Birdie’s favorite things at 9 months old!

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I’m just too amused by this sketchbook page to not share it.

It took me so long to finish that she had already turned 10 months by the time I finished! It’s hard to make time for big projects like this when you’re a full-time stay-at-home mom, but it was very much worth it in my eyes. I even kept it as simple as possible, but I simply couldn’t find the time to work on it most days! It got done eventually though, as you can see.

You can’t tell just from the photo, but this is a VERY large sketchbook. I’m not sure of the dimensions, but it’s over 12″ wide. That contributed to how long it took to finish, each small illustration would have taken up most of the page in one of my travel sketchbooks!

Luckily though, starting today, I am only a part-time stay-at-home mom! Due to our situation we qualified for free daycare, so we now get 6 hours of free time every week day. She loved it too, no surprise there since she is such a social butterfly. She even napped TWICE, and she hates napping for us! I can’t wait to have so much more time to devote to my creative hobbies!

That’s all for now, I hope Monday was kind to you all, and I’ll see you in the next post!

Discovering the joy of Posca paint markers…

We recently acquired some Copic markers and a Posca paint pen, I really love the Copics and have been using them a lot! But the Posca marker has a lot of novelty factor for me because it’s a more unfamiliar art supply. I’ve used alcohol markers before, but never acrylic paint markers. I love how you can draw and write on just about anything! I’ve been drawing hearts and faces on random inanimate objects around the house, and even labeled my ceramic coffee jars with it.

I will probably post a big “art dump” (or several separate smaller art dumps?) of what I’ve been doing in my sketchbook pretty soon, once I get some quality time with the computer. My partner has been playing a lot of Roblox with “the boys” (her three nephews) and the WordPress App leaves a lot to be desired so I don’t bother using it.