Beverly Parkison aka Lateblooming Designs

Archive for July, 2017

Spider sit down beside me

Out in the hoop house today to check on the lemon tree and water it with epsom salts solution and look what I found  After last count…I gave up after hitting #46 because there were more in the bay tree. I believe after looking them up most are female which means next Spring there will be a lot more. Must be something out there they are interested in.

Now …what to do about it.?

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Throwback Thursday ~ Nine Reasons Discerning Women Are Leaving Your Church — Michelle Lesley

Maybe it’s not that discerning women are leaving the church, but that the church is leaving them.

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Something Magical for Monday — Tish Farrell

Wintergatan’s Marble Machine seems just the thing to fire up a ho-hum Monday, should you be having one. Please feel free to leave links in the comments to any other bits of Monday Magic that come your way. It’s good to spread them around. Wintergatan is a band whose creations are described as ‘Swedish folktronica’ in the […]

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CAS

CAS in the crafting world is’ copy and share’ or’ clean and simple’. Mine is the first. In one of my orders came this flyer from Echo Park Paper Co. Looked like a good design to CAS so I did on a card for the good neighbor who gave me the figs. The card is on the left. lol

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I also got the mail out to my customer.  Some of this was all ready to go. A few had to be a late night project.

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Good Figs

Good neighbor Brenda called and had a gal. of these beauties. In the dehydrator because I am really trying to get away from sweets..sugar any way. Aren’t they beautiful? One of God riches blessings…fresh food and neighbors.DSCN1889

I also tried to watercolor figs just to keep some people happy. hehe Hmmm! Enjoy your weekend..or what is left of it. It is the Lords day…rejoice.

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Back to Watercolor

Some of my blogging friends are doing so darn well with this watercolor challenge it is kinda discouraging for me who hasn’t done much of this in so very long. Goodness…I haven’t even dared go to the link and see what the world is doing. So I just stay kinda safe and stick to my cards. There has been a jump out every day or so but …..at my age I’m just not very adventuresome. But I will share a couple of cards. I’m still trying to get to the point where I can ‘open’ a shop and sell I just have so many questions. Any way…my mother has abirthday coming up . She will be 94 if I dare say. Never have understood why women are so sensitive about their age. The alternitive is to not have an age for peats sake. This should count as watercolor I think.DSCN1886Well they are backwards but so goes it.

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Instead of Watercolor

A few days ago over on SCS (splitcoaststampers) they were doing an embossing thing with chlorophyll. I thought it sounded like something from grade school and I was right.

Well sometime it works and sometimes it doesn’t but here is the results of my effort.DSCN1877

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Today is Sunday

Today is Sunday but I thought it was yesterday. When I woke up in the early morning hours yesterday I fully thought it was Sunday and was thinking of a simple,quite day with not much to do. After getting on with the day and getting around to checking email and such I came to realize it wasn’t Sunday at all but Saturday. The PC doesn’t lie about such thing. But I was totally out of the mood to do any thing of value. These things happen to me quite often lately. I know the reason behind this pitiful situation but only know to roll with it and eventually things level out and get back to normal…what ever that is.

Now we….several of us bloggers…are into this World Watercolor  and I have given it a go ,but it is really nerve racking when things don’t go well. Like today. My Crocosmia are in bloom. They are as tall as I am almost which granted isn’t to very tall and I so wanted to do them justice. I have recently been looking into watercolor again after a long  dry spell. What I have learned is how important it is to use good artist quality paints and paper. I don’t really have that so I’m using that as an excuse. Now I know a real artist wouldn’t have any problems but like I said ….it’s been along dry spell. Any way this is a picture in the natural setting of my garden which you will remember my dog has taken apart in places.DSCN1874

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Back At It

It really is harder than I wanted it to be..getting back into watercolor that isn’t a card or from markers. But here is what is bothering me: Maybe I’ve just forgotten it’s been so long but maybe I need new supplies…sounds like an excuse…so I’ll just keep at it and hope for improvement…..soon. The water pump on the left  is in my back yard. It doesn’t pump water, just for ‘yard’ art and there is a story here. A long time ago when we first started working in farming we toyed with the idea of having a composting toilet in our cabin.  My sister gave the pump to me for Christmas one year and said anyone who didn’t care for indoor plumbing need a water pump. I love the old pump and it goes where we go. There is a picture of the real pump below.  On the right is my rendition of the fabric on my grandmothers old sofa that is now in my house. It must have been pretty wild for the times. There is a picture of the fabric too. Do give this watercolor month ago. You’ll enjoy it even if it doesn’t turn up in the Louvre.

 

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Oh gosh it is Hot

Is it world wide…I think it may be . Just to hot to even think about sitting outside for long. But I can remember not having “canned air”and not having a cool car to ride in. We just didn’t know any different and we lived regardless.

I promised a sneak peek to Cobweb so here it is.

 

 

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I’ve been playing around and thinking about things to put into my ‘store’ should it ever come into being. I’ll share more later.

Hope everyone had a safe 4th and got their fill of cook- out food and watermelon. Oh goodness we haven’t even had one yet. What are we thinking? Better put that on a list for next shopping trip.

Enjoy the ‘warm ‘evening …fall really is just around the corner and it can’t get here fast enough.  We are ‘die-ing ‘here.

This is the Lords day…Rejoice and be glad….even if you are melting.