Paint Party Friday - The Harvest

Welcome to Paint Party Friday! This piece is called 'The Harvest' and is done in my art journal (8 1/2" x 11") in watercolour pencil and crayon. Have you been taking advantage of the harvest vegetables?

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Toasted Peanut Chocolate Chip Cookies

Daughter L made these delicious cookies recently. What made them different is that she toasted some peanuts to add to her cookies. Even the smell of toasted peanuts is wonderful.

Low Carb Eggplant Pizza

Jan, the Low Carb Diabetic, featured this recipe on one of her blogs and it is a winner! I used an old white cheddar as the cheese on mine, and added some sundried tomatoes. I believe using a full fat cheese (as opposed to light) does wonders for the taste of anything!

Creative Tuesdays - Snow White

Welcome to Creative Tuesdays! I chose to do 'Snow White' for this theme. My piece is done in my sketchbook (9" x 12") in watercolour pencil. It's a young girl in a snow white costume.  My daughter L thought the piece needed something more, so I added the apple as an afterthought.

A knocking sound

On a sunny afternoon last week, I heard a knocking sound against my window that seemed to be coming from outside. I peeked out and saw a squirrel wrestling with a small apple on my windowsill! He must have sensed my presence because he abandoned the apple and went scampering up a nearby tree.

Son K noticed the apple on the windowsill some hours later and wondered where it came from, as we don't even have an apple tree. It's that time of year!

Sunday Sketches - Prize Pumpkin

October seems to have come upon us so quickly!  It will be Christmas before you know it.

I did a 'prize pumpkin' for you today in watercolour pencil (6" x 6"). I started off on good quality textured orange cardstock, thinking 'orange' for pumpkins, although there is not a lot of that orange card showing up!  Happy Sunday Sketches from England!

The man behind the pumpkin was added to give a sense of scale, but he looks a bit spooky doesn't he?

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An Interesting Dilemma

Welcome to October!

 I was talking to a friend at the gym this past week.  She is in her mid-sixties I believe.  I had sent her a dentist referral for who I believe to be an honest dentist.  A cousin of mine used to work for her.  Apparently my friend has been seeing her current dentist for over 30 years so it is a hard decision to leave him.  However, she feels it may be time for him to retire as he is aging and he actually hurt her recently while doing some crown work.  I agreed it was time to leave.  It is an interesting dilemma.

 I took these fall leaf photos for you today, great shadows at this time of year: