100 Days of Stitch Meditations 2025-#75-79/100

 I'm behind with my posting again! Too much going on, and the days go by so fast!

Here are #75-79/100 from the last of last week and the weekend...

#75-Three scraps from my old blouses/shirts, a blue bow mixed in with old buttons, perle cotton thread-I like how the buttonholes look like little eyes!

#76-Three colors of the same fabric from my mom's stash where she had cut out squares for a quilt, or something, and didn't get to complete it, an old button, perle cotton thread

#77-Four pieces of fabric from one of mama's projects that I inherited and perle cotton thread

#78-Scraps from two of my old shirts, my old paisley pajama pants, and perle cotton thread

#79-Scraps from two of my old shirts, my grandmother's drawn work from a worn out pillowcase that I saved, and perle cotton thread

I also have three more done from this week, but they're not scanned yet, and I have to get into my scrap box again before I can stitch today's, so they will get into the next post. Only 19 more to go! I won't stop at the end of the challenge though. I may not do one every day, but I enjoy it too much to completely quit.

That's it for this post! See ya in the next one, I hope! Keep making stuff that feeds your soul!

Days #20, 21, 22, 23 Sketches-April-100 Day Project Sketching Complete!

 I did it! I completed the 100 day project of sketching every day for 100 days! These are the last four sketches. The goats are the last one on the last day, the 23rd of April. I have actually done 136 sketches during January 1, 2025 through April 23, 2025, because some days I sketched 2-3.

Because I missed twelve days during the actual 100 day period, I added twelve days to the hundred days to make up for it, plus I thought March only had thirty days, but it has thirty-one. So I actually went over one day, making it 101 days that I sketched out of 113.

Sketched 101/113 days and did 136 sketches from Jan 1-April 23 (for my benefit, not yours! :D)

So proud of me! 😊

Day 20-Easter Sunday-I just relaxed and sketched intuitively, wherever my thoughts and hand went on the paper making marks, inspired by the sketchbooks of Helen Wells. India ink in a water brush pen, Zig Writer and Posca markers

Day 21-Also inspired by the sketchbooks of Helen Wells and another intuitive sketch of chaotic thoughts and marks using the India ink in a water brush pen, Zig Writer and Posca markers-Fun stuff! These are hard to find a stopping place on!

Day 22-Large stuffed Christmas Moose decoration in burgundies, hunter greens, and camel colors-Again I didn't leave room for his feet with the exaggerated black boots. Grrrr! Fun to sketch with my Zig Writer marker/pen and a white Posca

Day 23-Last day! These two goats arrived on the cover of a farm Cooperater magazine a couple of days before, and I knew I had to try sketching them! Far from great, but I'm happy I gave them a go! The back one was brown/white and the front one black/white. Zig Writer India ink pen

I ended the challenge, but not the sketching. Doesn't feel right if I don't do one at some point during the day! The discipline and practice have helped me so much! Hopefully, it will show in future artwork...

I also want to do some work in my art journals and do some painting, which I haven't done in months. Maybe I will make those my next challenges!

I am still doing the 100 days of stitch meditations with Liz Kettle challenge and keeping up, so far. #62 for today is pinned and ready to stitch! Only 38 to go!

The end of one challenge, working on another over half done, and looking forward to the next challenge! Keeps life interesting, plus it's so good for my soul (and my nerves)!

Days 14,16,17,18,19 Sketches 2025 April

 I missed a day again this week, but I'm making it up! A couple of days I sketched two! 

Day 13 I posted last time

Day 15 I missed

Day 16-I sketched the sister of the one on the left. I got her a little too large, because I wasn't paying attention close enough, but I'm still proud of her. They are actually about the same size, dressed alike, in the photo, which is an original family photo of two of my gr-aunts. I didn't try for a likeness in their faces, as I'm practicing figures and clothing in these sketches. Zig Writer and Posca white markers in sketchbook

Day 14 is out of order because I needed a break from the harder sketching, plus I was feeling a bit lazy, and I was saving the space on the previous page to sketch the sister, so I sketched a squiggle girl from imagination. She was fun and relaxing! Zig Writer and Posca markers with a touch of colored pencil.

