woodland fantasy gals ~

I'm still doodling ... with my magic marker~

I know you saw this one ~ my first attempt at drawing a human (my grandlove Bailey)...  and I had to cover most of her up with flowers and leaves to hide my mistakes.

Well... I had fun doodling those flowers and leaves ... and I figured if I want to learn how to draw people I need to practice ...  eyes, mouths, contours of the face, ahhh... so many features.  I've never taken an art class besides what I learned in grade school.  I'm sure there are easier ways to go about drawing these things; but I'm just learning as I doodle as to what seems to work and what doesn't.

So ~

here's the doodles from this last week ...  My Woodland Fantasy Gals :)

I tried doing more realistic ... but that's just not happening.  Eyes, noses, mouths ... how frustrating!!  Maybe if I tried drawing with a pencil so I can erase; but I'm going at it the hard way .. using ink or my new fave ... a Sharpie Magic Marker Pen.  Although, with a pencil I can see how it would be easier to draw because you could do shading.  How do you shade with a magic marker?  I haven't figured that one out ... yet. So the little bit of shading on the pics is from pencil.

Only one more ... "the bearded lady"

 Okay ... enough of my doodling around.  I have to clean house ~ I'm slipping on my duties as the Domestic Diva.  I took the tree down last week and I still see tinsel in the carpeting and I have a sink full of dishes from last night!  I hardly ever do that ... leave dishes sit over night; but we had a late supper and then the Packers played.  I have my priorities!

Until next time ...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel

chillin'~

Just chillin' with my hubby ~ checking traps

 

... the creek off my daughters yard - with a beaver feed bed in the middle ~

last week Dear Hubby put in some traps ...

ALWAYS ... carry the chisel and test the thickness of the ice!

popple sticks make good bait ...

HELLO ... anybody down there!

~ Staci's driveway ...

... she lives out in the sticks :)

... chiseling out the traps ... 

Dear Hubby isn't happy with the set up on this creek and is pulling his traps out until a later date.  I guess he knows what he's looking for.

~ the bottom broke out of the trapping basket ... I guess I have my work cut out for me now ~ trying to figure out a way to mend that. 

... guess I'll carry them :)

I was really nice out today.  The temperature was around 20 degrees ~ the sun was shining.  I enjoyed getting out with Slim for a few hours this afternoon.  It was like a tropical heat wave out there after the last few days we had of sub zero weather.  We came home, had a crappie fish fry with some baked beans and hash brown potatoes.  Life is good.

Until next time ...

So it goes in my neck of the woods.

~mel

new year ~

Welcome 2013!

I survived the New Years Eve festivities up at Donner's Bay Resort last night ... and was even tucked away into my cozy bed by 3 a.m.  It was a cold night last night here in northern WI.  On the way home (the resort is 22 miles from our place) the thermometer in the truck said it was 4 degrees out when we left and as we got closer to home the temps were dropping.  We had -10 BELOW ZERO when we got home.  First time this year we hit the double digits below zero! brrr...

So are you a maker of resolutions?   My resolution is not to make resolutions.  Then I don't feel bad when I break them ... which I always do. 

I do wish though that I had more will power to follow through on things I would like to do.  Yep ... I admit it ... I'm not quite perfect and have a few issues that one might call flaws. lol ... now I sound like Slim.  Note ... I ONLY SAID A FEW!! NOW I REALLY SOUND LIKE SLIM!!! LOL

~~~

a few more doodles ...

I love old coloring book pages for inspiration ... but this next one I was inspired by this scrapbook page I did a few years back of my youngest grandlove.  Bailey is now 7 but was 3 years old in the photo.  She's still just as adorable, beautiful and full of charm now as she was then.  I truly think she inherited it from me:)

It started with me trying to capture her eyes, and I also wanted to age her a bit more.  Does my doodle  resemble her??   Dear Hubby doesn't think so ... my son in law thought I was drawing my sister Colleen ... I guess I don't know who it resembles ... if anyone ... I was shooting for Bailey.

I spilled on the paper with some white out and it made a huge blob where her mouth was suppose to be ... drawback of drawing in ink ... no erasing ... so it turned into a bunch of flowers ... and the flowers, etc... spread out from there. I guess that's why I call it doodling ~ because I never know what my mistake is going to turn into.

Until next time ...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel