Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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
 
 
 

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

All caught up (for now) - ICAD #4,5 and 6 >>>And an IF!

For IF 'Hurry'! Used this for ICAD4 too. Double duty.
I have this wood guy on my desk and he has traveled with me. I had him positioned like this to remind myself to start walk/jog routine so I can build up to running (its been mostly unsuccessful LOL) So when I read ' Hurry ' was the word I sat and racked my brain a bit then looked over and there was my 'Hurry" :)
I was inspired by Pauline, she has been creating pieces for Illustration Friday.
Her paintings and sketches are so refreshing!
One of the prompts was to use a dictionary definition of a word
I wish I were a better gardener, because I love all the trappings of it. There are all sorts of accessories, etc. for that hobby. I have some orchids, which I hope to draw for ICAD as well.
Currently they reside in our bathroom since they love that humidity so much! Let's see how long it takes me to kill the beauties.
I like this expression...
Tomorrow is Thursday, my favorite day of the week.
Its the day of the week where you start to come alive with the promise of weekend:)
A happyThursday to you all and to all a good night!