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Wonderful Drawings
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More Rain!
Stephanie Stamm
It’s quite dark outside right now. Our rain is supposed to finish sometime this afternoon. All our growing things have really gotten good, thorough drinks the past few days.
Since it’s not a good day to continue work in the garden, I’m switching to INSIDE things. Since I’m such a lousy housekeeper, there is a plethora of things from which to choose on things needing to be cleaned. :0/
I am planning to try to get up to my art room today to try to finish the bookmarks I started recently. I have more ideas rattling around in my head that I would like to start when I finish the current project and get things cleared off.
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I am happy to report that I lost another couple of pounds this morning! That gets me back to my 40 pounds off from my lardiest!
These sweet bears are from when I lost weight several years ago with Nutrisystem. As with the gold stars I put on my desk calendar for exercise, these were motivating. We stopped this program because they discontinued most of the food my husband liked. I’m happy to have re-earned the green bear…
So far I am very happy with our new eating regimen of having our main meal of the day a frozen entrée from REAL FOOD in Greenwood. Their food is delicious, and the portion is controlled. We are skipping breakfast and eating something light, such as tuna fish salad, for lunch and then MAYBE a careful snack mid to late afternoon, if we are hungry. The careful eating plus exercise (elliptical trainer and yoga stretches) seem to have me on track again, and for that I’m truly grateful. (We will pre-order for next week when they list the choices this afternoon. )
I hope that you are having a good day, full of love and free from stress.
Stay safe and well.
Gorgeous Gourd Art
Filed under Gorgeous Gourd Art, Gorgeous Gourds
Classic And/Or Amazing Drawings
E. H. Shepard, Winnie the Pooh
Pixabay
Sushant S. Rane
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Filed under drawings
Thoughts on a Tuesday 9-22-2020
“The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.”
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Fall is my favorite season.
I love it when I am a bit too cool and need to throw on a hoodie to be comfortable. I enjoy snuggling under my throw in my recliner and nodding off when I get sleepy. One of my favorite drinks is hot chocolate. A fire in the fireplace is a luxurious, comfort thing. The colors of the leaves lift my spirits. I hope we get a good, long autumn this year!
Gardening Know How
I got SOME of the onions harvested yesterday before I pulled one and a gazillion ants swarmed out. Thankfully, I was armed with my new 2-gallon sprayer of Eight Bug Killer and hosed down the planter box again. It’s raining today (Tropical Storm Beta) but I’ll try it again when the weather is cooperative.
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I also managed to file (or throw away) the huge pile of paper sitting on the table beside my computer yesterday. Today I will tackle August bookkeeping. Hopefully, I can get that accomplished today – since September’s stuff will be staring me in the face soon.
“Caught Red-Pawed” – Audrius P. – Bored Panda
My husband and I enjoyed Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad for our dinner last night from REAL FOOD in Greenwood. It was truly YUMMY. We are so lucky it is so good and so convenient for us. I also lost a bit more weight! I looked at my records for South Beach and BistroMD, and I’m losing at the same – if slow – rate. If I live 100 more years, I’ll eventually reach my goal! :0)
Penn Fitness Warehouse
Another thing I love about the fall – I can use my elliptical trainer in our garage in a lot more comfort. My husband mounted a wall fan on the wall in front of it for the summer, but I still end up overheated when the temperatures and heat indices go nuts in the summer. I won’t say I look forward to going out there, but putting in the time is much more palatable now. My yoga stretching in the afternoons is rounding out my exercise nicely.
I don’t have a big project for the day. We drove the trash down to the bottom of the driveway, and I have load #2 in the clothes washer. The dishwasher is running. I’ll go do the elliptical (hopefully doing 35 minutes) and then hit the bookkeeping. I live such an exciting life! :0)
I hope that things are good for you today.
Today’s Harvest 9-21-2020
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“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ~ George Eliot
On this, the first day of Autumn, I was able to harvest small little bitty tomatoes!
