Just for Fun!

99 Things - Have You Done Any of These?

I got this to do for fun....Here are the rules: Bold the things you’ve done and post on your blog or facebook!

(I colored my answers in bold Purple, and my added words are added in (parenthesizes)

1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland - (Does Disney World count?)

8. Climbed a mountain, (not mountain climbing w/ equipment, but one with a path)

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea.

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked (Only to people I knew)

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (in high school in my SR year)

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb (petted one)

26. Gone skinny dipping (went with a group. I kept my clothes on, they didn’t)

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Only where my parents were born)

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language (Sign Language)

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (I don’t have a lot of money, but don’t need

money to be satisfied)

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangeo’s David

41. Sung karaoke (Only at home with my family)

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie (I was in a close up in the front of a standing ovation for a college movie)

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business (only home business)

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (Can’t. I’ve had hepatitis, but I’ve donated breast milk!)

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check (sadly, yes)

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood (only 1, my mom took away all of my toys while I was at

school, only saved the Creepy Crawlers set)

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone (3 times)

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper (I had an add I drew in the newspaper many times)

85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve (only hubby and kids ever)

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury and they DIDN'T like it either

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby (had 5 lost 6)

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake (took pictures of it)

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee

Okay - who else wants to play?

Checking in

OK! I got my last post to work the link...(to those who helped me with suggestions, thanks for the help!)

Now, my EDM# 42 Draw something you're thankful for. I had so many things coming to my mind...WAY too many to choose! So I decided to list the first things my head came up with. And while I am grateful for SO much more than this...here is my share:

I sure hope the zoom in's work..but if not, here's a little bit of a close up. :o)

This is a test:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/janiebugbibs

I'm trying this again with some advice from someone from my group.

One More Try:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/janiebugbibs

Trying one more time!

I just went to her site! She has added even MORE new ones! I LOVE the giraffe one!

What Am I Doing Wrong With this Blog?

If someone knows why I can't get all of my pictures to zoom in when clicked. I would love to know what I'm doing wrong! I also looked back and saw that a link I had shared didn't link to her site, but it just enlarged the picture next to it! SO weird! Let me try to send this link again. It's my friend Jane's Etsy site. She's been doing great business with it!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/janiebugbibs

I hope it works this time! If not, you can cut and paste it. :o)

OK...My daughter's Cub game is over....my daughter needs me.

Enjoy your week!

PamV

When Will I Get into the Habit of Sharing Sooner?

.....Instead of posting a ton of stuff all at once!

Everyday I think....today, I will take pictures, then download them, and put them on my blog... and then life jumps in! I need to figure out a plan...a schedule of some kind. :o) I still have to work on that.

But, I HAVE still been drawing EVERY day, and feeling much more comfortable about it too. I'm happy about that. I want to venture out...but for now, I'm doing those EDM #s. I was thinking that I also want to add the weekly ones the groups is doing as well. SO once a week, I'll have a higher number, than back to the beginning #s on the list for the rest of the week. :o)

Here we go....I decided to make up and draw another chair for my share from #30. One that looked more comfy than my last chair..here it is:

Share #32. Draw something metal. I drew the spoon I used for breakfast.

This is share # 33 Draw an Eye. This was fun! It's a HUGE eye! I like to draw eyes. :o)

Here's a close up, I see you! (hee hee):

Share # 34 Draw a Fall Leaf. Well..it's summer...but I think I can draw some from memory. :o)

I drew more than one...It brought out a sing I used to teach the children at church when I was the children's music leader. "Autumn Time" So I write out the words on the page as an after thought....(the song would not stay out of my head while I drew them!) Here they are..

Share Every Day Matters #s 35 and 36 both together. #35 was to Draw a bike, and #36 was to Draw in Public. (Now THAT was harder then I thought it would be!) My husband and I went to an Abilities Expo for handicapped supplies and new things to help those who are handicapped.

I wish I had enough money to buy all of the things we needed for our daughter...bed, bath, (and beyond LOL) etc... but she really wants the 2 seater bike..to use to exercise with. She gets strapped in all over, and the person behind peddles and steers, and my daughter would have her feet strapped to peddles that would move with the other ones...and she would get exercise WHILE she is riding a bike for the first time in her life! Unfortunately, they cost $6,000 dollars! We're all going to start collecting money and saving it to got one of those! It's going to take a LONG while!

