daily painting day seven

  Clouds over Egypt. Inspired by You Are Here by Chris Hadfield

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daily painting day six

 Paraguay.

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daily painting day five

 Florida Keys. Inspired by You Are Here by Chris Hadfield

 

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daily painting day four

 Tungareva in the Cook Islands today.

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daily painting day three

Today we're off to Bolivia.

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daily painting day two

 Bahamas inspired today. Didn't turn out exactly as I wanted. Oh well. There's always tomorrow.

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daily painting day one

I've been busy getting all my planning done for my piano studio as well. I kind of feel like that all I've been doing for weeks. I will be so happy to get back into the swing of teaching every day. I only had my Saturday students continue through the summer so it was definitely not a busy summer. I've got a few new students starting as well as all my familiar faces from the last school year.

September is also the start of another 30 days of daily painting over at Slices of Life with Leslie Saeta. The last few weeks I've actually been pretty good at getting into the studio everyday to paint but have been bad at getting anything posted here. Instagram is SOOOOOO much easier! 

I decided this time around instead of scouring the internet for images to paint from, I would use Chris Hadfield's book You Are Here as inspiration for 30 days of abstract painting. I will post a picture from the book as well as the painting it inspired each day.

Here's day one...Africa

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sewing

 These are Amelia's last two sewing projects.

I found the pattern for this fruit bag here. It is a great pattern because it gives you the choice of a few different types of fruit just by changing the colours of fabric and the seeds you applique onto the bag.

Amelia made this bag today and was it ever a HIT! She had picked the pattern last week and it was supposed to have rope handles. She had forgotten to get rope to use and was a little disappointed when she showed up this morning. Little did she know that the little knitting store down the street from us had put out a big bin of plastic handles with a "FREE" sign last weekend. I scooped 10 pairs so she was able to use them in place of the rope. It was a surprisingly easy bag to make. She sewed everything by herself except doing the casing for the handles which was a little tricky even for me to do.

We are starting a big quilting project next week which will take probably 4 weeks to complete.