Purposeful Joy

I just found that I

can play with color

while I type.

Simple fun.

And  purple is fun too!

Then there's sunny yellow.

And then colored fonts. Oh,

what joy can be found

if your eyes are open

to it!

Simple joy bringers.

Like coffee.

Love my Folger's

made in my

percolator.

With plenty of

half and half

in just the right mug.

I enjoy people watching.

I love these two.

Holding hands,

sticking together,

and wearing their bathing

suits!  

Nobody really

cares if you've got

some bumps on your thighs!

I remember this day at

the beach.  My young

friend and I

and the mud.

Glorious mud!

I have fond memories

of introducing my

babies to mud.

I lived in the country

then and we had

plenty of it.

Purposeful playing

and what fun we had!

Color a little outside

the lines.

Live your life and

be purposeful.

Treasure

those 

around you.

I hope you find simple

joys today.

live imperfectly with great delight,

deedee

Challenge Yourself

I am a substitute teacher

this year.

I am brave.

Well....really, I take the

jobs that seem super easy to me.

Those lovin' Kindergarteners,

Preschoolers and lower Primary grades

But I've had the thought recently 

that I need to challenge myself.

In the little things really.

Like baby steps in exercise

(go up and down the stairs more)

not too big of a challenge, you see.

But last week I accepted a teaching job

that was unfamiliar to me in the 

teaching realm...

egads...Art!

I know you're thinking, duh, she likes art.  But there

is so much I don't know how to do and I really

do draw like a little kid.  The

challenge really lies in

having to do multiple classes and

will they be respectful, to me, to each other.

That is much easier to teach when you

have the whole day with one set of kids.

But I took it...and had

A BLAST!

I got to stay for 3 days and I learned

how to paper mache' from scratch!

So today I tried making some little

French birds.

They're French because the paper

is from an old French paperback I had.

They are in process, but pretty cute

none-the-less!

                                     

These little birds in the nests turned out so cute.

Another challenge I gave myself was 

to actually make one cute thing

yesterday.

I've been in the reading, cleaning the studio and

gathering ideas mode and haven't

made anything in a while.

As you can see, I met

my challenge.

I wore my lovely feathered hat to inspire me.

Here are some drawings of birds

the art students drew for me.

I absolutely love 

children's drawings.

                                         

"Consider the birds of the air....are you

not much more valuable than they?"

Matthew 6:26

What can you challenge yourself to? 

I am kind of excited to set

some more challenges for myself.

And I look forward to when they aren't

just in baby steps.

Grace and Peace to you my friends,

deedee