Yardwork and Art

Hi everyone!  I hope you are having a wonderful Friday.  This morning, since we had the day off, I went to gentle yoga class.  Then after I got home I worked on the back yard.  It is a huge mess and really I probably need someone else to help me out but I figure if I can do some of it then it will cost less to pay someone else to finish it.  Anyways... I filled these bags with pine straw:

Yes, those bags are large enough to fit a person.  My neighbor gave them to me - he works (or owns? I'm not sure) at a shipping (mailing) company and those are the bags that the packing peanuts come in.  Anyways.. I also cut down these limbs on one side of the house:

Still so much work to be done:

Limbs from back yard that were hanging over fence into front yard

Leaves, pine straw and limbs already raked and cut

Happy because I was done at this point hehe

Here is a pretty decent shot of the back yard - you can probably see 1/3 of it in this picture:

I also took a picture of the pretty blue flowers on the side of the house in the front:

See how big it is?  Next time I move I am moving into a condo or apartment that doesn't require me to do yard work!!

After the yard I did some art work.  I had a lot of fun.  I painted a canvas that I had gessoed a few weeks ago - but all I got done so far was the background color.  I am hoping to work on it some more tomorrow.  Then I also made an ABC card:

and an ATC:

And another art piece:

Open up the flap and that is where I wrote:

And then I worked on post cards.  I put the backgrounds on to some cards.  Now I have 15 cards with finished backgrounds that just need pictures or words on them!  I am hoping that I can work on those tomorrow too!

I don't think I told you guys but a few days ago I got confirmation that my meditative drawing class with the kids is set for the last 3 Wednesdays in July and I have 14 students which is a full class!  Now I have to get hot working on my visual aids - basically I am making super huge (11x14) step by step zentangles.  I am also going to make a huge mandala, a huge scribble tangle, and a huge hand tangle which are some projects I am going to have the kids do - they won't be doing the huge version but I want the big size to show them.

Well friends, I guess that is all for now.  Hope you all had a great Friday and have something fun planned for this wonderful Memorial Day Weekend!  "See" you tomorrow.