Day 17 and 18- same sisters in a different vintage family photo-I sketched the one on the left one day and the one on the right the next day. Not great lighting, so their faces are in shadow. I don't know if it was midday or cloudy, but bad light for sketching. Zig and Posca markers

Day 18 also- There were actually four sisters in the vintage family photo. Three of them are my great-aunts and one is my grandmother on my dad's side. However, I failed to leave enough room for the fourth one, again. Grrrrr! So I sketched the two on the left on the 18th (making 3 sketches that day including the one above).

Day 19-The third one, my granny, I sketched the next day. The fourth one got left off this sketch, but that's ok. She's in both the ones above! This photo was made later in their lives than the others. Zig Writer and Posca markers

Their names were Nancy, Virgie (Jeno), Laura Lue (my Granny), and Annie Mae. I was lucky to grow up around my Granny and Annie Mae, and I kind of knew Nancy from when she came home once a year to visit family. I don't remember ever seeing Jeno, but from what I've heard about her she was a character, and I would have loved her. Granny talked about her often. I adored my granny!

I lack three days of making up the ones I missed since January 1, but I'm going to keep sketching. Just not going to have a specific goal in mind, and I'm going to try to paint every day for a while. I don't think I'll try for a hundred days though. Maybe a month or two?

I also want to finish my mini junk journal, which has been staring at me forlornly ever since I started the stitching and sketching challenges.

Anyway, that's it for this week. I've done one for today, but it hasn't been scanned yet. It's inspired by Helen Wells sketchbooks of intuitive art. Very fun! Next post!

Happy Easter! 

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!

100 Days of Stitch Meditations 2025 #35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40/100

 Six more stitch meditations from this week! Haven't done one yet today, but I've got some scraps out and ready! 

#35-recycled fabrics and perle cotton thread-Loving the text sailboat!

#36-recycled scraps, a red button, and perle cotton thread

#37-recycled scraps and the paisley is from my old pajama pants, a thread tassel, and perle cotton thread

#38-recycled fabrics with a butterfly cut from an old curtain, perle cotton thread

#39-recycled fabrics with a tea dyed cotton scrap, a rust dyed piece, and a snippet from my old blue shirt, perle cotton thread-This is one of my favorites! It's so calming!

#40-recycled scraps and a piece of my old striped shirt with perle cotton thread

Only 60 more to go! Fun stuff! Fun to do, and fun to look at all the others in the FB group! 

It's clouding up again, supper is almost ready, and I'm tired, so I will hopefully see you in the next post!

Thanks for visiting! Take care!

Days 30, 31 March n 1, 2, 3, 4 April 2025

 This week's sketches are a bit erratic. I guess I got a little lazy, but I still managed to get a sketch, or two, a day done, so, yay, me! :)

Day 30 (top two)-Stitch meditation #35 and a squiggly girl also escaped my head-Zig Writer marker

Day 31 (bottom two)-Stitch Meditation #36 plus a quick little neuroart tangle just for fun-Zig Writer and Tombow watercolor markers (pink)

The last two days of March!

Days 1 of April (top)-Neuroart tangle and another squiggle girl-Zig Writer and Tombow wc (pink) markers

Days 2 (bottom)-Squiggle girl in glasses- Zig Writer

Day 3 (bottom)-Another squiggle girl- Zig and Tombow markers

Day 4-I've been trying to sketch at night while watching TV, which is distracting and accounts for the smaller simpler sketches, so this morning I went back to morning sketching. 

I had a photo of a field of sheep that I made on our road trip out west in 2019, and this one was standing by the fence in sage grass near the road, backlit, so I made an attempt to sketch him. They had been shorn, so they looked a bit naked. Not great, but at least he resembles a sheep. I'm going to try more sheep tomorrow!

