Popularity

Illustration Friday: Popularity

Winter chores that top my popularity list:

1. Stacking wood in the wood shed.

There is nothing better than stacking wood by lantern after a long day at work.

I love the soft light and smell of the wood. We hung a little window from a salvage shop

and stacked wood around it to look like a wall.

Makes it fun to see the glow from the light inside..

2. Taking out the wood stove ashes in the sled.

This requires snow, but so much fun to pull the ashes through the snow instead of carrying them!

3. Freeze-drying the laundry.

The wash will steam as I clip it to the line.

Freeze. Dried. Sheets.

Do I need to say more?

YUM!

4. Shoveling snow.

We haven't had much snow this year.

Not as much as last year at least.

I'm missing it.

Wishing you a wonderful week and loads of fun..

chores and all!

Suspense

Illustration Friday: Suspense

The suspense of whether or not the bees will make it through the winter is just about killing me.

I worry every year..

This year a little more so. The winter has been mild.

Warm ~ cold ~ warm ~ cold.

They get confused, think it is Spring, start to work and then freeze when it gets cold again.

I had my ear to the hives on the last warm day we had. There were a few that were silent.

I hope at least one hive makes it through. We have ordered a few new starts for spring though, just in case.

I sat outside to sketch this today. It was 37 degrees.

Sunny..

but cold.

The illustration is a little brief, but my fingers were getting numb.

Really..

I just wanted to sit with the bees..

Forward

Illustration Friday: Forward

I've been looking forward to this time of year.. SEED CATALOG time.

Pages full of the promise of the golden goodness of summer.

As I was looking through the stacks of seed catalogs last night I had to laugh. My baby-sitters father used to read me the Burpee seed catalog. He would go page by page tasting each veggie ..or bug.. and make faces. We would laugh for hours. Now, when I look at the pages I'll think how good that juicy ripe tomato looks and laugh out loud as I hum at the gorgeous fruit on the page.

Forward..

I've been thinking about moving forward ..

and staying put .. right here on this blog space.

As I've been trying another space on for size and thinking about moving there I've realized -

There is no need to move to a new space. I can move forward right here.

Burbs and the Bees.

Simple fact is..

I am a bee-girl.

The tag line has changed a bit:

Doodling on the suburban homefront.

So I think I am going to just keep "doodling around" right here..

Thanks for hanging in there with me!

Prepare

More about this little list over here..

Pot-o-moss

More here...

Bubbles and trees

These little vintage bottle brush trees were in a bottom of a discarded box at my favorite thrift shop.

I had to giggle...

~SCORE~

I love these little trees.

Like a miniature forest under glass bubbles on the kitchen window.

Wishing you a new year full of light, love, hope, health and happiness!

Everyday Life

From my sister-in-law.

Drawn by my niece a few years ago.

I can't tell you how much I love this...