One Month Down

and one more month to go in the

Index Card a Day Challenge (ICAD).

Here are the cards from the last week.

ICAD # 29 for June 29, 2014. 

Something different this morning. 

I've been making a lot of pesto this year and thought I'd share the recipe with you. 

Pix from a seed pack and a rubber stamp. 

(You can use any nut that you like if you don't have the pine nuts ... like walnuts ... just be 

sure you aren't serving your pesto to someone who has "that" nut allergy.)

I like garlic with my basil!

ICAD #30 for June 30, 2014: Nap. 

A quick watercolor sketch of Mina napping. 

(I did this on a 4x6 index card I bought for last year ... horrible -- so light weight you can almost see through! No wonder I used so much book paper last year!) 

ICAD # 31 for July 1, 2014

Another flimsy card so I torn a book page and placed it on first.

Gesso, then stenciled the stars.

Sharpie markers and an image from the Graphics Fairy.

ICAD # 32 for July 2, 2014: Each End Up. 

This is one of those cards that I just kept adding layers to not liking any of it until the end. There's book paper, acrylic wash, fluid acrylic (blue), rubber stamps (red), stencils (arrows), more acrylic paint, and the stars are cut from another Index Card that I had yellow and orange acrylic smushed on. Each End Up -- no right or wrong end up!

ICAD # 33 for July 3, 2014: 4th of July. 

One more holiday card. 

This is the last one as I've used up all the images I found at the Graphics Fairy! 

Acrylic paint, Stars are cut from another index card, fluid acrylics.

ICAD # 34 for July 4, 2014.

 I wasn't going to do another 4th of July postcard, but I had already finished the image transfer. 

Liberty Bell stamp, rubber stamp, cut stars from another index card, fluid acrylic.

ICAD # 35 for July 5, 2014: Nature Study.
I love nature studies and I spent the day yesterday with a stack of napkins cutting out birds, butterflies, "nature stuff". 

Rubber stamp, fluid acrylics, torn ledger paper scrap, napkin images.

Wishing YOU well and much joy.

Be sure to visit Tammy to check out the Index Card a Day Challenge.

You can start anytime.

It's fun!

Creative Every Day

5 A Day

I was visiting Leah today. She had been tagged to take part in the Mindapples project telling the world what five things you do that help keep you mentally well.

Here’s how it works:

• Write a post telling your readers five things you do that help keep you mentally well.
• Link to the Mindapples site.
• Invite five blog-friends to do the same (if you want to)

And that’s it.

I've decided to list my five things that calm/ground me, but I'm not going to tag anyone. Play along if you like.

1. I like to meditate.
2. Walk around the neighborhood.
3. Listen to music - usually with a Celtic flavor.
4. Be creative. That might mean playing with paint, working with yarn, cooking.
   
5. Reading. Keep the little gray cells active!
   
6. Stay interested in life! Get up in the morning and welcome the day.
7. Opps -- guess I've gone over 5!

It's not 2009 yet, but already the January calendar is getting busy. I enjoyed Creative Everyday so much in 2008 that I signed up for Creative Everyday 2009 (check out Leah's blog). Jamie at TNC is starting a new book in January - Twelve Secrets of Highly Creative Women. I'm sure it will be as much fun as Soul Coaching was -- not to mention good for me, too! Paulette Insall has a new journaling class that starts January 5. The Houston Zoo is starting off its wild life lectures in January with cotton top tamarins and I have a short, 15 minute presentation for the docents early in the month. Wow! That should keep me busy. Perhaps I should add number 8 above: Keep Busy. Then there is no time to get flustered!

Seeing the little Christmas tree widget counting down the days to Christmas reminds me that time moves quickly. Make every moment count. Embrace every moment.