How have you been? I have been MIA a bit around here. I had my hibernation week and then I was just feeling very tired so I rested, made art, watched some art classes and just tried to take care of myself. How about you? How have you been feeling? Are you making time for art? Please do comment and let me know I would love to hear.
I had an idea that woke me up this morning and I couldn’t wait to have a play with it. I thought it would be fun to make a sheet of little doodles, little memories of what I did the previous week and share them in a blog post for you. I also thought I could make my little doodle sheet available for download so if you wanted to use them in your personal collage or mixed media projects you could! All you need to do is to right click and safe the image to your computer-that’s it! The full sheet is at the bottom of this post. If you do use it please share with me I would love to see how you use them!
So this week was a bit of a roller coaster for us. The weather hadn’t been the gorgeous spring weather we were teased with in March but my youngest loves being outside so we bundled up a bit and went outside to gather up some sunshine. My son joined us one day and he cleared out his vegetable garden getting it ready for planting. He managed to harvest about 4 tiny and one large carrot from his garden. When I told him we could use the large one for dinner he was just so proud! He has his garden plan all made up and set up his support poles and planted his first round of snap peas (his favorite!).
I also managed to get in some gardening this week. I cleared a few more beds, put some cardboard down to suppress the
weeds and added fresh topsoil and compost to 2 of my beds. I was able to mulch my herb garden and plant out my poppies, lettuce, snap peas, radish and parsnips. I’m in Zone 6 so we are pretty limited in what can go out in the ground but everything I planted should do just fine. I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes.
I finished 2 books this week. I’ll share it with you in my next Book Club update but in addition to finishing 2 I added 4 to my list after some library requests. I laugh at how man new ones I am adding and reading in addition to what was already on my shelf but I think that’s the best part isn’t it? To know you’ll never run out of books to read?
My husband had a work function to go to one night so I took the kids out for a little adventure. We went for a drive then stopped at a fast food restaurant and went inside to eat which they loved. After dinner we stopped at Starbucks for cookies and a cake pop (popcorn for my girls) and Decaf Caramel Macchiato for me. It was a nice time just the 4 of us.
On Friday my husband called us all out to see a full rainbow that he had seen in the sky on his way home. Unfortunately we couldn’t see it from out house but he was so happy to see it and it added a simple joy to the day.
On Saturday my husband took the kids to the park (where my 3 year-old made a friend and had the best time!) and I had the house to myself. The sun was shining and I lounged in my hammock with my dogs at my feet. The neighborhood was silent except for the chorus of birds and I could feel myself recharging and healing.
We also gave our guinea pig Trixie a little pedicure-her nails needed a clean so we had her in just a little bit of water to soften and give her feet a gentle clean. She was quite content with all the attention and enjoyed the special treat after even more.
Sadly our week had started off with the loss of our cat Piper. She was almost 14 years old and was a very special friend to me and my oldest daughter. She is the one I credit with showing me how to be a Momma long before I was one and she has guarded my oldest all of her 11 years. My daughter had asked the we cremate her so we brought her to a really fabulous place not too far from us and it made me feel grateful for people who extend compassion to others. We are all managing well though and are so grateful that she went so peacefully here at home with us. I hesitated to include this as I want to keep my site positive but I drew a little picture of her in the download and it felt only right to share her with you.
Here is this week’s doodle sheet:
I hope you like my little experiment. I had so much fun doing it and would love to make it a regular part of my blog. I would love your thoughts so please share them below and if you would like to make your own doodles to share on your blog then be sure to link it up below using my link party. Just link directly to your blog post with your own doodles so we can stop by and say “hello!”
Until next time…
-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante
