My Only Sunshine

Another

I decided to give color a shot in my doodles, what do you think?

Flickr Toys

I think this is so cool.  You can turn pictures into a pile of polaroids too HERE.

More Ink

I finished another doodle. This one doesn't have the same "I Spy" feel but the Girlies still like it. I doodled on it off and on for a few days and every time Bit saw it she said, "Are you going to finish it now?" I don't know what her hurry was, but it's finished now.

Pink for October

As you may have noticed (Hi Bob!) my blog has taken on a decidedly pink hue because it's October and I have gone "Pink for October".  Just about everyone in the world today knows that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and if you have been reading my blog for a while you will also know that this is a cause I care very much about.  So please join me by joining Pink for October and spread the word.  If you don't want to go that far, I'd be happy with everyone just making sure they have their yearly mammogram this year.  Thanks.

Rainbow Bug

This isn't the best scan in the world.  My scanner is acting very strangely.

Ink and watercolor on cold pressed watercolor paper.

Doodles and Knitting

I've been doodling on a blank piece of sketchbook paper lately.  That's it above.  There isn't anything specific, just whatever I feel like drawing while I'm holding the pen.  The Girlies have been enjoying my little doodle because to them it is just a black and white I Spy game.

"I spy a cow."

"I spy a rabbit.  No, two rabbits."

"I spy a bug and a spider, they aren't the same thing you know."

That's my daughters.  So last night I was laying with Bit before she went to sleep.  I was reading "The Enemy" by Lee Child, which is a military crime novel.  Bit was reading over my shoulder.  I don't have to worry too much about her reading things that are too old for her because, as she told me, she only reads words 4 letters and smaller.  As we were reading last night she pointed at the page and said, "This is the part where the pixieman finds out there is no mushroom house for him to live in."

"This part right here?" I asked, "is about a pixieman?"

She smiled at me, "Yep.  He doesn't have a mushroom house."

"Then where will the pixieman live?"

"He's going to move into a tree.  Up high."  Then she rolled over as if she were going to go to sleep.

After a few minutes she rolled back to me and asked what the name of the book was.  "The Enemy", I answered.

"It's written by Lee Chill-Ed?" she asked.

"That's Ch-eye-ld.  I thought you couldn't read five letter words?"

"I can't...  The pixieman isn't the enemy."  She sounded pretty sure.

"He isn't?  Then who is the enemy?"

"The people who won't let him have a mushroom house.  They make fun of him when he moves into the tree.  Pixiemans don't live in trees."  Then she fell asleep.  It was almost like she had to get the rest of the story out before she could drift off.  Clever child, that one.

So this morning I got up and added one last touch to the I Spy doodle.  The pixieman has a mushroom house now.

In case you were wondering why there haven't been any knitting pics lately, this picture should explain it.  There haven't been any knitting pics because there hasn't been anything to look at but a big brown blob.  Lovely, hmmm?  The embroidery I'm working on is a bit prettier to look at in the sun light.

Cover Bug

My Bug has signed a contract with a local modeling agency.  Can you imagine?  She's 8 years old and I had to fill out a w-4 for her.  I have just gotten the professional pictures we had taken for her "comp cards" back so I thought I would share a few of them with you.  It's not every day your kid gets her picture taken by a professional fashion photographer.

The funniest thing about this post is that I told you that Bug has signed with a modeling agency.  Initially is was just Bug, but when I went to look over these pictures with the agency they said they would like to go ahead and sign Bit too.  Now I have two models in my family.  Pictures of the little Bitty next time.

You can see more pictures from this photo shoot in the Girlies Photo Album in the left sidebar.