I was so excited when I found you in my feed today! I’ve been for a post since school days began and you got busy with your children! I’m so sorry about your pepper plant 🙈 I hate that when it happens, but your soul is like mine, and I end up feeling sorry for all the critters and just let them eat away. I joke with my husband we grow our garden as a salad bar for the rabbits! 🐇 🤣
Bless your heart, I’m happy everyone has recovered from yearly flus. And your poor sourdough? 😔 Well, sometimes you just have to start again from scratch.
I always love how you weave your stories in with your art. Of course I’m in love with your art and writing! Thank you for posting this, it made my heart do a happy dance! 💗💓💗
You have such a generous soul, and thank you so very much for looking forward to an update and for the lovely compliments. I am grateful for you. That’s funny about your garden! I bet you have some happy rabbits around your place. We used to have a large garden at a different house and the squirrels would go through all the tomato plants, pick the ripe ones, and take one bite and leave them on the edge of the garden. It was funny and frustrating.
Thank you again for the lovely comment and for taking the time to read through and look at my art. I hope your week is off to a wonderful start! ❤️
Oh wow Jenn! You always amaze me with your sketching and painting and it’s so wonderful to see you sharing here again! Thank you so much. Definitely always have that dry starter on hand too lol. School sounds great. When do I sign up? 🙏❤️
Thank you, Jamie! It has been a while, thank you for stopping by to read and check out my art! I always appreciate your kind enthusiasm and I hope you’ve been well. I was shocked that the dried starter was still good and how quickly it came alive; it felt like a forlorn hope when I decided to try it. Incredible stuff and worth its weight in gold. School is quite fun this year, we always have room for an extra teacher/pupil ☺️❤️
Oh Jenn, I love your paintings! and this whole story. I know you've been going through a lot lately and I'm praying for peace. It sure can come through the creating or, as you say (and I agree) in creating to somewhat feel a sense of control in the uncontrollable. Also, those fever dreams! Oh I've had them and wrote quite a dramatic piece off of one. It's crazy how that happens. And that little monkey hornworm! ugh! So glad your pepper plant came back. Love how you tied all of the life experiences around you and inside of you with nature and your bread starter! Glad that worked out too. Sending you a big hug. ox
I remember your fever dream piece, it was amazingly told, you made me really feel the dream, too. Thank you so much for the prayers, they are always appreciated ☺️ and thank you for the kind compliments! Everything worked out in the end; it always does, doesn’t it, when you look back. Thank you for the hugs, I’m sending some right back your way! I hope your Monday is a beautiful one ❤️
There is prognostication in your efforts to set more starter dough aside. The hornworm stimulated the pepper to regrow. Like browsing deer stimulate new growth. Both have the same effect. Continuous growth. Your painting and drawings are true expressions of your experiences. As for colorful dreams they will return if you tell yourself you want to remember.
Life has worked miracles and your family is stronger. Keep writing, exploring the charms that are forever seeking to be expressed . Raise the sourdough bread to a texture to fill with mook and crannies
Continuous growth, thank you. That is an encouraging thought for this morning, we must strip some things away to stimulate growth. Or be open to life stripping them away for us. Thank you so much for that and also for the advice about the dreams and the kind words about my art. Life truly is miraculous, what a gift it is to experience it in all its many facets. I hope your day is filled with little pockets of goodness like the perfect sourdough bread ❤️
I had to look it up again, and you are correct! Also, I did not realize that they drop into the ground for their transformation and only live for two weeks once they are a moth. I’m glad I could provide the little guy with a hearty and delicious meal!
I am so happy you enjoyed it! I love rooted; I just named and listed the painting finally yesterday, though. My youngest child loves the song “This will be our year” by the zombies. She asks for it everyday, and it is such a lovely hopeful song, which the budding buds reminded me of so I titled it after the song. But thank you so much for the idea and for stopping by to check out my post! I hope you are having a good week!
Aloha Jenn, love the rose drawing and the backyard drawing. Hope the school term is coming along somewhat smoothly. Started boiling rose petal tea with berries and dates and saw your drawing of the rose! Thank you for bringing us beauty! XO
That tea sounds delicious. I am a tea drinker and love trying new brews. Thank you so much for the kind comments and for stopping to read with your cup of tea!
