Seizing My Day

I am not sure if I would even be blogging right now if it weren’t for Ashley’s Sunday Scavenger hunt… =)  Thanks Ashley for keeping me in the loop!

Don’t get me wrong I love blogging… I just don’t seem to have as much time as I would like to be here …thus the once a week blog post the last few months… if I am lucky! =) Oh dear… anyway… I love doing the 365 day photo project (linking each week with Sarah!) and combining it with Ashley’s scavenger hunt list makes it too tempting to stay in the land of blog for now… my blog dreams are waiting while I just play once a week for now… I love roaming around seeing all the creative takes on your photos… it gives me my blog fix for the week… for now… until I revisit those blog dreams! 😉

anywho… Thanks for visiting!!

our last two weeks… I was distracted by the ocean again!  😉

211/365 Double

This week we painted

I painted our first puppy Lewis

our sweet pup who only got to live 8 short months… (sniff)

I painted one copy for each of my kiddos…

want to see how I did it?

212/365 “the method”

look for the details … find the puppy picture?

I traced it with tracing paper (I spy…)

made the pencil lines dark

flipped it over onto the canvas and transferred the pencil lead…

retraced it and painted!  =) 

213/365 Space (speaking of painting)

For these I printed LEGO Star Wars characters..

we traced, transferred and painted …

we meaning Sammy and I… =)  together…

created a couple Space pictures for Sammy’s room…

214/365 Space 2

215/365 My girl painting… just because I love her

and her kitty painting…

216 /365 Bright

the Summer sun is so bright

I love all the fun shadows that the sun casts through my kitchen window!

I have countless pictures of shadows… =) 

Sweet

Merlin buried his bone under my SWEET Honeysuckle

(its the only sweet in my week… sorry!) =)

I don’t like giving him rawhide… but once in a while we do…

like when we go camping and we want him preoccupied with something!

anyway he is such a funny boy with bones keeps em for weeks before finally chewing on them … he barks at them, protects them from the kitty…I have a little story written about the goof and his bone… maybe one day my pipe dream will become a reality…  writing a book!  anyway…

he digs the dirt with his front paws, puts the bone in…

and then covers it by pushing dirt over it with his NOSE?!!

seriously… his nose!  (sneeze, snuff, snuff, sneeze)  yep…

217/365 Whatever

It doesn’t matter Whatever these two do together…

it always involves giggling and laughing…

I love listening to them play together!

Good friends are such a blessing!

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and because I am a total slacker and haven’t blogged for 2 weeks

What can I say?   summer is too distracting! =)

anyway… here are my 7 photos from last week in keeping up with the Jones’… oh… I mean keeping up with Sarah’s 365 challenge!!  I was trying to keep up with Ashley’s challenge too..  you might recognize some prompts! =)

205/365 See what I was distracted by last week?  =)

206/365  The Floor (er ground)

was covered in sand, pebbles, rocks and SEA GLASS…

tumbled in the ocean

perfect treasures

207/365  Deception Pass State Park

208/365   Repeating Patterns

Sammy repeated patterns on his clay frogs!

this week was paint… last week was clay…  we are a crafty bunch…

209/365   Fingertips (formed by my little girls fingertips!)

My kiddos made about 50 clay creations last week!

210/365 (not so) Empty Streets

211/365   Then (Merlin at 6 mo) &   Now (Merlin at 2)

silly Merlin… smoking his bone…

Then: before he was ever groomed …Now:  how we keep his fur now!!  =)

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That is a wrap folks… two weeks crammed into one blog post…

Hope you all are enjoying summer as much as I am… a few camping trips… but mostly playing locally…its a cheap summer for us… but we are enjoying as much of it as we can!

Blessings!~

Jenn