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Jenna
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After the previous ghosts using blue or purple as a base, I wanted to play around with making a rainbow of ghosts. The first one I ran out of space for purple 😭. The second I had fun adding candles to the background. #watercolor #halloween #ghosts #watercolorofbluesky
These ghosts were so much fun to play with! #ghosts #watercolor #watercolorghosts
I painted some pumpkins over the weekend while mostly home sick. How do I always forget that making and creating makes me a less aaaaaaah being? 😂. I enjoyed playing with all the colors of fall for these. #watercolor #pumpkins #fall
How sick is my 5 year old? Sick enough he did not make any butt jokes about the butt book. Dire.
(Not actually dire, but the butt and poop jokes are his favorite right now)
“When you die, does your blood come with you?” -TJ, 5 years old
#thingskidssay
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
My sunflower patch is so happy! I’ve got a big guy who’s almost as tall as I am and still not ready to bloom! And the little pollen filled bee leggies! I hope yall are ready for eternal sunflower posting. #sunflowers #pollinators
I was very anxious about my drawing skills being up to this one, drew and inked it, then my kiddo Helped 😭. I managed to get the pencil off the center and do the watercolors. Might add a border to go with her pencil at some point 😂. #watercolor #watercolorinnatire #fern #naturepainting
Carrying on through Watercolor in Nature by Rosalie Haizlett, here’s the fly agaric mushroom I painted a few weeks ago. I’m very happy with how all the little details turned out and I reluctantly agree with her suggestion of the aquamarine blue and burnt umber combo for shadows 😂
Some pretty flowers from today’s adventures #flowers
A geometric watercolor I gifted a friend for their birthday. I was very pleased with the overlays this time. These are such meditative pieces to make. Also featuring Gus and Thor snuggling. #watercolor #gusandthorthecats
Imperial moth I painted last week, also from a tutorial in Watercolor in Nature by Rosalie Haizlett. I enjoyed this buddy’s gentle asymmetry and fuzzy texture. #watercolor #watercolorinnature #moth #imperialmoth
I’m enjoying it! I’m finding that her instructions don’t always include all the steps, but the pictures are sufficient to make up for it. I’ve drawn but not painted the praying mantis yet.
Last week I drew and painted a daisy from a new watercolor tutorial book., Watercolor in Nature by Rosalie Haizlett. This one has you do a detailed sketch, trace in ink, erase, then paint. Certainly more a production than my standard, but I’m enjoying it. Perhaps I can draw now 😂 #daisy #watercolor
First blooming sunflower of the year! The mowers took out my first round of volunteers and it really hit me hard. So I’m so excited for the first bloom! #sunflowers #gardening
I painted some jellyfish for my kiddo’s teachers.
#jellyfish #watercolor
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Trump is already grabbing people off the street and disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador and this is only month 2 of the regime. If these people are allowed to stay in power where do you think we're going to be at when month 48 hits?

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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The situation with the deported Venezuelans and the El Salvador prison is horrific. Nightmarish. An escalation in brutality and cruelty from an already unconscionably brutal and cruel regime. But it's also another example of the shoddy way this "move fast and break things" government is doing stuff.
One of my recent watercolor exercises! Butterflies, especially monarchs make me do happy. My workbook and I continue to disagree about color mixing, but that was more excuse to play around. #watercolor #butterfly #monarchbutterfly
Oh this is lovely. I bet it’s so nice to pet.
We changed all the sheets today with best Helpers. Truly jumping on the bed and rolling under the sheets and chucking random objects off the bed makes making the bed so much easier. 😅😂
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Master of disguise quilt
84” x 78” NFS
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I’m making an egg quilt. A dozen fried eggs. My own pattern. Quilting is next. #quilting