👻 Thursday Art Date: Scarecrows 👻

Hello Friends, 😊

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is Scarecrows. Isn't Tweety Bird cute in his scarecrow costume? He's too adorable to scare away any crows though! 😊 This Monday is Thanksgiving here in Canada and I have a great meal planned! I'll be making my Thanksgiving Poutine - with a special dessert. I'll post about that next Thursday!! I'm SO thankful for everything I have in my life...I am filled with gratitude. 💕💕

This ink/graphite drawing was inspired by the scarecrow in the very spine-tingly-dingly movie Jeepers Creepers. You really don't want to know what's under that hat my friends! My October of horror movies marathon has already started! Such fun! 👀

I'm pretty dang proud of this white charcoal drawing! It's my tribute to the amazing Ray Bolger who played the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. I'm starting to feel like myself again, loving every art medium I can get my hands on!! I drew this while sipping white wine and listening to 80's music, ain't that the life? 😃

Critters:

Four Corners of Fur

LOTS of road trips the last week...not only did my car break down (starter motor) but I also got a flat tire...so two trips to the garage. I brought Jack with me on one of those trips and he really enjoyed seeing the cows at a nearby farm!

Alex and I had an afternoon picnic at the river. We saw so many eagles and on the way home, saw these white-tails. They are so lovely!

October sunsets are stunning!

During one of my road trips, I scored on pumpkins and gourds! 

I hired a blacksmith to make a lid for my burn barrel. After my neighbour's house burned down back in August, I've been paranoid about embers flying out of the burn barrel. The blacksmith did an amazing job and only charged me $60 for this lid. 

Since we moved in May, my cooking/baking mojo has really been lost...but it's B-A-C-K!!! I made a Pizza-Ghetti the other night, woof...this is filling and delicious!

I'll leave you with this 4-second video of a great dollar store find! I'm in the Halloween spirit alright!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link gadget below to see more Scarecrows artwork! 

Today I'm liking up with some lovely bloggers, please visit them if you're interested!

Friday October 9th: Paint Party Friday
Saturday October 10th: Eileen's Saturday's Critters
Monday October 12th: Angie's Mosaic Mondays

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White Ink Mummy

October 15th: Next Thursday's theme is Supernatural. Click on the link for ideas and inspiration! Remember it's all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

Thursday Art Date With Rain. Click on the link for a description of the art date as well as a list of upcoming themes. 

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! The link gadget expires Sunday at noon (EST).

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Thursday Art Date: Goblins and Trolls ☠️☠️

Hello Friends, 😊

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is Goblins and Trolls. I decided to stick to goblins, they are a little less evil than the trolls out there today! 😊 Poor Daffy, I don't think he's going to get much stress relief with Bugs playing a green goblin today!

My she-goblin isn't very happy, poor gal. I did this with pigment liner pens, graphite pencils and my white acrylic paint pen.

Pumpkin Hobgoblin (watercolours)

I saw an image like this online and wanted to try it out with my watercolours, it was a lot of fun! I'm challenging myself to be a little more loose in my painting. I have a bad habit of needing to fill every space with colour! Sometimes less is more!

I made more cheese the last few weeks. A Colby, another Jarlsberg and some Camemberts. These are the Cams. In about 8 weeks, they'll have formed their bloomy white mould and be ready to eat! Alex and I have been working hard on the house and we got almost all of the tasks completed. We have a few big projects happening this month and I'll update you all about those another time! It's nice to be back!

My sweet furry critters!

We haven't had time for much exploring lately but we're going to try to get out by the river and into the woods this week, hopefully we'll see some wildlife!

Autumn is in full swing here in the Maritimes! The blueberry fields have turned a beautifully stunning red colour and the backyard maples and birch trees are turning as well...

...but the mornings are cold and a layer of frost glazes the fields and plants. My garden was an epic failure by the way, 'nuff said...

I love this time of year! Saturday mornings are perfect to stay in bed and watch cartoons! That's all for now folks! Please check out the link gadget below to see more Goblins and Trolls artwork! 