I don’t know if this is the last of them. There are some green tomatoes on the vines, but we’ve had that before and they never ripened. I keep threatening to remove the plants, but I just can’t when there is the possibility of more tomatoes!
Filed under Square Foot Gardening - Raised Beds
Thing One and Thing Two
THING ONE:
These are the same two elephant ear plants that my friend Laufrain gave me last year about this time. They wintered in our dining area and then I planted them in pots on the front porch. They hated it there, showing their displeasure by almost croaking!. I got the idea that they might like one of the planters we rebuilt along the front of the house. Here they get a lot more sun than they did on the front porch, plus a bit of protection from the gusty winds we get up here.
They seem to be delighted with this spot. I’m really happy. This is about the only thing that is doing really well in our yard right now, so it’s wonderful to be able to look at them.
THING TWO:
Mostly, my yard work this year has been cleaning up damage or cutting stuff down. I’ve used a LOT of KillsAll because the weeds are trying to take over. Here you see a place that will receive some attention quite soon, weather permitting. (This is supposed to be a bed of ROCKS….) Sigh. It’s on the list…
Filed under Gardening
A Reason to Love Mondays
“Caught Red-Pawed” – Audrius P. – Bored Panda
Last week we had a glorious week of EATING. We discovered REAL FOOD in Greenwood and pre-ordered things for the week. We enjoyed ALL of it, AND both of us managed to lose a bit over a pound!
They post choices for the coming week on Wednesday afternoons. You can pre-order from the website, as we do, or you can simply go into the store and choose from all the goodies in the freezer. If you pre-order, you can pick up your food the following Monday.
They are open Monday through Thursday, 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. 479-414-6337. 964 East Center Street, Greenwood, AR 72936.
Now you see the reason that Monday has become a happy day for us. It’s pick up day for the Lewises! (We also hope to get a loaf of bread…)
Feeling Triumphant
The Best Social Media
Last night I FINALLY finished adding my initial group of products onto Amazon Handmade!
Amazon Handmade
If you would like to take a look, here is a link –
Linda Lewis Artworks on Amazon Handmade
and here is the URL if the link above doesn’t work –
https://www.amazon.com/handmade/Linda-Lewis-Artworks
I’m listing
- hand painted wooden earrings
- packages of hand-painted note cards, plus custom order options
- hand-painted glassware
- hand-painted tote bags and mini-purses
- hand-painted journals
If you are considering opening a shop on Amazon Handmade, come with a whole bag of determination and patience. You will have to decide you WILL overcome whatever obstacles come up, regardless of how much time and effort it takes.
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Painted Journals Just Added
I just wanted to show you the painted journals I added to my Amazon Handmade page yesterday. The one above is called, “Swirling Fall.”
“Apple for the Teacher”
“Lovely Thoughts”
“Purple Bliss”
“Purple Petals”
If you’d like to see more of what is on my page so far, click on this link
LindaLewisArtworks on Amazon Handmade
Or here is the URL if the link above doesn’t work for some reason.
https://www.amazon.com/handmade/Linda-Lewis-Artworks
Today I’m adding some more tote bags plus some canvas mini-essentials-purses.
Filed under Uncategorized
A Beautiful Day for Murdering Fire Ants
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I just hosed down our raised bed square foot garden with EIGHT, a wonderful spray that kills ants and other bugs, but is safe for our animals and plants. I will do it over and over again before finishing my harvest of our onions, since the minute I pull out a weed or onion, they swarm all over the place. :0(
The clean up of the garden will be a many-step-many-day enterprise.
- I will harvest the onions first, armed with more EIGHT spray, if needed.
- Then I’ll pull the dead plants and weeds.
- I will mix a BUNCH of fresh Mel’s Mix and keep making and distributing more until all six planter boxes are full to the brim.
- I will replace broken boards that hold the hoses and sprinklers, plus run wire criss-cross fashion to delineate square feet in one box that needs it.
- Finally, I will cover each planter with a tarp, probably holding them with bungie cords.
Hopefully, this will result in nice, fresh, happy planter boxes without a lot of weed growth to welcome my spring efforts to get my garden planted.
