Daisy and Dandelion Chains
My Mother taught me how to pop off the head of a dandelion and use the stem to make a chain link. One summer we made endless dandelion chain necklaces, bracelets too, all while weeding the lawn. I think she found a win-win situation to keep the kids busy and get her dandelions dug out [...]
Doodle Week: Horse
Horses are not as easy to draw as you may think. There is a slim line between a horse and a donkey or a mule. Add a few stripes and it can look like a zebra. Extend the neck and you’ve got a giraffe. Here are two horses I have tried to draw.
Doodle Week: Bug
I’ve caught some kind of a bug. Here is a drawing of the little beastie. Let’s see your own version of nasty little viral bugs.
Lighthouses
What is it about lighthouses that draws people? People collect lighthouses figurines. People paint and draw lighthouses. People will stop to photograph a lighthouse even when there could be something else more interesting which they did not even notice in the shadow of that mystical, lonely, stark looking building poking the sky.
I think it is [...]
Doodle Week, February 20 – 21st
This week it’s gargoyles. I’m about to catch the bus so I can attend a neighbourhood strategy session about saving some of the old buildings in my town. Will see how it goes. I love the old places and would like to see some of them refurbished if they can be saved from demolition. Anyway, [...]
Doodle Week, February 13 – 14th
This time around the doodle theme is cats. I like cats, their independence, mysteriousness and that feeling that you never quite know which of you is the pet, the cat or yourself.
If you need to read about Doodle Week go back to the post all about it.
If you are in Canada and have the long [...]
Lovely, Fancy Birdhouses
When birdhouses started coming out as a yard ornament of style I was glad. Until I realized many of them were not meant to actually be used by birds. The fancier houses with pretty colours and accessories will keep the birds away. Birds don’t trust birdhouses with a lot of extra trimmings and odd smells.
Wooden [...]