Today I'm liking up with some lovely bloggers, please visit them if you're interested!

Friday October 2nd: Paint Party Friday

Saturday October 3rd: Eileen's Saturday's Critters

Monday October 5th: Angie's Mosaic Mondays

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A cute little scarecrow I saw driving down the road when I lived on Prince Edward Island

October 8th: Next Thursday's theme is Scarecrows. Click on the link for ideas and inspiration! Remember it's all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

Thursday Art Date With Rain. Click on the link for a description of the art date as well as a list of upcoming themes. 

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! The link gadget expires Sunday at noon (EST).

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Thursday Art Date: Crops and Farming

Hello Friends, 😊

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is Crops and Farming. I'm in a Halloweenie mood...so let the spooky fun begin! Bugs is posing for my version of the movie poster "Children of the Corn: Runaway"...corn is a crop right? 😊 I didn't include a bloody dress on Bugs, like on the girl's dress in the movie poster...I'll keep that for October's themes!

I'm still on a Blog break, so I'll be back to visit you all in October! 🎃🎃 Please check out the link gadget below to see more Crops and Farming artwork! 

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October 1st: Next Thursday's theme is Goblins and Trolls. Click on the link for ideas and inspiration! Remember it's all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

Thursday Art Date With Rain. Click on the link for a description of the art date as well as a list of upcoming themes. 

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! The link gadget expires Sunday at noon (EST).

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Thursday Art Date: Architecture

Hello Friends, 😊

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is Architecture. Bugs Bunny put on his best sales jacket to try to sell the house he designed for his target audience. I think he'll be a success! 😊

I'm still on a Blog break, so I'll be back to visit you all in October! 🎃🎃 Please check out the link gadget below to see more Architecture artwork! 

PS: 🎅🎅🎅 I will be adding this to my posts for a few more weeks: Please contact me via my contact form on the right side bar of my blog if you want to be on my Christmas card list! Send me your address and I'll send you mine! And also please contact me if you have been previously so I can give you my new address! 🎅🎅🎅

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Besides my impending potato harvest, this is all I have to show for my garden this season! Five squash...but they are still quite tiny. Fingers crossed they'll grow before the snow falls!

September 24th: Next Thursday's theme is Crops and Farming. Click on the link for ideas and inspiration! Remember it's all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

Thursday Art Date With Rain. Click on the link for a description of the art date as well as a list of upcoming themes. 

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! The link gadget expires Sunday at noon (EST).

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Thursday Art Date: Eyes and Ears

Hello Friends, 😊

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is Eyes and Ears. It was Bugs Bunny's idea to dress up like Disney's Dumbo this week! He had to lay off the carrot juice for a few days to fit into Dumbo's little costume though! 😊

Oh I had to share this! My friend Dorothy, many of you know her blog The Frog and PenguINN...sent me a card and look at the stamps she chose! Talk about knowing me well huh? Thanks Dorothy! 😊

This is a collage of four pen and ink drawings I did this week. I saw something like this on an internet image and I wanted to do my take on what my eye sees each season.

This study really got my imagination going and I was able to relax while I did a little drawing each day. Taking time for myself and practicing self-love is SO healing. I told Alex that all I want to do with my life is draw/paint, cook, eat, drink wine, make cheese and love him and the furries. Simple life. 😊

House Update, we're knocking things off the list!!!

Alex got up on the roof and fixed the leak around the chimney flashing...NO MORE LEAKS!!! But...the roof needs to be replaced - that'll be next year. This is the year of the bandaid...we're thinking of getting rid of the shingles and replacing them with a tin roof.

I got my office all unboxed and organized. I'm SO happy and I feel so much more calm and creative now. Clutter is horrible for me! I think I spent 4 days in a row just focusing on art, and it was amazing. For those interested, I put all of the upcoming themes for the rest of 2020 on my sidebar along with a page that describes the theme and gives some inspiration. You can also find those themes and a link to the pages here: Thursday Art Date With Rain. I'll be thinking of the 2021 themes too this month! 😊

Baby Oscar (now a 6-year old "baby") has developed feline asthma...we had to bring him to the vet because he started wheezing so badly we thought he might suffocate. He's on steroids and also antibiotics for an upper respiratory infection. Oh my gosh, how did this happen? Poor sweetie. He's been on the meds for a week now and he's doing much better.

