Sketching up Thanksgiving!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all of you and a special thank you to all my readers and commenters for your support and encouragement. Click through to read more — including a recipe for a hearty side dish which can also work as a vegetarian meal on its own.

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What I Wore: The Sketchbook Edition

As I prepare for a Sketch Journal workshop next month in Sicily (Squee!), I’m paging back through a short series I’ve been sketching in my Fabiano Artist’s Journal, a series of Outfit of the Day Self-Portraits. Maybe you’d like to look over my shoulder as I turn the pages? Click through for more, please.

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Picking Up the Pace?

The last few months have buffeted us in so many ways. Many of us are finally making tentative steps back to lives closer to what we lived pre-Covid. And as I’ve been doing that, I’ve noticed some tendencies. As well, of course, I’ve been chastened, sobered, by world events. And trying to balance between reaching out, re-connecting. . . and holding space for some quiet. Perhaps you’re going through something similar? Click through to read more.

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What I’ve Been Doing, Lately. . .

Busy with all the usual ’round here, but also making plans for some upcoming travel, short trips and longer ones, regional road-trips and trans-Atlantic flights. But close to home, some simple pleasures for the days when I need to keep it easy. . . Click through to find more (a very good, very easy chocolate cake recipe; a TV series to veg in front of; some music to get your toes tapping

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Pages from my Sketch Journal

Everything from yellow boots to Italian castles to young French men preening to a favourite What I Wore. . . filling the pages of my messy sketch journal, I end up with a book of memories. Want a peek? Just click through. . .

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.