Every Day Matters #10 and 11...

It's been a full day off!

Daughter Micah's mini-van was making a lot of racket going down the road. I suggested (nagged?) that she should get it into the shop ASAP because it sounded like something was very wrong. They planned to get it in in the next couple of weeks when they had funds. Knowing she has a lot of long trips in the near future I insisted on paying for it (they will pay me back) so it would get done right away. She was going to take it this morning while I babysat, but she came down with the flu. So badly that hubby Adam stayed home to take care of the girls. I drove the van into town to the shop for her and had a nice couple of hours to read while I waited. :) As it turns out the left front wheel bearings were going out. The mechanic said the wheel was about to leave the vehicle!! I'm not sure if that is literally what would happen, but I'm sure glad it got fixed!

My reading for those couple of hours was The Creative License by Danny Gregory. Really good and inspirational stuff to get one drawing. I'm not much for public sketching, so I waited until I got home to do these two sketches for the Every Day Matters Challenge.

 I rather like this hand drawing. I spent quite a bit of time on it.

 The glasses...meh. I think I used up all my oomph on the hand sketch, lol.

I used this photo for the glasses sketch, since I can't see to sketch if I take my glasses off! I think I'll read some more of that book. It's good! It's giving me some great ideas for future sketches.

Otherwise, I took a nice nap, had a nice supper, and watched Downton Abbey...twice! I also watched yesterday's church service from my online church. I was home from the auto repair shop by 11, so I had lots of day left. I had even packed a lunch in case I was there all day. I was determined to stay until that car was fixed. Can't have all my precious girls driving in an unsafe vehicle, can I? (What a pushy mom/grandma!)

I pray for a hedge of protection around all of my family members, every day. I really praised God for His protection of Micah and her family, and the double blessing that the repairs weren't very expensive. That's provision!

Thanks for dropping by and listening to me ramble on. :) Everyone stay warm! (Pom, I hope you find a nice heater!)

Shalom, friends and family!

The challenge continues...

These are the next three sketches I did for the Every Day Matters challenge. When the Sketchbook Skool class begins this coming Friday, I'll stop doing this challenge. Don't want to get over committed!     

 

#7-Draw a bottle, jar or tin from your kitchen.

 

 

 

 

 

 #8-Draw your watch or a piece of jewelry. This is a necklace my mom bought for me when she traveled to Israel. It's a favorite!

 

#9-Draw a cluttered or chaotic desk or countertop.

Time for bed! Thanks for dropping by! It's extremely cold here. Stay warm where you are!
Shalom.

A beloved childhood toy...

I'm doing a challenge called Every Day Matters. Each day we're given a prompt to use when drawing a sketch. The prompt for today was to draw a beloved childhood toy. This is what I drew. I was five, in 1961, when my folks bought this metal, ride-on horse for me. You could lean to one side and the legs on the opposite side swung forward. So cool!

I'm not sure what I was trying to achieve with the scribbly background. I had just been watching lots of videos by Koosje Koene. (She's fun to watch. You should!) She's one of the teachers at Sketchbook Skool. She was encouraging us to experiment and not worry about perfection. I guess I did that, eh? What a mess! Ha ha!

Here's a photo of the real horsey. I see my brothers got BB guns! They were in 7th heaven, too!

 

And here's the house we lived in. A haunted farm house! Nah. Seriously, it was kind of a cool place to live. It was in Round Rock, Texas, which is now quite a built up area, but was country then. There was a pasture full of cows in our back yard and my grandma and uncle lived in the old trailer next door. We didn't live there long, but it was fun!

 

That's my mama posing in the foreground. Us kids (we kids?) were sitting on the front porch. Well, that's today's little stroll down memory lane. I'm glad my sketch for today brought back some good memories of my childhood. :)

Y'all stay warm, ya hear?

Shalom!