Days 25,26,27,28 Sketches 2025 Feb

 I did it! I did a sketch of some kind every single day of February! Perfectly imperfect, but still good practice, plus for the last six days I've done a stitch meditation each day in addition to my sketches. Yay, me!

Day 25: So today I put the bear on the pony for a third sketch of each (see description of #1 of each on the previous posts). Zig Writer pen...Then I put both of them away, because I was ready to sketch something else!

Day 26: I tried to sketch this chick with its foot resting on the egg from a farm co-op magazine we got in the mail. I didn't quite succeed... But I tried, and that's what counts!

Day 27: I didn't have anything else handy, so I sketched a stitch meditation piece that I had pinned and ready to stitch. Various scraps of fabrics, with a yellow cotton cat I cut off an old ironing board cover. Meditation #5 in a previous post if you want to see it in color!

Day 28: These mini bird houses were a Christmas gift from our niece many years ago for me to paint, but I don't like to paint wood stuff that much, so I never got around to painting them. They have been sitting in our bedroom all this time, so I've sketched them sitting atop a couple of books, and today I gave the little houses to one of my oldest and dearest friends, who loves to craft and paints everything. She was tickled to death with them and couldn't wait to paint them!

She is forever bringing us something to eat or something she's made, and I'm trying to get rid of some stuff, so I also gave her two old grapevine wreaths from my mom's funeral eight years ago that I was tired of (she wants to make an Easter wreath), some cotton fabric strips, a couple of rolls of ribbon, and a rabbit with vegetables soup tureen that a cousin gave me many years ago. The tureen had served its purpose here, and she decorates for Easter, so she loved it and has already put it to use in her home.

I felt a sense of accomplishment at a bit of decluttering, and I gave her a bit of joy for today, so it was a good day, and I'm thankful to have her in my life!

February has come and gone. Now to see if I can keep up the daily sketching and stitching during March! Wish me luck!

Doing something that makes me happy! It only takes a few minutes, some scraps and thread, and a pen and paper!