Friday Fill-In #70

Friday Fill-Ins #70

1. Two of my favorite ingredients in a drink are chai tea & steamed milk ... or Chambord & sour!
2. The depth of human kindness often amazes me.
3. You can keep doing that forever, the dog is a cyborg.
4. A handful of dried appricots, some dried pineapple, some yogurt covered raisins, cashews and some dark chocolate morsals, mix it all together and voila! You have a lovely snack!
5. If I had a yard with a garden, I would love to grow macadamia nuts, cashews and/or pistachios ... ok, so trees aren't really garden plants, but I do have a garden and we are growing tomatoes, peppers, salad greens, herbs, sunflowers (soon to be, at least) and other pretty stuff plus the mango tree and avacado tree look like they'll actually bear fruit this year, so now I want a nut tree and if you're gonna have a nut tree, doesn't it make sense to pick the nuts you love the best?!?
6. Honey is best au naturel.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to working on the charms, panels & the spouses challenge, tomorrow my plans include begging off work early and Sunday, I want to sleep in and then continue celebrating the entire month of May!

Friday Fill-Ins #69

1. When I fell in love the air around me became electric and the whole world changed ... for the better!

2. My imagination goes into overdrive when the flowers bloom and it heats up outside!

3. Oh no! The internet connection is down, I just may have to slit my wrist! ... uh, no - that's not right ... I think I'll bake some bread and play games with the fam.

4. Soap was the craziest tv show ever.

5. Cheese and crackers (what else did you expect?!?) make a great meal!

6. Once upon a time I thought that when I grew up more than anything else I'd like to be a fairy that tended a beautiful garden.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sweet dreams, tomorrow my plans include escaping from work on the early side and having friends over for a play date and Sunday, I want to get started on my 25 black and white charms for the swap!

Friday Fill-Ins #65

Friday Fill-Ins #65

1. Some relationships are meant to last forever.
2. It's been so long I can't recall the last concert I saw; it's a little depressing.
3. Spring should be sprung.
4. Oh no! I forgot to invent that thingamajig that will provide us with a somewhat disposable income!
5. I've recently started painting again.
6. Watching uber-spouse and critter-child have tickle fights never fails to make me smile.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to re-working a paintings background, tomorrow my plans include getting out of work early to paint a little more and Sunday, I want to sleep in, make blueberry pancakes for breakfast, read a little and paint some more!

Sea Turtle - 18"X18" Acrylic on Canvas

One of my Friday Fill-Ins was to start a painting ... tada - I actually finished it. The painting is 18 inches square. It's a gift for my uber-awesome girlfriends new baby boy. The background colors are (as close as I can recall) the colors in the rug on the critters bedroom floor. I ended up doing the background Friday night. I used Liquitex Acrylic paints, an eyeshadow blender brush (for the background) and one of my new brushes (for the sea turtle) - it's a sable filbert size 2 brush from the Blick Masterstroke line. Holy smokes! The new brush is AWESOME. It holds a good amount of paint and ends in a super fine point that is really quite easy to manipulate. The top half is painted Emerald Green mixed with a small amount of Titanium White & the bottom half is Cobalt Blue mixed with about the smae amount of Titanium White. The entire sea turtle is done in Mars Black. I was thinking that it needed something more, but both the spouse & kid tell me they disagree, so I am considering this piece done ... now let's see how long it takes me to ship it. :)

Friday Fill-Ins #64

Friday Fill-In #64

1. Learning something new is so exciting!
2. Strawberry fields forever (yeah, I know, not very original) :).
3. Cream of asparagus soup in a bread bowl sounds like it would taste delicious (right about now)!
4. Why does finding sharks teeth and cool little rocks at (Stump Pass State Beach Park) make me feel so good?!
5. A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow ...) is something I've always wanted to see.
6. It's sad when you see people behave nasty to other people in order to make themselves feel better ... hmmm, pathetic, too.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to dinner, tomorrow my plans include work (as usual) and Sunday, I want to start painting (the long overdue sea turtle for "Boots")!

Friday Fill-Ins #63

Friday Fill-Ins #63

1. Contact may cause spontaneous combustion.
2. The parties hereto do mutually agree that life is good.
3. Disney parks make me twitch.
4. A massage sounds really good right about now!
5. I positively adore my family.
6. A laughing child always makes me smile :-)
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sleep, tomorrow my plans include work and then the 2 hour drive to Vero Beach and Sunday, I want to take it easy!

Friday Fill-Ins #62

Friday Fill-Ins #62

1. Ahhhh, it's so nice when uber-spouse makes one of his dreamy creamy soups.
2. One of my favorite things on my desk or bureau is pretty much everything (I surround myself with things I love), but I'll narrow it down to three things: 1) a bronze buddha that the uber-spouse cast at a foundry he worked at when we were first married, 2) the glittery fairy princess picture Sadie drew for me a couple of years ago & 3) the love bug that I made for said uber-spouse (it's a painted rock, but I dig it just the same).
3. Japanese Cherry Blossom's should be painted on my bedroom wall.
4. Outside on the lanai when the weather is just so (or the rain is falling) is my favorite place to sit and read.
5. Olive loaf from Trader Joe's and butter is delicious!
6. I love to watch chicks kick ass in movies.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to bed (go figure), tomorrow my plans include work (of course) and Sunday, I want to make something pretty!

Friday Fill-Ins #61

Friday Fill-Ins #61

1. I'm looking forward to breathing next week.

2. I don't handle nasty attitudes very well.

3. Sushi and/or dark chocolate is something I could eat every day.

4. Warmth and sunlight make me happy.

5. Watch out! here I come!

6. I have 4 tattoo(s) and one is my wedding band ....

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to playing games with the fam, tomorrow my plans include work and then a visit with the cousins and Sunday, I want to go see Spiderwick with the critter!

Friday Fill-Ins #60 (or #1, for me)

Friday Fill-Ins #60

1. Exploring is the best thing about traveling.

2. I love a good cup of coffee & even better conversation when I'm cold.

3. I often use fine black Sharpies.

4. I'm reading Suzanne White's Original Chinese Astrology Book & Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photographs right now; I am intrigued by the first & inspired by the second.

5. Personal finance is something I dislike talking about.

6. When I visited Stump Pass State Park I most looked forward to seeing how many sharks teeth I'll find & all the pretty rocks ... bet you thought I was going to say shells :).

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to Sadie being with Grandma and traveling with the spouse to Sebastian, tomorrow my plans include work first, a two hour drive (a bit north and across to the Atlantic side), and good company and Sunday, I want to check out the arts/crafts festival the brother-in-law has been talking about!