Happy Endings and New Beginnings

Ended the year with a bang and started this year with a bang! There is just no half way for this chick!!
All in or all out, baby!!

The last of my virtual 5K's

 #moonjoggers

You had to do at least 3 of their virtual runs to be eligible for this one.

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If you did all the runs offered, you earned this.

I did a whole lotta walking this year...a whole lot. :-)

 #hogwartsrunningclub

Now for the New.....

I signed up for a sashiko challenge at http://theardentthread.com. You get a fat quarter of  'out there' fabric, thread and needles. You HAVE to use all the challenge items, then you can add or embellish as you wish. First prize is a $50.00 cert.  Heck, all the prizes are good. I have until Feb. 29th to submit my work.

This is the last of the Sketchbook Project for awhile so I couldn't pass up one last shot at being published. LOL  I did it a few years ago. This time I splurged and got my book digitized. I have until 3-31-16 to submit my work. I picked the theme: photo-log. It gives me a great excuse to actually print up some of the images I have on my phone, computer and sd cards. LOL

Also started out with lots of family drama, the mil had to go to the hospital. That is never a good thing...especially when you are 86 with medical issues out the eyeballs. She's on the mend now, but it was worrisome for a few days. The hubs handled pretty good for most of the time.

I have big plans to be a finisher this year.
I  plan to keep my 5K to fitness journey; the goal, to lose another 10-15 pounds. I am all for lots of little changes that keep me from getting big again. I didn't get fat fast, I am not gonna get thinnish fast either.
More a lifestyle evolution than a diet plan.

I have a pretty big list in my planner, I have already checked off a few things...yay me!!
Some personal, some family/couple, some spiritual, some sewing, some just plain fun and goofy.

What is 2016 gonna look like for you?
We have a whole extra day and a big election.....change is a comin' and I do not plan to be on the sidelines weenie whining. I plan to be right in the middle of it, weenie whinin'. ;-)

Look out 2016, here I come...........................

Sketchbook Project

My friend Lisa, posted a link for this fun art project. You get to have your little moleskin book of art in a traveling show and then permanently housed at the Brooklyn Art Gallery. I decided to plop down a little cash and do THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT as a way of relighting my creativity that has been on the back burner for far too long. 

I've had the book for several months now. I was alllllllll excited to get started, but I let stuff get in the way and now the book is due this weekend. Looks like I will begin a ''get creative'' marathon this week. :-)

The theme I got was (your name here). It took me forever to decide if I wanted to go literal or with a book about me. I choose: me! I got this to originally be blank, but what the heck!

My first two pages!!! I am: a reader!!! Some of the book titles maybe easy to figure out, others, you'd have to know the book or look them up!!  Only, like, 50 more pages to go!!!!!

My drawing/coloring skills have sadly fallen by the wayside since my costuming class. They got pretty good when I had to do them all the time for school....2 years ago.

  

Two of renderings for Dracula. I guess I was having a coat fetish at the time. It was ccccooollllldddddd. Will they win any awards? NNaaawwwwwww. Are they good for renderings? Yep. Our assignment was to work on Dracula and then do all the renderings in black and white. I had sooooooooo much fun!! Since an artist I am not, I took some online body shapes and added to them. That was one of the techniques we learned.....yes, it was beginning costuming. Yes, I was a total grade ho. Yes, I was as old as the teacher. Yes, 99.9% of the students were under 20 so I was a leper for a few weeks...then, Suzy Homemaker that I am, I brought cupcakes and helped some of them sew....leper no more!!

Wow, how did I end up here???  Squirrel!!!

Happy creating!!

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