Day 27- My baby helped me draw today

Not only did my baby help me draw today, my baby did the whole drawing. My Desi-boo isn't a baby anymore. He is a toddler. He is 16 months and 1 day old. He loves drawing. He's just started copying everything his brother does. Things like kicking and splashing in the bathtub, acting like a goofball, telling secrets. He has also in the past few days started saying words (finally!) I was really starting to freak out about his verbal development. Whenever I get the camera out he says eeeee, eeeeeee. He loves his doggie, his brother, going outside (another word he started to say) even when it is freezing outside and he is barefooted. He loves to play in water, throw Moby's food into his water bowl, sing and scream and jabber all day long. Before today he had given me exactly 3 real kisses in my life, and today he doubled that number in about 2.3 minutes. I have now been lucky enough to be the recipient of 6 baby boo kisses. He does not give kisses often, but he will allow you to kiss him. He will give you his head or cheek and let you kiss him on it if he wants to give you kisses. I love my little baby. He is the happiest, funnest little guy, in fact my sis-in-law just babysat for us and said that he is the happiest baby she has ever been around, and she used to daycare for a living. But man does he have a temper! Major temper on this little boy, but it just makes me love him even more when I see that cute little face all scrunched up and crying because he definitely milks it for all it's worth. So in honor of my little boy getting older, and him stealing my pencil while I was drawing and screaming when I tried to take my pencil back, here is a picture by him in my sketchbook. (I held onto his hand and helped him write his name and the date.)

This weeks pictures were all very small. All 6 of them were on one page in my sketchbook.

Day 26- Chair and another peek at what my house looks like

I mentioned earlier this week that my parents were in town. They left yesterday to head back home before the weather took a turn for the worst. While they were here we went to a bunch of thrift stores and antique stores. I managed to make it through lots and lots of stores and only bought a new-to-me cast 9 inch cast iron skillet and a bag of duplo blocks. Oh and a skirt and a dress that were only $2 each at a sidewalk sale at a cool local store called Junkee. Half of the store is vintage and used clothing and the other half is antiques, junk, and dustables. I got my clothes on the clothing side and on the other side my parents found a desk and three cool chairs that I think used to be dining chairs. They managed to get the desk, a nightstand, all their stuff, and one of the chairs into their car. They left the other two in my garage until next time they come or we go up to see them. The one they took was painted a shiny gold color, the other two were mostly white with bits of orange, and turquoise with bits of white, heavily distressed with bits of wood showing though. Steve and I both thought the chairs were so cool looking and fell in love with them and so I decided to bring them in the house until they can go back to my parents. I put them near our front door where I always dump my purse, diaper bag, church bag, and jackets when we come home. They look so awesome. I'm trying to convince my parents to sell them to us because we really like the way they look in our house, and we love the way the chairs finish looks. Here's a quick chair sketch. 

And a very blurry picture taken from a similar angle of the turquoise chair (and the dog leash)

 And one more for kicks of the whole little area. This is after you come through our front door and to the left before it steps down into our family room. I am sitting on the stairs taking this picture. I painted that picture above the chairs when I was in high school. I love it!

Day 25- Anniversary Flowers revisited and a few guilty confessions

I may have cheated on my picture a day blog already. I have may have cheated more times than I have let on. Today I cheated. This week I cheated. A lot. I drew both shell pictures on the same day. I also drew yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and the next day all on the same day. :/ :) Why am I telling you this? I don't know, but I am, and I'm still dating them all with different days and pretending they were all drawn on each day. They are still a drawing a day, just not drawn on that day. And hey, it's my blog, I can do whatever I want right. Right? And you'll keep reading even though I am cheating sometimes? Right?
Today is another quick sketch of that pretty lilly from the anniversary flowers my sweet husband gave me almost 2 weeks ago... How's that for yet another confession on this post. The flowers have been nearly dead  for a week and sitting on the table still because I love them. Nothing to get you to clean up like having company over!

Day 24- Anniversary Lillies

My anniversary flowers are mostly dead, but they were so pretty I kept hanging on to them. We are having company over though, and it's a little embarrassing to have these dead flowers sitting on the table, so I took a few pictures of the dead flowers so I could draw them. All that's left now is a sprig of eucalyptus and some purple flowers that I'm not sure what they are. The stem on of the big beautiful lillies broke and the lilly was hanging upside down, but I thought it still looked very cool so here it is. Just a quick sketch, very quick, like less than 5 minutes, which compared to the 2+ hours others can take is, well, quick.

Day 23- Ammonite sketch

Today's picture is another version of yesterday's drawing. Just a sketch of the ammonite. Ammonite is a fossilized shell. Ours is from Madagascar 120 million years ago. We bought it at the Rock Shop up in Virginia City once when we were on a date there in the winter time a few years ago. Virginia City is fun, but it's definitely a lot more fun in the summer, and there's more to do there in the summer. This past fall Steve and I went there and took my mom, dad, and sister Leslie. We went and did a ghost tour. It was a little hokey, but pretty fun I thought. After the ghost tour we went to the cemetery in town that was featured in the show Ghost Adventures. That part was spooky and I was pretty scared at first.

This is the Ammonite

This is my sister and dad in Virginia City last fall

Day 22- Ammonite Pointillism

My parents are here visiting and today is my mom's birthday! Happy Birthday Mom!! While they've been here we have been doing some thrift store shopping looking for a nightstand for their guestroom. My mom just refinished an old door from the house on our property in Illinois. Although it's not actually our property anymore since my parents sold the place almost a year ago. I will do a picture of that place someday, it holds a special place in my heart. Anyways though, my mom refinished the door to use as a headboard and it turned out so cool. While we were out shopping one of the thrift stores had a really cool pointillism picture so I decided to do pointillism for today's sketch.I got tired of making dots so it isn't quite finished, you get the idea though.

Day 21- Break day

This is a picture I started a long time ago. It was supposed to be a gift for my mother-in-law, but I never actually finished it and gave it to here. I did a grid transfer drawing of my son, and my nephew. I need to add my other nephew and son now too. One of these days...
P.S. about the lame writing, still tired because I am posting all of the 15th-21st at the same time, and I'm so tired, my eyes keep rolling back in my head and I keep forgetting what i'm typing. Hope these past few days make sense... I know it doesn't make sense, because it's not actually days, the past few posts.. hopefully the posts make sense, if they don't I hope no one kills on our walk back to the hotel.  Oh my goodness, don't know what I'm typing, I'm thinking about my and Steve's trip to Belize and walk home from a restaurant after dark and how scary it was, don't know where that came from though. Ugh, I need to go to sleep. Goodnight!

Day 20- Candlestick

Tonight I sketched a candlestick while watching the movie Elektra with my dad and husband. My mom went to bed early, I think she was probably tired from driving up from Vegas. I am so excited my parents are visiting, and I think it's cool they get to see my side of the picture a day blog, the part where I actually draw a picture every day, and they get to see the process of me drawing and how long it actually takes. It was neat. SO here is today, a candlestick. I have a pair of these. Steve and I found them at a thrift store in Sparks after we bought our new house. They were only $.97 each! This same thrift store is where I found my pottery barn pillows with down inserts form $2.97 each! A steal if you ask me. This one probably took me 1-2 hours while we were watching the movie. Probably closer to 2 because I don't remember all of the movie which means I was not paying attention because I was drawing.

picture taken later at different angle and with different lighting than when I drew it