Anyway...I wanted to draw that one she wanted, but there were SO MANY people standing around it, I had to draw the one seater one instead... (she can't ride one of those, she can't do it by herself.) Here is the one seater. I drew it so fast...Because I felt awkward...so many people kept coming over to see what I was drawing. There were just way too many people there! I think it was way TOO public of a place for me to draw! ha ha ha...but I did it! Here it is:

And here is a picture of the one she wants to get. We were able to get a picture of it later, when it started clearing out...that's when I SHOULD have drawn...who knew? :o)

EDM#37 Draw a Key. I drew the keys I found and dug up when I was a kid. I've had them on my key chain when I got my driver's license. I've had these keys for over 40 years!

EDM#38 Draw something Halloween. FUN! This was just all fun, kid like Halloween stuff. Nothing scary....just the kid in me, coming out! :o)

EDM#39 Draw Your Toothbrush. I never looked at it so closely before! I don''t know why there are circles AND ovals on it. I thought it had all circles on it until I took it out to looked at it. That pink is all gripper stuff on the brush so I can hang on to it while I brush.

EDM#40 Draw something with a fold. Well, I didn't want to draw clothes...boring...So I drew something I love to fold...It's paper, and this is Tea Bag Folding. Made with 8 pieces of square paper, folded, and then glued to each other into a medallion. I use them on cards I made and on Scrapbooking pages too. I usually do 8 pieces of paper that all look exactly alone...but this one's a rainbow one:

EDM #41 Draw a landmark of your City. I drew a train. This is a railroad town. The motto is, "Where History and Progress Meet" We have a train museum here. The symbol for the town has an old fashion train on it. We have "Railroad Days" here every Summer. So train was the first thing I thought of. I just drew a fun old train. One my grandson would like to see. (but without "Thomas the Train" involved at all) LOL

OK, that's all for now. More soon....well...that's the plan! Looking back...I see I am still a big kid! Maybe one day, I'll draw more grown up things.....time will tell. :o)

A Thought After.....

As I was here in the quiet after my daughters left for their Young Single Adult trip to Palmyra, NY. I was organizing my picture folders on my computer, and ran across a bunch of pictures I have on file from the Nauvoo Temple. I started thinking about the Nauvoo Temple, and the sun stone I drew a picture of. I shared that picture in my last post, but never showed what the whole Temple looked like. I decided to post a picture I have of my son and his wife right after they got married in the Temple. (and had to pose for pics from the photographer)

I would show a pic of my daughter's marriage there too...but those pictures are all in the external hard drive from my old, broken down computer. That external hard drive will not work on this Mac....well, it might, but I haven't learned how to do that yet. :o)

Anyway....I have a lot to do this day. I want to get some things done that are easier to do when I'm alone here...but I wanted to first share a picture of the Nauvoo Temple. And for those who read this and are not familiar with this temple...the sun stones are at the top of each "pillar".

The bottom of each pillar has a Moon on it.

There are also Stars above...in stone, and in stained glass windows.

So all....the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars are all represented, carved in the stone. That's a LOT of carving...and stained glass stars too!

I love how the Temple looks different colors depending on the sun. I've seen it look so many colors when I've been able to visit there. (about 4.5 hours away from my home). I would love to do a watercolor that runs along the lines of this sun set picture below:

By the way.....The 3rd picture of the temple here, is close to what I was looking at for my drawing in my last post...if you want to compare.

I'm off to do......I know, I know, don't say it....I was already "off" ;oP

Have a special day all!

Pam

I completed my goal!

Well....I completed my goal of doing the first 31 Every Day Matters suggested drawings...now if only I had had the time to share them on here before now! I'm still doing my "every day, doing something creative" self challenge, and working on improving my drawing skills...and learn some painting skills.

