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Have a great Saturday!

I'm busy trying to help my son K settle into the local College academics. He has a non-verbal learning disability which compromises his Math and English. On top of that, he is still in Summer socializing mode. Well, one day at a time, we will see what comes out of this.

Paint Party Friday - Mama Continued

For Paint Party Friday, I saw a bunch of photos on email depicting various animals with their babies.  I did a Penguin Family last week.  This week, I decided to show these porcupines I drew in watercolour pencils.  It's a greeting card  (4 1/4"h x 5 1/2"w). 

DNA Analysis

Isn't this cute? I forget where I got this from.

We had some good friends over for dinner this past long weekend. One of them underwent voluntary DNA testing from 23andMe company. His wife refused to participate although they would have gotten a 20% discount if she had. I think I've written about this topic a few times before. I'm obviously fascinated by the topic. Anyway, our friend was equally fascinated by his results (he received quite a few pages of data). He is in his mid-fifties and it told him was that he has a slightly higher than average risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. There were no major frightening discoveries for him. However he received interesting information on his ancestry. He had to mail in a small amount of saliva to have the test done, and he said it was surprisingly hard to come up with a centimetre of saliva. Something to think about, you will be spitting forever!

I feel that as this DNA analysis gains in popularity, they will make stunning improvements, in say even 5 years. I'm still not ready to do this, are you? I already know we have an abundance of heart problems and some cancer in the family.

Coral Bells

These coral bell plants are so pretty, and make me think of the fall season.  A few blog friends have been talking about not wearing white after Labour Day, and although I don't really make a point of doing that, it did inspire me to switch out of my white handbag into a darker coloured one!  That is my concession to the season.  I also put my artificial summer flowers away and put out the fall arrangements.

Coral Bells

Coral Bells

Creative Tuesdays - Pumpkin

This is my piece for Creative Tuesdays' 'Pumpkin' theme. The first thing I thought of doing was a pumpkin carriage, borrowing from Cinderella. So I went straight there with this fun theme! It's 6" x 6" acrylic on peach coloured textured cardstock.

A new handbag

It's the long Labour Day weekend here in Canada, with Monday being a holiday.

I wanted to show you this handbag I bought recently. The store was having a 75% off sale on these bags so my friend S and I had a good look. I ended up getting this one for about $25, regularly about $100. Who can resist a 75% off sale, not me! S said it reminded her of a Chanel bag, pictured below.

Chanel Bag

Sunday Sketches - Rose of Sharon Continued

Welcome to September (not!).  Well, it's almost time to bid goodbye to a wonderful summer and life must go on!

Last week, I showed a quick watercolour sketch of this Rose of Sharon branch that I saw growing in the neighbourhood. For Sunday Sketches this week, I decided to paint over this ATC in acrylic paints with a bit more detail this time. Here is the result: