Happenings...

Sooo our weeks have been full and heavy but our weekends have been beautifully quiet.

The girls have had so much homework, assignments and studying.  Which means I get to catch up on life.
Which I am just loving, by the way... it's been really good for my soul, the forced quiet and calmness.

We are rapidly slipping into autumn which always freaks me out a bit...

I'm not ready for the coming winter months.  It makes me restless.

Misty's tutorials were so incredible on Friday - it was part two of portraiture... but it made me give my studio one big wide birth all weekend - I don't know why I freak myself out so much!  As much as I'm feeling restless about the coming winter months, I'm also feeling restless #InMyStudio, with my abilities and the rate I'm learning etc.etc.etc...  Sometimes I feel like I'm getting no where and other times I feel I am.

So I did everything except do my portraiture homework... bad girl!

So I did other creative things... instead!

Like...

Played with this portrait I did last year

I merged the same painting I did, at different stages... one in the early stages and the other in it's finished stage.
Merging these pictures to make them work, is harder than you think and it takes a fair amount of time... 

I am loving iPhotography and playing with apps so much!!  Warning - it's addictive!

L.O.V.E in4Pics

My online friend and classmate Heidi, tagged me to play this iPhotography/Instagram challenge to create the word L.O.V.E in4pics (spelling it out) using everyday things around you - such fun!

Created new sacred spaces!

I'm definitely going through a white stage!

This past year - I've been refurbishing furniture, frames, whatever I can find, to white!

And loving it!

Long Slow Baths...

While listening to fabulous AudioBooks!

I had a bit of a break but I'm hooked again!  Last week I finished 3 new books!

Storytelling at it's finest!