OK...here are my shares of what I have taken pictures of so far:

EDM #23 Draw your foot. This is probably the closest I'll get to doing a self portrait. :o) I did draw them from a photo. I didn't want to draw my feet from how I saw them....instead, I decided to draw them from a position that I've never seen them before, so my daughter took a few pics for me, and this is the one I choose. I liked how peaceful, and even loving they looked in this position. This is the position my feet are in when I'm sitting back.

My family said that they really really look just like my feet. This is what they see when I'm sitting back to draw, or when I'm reading, watching TV, or on the computer...or all of them together! I was surprised to see that I have a new, very faint mole on my heel! You can see it in this close up:
Sunday....the day where I'm drawing, but not doing the regular challenge. I choose to "draw" a quote I love from a talk I really love:
I hope I'm not the only one who can read this quote. I really love it.

Well, started off on Monday with a migraine. After some of my meds kicked in some....I did start this drawing...but could not finish it due to the pain in my head! Migraines prefer to have eyes closed...and that's not the best way to make a detailed "zentangle-like" doodle! I drew this for 2 of my drawing days...where I had a terrible migraine that had lasted BOTH days!

It was drawn bigger than this. I scanned it, then printed it out in less than half of the origional size, so I could see how it looked smaller, and so I could fit it easier on the paper.

EDM #24 Draw a piece of fruit. OK back on track...I was eating blueberries when I was thinking about what fruit I should draw. I found this tiny little blueberry and it had a stem! I don't usually see a stem on them when I get them....so it intrigued me, and I just had to draw the tiny lil' fella! It was hard to make it look like a real blueberry....the funny thing is, it did look like this! not 100% like a real blueberry. Maybe that's what baby blueberries look like. My hubby said it looked like a beach ball with a stick in it. My daughter said it sort of looked like a blue apple. LOL.

They said the size of the drawing just made it look like it was bigger than it was! The berry itself was about 1/4 of an inch high in real life...can you say, "close-up!" :o)
EDM #25 Draw a glass. After I finished drawing this....I began to wonder if when the challenge said "Glass" did it only mean a glass glass? I don't drink any alcohol, so have no "wine glasses" And, after over 30 years running a day care in my home...and raising 5 kids of my own....I really don't have any glass glasses in the house....unless we got them at McDonalds, and have some sort of Disney picture on it. (I do have a couple of those) I had just grabbed what I call a glass...and drew it. :o)

EDM #26 Draw anything you want. Fun! It was such a beautiful, sunny summer day...I drew a flower. I wanted to try my hand at some color pencils, along with some mineral spirits to see how it would work. It really looks much better than this in person. The background in real life looks much more blended, and even a little greener than this shows. It was fun!

EDM #27 Draw a Book. Easy....I chose my favorite book....my Scriptures. After I did the drawing...I decided that I would "draw" the highlights with my very own highlight marker. :o) Then I decided to color in the pink little post it notes I have stuck at the bottom of a few pages of the book. They ARE pink, so I went with it. Again....fun!

EDM #28 Draw an appliance. I looked up the word first to see if I could draw something other than a refrigerator, oven, or toaster (I wasn't in the mood to draw anything "kitchen") When I saw that I could draw something NOT in my kitchen...I went with it! I drew the hair cutting scissors I had pulled out because I need to cut my dogs' hair. (I cut everyone in the house's hair...including our 2 toy poodles) Interesting enough....this drawing almost was the same size of the real scissors themselves!

Sunday...the Sabbath day..the day of rest from things of the world. I LOVE Sundays! I started this Zentangle-like drawing that I wanted to make to use for thank-you cards. There are 3 "Bump" mistakes on this card...the dog was laying on my lap while I was drawing...and three times, the dog jumped from a noise they heard outside...So....I think I'll have to start all over again...or at least add a whole new oval over this one. It would have to be a tiny bit bigger oval than the original one, as one of the mistake bumps are right on the outside edge of the oval, and the other 2 bumps are inside the oval:

It was still fun to draw! It did take me 2 days to finish...in between life and all. :o)

Here are the cards I made from that June 28th drawing. As you can see... I added their names inside of the drawing of the cake....then I let 2 of my kids choose what colors they wanted me to use for their aunt's and uncle's cards.

