in a book at hand and make something inspired by the first sentence you read.

Here's the first and only sentence on the page that I turned to in my book:  "They splashed around in the ocean and found shells to take home."

I visualized, and with the power of my imagination I saw mermaids swimming in the surf collecting shells.   The little water color sketch I made was completely unrelated to the Clifford The Big Red Dog Time for School, but that's the book I had at hand.  I really love the nijimi (bleed) effect this handmade paper has with watercolors.  

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Char

Creative Sprint Day 3

Use your non-dominant hand to create something today.  If you are right-handed then only use your left or vice-versa.


Day 3 and still going strong. Heh heh heh heh heh, and posting earlier than 11:30pm even.  I decided to make a left handed journal entry in my little sketchbook about today.  My son Kai went to his friends' house and made bunny hats, decorated bunny butt cookies, and dyed eggs.  I cut, pasted, wrote, drew, and painted all with my left hand.  Now I'm exhausted and ready for an afternoon snooze.

A bit of the process included in this image.

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Char

And this is a bunny butt cookie

Creative Sprint Day 2

*Create a bridge. Connect two things in an interesting way.  It could be small enough for only an amoeba or big enough for an elephant to cross it.*

At this moment the things that are bridging the gap between my husband and myself are miles of ocean, the night sky, and our (as cheesy as it sounds) love for one another and our life that we've created together.  I dive into the cheesiness because it's National Poetry Month and I always read one of my favorite poems, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne, when my husband's work separates us.  It could also be the pregnancy hormones.  So, the physical manifestation in my sketchbook of the bridge connecting us together is below:

Tissue paper. Yep.

Keep Creating
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Char