CLEAN

Clean
Originally uploaded by Woods Babe.

Oh how I love to clean. NOT!!!!! I've got better things to do.
I have flowers to water and friends to call,
Hubby & Puppies - attention to all.
Pick up a mop, I think not!
Pencils & crayons
Paper & pens
Playing till the day ends!

AVIARY

Aviary...a place where many birds are kept. I fell in love with this antique crow statue that is part of a collection dating back 20 years, featured in a Country Gardens magazine. The article warns of keeping any cement yard ornament indoors during the winter months to prevent them from cracking.

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I painted the crow, fence and sky on green card stock using acrylic paints then transfered the trees using a page from a magazine.

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Babe

Mystery Cup

Mystery Cup
Originally uploaded by Woods Babe.

“Well you might come across some plywood pieces, maybe some steel roofing, who knows. There was a tornado here about maybe 20 years ago. Debris was everywhere. You’ll never know what you’ll find.” That’s what we heard while walking the property we purchased.

As we cleared the fallen trees and mowed down the wild gooseberry bushes we did come across some wine, beer, whiskey and pop bottles and the plywood and steel mentioned. But we never would have imagined this cute cup. Not a scratch on it. The markings say Hall, made in USA, 351 ½. We wonder if it came from the tornado or if the neighbor lady threw it at her husband in a love quarrel. No matter how it got here, it’s a mystery.

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Babe

Childs Play

Childs Play
Originally uploaded by Woods Babe.

My two little loves, Joy & Dale, at play.

It wasn’t hard to get Dale out of the house: biking, playing ball, swimming, riding his big wheel, sledding, helping Dad in the garage with the car, etc. He was always on the go. But Joy was another story. She liked to read and draw (three years old in picture), help in the kitchen, try on Mom’s makeup, a little lady right from the start. Still she had fun when she did go out. She fished, made snow angels, floated in the pool, went sledding, etc.

They were hardly in the house, our terrific kids.

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Babe

Childs Play

Childs Play
Originally uploaded by Woods Babe.

My two little loves, Joy & Dale, at play.

It wasn’t hard to get Dale out of the house: biking, playing ball, swimming, riding his big wheel, sledding, helping Dad in the garage with the car, etc. He was always on the go. But Joy was another story. She liked to read and draw (three years old in picture), help in the kitchen, try on Mom’s makeup, a little lady right from the start. Still she had fun when she did go out. She fished, made snow angels, floated in the pool, went sledding, etc.

They were hardly in the house, our terrific kids.

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Babe

Opposites

Opposites
Originally uploaded by Woods Babe.

This was suppose to be just a watercolored picture of my Calla Lily picture. But ever since the cat was let out of the bag that Joy and I are Gypsy's, the Gypsy God's went into a rage and have cursed everything from the weather to this _ _ _ n scanner of mine. The colored picture is quite good, even tho I say so. But the scanner has made it look ucky - part of the curse. After many failed attemps ( the G. God's snickering) I tried B&W.
But not all was lost. Illustration Friday's topic was Opposites.
Here is my picture in color and B&W. The Gypsy God's have allowed this posting because they know the colored one came out poorly, but I will have to appease them later for the nice black and white.

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Babe

TIME

TIME
Originally uploaded by Woods Babe.

AM
5:15 - let dog out
5:30 - let dog in
5:45 - dogs need meds
6:00 - make coffee
6:10 - check Blogs
7:00 - I get up
7:10 - have coffee
7:15 - water/plant flowers

Well, as you see by the time schedule this is how our days start. Then in a blink of an eye its;

PM
10:15 - watch the weather
10:18 - turn off TV
10:20 - wash face, brush teeth, shower and slip into bed
10:45 - say goodnight
10:45:01 - sound asleep

Where did the day go? Does anyone ever have enough time? When you're on vacation or have retired do you live by the clock? Most do. Why?

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Babe

Sacrifice

Sacrifice
Originally uploaded by Woods Babe.

I found these recipes on my favorite website, Very Best Baking. I thought I would bake one of them for an after dinner treat, after planting flowers treat, after mowing the lawn treat or after anything treat.
I read the ingredients and noticed the nutritional information box so I clicked on it. The following information appeared;

Mom's Special Ice Cream Cookie Dessert
Calories - slice - 370
whole cake - 5920
Fat Calories - slice - 200
whole cake - 3200
Carbs - slice - 40
whole cake - 640

I then decided to only make the other one

Mini Morsel Shortbread Squares
Calories - slice - 100
whole cake - 4800
Fat Calories - slice - 50
whole cake - 2400
Carbs - slice - 12
whole cake - 576

Since we never eat only one slice of anything and we have put on at least 10lbs. since retirement, the best I could come up with was to just forget the whole thing!

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Babe

Spooky Skyline Transfer

Spooky
Originally uploaded by Woods Babe.

Well here I go again. Apparently I can't read, so the top part of the sky, the moon and ground are Acrylic paints, the trees are markers and the middle of the picture is watercolor. I couldn't draw a bat to save my soul, so Scarecrow suggested transfering the bats to the page and voile' I had my skyline and transfer all in one.

Ya gotta love that guy!

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Babe

Cone Flowers

This was the first draft in pencil. I copied it from a black and white article about a new variety of Cone flowers.



Since it was in black and white, I took artistic license with the coloring. I have discovered and fallen in love with brush tip markers. They are easier to use and doesn't make my left eye twitch as when I tried coloring with watercolors. Couldn't get the dang colors to blend right, couldn't find white, then they would run all over cause of to much water.... you get the picture.

Anyway will have to find another project to do so I can play with my new toys.


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Babe

4th

4th
Originally uploaded by Woods Babe.

This was suppose to be watercolored. I sat opposite Scarecrow, borrowed his paint tubes dipped my brush in water and started to paint. "What the heck?" This isn't blending right. Its thick. Look what's happening to the paper! WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?

Scarecrow, my paints are not working right. Whats wrong. He answered, "your using acrylics".

WHAT?!!?

Oh, great. Wait a minute, this is starting to look pretty good. Joy, have you any sparkly stuff? "Sure and some paint pens of silver and gold".

I hope your 4th turned out as great as mine with silver, gold and sparklies.

Happy 4th!
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Babe

The nose knows

This is my puppyboy's nose. He is a Brindle colored Scottie that turned 12 years old in May. Nothing gets past him and when it comes to odors, he's the man. He can smell out junebugs, deer, food and anything that smells retched or dead. The worse it smells, the better. Unfortunately if the object of his attention stinks, it usually follows him.

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Babe