☆ My Personal Challenge for September

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I am not usually one for setting monthly challenges, especially ones that I have to do daily. More often than not I end up missing a day which turns into two, then a week, which turns into the rest of the month.  I do this a lot and I know this is something I need to address...someday!

Anyway I decided at the start of September that I would attempt a daily challenge, a simple one, one that only requires five minutes a day at a minimum, and one that uses the materials I already have. So digging out the moleskine journal I bought after reading Danny Gregory's 'Creative Licence' I have started sketching a little each day.

I am only 6 days into my challenge, but so far so good. Here are a few so far taken with my iphone..

The only rule I have is that the sketches are to be done in ink - so no erasing mistakes! It makes for some interesting sketching, probably more honest sketching, and slightly frustrating at times - especially when Bean wants to help Mama draw. ('Bless her!' she says with a grimace) 

So we will see what the month brings - I am determined to continue for the month, but life quiet often has other plans!

What creative challenges have you set for yourself this year?

xx

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☆ Father's Day iCard

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Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

Our day was a quiet affair - I asked G if he wanted to do anything special, but he just wanted a low key day plus he had to study for an exam tomorrow. So low key it was. It helped that the weather this weekend has been wet and wild. Gale force winds swept through the state yesterday, it was reminiscent of when we lived on Raasay - gusting wind, torrential rain, very (very) short periods of sunshine. It was quite nice actually and I felt slightly homesick and very nostalgic!

Anyway a couple of weeks ago I stumbled across this cool card idea for G - but as his iPhone is white I adapted the original slightly.

The iCard

Bean's Message to G

G was really chuffed but then started laughing - '3 bars of service from Vodafone - what a joke!'

What did you do for the fathers in your life?

xx

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☆ Illustration Friday

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'When an irresistible force such as you 

meets an old immovable object like me.' 

John Mercer

This weeks Illustration Friday had me stumped for a few days - until Bean and I had a set to at the breakfast table. 

Bean: "Done!"

Me: "One more mouthful"

Bean: "Done Mummy"

Me: "Just one more"

Bean: "No Mummy, done mummy"

Me: "Please..."

Bean: "Done! Done! Done!"

What followed was a battle of wills, me wanting her to have just one more mouthful of cereal, and her hanging over the side of her high chair, mouth clamped shut, shaking her head, shouting 'DONE, DONE, DONE!' at the top of her lungs. I am not sure who won that round, but I had the idea then of having Bean pose for a few photos and trying to capture immovable.

As she has the attention span of a gnat... errr... two year old, I had about 5 minutes of posing, but I think I captured something that was close enough to the pose I wanted.

Surprise!

Sad

Very Sad

Between each photo she had to see the image on the camera, making sure I had taken the photo. Too cute!

xx

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