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If you follow my stories you should have seen some of my ‘daily’ bible or inspirational quotes I try to post...but here is an actual church service I tried to journal. I find I pay better attention when listening to a sermon if I take notes. Lately I’ve been adding in more lettering styles over the last year or so into a lined journal. That one was full so I moved into a @moleskine dotted journal a friend gifted me. I penciled most of this in during the service and then lettered it over the last two days at home using @kellycreates dream pens and fineliners when I had time. Some of the marker bleeds through to the next page a bit, so I think I may try to use the pages between to take notes in pencil, and then the next page spread to letter in the points of interest. Do you journal in church? Should I keep posting the simple daily inspiration in my story or just bits and pieces of this book as I fill it in and highlight it as I go along? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

I’d been meaning to try an illustration on this canvas pencil case I was given from @jemstory and I received just the right amount of inspiration from Chasity of @chiciscre8ive ...and from my garden dahlias. Her and I are team members of @kellycreates and she just did a tutorial for Kelly’s blog last week. She gave me that extra nudge needed to get creative as we messaged each other, and she cheered me on 😊 Thanks Chasity. In other news...the weather is holding and I still have some dahlias making live appearances...as seen in this photo. That makes me extra happy 😊 However... I do need to get marking the varieties and prepping to dig the tubers for _ _ _ _ _ _ storage. I refuse to say that word yet...and with predicted temps of 28 degrees Celsius today I will be enjoying deck life this afternoon to the fullest extent. Happy Monday!

The #littlehands helping to ‘show off’ the size and colour variations of the dahlias still blooming in the yard...and let me just say some are real exhibitionists without even knowing it. The saying goes that, ‘Flowers don’t compete with one another, they just bloom’...but let’s be real here people. Yes, they may not be competitive with each other, and each has their own spectacular beauty...but...some just make you go ‘Whoa!’ when you see them, as they say ‘How awesome I am without even trying?’ 😂 #dahliaseason #dahlialove

My daughter @jopro08 had been busily creating a castle drawing to paint with watercolour while we were away at the ‘cabin in the woods’ a couple of weeks ago. We had a quite a few windy/rainy days to create. She had finished one and decided to create a second in a different colour scheme, so I requested she transfer an extra one for me to try...to which she happily obliged. I am envious of both my daughters freer style of artwork...so my attempt here was to try and ‘loosen up’ with this one...not sure I succeeded 😂 See if you can guess which 1 of the 3, castles is mine...

I consider myself very lucky to have snagged this ’Cole Steel’ vintage cabinet from Cindy of @junquehaus in the spring. I had scrubbed every crevice clean, moved it into the house and filled it with ‘some’ of my many art supplies. I hadn’t done a final sort or added labels...but I did that today. You can swipe for a video, detailing what’s inside those 33 drawers...if you care to that is...

The #littlehands have been picking apples...and the bigger hands have been processing them. We have ‘crisped’ them...sliced and froze them...for more ‘crisps’ in the future...and sauced them...and donated the soft ones and cores, to the local deer population. What do you like to do to with your bounty?

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