DAYS 79-84 CREATING A HOME A DAY

Day 84-I got ambitious today and created wacky quilt block number 7.
Day 83 and 82-I have been frustrated the past couple of days and decided to close my eyes and see what my hand created. The first house is called "Letting Off Steam" and the second one is just "Angry House." It was amazing how my subconscous mind drew exactly what has been bothering me.

Day 81-Another scribble drawing. I love these. I close my eyes and draw what I am feeling. I was in more of a peaceful frame of mind when I drew this one.

Day 80-I was playing around with color in my journal. This is just the start. I have now changed the colors and ripped out the left part of the page. At some later date I will finish it and post it.

Day 79-A seashell house.

DAYS 70-78 CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Day 78-A house in a hand is worth two in a bush!

Day 77-A cuckoo clock house that I have worn on my charm bracelet since 1977.
Day 76-A mini house.
Day 75-A pasta house.
Day 74-Another house from my collection. I bought this one at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City in 1989.

Day 73-A faiytale house.Day 72-Another house card.

Day 71-Another house card.

Day 70-A monster house.

DAYS 66-69 CREATING A HOME A DAY

Day 69-I didn't create this house. It's a photo of one from my collection of houses. I've been collecting houses for years. I love houses!
Day 68-Sunday drawing-This one got a little confusing with the leaves and the checkerboard on the roof.

Day 67-I love this one! It's a collage made from pages of a home decorating magazine. I put it in the journal I made at Artfest last April.

Day 66-I made another house card from our granddaughter Chalee's name. Her birthday is coming up.

DAYS 56-65 CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Sorry I haven't posted for awhile. After our son and his family left to go home we had two more house guests arrive for a visit and then our daughter came a few days later with her two kids. So we have a house full and I have gotten behind on creating houses but last night I stayed up late and made seven house cards to get caught up. So technically I should label my houses by numbers instead of days because I'm not actually doing them on the actual day. Oh well, for consistency I will continue to label them the same way that I have been doing.

I found my missing house for Day 37! Here's a house picture made from the letters of the name of one of my granddaughters.

Here's my creation for Day 65. It's my husband's observatory in our backyard.
Day 64-I love the shadows on this one!

Day 63-This wacky house just looks happy! I like it.

Day 62-A wacky windmill.

Day 61-A round house.

Day 60-Take a look inside this house.

Day 59-Townhouses!

This is a creature I made from plant material to inhabit the house for Day 58.

Day 58-A flower house created from vegetation growing in our yard. I can't really call it a garden because stuff just grows everywhere-not just where we plant it. It's kind of pretty though and although I would like a beautifully landscaped yard my husband likes the "natural look" and it's much more fun for the grandkids (and easier!) so for now the "natural look" is okay!

Day 57-My favorite time of the year where we live is the last two weeks of July and the month of August because all of the college kids go home and we start harvesting from our garden. Day 57's house is made from snow peas and raspberries from our garden. The tree is made from what happens when we let our carrots go to seed. Pretty seed flowers though, they remind me of Queen Anne's Lace. I might have to pick some and make an arrangement!

Day 56-Here's a house made from junk mail from an advertisement for the Museum of Women's Art.

DAYS 47-55 CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

It's been awhile since I've posted any houses. I've been having the time of my life with my sons and grandchildren. See the previous posts for details of that experience!

Day 55-I created a small wool felted house. It's a bit wacky like my cards and quilt squares. I really want to start creating something a little different!
Day 54-This one is different. Day 52's houses all lined up in a row stationery was so boring. I went a little crazy with my house stamp and created this. I call it "Wild Houses Can't Keep Me Away." I really like getting wild and crazy. Must do it more often!

Day 53-I really didn't like the boring house stationery so made this one a little more crazy and added some lines and detail. Looks too much like my wacky houses.

Day 52-The boring houses in a row stationery.

Day 51-I drew a picture of what I imagined it would look like to look in the window of a rich person's house.Day 50-My granddaughter Jordan drew this picture of a house. She's eight. Isn't it great!

Day 49-My grandson Cameron made this encaustic collage of a haunted house. It's fun to use guest artists to help me out!

My granddaughter Breana made this encaustic collage as a gift for her mom.

This is Jordan's encaustic collage. These three are my oldest grandkids and they did a great job. I didn't even have wax all over my kitchen!

Day 48-Guest artist Breana made this card.

Day 47-Guest artist Jordan loved making house cards. Here are three that she created. Thanks for sharing, Jordan!

FAMILY TIME!

Our son from Arizona visited us for a week and we had a wonderful time. He brought his wife and two kids and also our oldest granddaughter. We got together with our other son who lives close and his wife and two girls (our oldest granddaughter is his daughter). The eleven of us had a great time. Our activities included a day at our town's new water park. Here is our son and our only grandson swimming in the lazy river.
We also had a great time playing hide and seek in our backyard. We played hide and go seek, had picnics in the backyard and got out the croquet set. Here is our granddaughter in one of our yard's hiding places.We also went to Fat Cats our local entertainment center where we bowled and played miniature golf in the dark (isn't this place cool!) and had pizza and soda.

One day we went to the zoo where a favoriate activity was feeding and brushing the goats and watching the zoo personnel feed the penguins.

Here's our son and his wife at the zoo.

We actually had half of our grandchildren during the week. Here they are at the zoo.

We also did crafts (for more crafts we did check out the Creating A Home Everyday entry). We decorated flip flops and water bottles.

Thank you Jared and Veronica for using your vacation time to visit! Please come again. It was so much fun! And Jared, thanks for using your vacation time to help solve our computer problems! And thanks for bringing B. I know you were crowded! We love you!