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So that plan of posting everyday during November? Boy can a holiday weekend wreck that.... Although I must admit to have wrecked it even earlier than that..
Well, yes, a recap! It was good to be more attentive to being creative everyday, especially at this point in the year where my daily journaling as sort taken a backseat due my familiarity with it. I have actually been working on my journal sketches daily this month, unlike October when I frequently made up for several days at once. I went back to watercolors in order to keep the glue of my temporarily manicured fingernails. Of course I still have today's sketch to do, but that's OK, I still have quite a few hours in the day to squeeze that in!
Ever since my previous post on my friends wedding in Central Park (when I neglected to take a picture of the bride's totally fabulous shoes!!) the days have been a whirlwind of family and friends and comings and goings. Just as a Thanksgiving weekend should be, right? We had my niece's Christening on Thanksgiving day. 
What a precious little being she is! My friend Katya painted an icon of her saint that I neglected to photograph, sorry. My parents were here, are still here, for a long weekend, so there was time to be spent with Babushka and Dedushka for my girls. And Sunday we managed to see my niece/Goddaughter again for her first communion, yes we do things a bit differently in Russian Orthodoxy. 
And despite all that I have finished off a 3D little art project too. That's the blue detail you see above. 
I started working on a tutorial that I'll have to keep secret for just a bit longer. And from now till the end of January I must concentrate on the Russian School Christmas play costumes. The play isn't till the 24th of January, which is why it keeps going on my artistic back burner...
Today the creativity will be limited, I must catch up with paper and computer stuff. Hoping to just have enough time to make the collage I have in my head for my journal sketch today. So I thought that before I started my day I'd share my sketch from Wednesday's class. It was a good draw day!
Yep! I skipped 16, 17 and 18. Let's call it a rebellion of sorts. I sort of felt uncomfortable having to report and prove my creativity everyday. I was being creative everyday, but did not necessarily have a great picture to prove it and felt cranky having to provide a pretty picture. Hmmm.... maybe a therapist will say that's normal... I don't know...
But I do know that today, day 19, is an auspicious day. That is because today I received a gift. My brand new and so far one and only, niece made her world debut today!! The little munchkin came to this earth healthy and screaming, as she should be. (above is her blankie, that you got teased with earlier...)
We had a peaceful morning around here today and I got quite of bit of free-motion quilting done on my brother's baby present. Oooppss... that might have just given it away.. oh well.. Anyhow as I was doing my usual swirls I made the one like above and had a revelation! I've been doing these types of swirls for years and all that time it never occurred to me that I was making my maiden name initial in Russian! My maiden name in Russian is Хоровер and in script that X is very swirly and I made it mine.. go figure! Yes my mind wanders during free-motion stitching and I find it very meditative. So I decided that from now on that is my signature free-motion pattern! So if eons from now you're looking at a piece that looks like mine, but you're not sure, look for the swirly XXXX...
Rough day at school today.. but fun! Playing dress up is always fun right? Today I was picking costumes for the princesses in the Russian school Christmas play. Little and not so little girls always enjoy playing dress up.
And when I got home I had to calm my frayed nerves with some free-moton quilting for about an hour.. that felt goood! Can't show that part yet, but enjoy the almost there princesses...
What did I accomplish on the creative front today? Not much...The day just frittered away between errands and paperwork. I did get to tweek my Etsy shop a bit (more pictures), figured out the pattern for the snowflake costume (that's the folded paper you're looking at up there) and got a bit of work done on the baby gift. That's it folks..
Then my teacher Maija challenged me to draw with my left hand. I balked at first and then figured ~ what the hey! It turned out better than I thought it would. 
Then Maija said to just do outlines and not to go over my lines twice, all with the left hand.
Then she challenged me to go abstract, and that was so much fun I made two! With my right hand...
So.. all are not exceptionally great, but all were fun and made the start to my day all that much better!
Ever since my previous post on my friends wedding in Central Park (when I neglected to take a picture of the bride's totally fabulous shoes!!) the days have been a whirlwind of family and friends and comings and goings. Just as a Thanksgiving weekend should be, right? We had my niece's Christening on Thanksgiving day. 
What a precious little being she is! My friend Katya painted an icon of her saint that I neglected to photograph, sorry. My parents were here, are still here, for a long weekend, so there was time to be spent with Babushka and Dedushka for my girls. And Sunday we managed to see my niece/Goddaughter again for her first communion, yes we do things a bit differently in Russian Orthodoxy. 
And despite all that I have finished off a 3D little art project too. That's the blue detail you see above. 
I started working on a tutorial that I'll have to keep secret for just a bit longer. And from now till the end of January I must concentrate on the Russian School Christmas play costumes. The play isn't till the 24th of January, which is why it keeps going on my artistic back burner...
The light was beautiful at dusk in Central Park yesterday... 
Wish my photos were a bit more artsy. 
But most of all I wish my friends a lifetime of happiness!
Last week I also doodled with water-soluble crayons, fast and fun.
Something prompted me to count the remaining pages in my journal ~ the looming end of the year? I was surprised to find out that I was quite a few short. I knew that I wouldn't have enough pages, but somehow I thought it would be just a few days. Turns out it will be a few weeks! What a mathematician I am...... now I have to figure out a way of adding pages to my already burgeoning book. But I shall procrastinate on that until the end of the month because I can! so there...
Today the creativity will be limited, I must catch up with paper and computer stuff. Hoping to just have enough time to make the collage I have in my head for my journal sketch today. So I thought that before I started my day I'd share my sketch from Wednesday's class. It was a good draw day!
But I do know that today, day 19, is an auspicious day. That is because today I received a gift. My brand new and so far one and only, niece made her world debut today!! The little munchkin came to this earth healthy and screaming, as she should be. (above is her blankie, that you got teased with earlier...)
We had a peaceful morning around here today and I got quite of bit of free-motion quilting done on my brother's baby present. Oooppss... that might have just given it away.. oh well.. Anyhow as I was doing my usual swirls I made the one like above and had a revelation! I've been doing these types of swirls for years and all that time it never occurred to me that I was making my maiden name initial in Russian! My maiden name in Russian is Хоровер and in script that X is very swirly and I made it mine.. go figure! Yes my mind wanders during free-motion stitching and I find it very meditative. So I decided that from now on that is my signature free-motion pattern! So if eons from now you're looking at a piece that looks like mine, but you're not sure, look for the swirly XXXX...
And when I got home I had to calm my frayed nerves with some free-moton quilting for about an hour.. that felt goood! Can't show that part yet, but enjoy the almost there princesses...
What did I accomplish on the creative front today? Not much...The day just frittered away between errands and paperwork. I did get to tweek my Etsy shop a bit (more pictures), figured out the pattern for the snowflake costume (that's the folded paper you're looking at up there) and got a bit of work done on the baby gift. That's it folks..
