Days 7, 8, 9, 11,12,13 Sketches 2025 April

 Well, my unofficial 100 day sketching project, which I started January 1, was actually up April 10, but since I missed eleven days of doing a sketch during that time, I am now on make-up day 3/11. I only lack eight more days to fulfill the 100 days, but I'm not going to stop the habit if I can help it. This has been an invaluable practice for me. I've learned a lot and gained a lot, and I now want to do a 100 day painting challenge. Maybe when I've completed the 100 day stitch meditation challenge?

Okay, I missed days 5, 6, and 10 so far this month, and I've posted days 1-4, so here are the rest from this past week in my sketchbook/journal. I know, I won't win the neatest person award, but I could go by these sketches/notes and paint a painting! 😁

Day 7-another attempt at sketching a standing sheep from a photo of a field of sheep beside the road that I took on our road trip out west in 2019. They had been shorn and the sun was backlighting them. Zig Writer marker

Day 8-sheep lying down-same info

Day 8 also-a second sketch of a different sheep lying down from behind-same info as #7

Day 9-standing sheep from behind-same photo-same info-all Zig Writer marker

Day 11 (1/11 missed)-landscape from a photo of hubby holding up a tumbleweed in a field beside the road somewhere out west on our road trip 2019-We're from the deep south and we don't have them! We actually brought a small one back home with us and kept it for a long time. We called him Tweedy! We were still vacuuming his seeds out of our car when we traded it in!-Zig Writer marker

Day 12 (2/11 missed)-concrete statue of a jackalope at a train museum in Douglas, Wyoming from a photo taken on our road trip 2019, painted light battleship gray and white with black antlers-Zig Writer and white Posca markers and a pencil

Day 13 (3/11 missed)-from a vintage photo that a cousin shared of my grandmother's, and her mother's, two sisters on a Facebook historical group. I didn't try for a real likeness, but this one is from the photo of my great-aunt Annie Mae, who I grew up around, and I love how it turned out! My cousin recognized it and loved it right off! Zig Writer marker

The reason half the page is blank is because she's waiting on her sister, which I plan on attempting to sketch today. I just hope it turns out as well as this one did! We'll see! Either way, it's great practice and great fun!

I've been watching some of the art programs on Prime video in between a busy week and enjoyed them very much. Hubby was sick on Sunday and Monday (his 78th BD). We had company also on Sunday and we postponed his BD celebration until later. Didn't do much on Tuesday, but Wednesday he mowed ours and my mom's yards and garden spot and it took me all evening, but I vacuumed, swiffered, and mopped what I could get to of the floors, which needed it badly. I was totally exhausted and it didn't stay clean an hour!

Thursday I got my monthly b-12 shot in town, then we drove about twenty-five miles to the next town to pick up a prescription, which they said would be there the next day (grrrr!), so we bought groceries (hubby goes to a dozen places for different things), ate a shared ice cream brownie cupfection, got a Lil Caesars pizza, which we ate half of on the way home, unloaded the car, made coffee, and I went to get another slice of pizza, but hubby had set it down on the counter, forgetting that we are currently having an ant problem, and they were enjoying the pizza half. It was the best one we had had from there in a while too. (grrrr!)

Friday hubby was ready for his BD trip, and he wanted to make a circle to one nearby town, maybe 20 miles away, to the Mennonites to buy some greens and honey. He was disappointed they only had one kind of greens so far, but he got some of those and a jar of honey, and we stopped by the Cane Creek market for fried peach pies and ate those on the way across to another town to get a strawberry poppy seed salad, which we love, and BBQ sandwiches. We ate one of the sandwiches on the way around to the next town, where we picked up the prescription we went after Thursday, and a couple of other things, and drove the long way home, where we made coffee, ate our salads, and took naps, both exhausted. We drove a very long circle, but we enjoyed it so much. So thankful we could!

Saturday we rested and pottered around, and Sunday we had company, as we do every Sunday, and I caught up on scanning the above sketches and ten stitch meditations into my computer, filing, posting, etc.

In between I kept up with my stitching and sketching except for one day. I just didn't have it in me that day!

Anyway, I didn't mean to write so much, or bore you with my week, but for some reason I just wanted to share. Today, so far, I'm catching up laundry, resting, and catching up blog posts! Hubby is pottering around outside with his cats and birds and going to the mailbox.

So, I'm going to stop on this post and get it published, tend to the washer and dryer, and write the next post with this week's stitchery! Plus, I still have to make the bed and do today's stitch meditation and sketch, and my physical therapy exercises. Yikes!

Thanks for visiting! Try to see the extraordinary in the ordinary and let's all practice gratitude!