Mama’s beaded creation
For Mama’s birthday earlier this month, we each started beading projects! This gorgeous turquoise and purple necklace is Mama’s design. Today we finished the cord and clasp so she could […]
Art For The Carer Night
This evening I participated in a wonderful virtual art therapy session with other caregivers from around the country. I didn’t finish my collage, but I had a great time meeting […]
Art pieces all fired up
Today’s #OneGoodThing with Mama was seeing the fruits of our creative labors! We picked up our ceramic and glass art pieces following their kiln firing at Create It, a local […]
Experimenting with canvas
I’ve never painted on canvas before but have long been intrigued by this medium. Mama gave me canvases and acrylic paints for my recent birthday and I’ve been eager to […]
Rolling felt rosebuds
My first infusion after surgery has left me flat-out exhausted. Though I wasn’t up and about, I was able to work on an ongoing art project a bit. I’m making […]
The allure of green fruit
It’s Day 8 of our September Art Challenge and the inspiration/prompt for today was fruit. Since we picked up a large bag of our favorite bright green Emerald Beaut pluots […]
Emerald Beauts are officially back!
Emerald Beaut pluots are officially back and therefore it was a great Saturday! But honestly, it was a pretty good one. Chronic pain levels were bearable so Mama and I […]
Our new daily drawing habit
Five days ago we began a September Art Challenge to rekindle the habit of creativity. Mama and I had a lot of fun drawing veggies, our garden, our adorable dog, […]
Breaking the stigma
Today’s #OneGoodThing was a good session with my therapist, who I’ve been seeing since before I started writing about #OneGoodThing every day. I’ve never openly talked about mental health on my blog […]
New sculpture swings above my bed
A paper maché sculpture of a woman joyously throwing back her head while standing on a flowered swing is now hanging above my bed. This beautiful art by sculptor Sarena […]
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