SELF PORTRAIT A DAY (WEEK?)

Number 14
At our public library's Friends of the Library bookstore I found a free copy of a congressional journal and thought it would make great collage and drawing backgrounds. So here's my first time using it.

A drawing I made at Carla Jimison's house on art night. It shows little bits of her studio put into one drawing.

PORTRAIT A DAY

I am behind on my self-portraits. I was busy working every spare minute trying to finish a quilt top for a show. So I am behind but I am still going to keep with my numbering system but the numbers won't match the dates anymore. This has been an interesting project. Each drawing represents how I feel. I've decided to do a little bit of journaling with each portrait. Then I will have a journal as well as a self-portrait. Even if no one else looks at them, this is good for me.

Number 10-This one is self-explanatory.

Number 11-I tried a three-quarter view with a larger marker. It turned out rather wacky but oh well!

Number 12-I missed a few days because of my quilt project but here I am at the county fair.

Number 13-Read my note and you will understand this one!

Cows, Cows, Cows

Allan and I took our granddaughters to the county fair. I had to take a picture of the cows since I have been feverishly trying to finish the quilt top in time to send it to the quilter. I am entering it in a show called Cow Stampede.

Lillee and Chaylee with the cows (well, calves.)

Aren't they adorable?

We had to check out the pigs because our granddaughters wanted to see if they could find Charlotte.

I just threw this picture in because I thought it was so cute. We went to the park the day after the fair.

While I was appliqueing my quilt I randomly selected a book from my grandchildren's book basket. I didn't even look at it. I placed it under my quilt so I could have a steady surface to sew on. Imagine my surprise when I pulled the book out from under the quilt and saw that I had randomly chosen the book Cows in the Kitchen!

Then the next night at the dinner table my granddaughter was playing with a word flip book and this is the page she was on. The word cow  in four languages!

Finally on Monday, I finished the top. Just in time to mail it to the quilter. I finished it in two weeks! And my granddaughters were with us 80% of the time. I stayed up a lot of nights until 2:00 a.m.

PORTRAIT A DAY

Number 9-I have been savings fortunes from the newspaper that I think are applicable for quite some time.

I HAVE A NEW CHALLENGE

I have decided to draw a self portrait every day. I can not spend more than an hour on each one. Here are the ones I have done so far. (I cheated and added some I did a long time ago so I can have one for every day of August.)

Number 1

Number 2 (I drew this when I was depressed)

Number 3 (Another therapeutic drawing)

Number 4

Number 5

Number 6

These are both number 7. They are contour drawings done with my eyes closed. I drew one then decided to do another one. I guess my brain was drawing the skinny me and the fat me. Funny.

Number 8
This one is freaky. This is me as Juliet. I look like I am thinking, "Get away from me Romeo, I know what trouble you are going to get me into!"

SUMMER FUN!

Chaylee, who is five years old drew these pictures of me.  I love them!

We were invited to my sister-in-law Marsha Morton's graduation at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. She received an honorary doctorate degree, along with two of her colleagues and Robert Redford. The Robert Redford! These are pictures taken at the college president's dinner the evening before.

Here she is at graduation. Robert Redford is seated on the far left in this photo.

Next we went to Arizona where we had lots of fun with Jared and his family and John's daughter Breana. Here we are with our 3D glasses after seeing Star Trek 3D at the Imax theatre.It was awesome.

The next day we went bowling. They each had their own unique style!

It's a tradition that we always make some kinds of craft. This year we decided to make pop-up cards.

Breana had the coolest duc tape and she showed us how to make bookmarks out of it.

We were lucky to have been invited to Veronica's friend Pilar's son's birthday party at LeGrande Pool. They rented the whole pool just for his party which made it great. I was even brave enough to get in a swimming suit and go down the water slide. It may be the last time I ride a water slide but it was fun. On the first curve my bad hip always hit the side so it was "OUCH...ouch....ouch! all the way down. It was worth it though!

TOP: Me and Veronica chillin'
BOTTOM: Me and our oldest grandchild, Breana who will be thirteen in August. Isn't she beautiful! 

After Arizona we visited Kim and Rigg and their too daughter's in Boise. We had more water park fun on Peyton's birthday. She was four!

Here she is with a friend. Below is a picture of her baby sister Paisley. She is the spitting image of her dad and Grandma Murray!

Our nephew John Jr. and his family were able to come too because they have moved to Meridian! Yay!

Our daughter Dani rode back with us to Rexburg so she could see her daughters and be there for our granddaughter Robyn's fourth birthday. It was so fun to see her with her kids!

The next day Robyn and Emma came over again and Chaylee and Lillee came up to spend a week so  I took all four of them to the splash park and we rode the carousel and went to Scoops after for a dollar ice cream cone.

I have been looking for summer recipes that don't heat up our kitchen as we have no air conditioning! Here's my taco salad. I made my own taco bowls out of uncooked tortillas from Sam's club. First you cook them lightly. Mold them over a metal or glass bowl that has been sprayed with Pam. Cover with tin foil, wrapping the foil all around the bowl into the inside. Cook on a cookie sheet top of the bowl down for 15 minutes. Take the foil off and cook for another 10 minutes at 350 degrees. I guess the oven did warm my kitchen but they were delish!