Posted in Creativity, Drawing Challenge, Just for fun, Promoting Friends, tagged drawing challenge, pizza on August 10, 2012| 5 Comments »
I’m not so great with colored pencils, but I thought I’d give it a try anyway.
Click on the image to enlarge it.
Go check out the blogs of my friends who are taking the challenge with me:
Don at Expatriatism
Zoe at Welcome to Zoe’s World
Freebie at Free To Be Too Much
Girl at GirlGeeky
Posted in Creativity, Drawing Challenge, Just for fun, Marriage, Promoting Friends on August 8, 2012| 3 Comments »
I am a people person, not an animal person. However, there is one animal in particular that I am quite fond of. Of course there is a story there. To read it, click here. 😉
My favorite animal is…
As always, click on the image to enlarge it. It’s not too late to join us!
Email me and I’ll add you to our list. You can do it!
Don’t forget to visit the blogs of my friends who are taking the challenge with me.
Don at Expatriatism
Zoe at Welcome to Zoe’s World
Freebie at Free To Be Too Much
Girl at GirlGeeky
Posted in Creativity, Drawing Challenge, Just for fun, Promoting Friends, tagged 30 Day Challenge, arts, self portrait on August 7, 2012| 5 Comments »
Back in October, my friend Don and I challenged each other to post once a day for a month. Our objectives were to form good habits, practice the writing craft, and hopefully gain a few new followers in the process. We both completed the challenge, but it’s been awhile. Since then, Don and his wife had a baby, and we took on a teenager. We’ve both had plenty of challenges, but we’ve grown lazy about expressing our creativity.
What to do?
Begin another challenge, of course!
Don initiated this one, so it is an art challenge. (Click on the picture to enlarge it and read the fine print.) This challenge intimidates me. I don’t consider myself an artist in the drawing sense of the word. Give me a lump of clay and a few tools and I can wow you, but paper and pencil? ~sigh~ I’ll do my best!
After a brief discussion, we decided on a few simple rules:
So here’s my self-portrait, Niki style. :
I am often found with my nose in a book, so I though this met the requirements just fine. 😉 This was drawn with a #2 pencil on printer paper.
Would you care to join us? We’d love some company. Just let one of us know so we can link to you too!
Be sure to check out Don’s Day 1 drawing on his blog: Expatriatism, and my friend Freebie’s Day 1 drawing on her blog: Free To Be Too Much.
Posted in Just for fun, October Challenge, thinking things through on October 28, 2011| 6 Comments »
It’s been a few days since I posted Part 1, so I thought I’d have time to think of other hobbies I enjoy. You already know that reading is at the top of my list. Browsing book stores and libraries would be a close 2nd. I love thrift store shopping and going to the movies by myself, but I don’t think of them as hobbies.
That’s it. I couldn’t think of anything else.
Does that make me mostly hobby-less?
Wikipedia says, “Hobbies are practiced for interest and enjoyment, rather than financial reward. Examples include collecting, creative and artistic pursuits, making, tinkering, sports and adult education. Engaging in a hobby can lead to acquiring substantial skill, knowledge and experience. However, personal fulfillment is the aim.”
I’m not a collector of anything anymore. I do enjoy a creative artistic project now and then, but I’m not consistent. I can’t think of anything I enjoy making. I’m not a tinker. I haven’t played sports since college. I do like learning new things. I wonder if I’m just in a busy season of life and for right now, I don’t have time for hobbies? (Other than reading, of course.) Or maybe it’s so easy to be a hobby chameleon because I don’t want to find a hobby of my own? I’m not sure. I just know that I don’t get excited about any one thing like a lot of the people in my life do. (Other than reading, of course.)
Maybe that’s enough. Maybe I’m putting way too much thought into this subject.
What are your hobbies?
Maybe I’ll join you…;)
Posted in Just for fun, October Challenge on October 23, 2011| 3 Comments »
Cinderella traveled to the ball in a pumpkin stagecoach, and Peter Peter (pumpkin eater) kept his wife in a pumpkin shell. There are other pumpkins in literature, but until we visited College Hill Library yesterday, I had never seen literature in a pumpkin. Click on the images to enlarge them.
Impressive, huh? Max argued that it isn’t really a carving as much as a diorama. Whatever. I thought it was cool.
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