We've had another wild week of weather in middle TN. Tornados, flooding, severe storms everywhere, and we barely dodged a bullet where we live! And it's not over yet. More to come tonight and tomorrow. Scary stuff!

Take care and stay safe, and I'll try to do the same! 

Days 26,28,29 Sketches 2025 March

 So I got lazy about finding stuff to sketch and started sketching my stitch meditations, except for the flower, which is from our living room rug. 

I missed  days 24, 25, 27, so three more days will be added onto the 100 days. I'm doing them a month at a time, so these are for March, and that's why they're numbered like they are. I've actually done 108 sketches since January 1 in 80 days, because I missed 8 days, which means that I still lack 28 days making it 100. 

I have to admit that I'm getting a little burned out trying to do two 100 day challenges at the same time, but I'm going to try to stay with it. It has helped me a lot, and I'm nearing the finish line!

Day 26-I missed a couple of days of sketching, so I sketched four of my stitch meditations. All are in ink from either a Zig Writer pen or a gel pen in my sketchbook.

Day 28 and 29-The flower is from our living room rug and the other three are stitch meditations that I've just completed.

It's rather fun to stitch the fabrics together in color, then turn around and sketch them in ink!

Thanks for visiting! Stay safe and make something imperfect!

Days 19, 21, 22, 23 Sketches 2025 March

 Short post, as it's been busy around here! I'm behind two days of sketching and stitching! These are the last four I've done though!

Days 19 and 20-The same mug as in the sketches post before in different positions and gel pen.

Day 20-Missed doing a sketch

Days 22 and 23-The same angel, without her wings, that I sketched in a previous post, just back to back and sitting in a different place, also in a gel pen.

It's getting a bit harder to keep up doing one a day, especially with the weather being so beautiful outside!

Take care!

Days 16, 17, 18 Sketches 2025 March

 These are the last three daily sketches scanned. Keeping up with one a day, so far!

Day 16: Not really feeling it, so I used my Zig Writer marker (both ends) to let this lady out of my head.

Day 17: I sketched the mug on the right with a mechanical pencil.

Day 18: I sketched the mug on the left and the design on the handle, also with a mechanical pencil.

The two restaurant style mugs were given to my parents by my dad's sister, who worked on a small tow boat in town, when we went on it to visit one day when I was a child in the early fifties. They are thick heavy glass, white with dark green rings around the top and bottom and an upside down teardrop design on the handle. My parents drank their morning coffee out of them every day ever since I could remember, until they died. Now I have them, and they hold many good memories for me. 

I set them up touching to represent my parents' closeness for fifty-five years, when my dad died in 2004 and my mom in 2017.

I am kind of journaling as I sketch items that are sentimental to me. I am a very nostalgic and sentimental person. That's a good thing for the memories, but a bad thing in that I don't want to let go of anything!

Anyway, I'm off to do today's sketch! Take care of you!

Days 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Sketches 2025 March

 It's been kind of a wonky week, and I've had kind of a hard time keeping up with my sketches and stitches, but I managed! The worst of the storms went around us. So thankful! I hope those of you in the path are safe, and prayers for all of those hit by everything! It was a wild, and horrific for many, weekend. 

#11-is a small carved wooden angel dressed in off white with a raised tree-like design on the front and wire wings. She has a flesh colored face, with no facial features, and hands, and light brown hair. She was given to me by Hospice after my mom died in 2017. She is very sweet.

#12 and 13 is a resin carousel horse atop a music box. I was tired when I sketched the horse one night, so I didn't include the saddle and decorations. He is white with a reddish mane and tail. I stopped with the horse that night, then the next night I was even more tired, so I just quickly sketched the music box, which is also white with raised roses, vines, etc twined around it. The pole used to be brass colored, but has tarnished into kind of bronze colored. It was given to me by my dad many years ago.

