Creative Tuesdays - Found Object

Welcome to Creative Tuesdays! The current theme is 'found object'. Michael always comes up with interesting challenges and I am able to learn so much from them. There are tons of maple leaves blowing around outside at this time of year. So I chose a brilliant red maple leaf as my 'found object'. I glued it onto a textured dark green cardstock sheet (12" x 12"). Then it became a necklace with the help of some acrylic paint!  Hope you love this one as much as I do!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

It's a long weekend in Canada in most of the provinces. Families gather usually on Sunday or Monday and eat lavish meals with the turkey being the centrepiece.
We gathered with husband M's extended family yesterday. It was fun to see all the new babies in the family. I ate a bit too much.

Sunday Sketches - Angel

This is my angel for Sunday Sketches. She was inspired by a photo of a bird that I saw.  This piece is (4 1/4" x 4 1/4"), I did The angel in watercolour pencil on a post-it note.  Then I cut it out and glued it to the background which is actually a scrap of coloured cardstock.  I just did the wave ripples in navy blue acrylic.

Have a wonderful Sunday and Happy Canadian Thanksgiving if you are celebrating today!

Some Fall Colour

I read an interesting article that said 'time really does fly as you age'. So once we have gotten used to something our brains go on autopilot. Time seems to go faster. The recommendation is that you can force yourself out of a routine to make time go slower.


I've been snapping some fall colour on my walks through the neighbourhood.  Here are a few for today:

Paint Party Friday - Sailboat

Welcome to Paint Party Friday!  This piece is on textured acid-free cardstock, a greeting card (5 1/2"h x 4 1/4"w) in acrylic.  The painting is actually (4 1/4" x 4 1/4"), specially made to fit a  4" x 4" matted frame I bought on sale for $7. 

Here it is framed:

Here it is with another one I did recently for Sunday Sketches.

Here they are on a bathroom wall at home:

Rose Hip

This is the flower of the rose hip plant.  Isn't it pretty.

Here is a touching story I read in the newspaper last week.
'Toronto girl, 8, lauded as a ‘hero’ for quick action when mom collapsed'

White Pumpkins

I'm noticing these white pumpkins appearing in the stores now.

In case I forget, it's my and husband M's 26th wedding anniversary today, time flies!  that year, it coincided with the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend so we served turkey as the main course, what else.  I guess we can celebrate this Thanksgiving weekend with the extended family.