My 2-gallon sprayer seems to be giving out, though, so we have it on Monday’s list to get a replacement at our local hardware store.
It’s a really lovely day to be murdering fire ants!. :0)
Filed under Gardening, Square Foot Gardening - Raised Beds
Beautiful Gourds 3
Gourd – Carved – Etsy
Gourd – Etsy
Gourd – Lamp – Pinterest
Filed under Gorgeous Gourds
Learning
Amazon Handmade
I am learning a LOT trying to list my stuff on Amazon Handmade. I am finally able to jump through most of the hoops.
I have finally learned that when a picture doesn’t show up with my product, I check to make sure it meets their parameters, and then let it go. That drives me absolutely nuts, but I’ve learned that is the best thing to do. It happened again yesterday, when I was adding some painted journals. I listed 5. 4 of them went well. The 5th picture didn’t show up for some reason. I checked it, and it should have gone like the others. It didn’t, so the product was listed on the site, but the picture area was blank. That’s embarrassing and I hate it, but – again – I left it. It still wasn’t up when I went to bed, but I checked again this morning and it was showing. Go figure.
I am not a patient person. I HATE errors or omissions to be ‘public,’ but there is no control over this one.
So, I will try to get the rest of the things I want to list online and hope for the best.
Today, some tote bags and painted canvas mini ‘essential’ purses.
Fingers crossed, teeth gritted, and determination strong.
Linda Lewis Artworks on Amazon Handmade
Kids Perspective
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A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.
‘Mama, look what I found,’ the boy called out.
‘What have you got there, dear?’
With astonishment in the young boy’s voice, he answered, ‘I think it’s Adam’s underwear!’
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, Joke of the Day, Kids Perspective
“Rub-a-Dub, 2 Fish in a Tub…”
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I just finished cleaning out the aquarium, and all is squeaky clean again. The fish are busily checking out the ‘new’ decorations.
Filed under Amazing Animals, Family, Housekeeping - Maintenance
Eating vs NOT Eating
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I have told you that my husband and I are REALLY enjoying the frozen meals from REAL FOOD in Greenwood. My experiment, since the food is SO good (but has no nutritional information provided) is to monitor the scales, take our blood pressure and blood sugar measurements twice a week (we BOTH are on meds for high blood pressure, and my husband is a Type II Diabetic – although he will deny that, saying only that he has a ‘sugar problem.’) and use these frozen meals as our main meal of the day, skip breakfast, and eat a snacky lunch (such as tuna fish salad) and a CAREFUL snack, otherwise.
We are finishing our first week and will enjoy our last REAL FOOD meal for the week this evening. I will make some keto chili (Suzanne Ryan, Simply Keto) tomorrow for the weekend.
I am continuing to drink water until my eyeballs float, and am conscientiously doing my exercises morning and afternoon (elliptical trainer in our garage in the morning and yoga stretches in the afternoon.)
I lost a pound this morning!
Life Death Prizes
Fingers crossed that when I measure at the end of the month, the measuring tape will at least smirk at me, if not smile a bit.
I am determined to get as healthy as I can – losing the lard, strengthening my core, and increasing my flexibility – so that I can enjoy life, doing what I would like to, for as long as possible.
“Caught Red-Pawed” – Audrius P. – Bored Panda
Filed under aging, Challenges, DIET!, exercise
Enrique Bernal Fluorescent Drawings 3
Enrique Bernal via Margherita Cole – MyModernMet
Enrique Bernal via Margherita Cole – MyModernMet
Enrique Bernal via Margherita Cole – MyModernMet
Filed under drawings, Enrique Bernal
Prevailing Against Intimidation
Bored Panda
I am feeling really good right now.
I almost gave up on the idea of getting some of my art work on Amazon Handmade.
The people who write software and instructions for things should HAVE to try to follow those of others in order to get a feel for how intuitive their work is. The people who are writing the directions think their site is easy to navigate, easy to understand. This is certainly not the case with Amazon Handmade. There is also no easy way to actually get to people who can answer questions or help you.
