Scribble Picnic - Books

Welcome to Michael's Scribble Picnic! The theme this week is 'Books' and here is my piece on cardstock (4 1/2" x 6 1/2"). I used my permanent dual tip markers. I love the way they are absorbed into the paper, leaving well-defined colour. I used a darker pink watercolour pencil on the orchid to give it more emphasis. It sort of looks like the bottle of wine is being drunk without a glass there, my mistake!

A Treat

I didn't have much chocolate left at home so I got this new bar of dark milk chocolate from Ikea!

'My Secret Mother', a book by Phyllis Whitsell was featured in the newspaper last weekend with this caption:  'A daughter given up for adoption later nursed her dying mother without revealing her identity'.  You can read this article here, I found it interesting.

Light reading

I just borrowed these books from the library. I enjoyed the first one in the series and rather than buying, I decided to check the library.  One of them is in Large Print, I don't have a problem with that, in fact it is a great idea.   I noticed you can now borrow e-books from the library somehow. I don't even have an e-reader, maybe if/when I get an Ipad!

It's a long weekend here in the province of Ontario, the Civic holiday. L and K are up north at friends' cottages so M and I have had the weekend to ourselves. We had a lovely dinner at a nice restaurant downtown with another couple on Saturday night.