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