Love every piece, Jenn. And I am so glad you are all bouncing back with health, as is your pepper tree and sourdough. Architecture, such a fascinating topic. Have good fun.
Love this so much, the writing and artwork. It’s wonderful to see your paintings together like this Jenn. Beautifully done. I just love how you capture so much detail, especially in the glass with the reflected light and shadows. The texture of the paint really adds something to the objects within the composition. You feel like you want to touch them. I love how you parallel your life and art, and the mood of your paintings reflects life. I have a very old book that I got when I was at Uni - it’s kind of falling apart - I found it in an old second hand bookstore. Anyway, it goes through every colour explaining the impact of each and looking at various aspects of colour theory. It’s only small. I used to use it a lot in my work back then. So glad to know you’re all back to health and school isn’t and running. Love the architecture project and looking forward to seeing your next post. Thank you so very much for sharing. As always, so inspiring.
The caterpillar is extraordinary! I am very glad you retrieved your sourdough starter ( I have failed endlessly...)You convey such a sense of joy in creativity and this was such a cheering read.
It was really so cool. I had never seen one before! I was making dinner when I found him, I kept running out of the house to check on him and then back in to check on dinner!
I am really happy to have cheered you with my thoughts on life and art; truly to add to another’s joy is a worthy accomplishment. Thank you so much for reading and for the generous compliment ❤️
I love your paintings! Especially the roses. I used to pick dried starter off my jar and throw some in the freezer in a ziplock bag. I rehydrate some once that had been in the freezer for 5 years! My sad death was my story for kombucha. We buried it in the garden. I haven't had the heart to start again.
Oh, that’s a brilliant idea. Five years?! I should put mine in the freezer, I never thought of that. I’m so sorry about your kombucha that’s so sad. I hope it is nourishing your garden at least. Thank you so much for the kind words about y art! I was pretty pleased with hope the Roses turned out, too. Have a wonderful week and thanks again ❤️
Thank you! I can’t keep up this painting pace too long, as I paint when my kids are in bed and continue to paint when I should be sleeping, but I try to at least sneak in sketching a few times a week and disguise a little practice as art lessons for the kids. Making small scale paintings helps it feel more do-able, too. I think it is the art that balances me, and not I who balances the art 😂. I truly hope you find a little time to indulge your love of painting soon, and I am truly grateful to you for reading and leaving me a generously kind comment ❤️
Thank you so much, that is a very lovely compliment and it means so much to me. I appreciate you taking the time to read and thank you for the birthday wishes, too ☺️❤️
Your prose is so.....poetic! Such a great parable in the parallel of your family illness and recovery to strength, with the resilience of your wee pepper plant in the face of a different onslaught. That must have been some practical challenge, having all the family laid up at once, as well. Yes, the passing of Summer always draws a sigh, and the rituals of unassembling and storing the garden furniture and sheltering the perennial plants is almost here also. But Autumn has its appeals and art and photography opportunities if it stays dry and clear. I agree about the drive to create and develop with what time we have left. It almost feels like a sin to neglect the urge when it comes. Thank you for all the art and writing here.
Thank you, the compliment on my writing means a lot, I really appreciate it. I think I must have been being taught a lesson on life’s resilience or something, and it really needed to be hammered home three-fold 😂.
Luckily, our pantry was stocked, I let the kids just watch TV (they don’t usually get much so they were quite pleased) and we helped each other out a lot. It did sort of come in stages so my neediest kid was not at her worst the same day I was at my worst!
You are right; though I shall miss the light, I will enjoy the crispness and color of autumn. And it does feel like a waste, a sin, to not use the gifts that were given us. I think about that a lot. Maybe because my walls are converted in my art so it’s always staring me down 😂. Thank you so much for reading and telling me what you thought, I hope you have a wonderful week!
I was so excited when I found you in my feed today! I’ve been for a post since school days began and you got busy with your children! I’m so sorry about your pepper plant 🙈 I hate that when it happens, but your soul is like mine, and I end up feeling sorry for all the critters and just let them eat away. I joke with my husband we grow our garden as a salad bar for the rabbits! 🐇 🤣
Bless your heart, I’m happy everyone has recovered from yearly flus. And your poor sourdough? 😔 Well, sometimes you just have to start again from scratch.