#14 is a larger paler yellow daffodil that hubby brought me from the yard, and I put it in a small delicate cobalt blue vase that I brought from my mom's house after she died. It is so far over to the side because I was going to re-sketch the carousel horse to the right of it, but my eyes gave out, so I left it like this.

#15-Last night I didn't feel like doing much of a sketch, so I moved the daffodil to the other side of the vase and sketched it, making it a double instead of a single!

We had to go out of town at the first of the week to take our income tax to be filed, which may, or may not, run into a problem this year. Fingers crossed it's ok!

Then a couple of days later, we had to go even further out of town to the Retina specialist for a follow up to my visit a month ago. Eyes dilated and tested again, which showed the bleeding had improved, so I got another shot in my eyeball, and he will check it again in three months. This time they gave me temporary sunglasses (they roll up) to wear home, which was really good because the sun was shining this time. My eyes bothered me after the visit for a while, but not like they did the first time. I could actually see the letters on the chart this time with my left eye. The last time I couldn't see the letters, just a big blur. Thankful!

And all the wild and horrific weather this weekend that has devastated so many in so many ways! Scary and nerve wracking!

So we took it easy between trips, we had company two days, a couple of stormy days, and it's already Sunday again, and our friend, who visits us every Sunday after church will be here shortly, so until next post, Take care and be safe and creative!

Days 7, 8, 9, 10 Sketches 2025 March

 These are the sketches from March 7-10. I have one for #11, but don't have it scanned in yet, so I will share these for now. Haven't missed a day in March yet, but I go back to the retina specialist tomorrow for another shot in my eyeball, and it's a pretty long trip out of town, so it's according to how I feel afterwards as to whether I get a sketch or a med stitch done tomorrow. We'll see.

All of my daily sketches, except the first one, this year are in my Canson Mixed Media 7"x10" sketchbook.

Day 7: A jonquil that hubby brought in to me several days before that had dried up, but was still in water in a vintage cobalt blue Milk of Magnesia bottle that I dug out years ago, from a junk pile we had when I was growing up. We live in the country, and in the fifties everybody in the country had their own personal junk pile somewhere out behind their house. 😀 I love cobalt blue glass stuff! I also have this bottle in an oil painting that I did years ago... Zig Writer marker

Day 8: Same blue bottle, shortened some, with a fresh jonquil in it. At some point my sketching has morphed into crosshatching. Good practice for shading, which I need! Basic sketch in pencil, then Zig Writer marker 

Day 9: A carved wooden angel/fairy figurine gifted to me by friends when my dad died in 2004. I've never gotten tired of her, and she sits on our fireplace mantel among family photos. She barely has a face, except for two tiny dots for eyes. Her face and hands are flesh colored, her hair is brown with two roses on top,  her hat and dress are white with roses scattered about, and her wings are bronze colored wire. I sketched her first in pencil, then used a Zig Writer marker.

Day 10: A glass coffee pot bank that one of my oldest friends gave me in 1974 when we moved into our new house, after living in a house trailer for four years. It was a matte medium yellow, at the time, with black knob and rings on top, black letters, and a black handle. It has sat on my kitchen window sill over the sink since she gave it to me all those years ago. Over time the paint started coming off, so I eventually scrubbed it all off down to the shiny white base, and I still love it. It has a hole in the bottom with a rubber stopper, which rotted out a long time ago, to get the money out. Incidentally, we are still friends, and she comes to visit every Sunday afternoon. 😊 Pencil, Zig Writer, which is about out of ink, and a calligraphy pen with India ink

Well, that's it for now. I'll post yesterday's sketch in the next grouping. 

I didn't officially join the 100 Day Project Challenge, where you do something for 100 days, for this year, but so far I've only missed five days  of sketching since January 1, and I've actually done 89 sketches, so I guess I qualify in a few more days. I'm going to add enough extra days onto the 100 to account for the five I missed, so that I will have actually sketched 100 days, and I will actually have over 100 sketches, because some days at the beginning I sketched two or three a day. Does that make sense? Anyway, it's quite an achievement for me, because I tend to get bored in the middle of projects and move on to something else!

