Pink Cloud Gift

Here's a beautiful gift from the skies.  I needed it.

Three Deer

Driving home a new way tonight, I saw a wondrous sight.  Three deer crossing the road in front of me.  Such a beautiful gift from nature set against Her less generous gift of cold winds and swirling snow.

Watercolor, Acrylic, and Ink

140 lb. Arches Watercolor

Day 341 & 342. Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth (SOLD)

Happy December, everyone!

It's hard to believe that I am entering the last month of this project. Way back in the beginning, I started on Christmas Day which would land me on Christmas Eve Day this year to cross the finish line.  But what is this?  As I plotted out my final miles of this marathon on my calendar, Day 341 today would lead me to finish Day 365 on Christmas again.  This projection couldn't possibly be right!  What the heck happened?  And so I went through my blog posts, back, back back, and FINALLY found that I had done TWO of Day 68!  I've been mislabeling my paintings/drawings since that number!

¡Ay, caramba!

Well, it's definitely a better position to be in than having accidentally skipped a day!

I thought, well, I could just proceed and do 366 Days, as if last year were a Leap Year.  But people, I am tired!!  Plus, you know how the saying goes:  "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." (-;  And I'm not going to.  I did the work, I'm going to claim it. (-:

Alright, full speed ahead. Let's get this adventure done!

"Look, I know it's a bit of a shock, but I need to get going.  

Either take the gift or don't, just stop staring at my mouth."

Here were the culprits--a little blast from the past.

From Saturday, March 2nd: Day 68. Hairstyle Repeat and a Golden Barrette

From Sunday, March 3rd: Day 68. Ben Affleck - Getting Back Up

Day 245. Hummingbird Surprise (SOLD)

Sunday I made my husband sit out on our front steps, eat breakfast, and soak up the lazy summer day.  We were talking, and all of a sudden, a moment of magic!  I could barely believe what I was seeing.  Just a few feet from our heads flitted a hummingbird.  And, it just stopped right there in the air, furiously pumping its little wings, but levitating perfectly in place like a toy helicopter.  I could only utter one word, it almost catching in my throat, "Hummingbird," as I simultaneously pointed my finger.  We both stared at it in disbelief.  It then zipped over to some half-opened blossoms of our magnolia tree, again, hung briefly in place, and then zoomed off into nowhere.

I felt sprinkled with stardust or a glittering of day dust.  What an enchanting gift from nature, unasked for, unsuspected, but given anyway.

Day 200. Un Cadeau Pour Moi? (A Gift for Me?)

Day 200.  Hard to believe.  Somehow reaching this day has more significance to me than that halfway point (Day 183-Six Months)  You may be thinking, uh, no doubt--you're 17 days further along!  I know, but there's something more.

I had read about some study that said that you are 10 times more likely to complete a year-long project once you hit that 1/2 way point.  Somehow that rounded number of 200 makes that probability believable.  See, I have to keep reassuring myself along the way that it IS possible, because even after this long period of time, I still need encouragement--I guess even if it's just from myself!--that I can do this.  Other than a small handful of people, I think I'm the only one seeing these drawings/paintings. Ah, well, so it goes.

So, here's a little acknowledgement from myself to myself--you've reached 200, baby.  Here's a gift for you--Un cadeau pour moi?  Mais bien sûr! (But of course!)

I hope all of you acknowledge your own hard work on whatever it is you're working on.  Life is hard, darlings.  Love yourself a little bit more. (-:

Here's one more gift for you, loyal readers.  This little ditty will wake you up!  Enjoy and have a great day. (-:

AC/DC and the Rolling Stones--2003, "Rock Me Baby--from Festweise, Leipzig, Germany."