Daily Doodle

Today I spent doing lots of homework and in order to offset that I must draw! It's good for me you know, really relaxing and fun. ER..did I say fun? haha. I mean helps me concentrate and focus on my home work..At least that's what I told myself today when I took some time to doodle this silly little rat guy, which my mom dubbed as Ratapuss and thus it is his name. He's just a funny little guy with no purpose other than to beg for tiny morsels!

Pen Me a Poem Mr. Keats

When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be

by John Keats

When I have fears that I may cease to be

Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,

Before high-piled books, in charactery,

Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,

Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,

And think that I may never live to trace

Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;

And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,

That I shall never look upon thee more,

Never have relish in the faery power

Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think

Till love and fame to nothingness do sink

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Poodle Love

Poodles have been on my mind recently... I have been drawing them and even crocheting them! This is the result of my current obsession: a pattern! I found this lovely yarn in the sale section of a local yarn shop called the Yarn Barn and just knew when I held its cotton candy pinkness in my hand that a poodle was on the way! I am rather pleased with the result, especially with the pom poms...:) I am going to put the pattern on my etsy shop soon just have some final tweaking here and there.

Owl Always Love You

I was commissioned by my dad to make a drawing for my mother as a gift for their wedding anniversary. This is the result. My mom loves loves loves owls, as I do, and so I thought this drawing would be perfect, especially since I just finished reading this book which I mentioned in this post. In there I learned that barn owls will mate for life, and if one of the pair dies the owl will become so depressed that it will stare off into space and die too.

I will be making this a print soon I think...but just wanted to show you since I am loving the way it turned out. It is just like how I envisioned it, which always makes me very happy!

Drawn in pen and ink.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Happy Happy Birthday Mom! Today my wonderful mother is celebrating her birthday. I am so grateful for having such a loving and caring mother. She has always been there for me, so I would just like to wish her the best day ever. I love you! Thanks for being the greatest

mom ever...:)

Have a happy weekend everybody!
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Photo Mosaic

I just made this from some of my favorites on flickr...:)

1. 'Mother and Child', 2. 2 dogs, 3. Untitled, 4. Baby treeson is shining!, 5. Studio Violet bear, 6. 0918, 7. St. Denis Yarn, 8. _MG_2266, 9. birthday cupcake amigurumi, 10. Peaches in Summer, 11. ★ Candy Floss ★, 12. _MG_2278, 13. There's a Fungus Among Us, 14. my newest toys!, 15. bluie, 16. _MG_8371 copy, 17. Bavelaartje, 18. Corujice, 19. Untitled, 20. baby bird, 21. Diet amigurumi donut (my first amigurumi), 22. Untitled, 23. _MG_1522, 24. Rag Doll Kitten Wooliture Face, 25. My Pin Cushion for Lollishops' Fall Ad in Somerset Life

I've Been Tagged!

My sister jessica leigh la lou tagged me!

1. Two things I cannot leave the house with are: my purse and phone

2.My favorite flower is the sunflower

3.My favorite Starbucks drink is signature hot chocolate! Yummy!

4. I love heels but due to my lack of coordination I will have to sadly say flats...

5. I love to watch romantic comedy movies too just like my sister but I really love to watch old movies too! Love love Jimmy Stewart!

6.Favorite color is bright happy yellow

7. I live off of juice mostly apple,cranberry apple, and pomegranate cranberry

8.Mascara definitely

9. Not really wearing shoes right now but if I was it would be my old blue converse

10. I love the smell of vanilla-to die for!

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One Eskimo

My older sister showed me this music video because she thought I would like the animation and I do! Hope you do too. Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!:)

Reader's Delight

I picked up this book at my local Borders on sale and since the title was Wesley the Owl I figured it would be pretty good considering how much I love owls. I was right! It was a great book that had me laughing and loving reading it. The author Stacey O' Brien did a wonderful job. It is a true life story of an owl and his girl. I learned so much about owls but also got to live through the life of one from birth to death raised by the author herself. It really made me think about the amazing animals we share this planet with and how so many people sadly put them down, as if they were beneath them. I want to tell you everything but since I don't want to give anything away I 'll just settle for saying it is worth the read.

Image of the author, Stacey O'Brien and Wesley the owl.

Misako Mimoko on Etsy

Misako Mimoko makes the sweetest dolls! I love her little detailed stitches on the face and how she uses so many different fabrics together. Each of her dolls shows such personality and character. All in all they are playful and oh so wonderful! She just recently updated her shop with little friendly ghosts which are so lovely.
Feel free to visit her etsy store, or blog.

Also an article was written about her in the storque, etsy's blog, if you would like to read it click here.

Vaivanat on Etsy

Vaivanat on etsy has such beautiful vibrant felt creations. Her lovely pieces are wonderfully designed and have such little details added here and there. I love her work especially the flower corsages. Check out her work here on her etsy or go over to her blog.

Modest Ambition on Etsy

I found this wonderful work on etsy by modestamibition. I saw her orange shrug and was immediately inspired and just wanted to create! I was surprised to find out that she cannot read a pattern so she just makes up her own. I am impressed, with talent like hers who needs to read patterns? I just wanted to share her incredible work with you. Do stop by her shop and blog.

Mushrooms

After all the rain we had, so many plants that looked dead are now bright and green again! Also I found these little mushrooms out in our back yard. I love mushrooms and have missed seeing them since we lived in Germany. It was a pleasant surprise!

Sweet Music

Listening to this music kind of makes me want to cry. Maybe that's just because I am tired but I still feel like a part of me is touched when listening to it...I just love it.

Inspirational Quote

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. - Mother Teresa

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Little Hedgehog Print

This is another new print I just added to the shop! This little hedgehog is one of my favorite's that I have done in a long time... I love his little dreamy look.

As for the inchworm...when I was little I was literally obsessed with inchworms and caterpillars. I would hunt them out and love the feel of them crawling on my skin. I wanted to be the size of them and explore the inner workings of trees and see how tall grass would look at that size. I would fill pages of drawings with them and even once had an inchworm inspired cake. This little inchworm is much like the ones I used to imagine with his outrageous little boots and rainbow colored body, he almost seems to walk out of my childhood dreams.

The print measures 8 1/2 by 11 inches with a small white border for framing.
Drawing was done in black ink and then colored in with colored pencils.