You call and you get people who are nice, but they just send you to Seller Central, where you couldn’t get help before. If you tell them that on another phone call, they tell you that you really need to talk to someone who specializes in the handmade section. (They can’t figure out the solutions, either, so they point fingers in all directions – very politely – and send you on your way.)
What it boils down to is determination. You put the fears that you’re too stupid to do this aside. You decide you WILL figure out how to get around the problem that you have upgraded everything you have and Amazon still doesn’t recognize it. You WILL figure out how to get registered no matter what you have to do. You WILL figure out why they won’t accept the fourth image you’ve sent, even though they accepted the other three with no problem.
Right now I’m concentrating on listing things I can offer without a separate charge for shipping. You guessed it – I can’t find ANYPLACE that allows you to do anything about charging for shipping – only if you want to click a box that says YOU will ship as opposed to having AMAZON ship it. I will list hand-painted glassware if and when I can figure out where and how to list a shipping charge….
Determination – stubbornness – perseverance!
I am figuring this out – one small step at a time.
Linda Lewis Artworks on Amazon Handmade
Book Magic
Carl Sagan via Chris Riddell Illustration via The Boho Tree
Fun With Bookmarks
I’m a bit hard on books. Mine tend to have dog-eared corners on some of the pages, maybe a note to myself here and there in a margin, or they might show how much I have read them by staying open at certain spots.
When I read books belonging to someone else, like the library, a friend, or now – while I’m reading my husband’s collection of the Honor Harrington series by David Weber – I use a bookmark so that I can return them in good shape.
I’m using a bookmark I made years ago. I don’t really like it, but it’s the only one I have. THAT’S what got me going on making a bunch of new ones.
So far, I’ve finished 8 bookmarks. I’ll take the ones I’ve finished to the booth tomorrow.
I enjoy choosing a doo-dad to attach to each one, making it different from the rest. I have a whole collection of odds and ends that I paw through to find one that grabs my attention.
I may be the last person on the planet to need a bookmark, since fewer people seem to read for pleasure now, and those who do may be using a tablet, but I have a great time making them. I hope that someone who visits our booth at Rags & Roses finds one of these fun, for themselves, or for kids or grandkids.
I’ll finish up the rest of them soon.
Filed under Lewis Art, playing in my art room
Kids Perspective 4
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While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, ‘The tooth fairy will never believe this!’
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While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box filled with cotton, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.
The minister’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: ‘Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole he goooes.’ (I want this line used at my funeral!)
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, Kids Perspective
Enrique Bernal Art 2
Enrique Bernal Fluorescent Art via Margherita Cole, MyModernMet
Enrique Bernal Fluorescent Art via Margherita Cole, MyModernMet
Enrique Bernal Fluorescent Art via Margherita Cole, MyModernMet
Filed under drawings, Enrique Bernal
Thoughts on a Thursday 9-17-2020
Thankful Thirteen via lovethispic.com
I am having a wonderful Thursday, and I hope that you are, too.
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My day started off with a wonderful massage from Lynn Moody. If you are in the Greenwood area, give her a call at 479-629-7601 and see if you can book one. You’ll be SO glad you did! Besides my NORMAL miracle massage, I mentioned that my neck was stiff and sore. She did some magic with a towel and expert lifting and twisting and made it stop hurting! :0)
Yesterday our new food group, REAL FOOD – also in Greenwood – (479) 414-6337 – posted the choices for the week coming up. My husband and I ordered with enthusiasm, and will pick up our goodies next Monday. Since we don’t have any nutrition information, my husband and I are watching the scales and building our eating day around the Real Food meal as our main meal, with a snacky-type lunch. We are fasting from dinner until lunch the following day, except for drinking water and coffee the next morning, with very careful – if any – snacking. Fingers are crossed that things works well for us. Their food is delicious!
Amazon Handmade
I have added some hand-painted totes to Amazon Handmade today. For some unknown reason, one of the images is not showing. I’m still fighting with that, but hopefully will solve the problem soon. It’s SO exciting to be adding my stuff to their website!
