In my sketchbook... I just can't quit!

Now I'm combining crayons with water colors. This crayon-thing could be sticking around for awhile!

Sunshine Award

Bella from Art Club Blog nominated me for a Sunshine Award, and I can't begin to say how much this means to me! Please stop by her blog and see what she is working on as well as take a peek at the other artist's work that she features!

If you have been nominated and would like to accept this award, here is what you do:

* link the award to the person who gave it to you

* answer the questions that came with it

* pass it along to other bloggers and let them know they have received it

Share answers to the following questions:

* favorite color

*favorite animal

*favorite number

*favorite non-alcoholic drink

*Facebook or Twitter

* greatest passion

* favorite day of the week

*favorite flower

Here are my answers:

*changes all the time but for now it is turquoise
*elephants
*don't really have one but for now it is 24 because my son is due the 24th of July and I can't wait to meet him
*vanilla milkshake
*Twitter
*being a wife and mother
*Sunday (love resting with my family)
*lillies and orchids (sorry, I can't pick just one!)


and here are some blogs that I would like to nominate:
Mangle prints
Mirdinara
Oh, what a world, what a world
Jezze prints
Melly Sews
Daisy Yellow

In my sketchbook...a new love of crayons

Is it wrong to steal your 15-month-old's crayons for your own artistic pursuits? 

Since she isn't complaining, I'm going to keep on using them! :-)

Off the needles and ready to be seamed/blocked!

When I first saw this picture on the purl bee website, I knew that I had to make it. It was the neckline and color of the yarn that did it for me. Had I not just knit a gray sweater for AJ, I would have knit this one up in the same color as the picture below (but in Malabrigo instead of Koigu for budget reasons!). 

I was going to knit this in pink, but my LYS only had one skein in the colorway I wanted so Lilac it was!

With about 3/4 of a skein of this yarn left, I am either going to knit a cowl for my sister in law (who LOVES the color purple) or make leg warmers for AJ. Will let you know what I decide!

In my sketchbook... a fun collaboration

My daughter loves playing with my sketchbooks to the point that I can't work in them when she is around. In an effort to fix this problem, I bought her, her own sketchbook so that she could work along side of me. 

Funny thing happened, she still preferred my book to her hers so we ended up coloring with crayons together!