More coloring

Another chalk coloring. I did this with my Arteza markers

I freehand did this giraffe 🦒 and used my watercolor pencils on it. I love how it turned out. The bird I stamped and used my Arteza markers to color with. 

A close up of my giraffe 🦒 

This is Lila my service dog. Many of you know this already but I have had her 7 years now. She is able to alert toblood sugar and narcolepsy and many other things. She is a special girl. Her vest is off and she is off duty at the moment. But still adorable. 

She likes to be wrapped up when it’s cooler. 

Used the Arteza pens for this as well. They are really brilliant and beautiful. 

I showed where I tried some tangling in the last blog. Got a deal on this and thought it would be fun. I now know why it appears to me. In needlework I love all the specialty stitches. Also needlepoint uses these a lot instead of contenental stitches only. 

Saw this and I’m practicing  with my brush markers.  

Love this magazine. It has a little of everything in it to do. It published by new design originals so it includes stuff from all their coloring books. 

And here is one of my resident common amber snails 🐌. I love these little guys. 

New brush markers

Jim was so sweet to buy me this set by Arteza of 96 watercolor brush markers. I absolutely love them and I got them on sale too!!:)

They are in such an awesome carrying case. It came with a water pen too. 

These even lift out as they are secured by Velcro. 

Worked on a cross stitch bracelet. You can see my small scissors holder I made out of plastic canvas too. 

It’s coming along..

Do you see the plastic canvas scissor holder. I made that for my large handled scissors and I love it. 

I did this one with gel markers



I got this cute butterfly magnet at the dollar general and I used the Arteza pens with it. 
I also made this beautiful Monarch Butterfly 🦋 

I love doing chalk designs. I used gel pens on this. 

This one I used Cra-Z-Art 72pc colored pencils and used a new trick for special effects. I used highlighters in pink, orange 🍊, and yellow to lighten the ends of leaves 🍁 or words. I think it turned out pretty good. 

I used my Prismacolors 150pc set on this and used my derwent colorless blender and burnisher on this. 

I used the Sudee Stile 150pc colored pencils on this one. 

And again I used prismacolors on this one. 


A good friend of my who called herself The Mindful Doodler had me curious and I just got some really neat books on it so I thought I would give it a try. Well I hope you all love today’s edition. Much love and blessings to all of my followers. 

First winter storm

Here I am all gussied up for the blustery winter day. So pam was in the mood to try out her new egg holders and after the pan warmed they did a good job and the egg sandwiches were yummy. Pam and I have been coloring and I think these are turning out good pams is the one on the left. 

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