Art with the Girls

Julia has been asking, "Let's paint together." So we did. We even got Kara to paint!

 I've been wanting to paint one of the Williamsburg wreaths I photographed last week. I chose this one:

This is what I painted:

 I can't help thinking my painting is not finished. It's missing something - perhaps just more fullness, more depth of color in the wreath. I'll work on it later. I like the distressed corners though.
Here is Julia's painting from today:

We used the same cookie tin top to start with a nice big circle. She opted for a space ship. She sketched it first and asked me what I thought the ship ought to be yanking out of the earth. I said a statue of Athena. She chose Medusa :)
I can't show you a photo of Kara's painting yet because she's not finished. Maybe later ....
It's later!

Kara at first claimed not to be able to paint at all. Julia and I begged to differ. Nice job!

Anna and Gramm left this morning to go back home, or we would've dragged her into our artistic pursuits too! We all drove to the Unclaimed Baggage store in Alabama first, before sending them on their way. Philip and I picked out a laptop there for me, which I'm using now. The other one was truly dying, and Philip will scrounge as much value as he can from it. Unclaimed Baggage can be a good place to find a great computer - I got a laptop that costs $1600 new, worth $350 used, for $230. It has lots more storage space.

We are all fooded out. Tonight we will snack on leftovers (which we've been doing for about 24 hours how), and maybe make some popcorn. We still have a cheesecake, a pumpkin pie, baklava, and chocolate cake. Ugh. Fooded out :)