This is a picture from my art journal that I started keeping while DH was in the hospital. This is in a small (about 6" X 8") scrapbook that I bought at Wal-Mart, but my favorites are about 8" X 10", and I buy them at Dollar General for $3.00 (they'll probably quit stocking them now, but I have four stashed in my craft room). I did not inherit my mother's ability to draw, but I did inherit her love of color and her enjoyment of detail work. I section off the pages and draw the basic designs with a black Pitt brush pen, then go back and fill in the color using other Pitt brush pens (at least 48 different colors, just like that wonderful box of Crayolas from my childhood). When I went to the hospital every day, I carried my journal and pens with me (in my bright pink plastic tote from Hobby Lobby).

I am a math teacher by profession, and I think the orderly, geometric feel reflects that training. Someone also commented to me that the pictures are a reflection of my desire to control some part of my life at that time.

I have three other journals in progress--two of the spiral-bound notebooks, and a loose leaf journal/scrapbook that will be kept in an 8.5" X 5.5" three-ring binder. I finished the alphabet cards for my niece and great-niece and put them in the mail yesterday.

Time to change the DVD, get another glass of water, and get back to my drawing...I also got a new Somerset Studio in the mail yesterday, and I'm saving it for later today.