30 Days of Lists

How many of you have to write lists to keep track of all the things floating around in your head that needs to be done? I have lists going all over the house: for groceries, my wish list of what I want to get done for the week, list of projects I want to complete, etc, etc, etc...  Given my infatuation interest in Pinterest, I couldn't help but pin something that caught my eye called "30 days of Lists". It is fun little project where you compile a list based on a daily prompt, such as "I am a lister because..." or "This ______, I am going to:_____". It allows me to get a bit creative in addition to writing lists of interesting stuff. I can finally use all the fun little notebooks, stickers, scraps of favorite papers, and washi tape (of course!) that I have sitting around my office!

30 Days of Lists by J Blume

I had hoped to be ahead of the game and have my little notebook all ready to go and start listing on Day 1, but....I turned 40 (YIKES!) on Thursday and had too many other things to do over the past couple of days (understandably)! I started the cover of the notebook as you can see above and will be posting more pictures of my lists as I manage to get through them!

If you are interested joining this little project, you can register HERE. There is a small fee involved but this gives you access to their private blog, lots of free downloads, examples of what others are doing on the project via a Flickr group and other fun information and give-a-ways.

Happy listing!
J xx

Drawing with Misty Mawn

I'm taking an on-line class with Misty Mawn and this week is drawing. Lines, shading, doodles, portraits, whatever suits your fancy! It has been so much fun to pick up a pencil again. As a kid, I got a book from my Grandma on "how to draw animals". It was the greatest thing in the world, along with the tracing paper she gave me to trace the animals first to help get the feel of the proportions. Once I got pretty good at the tracing part, I moved onto drawing them from the pictures. Dogs were my favorite thing to draw, especially cute little golden retrievers or lab puppies off the covers of various magazines laying around the house. I honestly haven't sat down to just draw for a VERY LONG TIME. Here are a couple of the things I've drawn this week. Still have the assignment to do a self-portrait but not sure if that will happen or not....could be scary!

This is supposed to be Miss A, but she looks about 5 years older than she really is... oh well! Had fun drawing her :-)!

One assignment is to pick one item and draw it, paint it or incorporate it into the assignments every day of the 5 week class. I chose my favorite coffee/tea cup. Here's a couple different drawings of it as well as an apple from memory (something much different than a real apple!).

Have a great weekend!
Jx