Materfamilias Writes

New Sketches: From the Kitchen

New Sketches: From the Kitchen

  It’s bread-making day here and while the dough rests between the stretch-and-folds, I’m catching up with other tasks: my compiti per casa (homework for my Thursday evening Italian class), for example, and working on my…

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Bringing the Outdoors In . . . In to my Sketch Journal, that is. . .

Bringing the Outdoors In . . . In to my Sketch Journal, that is. . .

  I told you I’d be back soon to share a couple of pages from my sketchbook, and here I am. . .  I’ve been getting outside more often lately, thanks in part to the…

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Tea Time in my Personal Journal Pages, A Little Project Evolving. . . .

Tea Time in my Personal Journal Pages, A Little Project Evolving. . . .

A week ago I was maundering and wittering here about whether or not I was wasting my time when I engaged in the child’s play of cutting, pasting, drawing, and painting.  My bigger concern, truly,…

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Of Moods and Journals and Discerning Worth . . . You Know, the little questions . . .

Of Moods and Journals and Discerning Worth . . . You Know, the little questions . . .

This morning, I’ve been knitting the head of a small toy mouse. I’ve done a 45-minute workout, following a “Circuit” my trainer sent me electronically, and I’ve got a bowl of sourdough autolysing in the…

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Sketch Journal Time — with Tea!

Sketch Journal Time — with Tea!

 Like many of you these days, from what I read, I’m regularly confronting a hurdle (which occasionally takes on the imaginary proportions of a very tall, very solid wall) of anxiety or sadness verging on…

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