I am going to go up and play in my art room some this afternoon. I’m still working on the bunch of bookmarks I started about a week ago. I’m adding some ribbons, strings, and/or doo-dads to each of them. I will post some pics when I have several finished, but I’m having a lot of fun. I am planning to take them to the booth I share with my friend, Carla, at Rags & Roses Collective – 479-597-3107 – in Greenwood.
Enrique Bernal Art
Enrique-Bernal-florescent-drawings-via Margherita Cole – MyModernMet
Enrique-Bernal-florescent-drawings-via Margherita Cole – MyModernMet
Enrique-Bernal-florescent-drawings-via Margherita Cole – MyModernMet
Enrique-Bernal-florescent-drawings-via Margherita Cole – MyModernMet
Filed under Enrique Bernal
Kids Perspective 3
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A little girl had just finished her first week of school. ‘I’m just wasting my time,’ she said to her mother. ‘I can’t read, I can’t write, and they won’t let me talk!’
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, ‘The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents.’
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. ‘Mommy can’t come to the phone to talk to you right now. She’s hitting the bottle.’
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, Kids Perspective
The Verdict So Far is “Delicious!”
“Caught Red-Pawed” – Audrius P. – Bored Panda
We have now eaten two frozen meals from REAL FOOD in Greenwood. 964 East Center Street, Greenwood, AR 72936. (479) 414-6337.
We liked last night’s meal – “Home Fries, Roasted Chicken, Bacon and Cheese” even better than the first night’s, and that’s saying a lot. :0)
I have asked the owner if she would consider posting at least ball park estimates of nutritional information on the website so that we can try to plan around the one GLORIOUS meal we’re eating each day. (We are doing a combination of intermittent fasting and very light lunches. If we have a snack, it’s a keto-type one.) This afternoon the choices for the coming week should be posted.
I’m also going to concentrate on my exercising more, now that our weather is cooling off a bit. I’m aiming for elliptical trainer in the morning and yoga stretches in the afternoon, with as much walking in-between as I can get in.
No Longer Illegitimate!
In Real Life
I’m not as dumb as I look!!!!!
I FINALLY am
- ACCEPTED
- REGISTERED, and
- LISTED
on Amazon Handmade!!!!!!
Amazon Handmade
https://www.amazon.com/handmade/Linda-Lewis-Artworks
I worked all afternoon to try to get 5 pairs of earrings listed. (They weren’t happy with my images.) I finally called it a night and decided I would start again this morning. When I checked, the images were showing! HOORAAAAAY!
I will try to get some of my other stuff up there today.
I found the hurdles really difficult. It’s almost impossible to get to an actual person for help. I finally had to figure things out mostly by myself, but I have new confidence today because I was persistent (my husband calls it stubbornness) and I prevailed. :0)
Hopefully, someone will see my stuff and BUY it! It’s wonderful to have the chance.
Filed under Challenges
I’m Making Progress – I THINK
You are looking at a brand new member of the Amazon Handmade community!
I have uploaded ONE pair of hand-painted wooden earrings so far. I won’t do more until I see for sure what happened. (Oh, wait! The listing just appeared!)
I have a URL (yes, my very own URL!). Linda Lewis Artworks
I am learning a TON as I do this. (We have sold used books on Amazon for years. Even though I have a handmade account now, too, the listings and sales will show up for ME on both accounts on the same page.)
I was beginning to decide I wasn’t smart enough to jump through all the hoops (and difficulties) of listing my stuff on Amazon, so I’m encouraged that I now have one product listed. I have no idea how long it will take to show up on the actual site where it is listed for sale.
Onward and upward!
Filed under Uncategorized
Kids Perspective 2
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I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, ‘Mom, that lady isn’t wearing a seat belt!’
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women’s locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, ‘What’s the matter, haven’t you ever seen a little boy before?’
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, ‘Daddy, you shouldn’t wear that suit.’
‘And why not, darling?’
‘You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning.’
Filed under Kids Perspective
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