We're having another beautiful spring like day today, and it's hard to stay inside. Hubby is enjoying it though! 

I'm going to post my last batch of stitch meditations next, and I did yesterday's sketch in pencil, but didn't have time to go over it with my ink, so I'm trying to decide whether to leave it as is or ink it. Then I need to prepare for our trip tomorrow out of town, do my exercises, and do today's sketch and stitches. Never a dull minute here, but I'm grateful!

Take care, be well, and stay creative!

Days #4, 5, 6 Sketches 2025 March

 The last three days sketches for March! All are with my Zig Writer double ended marker.

Day 4: Same little cocker spaniel dog planter as the last sketched post

Day 5: Third sketch of the same little dog planter-See sketch #1 in previous sketch post for description-Very quick sketch! I added a bit of colored pencil this morning!

Day 6: Today's sketch of my stitch meditation supplies, perle thread balls, needle/pin case with scissors, box of finished stitch meditations, large bag of fabric scraps, and small bag with pinned together meditations ready to stitch. Faux marble topped rolling table.

That's it for today! Take care!

Days 1, 2, 3 Sketches 2025 March

 I'm still trying to keep up a sketch a day, besides my stitch meditations, and postings. These are the first three sketches for March, even though I mistakenly wrote February on the first page. My eyes are very much needing a rest, so this post will be short, I think.

#1-Three balls of Perle cotton thread stacked up, ivory, gold, and reddish brown. I added the two needles later. Zig Writer marker

#2-My beloved dog (Kibbles') water bowl. It is heavy crock like glass, glazed off white, with rose/floral bouquets around it, and on one side the word Dog is written on it. A while after she died in 1997 I happened upon these deep red, almost burgundy, wooden apples at a flea market, which found a home in the bowl and they sit on a shelf between our living room and kitchen. Zig Writer pen

#3-This is a little glass cocker spaniel planter that my mom had ever since I can remember, over seventy years. I brought it to my home a couple of days ago. It's brown and white, with a jade green collar. She used to keep cattail cactus in it. Now it has three marbles, two nails, a screw, a tiny cork, a bb, and a couple of dried rubber bands in it, picked up and placed there by here, no doubt. It was on a kitchen shelf by the sink.

So that's it for now! Getting off the computer now! My eyes are about done in and need a rest, so take care and be kind!

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!

Day 22, 23, 24 Sketches 2025 Feb

 The sketches for the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. So far, so good!

The 22nd: This little hump-backed bear was an antique reproduction when I bought him. I loved him and his little pastel striped sweater. He is articulated, and he is an antique now himself! Still love him! Black Zig Writer pen.

Also the 22nd: Sketch two of the same little bear in a brown Zig Writer pen, the large bullet end.

The 23rd: Oatsie, the pony who belongs to Muffy Vanderbear (not sketched yet), articulated, spotted stuffed pony. Zig Writer pen

Also the 23rd: We made a quick trip out of town after company left this evening. I couldn't resist doing a sketch of two women talking outside the Sav-a-lot grocery story while I waited on Jim in the car. It was cold, they both had on sweatshirts and jeans. The one on the left is smoking, and the other has her arms crossed for warmth and is holding a large purse. 

I didn't have my sketching bag with me, so I improvised with a Lil Caesar's Pizza napkin from the glove box and a gel pen from my purse. A napkin is not easy to sketch on. Let that be a lesson to me to never leave home without my sketchbook!

The 24th: a second quicker sketch of the same pony with a black gel pen, without the spots

That's it for now! It's late evening, and I still have a sketch and a stitch meditation to do for today!

Hope you're enjoying my way less than perfect sketches and stitches! I sure am enjoying the playtime! It's good for my soul!

Stay safe and well!