It's getting cold overnight...Jack has to wear his hoodie every morning now!

That's all for now folks. Please check out the link gadget below to see more Eyes and Ears artwork! I'll be back to visit you all in October! 🎃🎃

PS: 🎅🎅🎅 I will be adding this to my posts for a few more weeks: Please contact me via my contact form on the right side bar of my blog if you want to be on my Christmas card list! Send me your address and I'll send you mine! And also please contact me if you have been previously so I can give you my new address! 🎅🎅🎅

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My Attempt At A Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Draft!

September 17th: Next Thursday's theme is Architecture. Click on the link for ideas and inspiration! Remember it's all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

Thursday Art Date With Rain. Click on the link for a description of the art date as well as a list of upcoming themes. 

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! The link gadget expires Sunday at noon (EST).

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Thursday Art Date: The Old Masters

Hello Friends, 😊

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is The Old Masters. I wish I had more time with this theme, I had so many neat ideas! But I was lucky that Bugs Bunny was able to squeeze me in for this tribute to Johannes Vermeer's "Girl With A Pearl Earring". I actually really love this oil painting which was painted in 1665.

I decided to take a page from Leonardo da Vinci's book. He did a self-portrait back in 1512 titled "Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk". Here's my self-portrait: "Portrait of a Woman in Red Pastels". 😊😊 Actually I used hues of red, orange and yellow for this one. This was a simple, very quick sketch. I tried to capture da Vinci's facial expression in my own.

That's all for now folks. Thanks for your sweet comments on my last blog post. I feel like I'm on the verge of burning out again and I'm taking time every day to relax, do yoga and meditate - it's helping me a lot. Please check out the link gadget below to see more The Old Masters artwork! I'll be back to visit you all in October! 🎃🎃

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Fiery Rain Eye (I did this at photofunia.com!)

September 10th: Next Thursday's theme is Eyes and Ears. Click on the link for ideas and inspiration! Remember it's all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

Thursday Art Date With Rain. Click on the link for a description of the art date as well as a list of upcoming themes. 

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! The link gadget expires Sunday at noon (EST).

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Dogs and Cheese and a Blogging Break!

Hi Everyone 😊

I hope you're all doing well! I made a Jarlsberg cheese this past week. This cheese is SO good! It's currently aging and will be ready in about 5-6 weeks. I love how milk turns into such yummy good cheese.

My beautiful wheel of Jarlsberg...ready February 15th 2020....gone and eaten by February 20th 2020!

The last time I made this cheese was last December and this is what it looks like when it's all aged with big Swiss-style "eyes"! I can't wait to eat this again, it's my most successful cheese! 

There is a grouse couple living in the trees on my acreage, right next to the house. They mostly hang out in the birch trees. 

Even though the nights are getting cool here, around 10C, the days are still very hot. I made this gif from photos I took when I was walking Jack and Charlie. It's so windy lately, I felt like Jack might take off as his ears picked up the wind!

The skies here are definitely stunning. 

Well my Friends, I finally did THE TASK. I sat down and did a brutal assessment of all the work that needs to get done in the next 2 months. This is just some of it. There is also finding a better home insurance plan, redoing the budget, figuring out Alex's studio, putting up curtains, canning tomatoes, I have 2 doctor's appointments, we have an appointment with our lawyer to draw up our wills, monthly meal prep and shopping, pet care, day to day stuff and ME time. Plus Canadian Thanksgiving and Halloween are coming up quickly! I feel a bit overwhelmed!

I've decided to take a Blogging break for at least a month until I can get a handle on my life here. I'm still going to host the weekly art date though! And I will try to participate! So I will see you on Thursday for our art date! The theme is The Old Masters. 🎨 Thanks for understanding! ❤️❤️❤️