Waiting and Sketch Books

I do a lot of waiting.



Waiting for doctors, waiting for dance class, waiting for school pickup ... just waiting! I always find myself waiting without any kind of sketcbook and you know what happens when the mind wanders. You want to sketch your ideas! It's harder to do on a napkin so I end up writing the idea down on a scrap of paper, lose it, and then wonder what the heck I was going to sketch.

And then I sketch yet another dog.

So I remembered to bring along my sketchbook a few times and decided to really challenge myself!



Emotions in a face are so hard to capture sometimes but yet so essential in conveying the action or feelings of an image. This was frustrating at first, but then really fun as I tried to think of different emotions like the "How are You Feeling Today?" magnets.

Next time I actually remember to throw the sketchbook in my purse, perhaps I'll come up with something great!

– jenny

Young Artist

Rather than sit around and watch TV all day (don't think I'm some sort of supermom, that has happened once or twice but only under life or death circumstances :) ) when one child is sick, we do some drawing.

This is C's still life studies. Which then morphed into outer space scenes. Of course.



He signed all of his drawings.

I'm so proud.

– jenny

Christmas Holidays

Just thought I'd share some photos of our holidays!













Happy Holidays!

– jenny

Happy Christmas

Looking back on this year, I realize just how many blessings I've received. Thank you God! What a great year! I have a kindergartener and first grader. I have many lovely and loving friends who dropped everything they were doing one November weekend to help us move. Then they came back the next day to help more! Unbelievable. I have wonderful parents and in-laws who are willing to also drop everything to come and help when they can.

Even though we are still living among boxes, we are happy to celebrate Christmas and what says Christmas holidays more than the Fireplace DVD? I hope all of you are having a happy holiday this season with friends and/or family close by.

– jenny

We've Moved!

No, this isn't a post about how I've moved the blog to another host, or how I've renamed my blog or changed links.

This is about a Two.  Year.   Wait.  Waiting to sell our little cape cod, our newlywed house, to another willing and eager buyer. Apparently our house was fabulous, but either too small or ceilings too low upstairs. Watch out 6-footers! Finally, our old house finally sold and we've settled into a new house! After a lot of waiting, and a lot (and I mean a LOT) of showings for our sweet little cape cod. We have finally had an offer, found another house and have physically moved. Lots and lots of praise going on right now.

Yipee!!

The photo above is of my new studio/office space. There's still lots to do, but for now, it's bright, it's breezy and it has a ton of storage. What more could I want?

Now back to blogging,
Jenny

Getting Personal

While trying to think up something fantastic for my daughter's preschool teachers (who are incredibly fantastic by the way) I came up with an idea.

The entire year, the teachers work with each child to get them to write their names. So, collecting all the names from the children at the year's end. I came up with this framed artwork. Such a great way to say thank you!

My son's kindergarten class's mascot was a frog. They were called the frogs and whenever they had to line up the teacher would call out for her frogs! Also another fantastic teacher and one we wanted to bless with something special. She has frogs all over her classroom and we decided to add to her collection with the names of her class this year in a frog shape:

I've decided to offer customized art like this in my Etsy shop. A customized piece of art with any names you like - all in a digital format that you can print again and again. I printed these out at my local photo center and they turned out great!

On the path...

First Lost Tooth