Fabrics have arrived!

I'm really excited because yesterday the fabric
swatches I ordered from Spoonflower arrived.

My Spoonflower shop is now open!

The swatches are 8"x8" And it is so cool to see your work on fabric. Its a whole different thing than paper or canvas.

Speaking of fabric, I've been working with felt,

which I have put on the blog a few posts ago.

I made some cute pieces right before

Easter to give as gifts. The bunnies are my favorite.
 I drew out the form for the white chocolate bunny but the chocolate bunny's shape I traced off of a box of candy my son received. It wasn't too hard to figure out the base to stand.
I sewed pennies in at the bottom to weigh them down a bit.
I did't have any dry beans.

We had a great time at Easter, as always. 
The younges ones are getting big but they are still 'kid' enough,  young and playful enough to keep it fun. Not to mention that we're all a bunch of 12 year olds deep down. That helps.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Take care,
Fran T

Patterns, Games and WhatNot

Daylight Savings Time has kicked me square in the pants.

Wow, the power of one hour and what havoc it can wreck!

Well, its not so bad but every year it surprises me

how impactful it is on my being.

I stayed up late drawing the other night and

I looked up and it was 2:30!

 

I used my microns for these two drawings. A pen at

 size 005, the thin one, and 05, a thicker point. 

Garden, Grow!

 

 These were fun to work on.



Tea Time!

I also wanted to contribute a list to Artsyville's List-it Tuesday.

My FAVORITE games when I was younger were the following:

1.Perfection - that is the game where you have a set amount of time to put the yellow s

haped pieces into their corresponding holes. There was like 30 seconds to do so. What a pressure cooker of a game. Its sooooo telling of what type of person I am today. I work my best under pressure, LOL.

2. Gin Rummy - We looooved to play cards as kids. Other favorites were War (what passion!) and Solitaire. A past time that our parents and grandparents passed on to us. We would go to my grandparents for the weekends and I clearly remember all the adults in the dining room, playing cards, drinking cocktails and chatting ;)

3. Uno - another great card game that would go on and on!

4. MasterMind - this is a terrific game and I found the photo on the box so intriguing. I loved the woman's dress and just thought this guy was so slick, but I did think he was a little too old for her. We'd play this for hours. Haha!

5.Monopoly - this is a game that I would start out loving. There is just too much NOT to love. The fabulous pieces, the wonderful and colorful board and the cards! oh I just loved those cards with their cartoons. I liked Community Chest a little bit more. [Its the yellow color over the orange. ] Then the money! I had to be banker. However,  pretty soon into the game, say 20 minutes I would start hating the game, passionately. Mostly because my brothers were just so much better at it than me. And the dread of turning the corner on to the 'block' with Park and Boardwalk, ugh! What stress. Definate love/hate relationship going on here.

 

6. Scrabble - We played this game a whole heck of alot when we were younger. This is still a staple at my parents house! My mom and dad are really, really good at this game and play it quite a bit. We still break it out every so often when we go visit. 

 

 

7. Guess Who? - This is actually a game from my son's early childhood, but I personally loved it and wanted to add it. I liked this one so much that I would actually be the one asking him to play it with me! I just thought it never ever got dull for us to play and we would make up other little games within the game. We would also take all the cards out and play memory games as well.

 

That was so much fun looking back. I think I'll be looking for a deck of cards tonight and play a few hands with the my guys. Take a hop over to Aimee's blog and check out the other participants lists.

 

Enjoy your day!

Fran T XO

 

 

 

Completely Caffinated

What can I say? love this stuff.

I'm not even a snob, I like good coffee but I'll drink anything.

My favorite is a red eye-regular coffee with a shot of espresso.

But I try not to do that too often as I can become a little unbearable and jumpy. 

I mostly drink that if I'm super tired.

 

 

Look, I'm posting my sketch  as well!

I sketched this out of copy paper then transferred it to my watercolor book,

which is something I hardly ever do.

I usually just wing it, which brings me mild success.

I know I'd be better off if I planned well

but my brain doesn't work that way. Maybe I need more coffee ;)

 

Have a good day!

.: never forget :.

 

 

ICAD #? who's counting

I posted last night because I thought I had to go updstate today but it ended up I didn't have to ake the trip. So I'm having more time than I thought I would today. yay!

As for the ICAD, I have stopped keeping track. I'm so far behind its pointless...LOL. But I just love this challenge and can't stop:)

I wanted to try out a card that is related to another challeng and that would be Inspiration Avenue's teapot challenge. I am a HUGE coffee drinker but do drink tea occasionally. I like the idea of all the 'accessories' that involve tea, the pots, the spoons, the tea balls, the cozies, etc etc. I also like the different shapes of the pots and cups. And they are so fun to draw.

The index card I made shows pot and cup shapes  I saw on Pinterest.

Damn that Pinterest is like a vortex, its so hard to get out of there!

Thank goodness its cooler today but we've still managed to keep ourselves holed up today since we've been doing that for the past 4-5 days now, tomorrow I'll get myself out of the house:)

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!