January 6, 2019 Sunday

Hi.

Just thinking I should begin blogging again.


Sunday is a good day for blogging, maybe I will do a one sentence blog every day.  (When I limit myself to one sentence then I find many more things that I want to tell about. This helps with writer's block.)

So here is my one sentence. Dave is working and I slept until noon.

Now, there's much more to say. Like: drink lot's of water. (That is rather lame.)
So how about: Make your bed every day.   (Lamer)
Well, Have a great day today.
Love you. 😊

I will set two goals.
1. drink thirty two ounces of water to start my late day.
2. Do Laundry.

I will return to say I have done these things.

They are done.

Winter Home Early 2015 Illinois

Hello,

Kevin and Dad in bright snowy driveway.

There is Dad. Shoveling! Someone take that snow shovel away from that man!

Wasn't it pretty?

Conservation Posters, Again

Here are more posters made by third graders in Wisconsin. January 2015

Honey Bees! This is what they make for us. Honey honey

Save Our Pollinators

Don't kill pollinators

Save Our Pollinators
Yellow and Black Hover Fly

Don't kill Pollinators

Butterflies

Third grade conservation posters

Hi everybody,

At school, I had the kids make some posters about saving our pollinators. At the library, I borrowed almost 25 books about bees and beetles and bugs.  Bats are important pollinators, too but I had not been thinking about that that day.

J. had a great big bee. Love it!!!

Maybe this will be the winning poster.

Notice the pollen floating in the air.

Protect the helpers.

Indeed.

Local Heroes- Your Hardworking Pollinators. Bee! A Hero!

Grasshoppers

This artist used water colors. Ladybugs are awesome!

These are for a competition and were sent to the judges yesterday. 

They die We die Protect Pollinators

Notice the eye on the bee! :)

Thanks for viewing. More posters next time.
Leave a comment if you want to.
Love,
Berryblue

Messy Experimental Journal Process

Hello Everybody!

 It has been a great Sunday. Relaxed and quiet. Laundry is in the washer and on the couch. 

Here are a few pictures of the progression of my journal page. It is a "get messy" page. Not meant to be a great work of art, but a fun, exploration of art materials.

Well, I am using Golden (which is the brand) Soft Gel Medium, Matte. See the gold glitter? I put the get medium over that and it still looks sparkly.

I really know that I need to study into how to draw a face. Mine is quite cartoony. I have a book: How to Draw Faces, on my Amazon wish list.  

I almost left the hair just like that. I like it, but love to do hair so worked on it for another 2 hours.

This was meant to be sort of playful and not a work of art but something fun to do and to "get messy" on a page.  By get messy I mean, take some chances and don't stay right in my comfort zone. The blush was a get messy addition. Her hair has about 6 or seven colors in it. This page is not really done. I want to give her some clothing. The tag is from a gift C. gave me. She combined some different tea leaves and put the tea in these huge tea bags, big enough to put in a tea pot, and put a Brene Brown quote on the back of the tag. The tea tasted lovely and I can't throw away the tags. 

Thanks for reading!! Any suggestions? Leave a comment.
Love you much!!!
Berryblue

Birdfeeders and unfinished journal page

This is the other bird feeder that E and A gave us. The birds seem to like it better than the other metal one they gave us.

This unique bird feeder was made by dad some years ago. It still works really well. It holds peanuts in the shell for chickadees and woodpeckers. 

We had a snow day today!! Hooray.  The reason for the snow day was not snowfall, but the intense cold. Kids could be hurt trying to walk to school. I just hope we do not have to make it up in the summer.

Here it is up close. Notice the moss growing around the base of it. I like moss.  It's pretty. And it was just too darn cold to stand there and wait for birds to light on the feeders to take a photo, but they were there in droves. Or flocks. Not herds.... There were an awful lot of birds. :)    Finches, Black Capped Chickadees, Downy woodpeckers, Goldfinches, Cardinals, Crows, Blue jays.

Notice the lichen on the top of the feeder.

This is a day to journal. So here is a beginning. Maybe I will show the finished product another day.

And I paired many socks today. And washed loads of laundry.

Book club tomorrow.

Thanks for commenting!! 

Love,

Berryblue

PS You know, I have never told anyone about this blog.  Funny.

Getting to bed early.

Reading his new book. Dave relaxes on a sunny winter's day. 

Dave with a book and his best friend. What more could you ask of life?

Dave adds delicious sunflower seeds to our new bird feeder.
The birds have been flocking to them.

I IIIIIWent to bed early last night and slept late this morning. 

This looks so cozy. They are pretty good friends. Car-pet and Mishka. 

These are those sprouts. We had eaten a lot of them but I kept watering or rinsing them and they continued to grow. Yum. Ah, the enzymes!



Well, that's all I have today, folks. Make a comment, okay?