I always love how you weave your stories in with your art. Of course I’m in love with your art and writing! Thank you for posting this, it made my heart do a happy dance! 💗💓💗
You have such a generous soul, and thank you so very much for looking forward to an update and for the lovely compliments. I am grateful for you. That’s funny about your garden! I bet you have some happy rabbits around your place. We used to have a large garden at a different house and the squirrels would go through all the tomato plants, pick the ripe ones, and take one bite and leave them on the edge of the garden. It was funny and frustrating.
Thank you again for the lovely comment and for taking the time to read through and look at my art. I hope your week is off to a wonderful start! ❤️
Oh wow Jenn! You always amaze me with your sketching and painting and it’s so wonderful to see you sharing here again! Thank you so much. Definitely always have that dry starter on hand too lol. School sounds great. When do I sign up? 🙏❤️
Thank you, Jamie! It has been a while, thank you for stopping by to read and check out my art! I always appreciate your kind enthusiasm and I hope you’ve been well. I was shocked that the dried starter was still good and how quickly it came alive; it felt like a forlorn hope when I decided to try it. Incredible stuff and worth its weight in gold. School is quite fun this year, we always have room for an extra teacher/pupil ☺️❤️
Oh Jenn, I love your paintings! and this whole story. I know you've been going through a lot lately and I'm praying for peace. It sure can come through the creating or, as you say (and I agree) in creating to somewhat feel a sense of control in the uncontrollable. Also, those fever dreams! Oh I've had them and wrote quite a dramatic piece off of one. It's crazy how that happens. And that little monkey hornworm! ugh! So glad your pepper plant came back. Love how you tied all of the life experiences around you and inside of you with nature and your bread starter! Glad that worked out too. Sending you a big hug. ox
I remember your fever dream piece, it was amazingly told, you made me really feel the dream, too. Thank you so much for the prayers, they are always appreciated ☺️ and thank you for the kind compliments! Everything worked out in the end; it always does, doesn’t it, when you look back. Thank you for the hugs, I’m sending some right back your way! I hope your Monday is a beautiful one ❤️
I love your sketches. Thanks for these warm little entries.
Thank you, so much, that is a really kind compliment, it has warmed my heart this morning. And thank you for sharing my post!
There is prognostication in your efforts to set more starter dough aside. The hornworm stimulated the pepper to regrow. Like browsing deer stimulate new growth. Both have the same effect. Continuous growth. Your painting and drawings are true expressions of your experiences. As for colorful dreams they will return if you tell yourself you want to remember.
Life has worked miracles and your family is stronger. Keep writing, exploring the charms that are forever seeking to be expressed . Raise the sourdough bread to a texture to fill with mook and crannies
Continuous growth, thank you. That is an encouraging thought for this morning, we must strip some things away to stimulate growth. Or be open to life stripping them away for us. Thank you so much for that and also for the advice about the dreams and the kind words about my art. Life truly is miraculous, what a gift it is to experience it in all its many facets. I hope your day is filled with little pockets of goodness like the perfect sourdough bread ❤️
The day, week will unfold as I take the first step to sip coffee and plan my next hour. Writing a few notes helps.
A wonderful way to let things begin to take shape!
I believe the hornworm become the Sphinx moth another creature of delight.
I had to look it up again, and you are correct! Also, I did not realize that they drop into the ground for their transformation and only live for two weeks once they are a moth. I’m glad I could provide the little guy with a hearty and delicious meal!
Thank you for your scribbles and things.
"Rooted" as a possible name for the unnamed painting.
I am so happy you enjoyed it! I love rooted; I just named and listed the painting finally yesterday, though. My youngest child loves the song “This will be our year” by the zombies. She asks for it everyday, and it is such a lovely hopeful song, which the budding buds reminded me of so I titled it after the song. But thank you so much for the idea and for stopping by to check out my post! I hope you are having a good week!
Aloha Jenn, love the rose drawing and the backyard drawing. Hope the school term is coming along somewhat smoothly. Started boiling rose petal tea with berries and dates and saw your drawing of the rose! Thank you for bringing us beauty! XO
That tea sounds delicious. I am a tea drinker and love trying new brews. Thank you so much for the kind comments and for stopping to read with your cup of tea!
Love every piece, Jenn. And I am so glad you are all bouncing back with health, as is your pepper tree and sourdough. Architecture, such a fascinating topic. Have good fun.
