Eventful Day

Yesterday was an eventful day.  I felt so bad for our little Chick-a-dee.  Birds have hit the window before but this is the first to die. 

Our furnace konked out so we woke up to a freezing house at 4 am.  Put wood in the wood furnace and kept the house warm until the repair man came and installed a new part.  Furnace is back on and heating up the house! 

Packed the car up, and headed south to be with our family.  They took their “rapid tests” and they were all negative! Yay! So glad our daughter bought some before they were so coveted but they go fast at this time of year. 

I tried rather unsuccessfully to write a haiku! 

Sewing kit

I wanted to be a good girl guide and be prepared “just in case”!  Sometimes our granddaughter wants me to help with some sewing so I gathered up some things to be ready. 

I wanted to keep it small and light so I wound the thread on some cardboard cut outs that looks like the embroidery floss ones I’ve seen by stitchers.  I have black, navy, beige and white.  It took me an age to get them unfolded and now I can’t figure out how to put them back! 

Playing around with money

I followed a Draw with Me -Money with Danny Gregory and Sketchbook School.  

I added a bit of imagination 

It’s a Wrap

No prompt-  Wrapping up the wrap!!! Almost finished Christmas presents wrapping for this year.  I spaced them out over a few days.  

First of all, at first glance, I thought this said, “Oh behave”!  So silly of me.  This bread bag is going to our son-in-law; he makes some delicious loaves in the bread maker they bought during lockdown.  I’m totally thrilled that someone thought to make this useful product and that it is made locally (20 kms south of us)!  I think this is my favourite find for this year!! 

I can’t open this; to chicken to slide the paper sleeve off in case I wouldn’t be able to put the genie back in the bottle. So I just used the same colours and simulated some of the botanical images. 

Perfume

 I think I’ll be wearing this perfume for the next little bit!  I like the Christmas vibe of the bottle, I know it’s mostly about the colour.  I do like the scent of this perfume especially since it is a floral with patchouli! 

What happened?

I’ve seen this red squirrel before and thought that my eyes were mistaken.  I’ve never seen a tail-less squirrel before.  He kept pulling apart the burlap around my fathers birthday present. Then he seemed to disappear for quite some time!  Now he is back and I got a better look at him through the zoom lens of my camera.  It almost looks like the tail simply “fell off”!  Has anyone else seen this?!!?

New Ornament

I bought this cute mouse ornament this year!  It is made of cloth and is quite lightweight.  I prefer lightweight ornaments because we have a real tree and weight goes make a difference.  

I have some cheap tube watercolours that had dried up so I used them here and added some gesso to it to provide a gouache like effect.