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Recent Posts
- Memorials and planting seeds May 25, 2020
- Have you ever taken a nap with your eyes open? May 20, 2020
- Random thoughts on being fidgety May 11, 2020
- Episode 11/11…wherein I return home to 2020, and ponder next steps May 1, 2020
- Episode 10/11…wherein we explore all of Wales, in just one place April 30, 2020
- Episode 9/11…wherein the names of several places are hauntingly familiar April 28, 2020
- Episode 8/11…wherein I celebrate my love of rocks April 26, 2020
- Episode 7/11…wherein I discover an old friend in a faraway land April 24, 2020
- Episode 6/11…wherein it takes 2 episodes to capture this very full day! April 22, 2020
- Episode 5/11…wherein learning and note-taking surpass, for once, the urge to sketch April 20, 2020
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Category Archives: Sketchbooks
Have you ever taken a nap with your eyes open?
That’s pretty much what sketching was like today. I was gently focused on what I was doing, and at some point I thought. “Yeah, I think I’m done.” (Wow, I wish you could hear how I enunciated that ‘yeah’—it was … Continue reading
Posted in Art-Making, Cafe Wisdom, Pen and Ink, Sketchbooks, Sketching tools, Urban Sketching, Watercolor
Tagged Expeditionary Art, Illustrated Journals, Watercolor
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Random thoughts on being fidgety
This will probably read like a ‘letter home’ in answer to the question, “What have you been up to since your virtual trip to Wales?” It has been ten days since my last blog post (that suddenly sounds like a … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Wisdom, Cartoons, Journaling, My Story, Sketchbooks, Views from Aloft
Tagged Memoir, Writers Life
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Episode 11/11…wherein I return home to 2020, and ponder next steps
I always experience a bit of emotional jet-lag at the end of a long trip, and this time is no different, despite having done all this travel sitting right here at my laptop in the living room. It was exhausting … Continue reading
Episode 10/11…wherein we explore all of Wales, in just one place
Sunday the 10th of April, 2022 Hard to believe that by the end of the day we will be at our final destination, a hotel near London’s Heathrow Airport. Along the way though, we will dawdle and wander and smile … Continue reading
Posted in Art-Making, Fake Journal 2020- To Wales and England, Sketchbooks, Storytelling & Pondering, Travel, Watercolor
Tagged Wales
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Episode 9/11…wherein the names of several places are hauntingly familiar
Saturday 9th April 2022 (a very sleepy girl is writing this!) Although we didn’t travel far today, only about 70 miles round trip and just a couple hours in the coach, it ended up being the longest day full of … Continue reading
Episode 8/11…wherein I celebrate my love of rocks
Friday, April 8th, 2022 Does anyone else like playing “Map” as much as I do? When we were kids, Dad got us a copy of the Reader’s Digest Atlas of the World. It was the cheapest babysitter in history, keeping … Continue reading
Episode 7/11…wherein I discover an old friend in a faraway land
Thursday afternoon, April 7th, 2022 “Bobbie, what a lovely surprise!” Michael motioned to the chair beside him. We chatted for a moment, then I noticed the other members of my group gathering at the café exit, preparing to begin the … Continue reading