Thank you so much, Daniela! We are indeed having a good time with it studies and eating bread and peppers 😁
Jenn, such lovely works of art. I so enjoy reading your letters. xoxo
Thank you, Ginger, that means so much to me. I hope you enjoy those brushes and I hope your weekend has been grand ❤️
Love this so much, the writing and artwork. It’s wonderful to see your paintings together like this Jenn. Beautifully done. I just love how you capture so much detail, especially in the glass with the reflected light and shadows. The texture of the paint really adds something to the objects within the composition. You feel like you want to touch them. I love how you parallel your life and art, and the mood of your paintings reflects life. I have a very old book that I got when I was at Uni - it’s kind of falling apart - I found it in an old second hand bookstore. Anyway, it goes through every colour explaining the impact of each and looking at various aspects of colour theory. It’s only small. I used to use it a lot in my work back then. So glad to know you’re all back to health and school isn’t and running. Love the architecture project and looking forward to seeing your next post. Thank you so very much for sharing. As always, so inspiring.
The caterpillar is extraordinary! I am very glad you retrieved your sourdough starter ( I have failed endlessly...)You convey such a sense of joy in creativity and this was such a cheering read.
It was really so cool. I had never seen one before! I was making dinner when I found him, I kept running out of the house to check on him and then back in to check on dinner!
I am really happy to have cheered you with my thoughts on life and art; truly to add to another’s joy is a worthy accomplishment. Thank you so much for reading and for the generous compliment ❤️
I love your paintings! Especially the roses. I used to pick dried starter off my jar and throw some in the freezer in a ziplock bag. I rehydrate some once that had been in the freezer for 5 years! My sad death was my story for kombucha. We buried it in the garden. I haven't had the heart to start again.
Oh, that’s a brilliant idea. Five years?! I should put mine in the freezer, I never thought of that. I’m so sorry about your kombucha that’s so sad. I hope it is nourishing your garden at least. Thank you so much for the kind words about y art! I was pretty pleased with hope the Roses turned out, too. Have a wonderful week and thanks again ❤️
How wonderful that you are able to teach your children and create art and generally balance your life! Love your bottle still lifes.
I wish I could get back to painting.
Thank you! I can’t keep up this painting pace too long, as I paint when my kids are in bed and continue to paint when I should be sleeping, but I try to at least sneak in sketching a few times a week and disguise a little practice as art lessons for the kids. Making small scale paintings helps it feel more do-able, too. I think it is the art that balances me, and not I who balances the art 😂. I truly hope you find a little time to indulge your love of painting soon, and I am truly grateful to you for reading and leaving me a generously kind comment ❤️
Especially love this post of yours!! with so many paintings! Love the warm story-sharing. XOXO
Thank you, Kasandra, I am so glad you enjoyed my story and my art, too! I hope your week is off to a good start, I appreciate you ❤️
Wow, Jenn. Your artwork is incredible (and so is your writing). Great post, thanks for sharing it with us! Happy early/late birthday too haha.
Thank you so much, that is a very lovely compliment and it means so much to me. I appreciate you taking the time to read and thank you for the birthday wishes, too ☺️❤️
Your prose is so.....poetic! Such a great parable in the parallel of your family illness and recovery to strength, with the resilience of your wee pepper plant in the face of a different onslaught. That must have been some practical challenge, having all the family laid up at once, as well. Yes, the passing of Summer always draws a sigh, and the rituals of unassembling and storing the garden furniture and sheltering the perennial plants is almost here also. But Autumn has its appeals and art and photography opportunities if it stays dry and clear. I agree about the drive to create and develop with what time we have left. It almost feels like a sin to neglect the urge when it comes. Thank you for all the art and writing here.
Thank you, the compliment on my writing means a lot, I really appreciate it. I think I must have been being taught a lesson on life’s resilience or something, and it really needed to be hammered home three-fold 😂.
Luckily, our pantry was stocked, I let the kids just watch TV (they don’t usually get much so they were quite pleased) and we helped each other out a lot. It did sort of come in stages so my neediest kid was not at her worst the same day I was at my worst!
You are right; though I shall miss the light, I will enjoy the crispness and color of autumn. And it does feel like a waste, a sin, to not use the gifts that were given us. I think about that a lot. Maybe because my walls are converted in my art so it’s always staring me down 😂. Thank you so much for reading and telling me what you thought, I hope you have a wonderful week!