I told myself I wanted to wake early this morning. I wasn’t sure what I’d do – knit or pack or email. I just knew I’d want some quiet time before the rush that is leaving. I spent the time online, gloriously alone in a still house but finding treasures and kindred spirits.
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To Share
Posted in adventure, art journal, parenting on July 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Putting Pen to Paper
Posted in Project 365, adventure, art journal, handmade on December 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Aside from a few ATCs, I haven’t drawn since we got back. I have sat down with my sketchbook a few times, but couldn’t. Just couldn’t. There was no spark. The four walls and the items contained therein seemed to me more like a dull banality, a constriction of the part of me questing for [...]
Treasure
Posted in Project 365, adventure, art journal, field trips, handmade, homeschooling, quotes on September 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall [...]
Trier
Posted in Project 365, Project Spectrum, adventure, art journal, field trips, handmade, homeschooling, travel on August 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We packed so much into our week in Trier that it is much like this mosaic in my mind: bits and pieces all jumbled together in what you hope is a coherent narrative.
churches and Roman sausages
sketching and light shows in the tunnels of the Roman baths
bouquets and blue doors
self-portraits to remind me of the oddness [...]
Mainz City-Triathlon
Posted in adventure, art journal, field trips, handmade, travel on August 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Rainer’s first Olympic distance triathlon was the highlight of the weekend. We spent Saturday at the Gutenburg Museum in Mainz. An excellent museum – the displays were excellent, there were wonderful demonstrations, and hands-on activities for the kids. One of the better museums I’ve been to.
We went to a little Italian restaraunt and [...]
Sketches
Posted in adventure, art journal, handmade, travel on July 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The watercoloured section is a copy of the downtown map – there is town surrounded by a high, grassy mound left from the city fortifications which is in turn surrounded by a moat.
The bit of lace is a lucky discovery in a museum shop – I needed something exactly that size to cover up a [...]
Sketching in Hulst
Posted in adventure, art journal, field trips, handmade, homeschooling, parenting, travel on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Art on the Go
Posted in adventure, art journal, handmade, travel on June 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I had a headache, Sandra looked faded, Rainer was at the end of a long day, and the heat was on. Tias wanted the pool and we’d promised him the pool, but when we arrived, the parking lot was full and we tried to convince him it was better to come the next morning when [...]
Nurture, not nature
Posted in Project 365, adventure, art journal, field trips, parenting, travel on June 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Sketching at Maria Laach Abbey.
What we parents do is far more powerful than the daily minutia might lead us to believe. So whatever you are doing, keep doing it. Small brains are growing larger on the fertilizer of our habits.
Where we sleep #1
Posted in adventure, art journal, handmade, travel on June 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of my goals this trip is to sketch every place I sleep. It’s even one of my 101 Goals. You could say I started when I drew the plane, but somehow this seems like the true beginning of this project. Here’s my first house drawing. I feel like I have [...]