Here's what's inside this card:

EDM # 29 Draw something Architectural. This is a sunstone off of the Nauvoo Temple in Nauvoo, IL. My 2 married children were married in this Temple. I love Nauvoo, and I love this Temple. I have wanted to do some drawings and paintings of Nauvoo, and decided to start with this.

here's a close-up. The photo I was drawing from was taken from the ground and looking up, so it did make it a little interesting to try to draw the way I was really seeing it, and not how I "thought" it "should" look like. It took some time...but I enjoyed drawing it!
EDM # 30 Draw a Chair. I decided to do something goofy....because I really was in a goofy mood. I really was going to draw the computer chair...but then...ended up being goofy....and that's OK with me! :o)
EDM #31 (and the completion of my 31 challenge! Whoo hoo!) Draw Something You Collect. OK...this was really hard to do. I do collect things..more things than I would want to say...so I randomly picked my rubberstamps. I also have clean acrylic stamps and clear blocks, but I wanted to draw my old school, wooden blocked, rubberstamps. I even drew the "stamping" from the stamp! :o) I love to rubberstamp. You can be so creative with them!

OK...That's all for now...I have to take more pictures of the other drawings I've done. I'm still working out a way to stay more up to date here. It's a work in progress....maybe with the kids gone for the rest of the week (away on a trip) and me being alone most of the week, I can get caught up here!

Have a safe, enjoyable day everyone!

Pam

Back Tracking....

I just went and looked at my old Pics on here. I see that I could not click on my Zentangle of a song....So I'm going to try to post it again....It looks so much better when you can see it close up!I hope it works!

Well....off I go!

My Challenges shares 18 - 22

Well, even with good intentions, I still did not post as soon as I would like. I'm behind in the photo taking of my drawings...(I'm almost done with the challenge) and I didn't share as soon as I wanted to. It's amazing how life can get away from you! Then, I tried to share, and I couldn't get the pics to download....maybe this time it will work. (I HOPE!)

So, even though I didn't get the drawings done all in June...I'm OK with that. I would rather they not be just quick scribbles to meet the challenge....Instead, I changed my own challenge to draw something, ANYTHING every day. This challenge, I have met since June 1st. So here are the pics for the ones I have taken pics of....and hope to take pics of the rest of them soon..

#17 (really 18) Draw what you see when you look out your window. This is just a rough scribble....because after I complete this challenge...I want to take some time to really watercolor a pic of what I see from my picture window, and give it to my neighbors for Christmas...so 17 (really 18) is really just a quick scribble in pencil that I threw in some colored pencils to:

# 19 Draw something I made....I first thought of drawing my children! LOL Instead, I drew one of the felt Valentines I made this year for my family. It was almost as much fun drawing the stitches as it is to actually do the blanket stitch on the felt! Fun!

#20, Draw something "Dad" Well...last week, I did make a "Dad" card....so today, I thought of making something my hubby would like, because he IS my 5 children's "Dad". So instead of thinking of my Dad here, I thought of my husband....and what says "Dad" to him? Chocolate and Cubs Baseball....I was still into stitching, so I drew a baseball with the Cubs Logo on it. :o)

Now for #21 Draw something old, antique, or vintage...I drew my Mom's old wedding ring..she gave it to me a few years before she died. (she was divorced) I used to love to look at it when I was little. Unfortunately, I was sick the day I drew this...and looking at it now, I can see how warped and deformed it was! I didn't see it in my book....but when I took the pics of it...and looked at it by itself.....

I could CLEARLY see how bad the left side of this drawing is! ACK! I'm shocked I didn't see it when I was sick! How messed up was I? I almost didn't post it...But felt like I would be cheating my own learning and growing if I did that.
Then #22 Draw a piece of clothing. One of my friends from church makes these cute Bibs made out of terry cloth. The bibs have terry cloth sleeves too. If you want to see what they look like in a picture, her etsy site is:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/janiebugbibs

I hope this link works this time.....I've tried to add it 3 times now. If it doesn't work, just cut and paste it to see her cute bibs.

OK.....I have drawn more...but I haven't taken pictures of them yet. My batteries are charging on my camera....I get to them on Monday morning.

Have a great Sunday!

Pam