40 Weeks 1 day...

Still cooking. Looks like 7/11 will not be his birthday either..

We had a good day.. hung out around the house, cleaned some. We had a nice Arbys lunch and then went to Michaels in a rain storm and Mollee got a little bank to paint that is the shape of a pony and i got some more paintbrushes in the correct sizes. Sean was going to buy a model to work on, but changed his mind. We came home and I sorted laundry, then took a short nap. I was having some decent contractions for a couple hours with some back pain/crampiness but then they just stopped after i took my nap.. so sad!! Come on uterus! You can do it!

We had a yummy flat iron steak dinner and after Moo went to sleep i finished my second painting for the baby's room. I'm obsessed with birds lately, so it is a copper outlined tree with some birds.. I did another one that was birds on a wire for baby. I also sketched a picture of a girl but i have to finish that one.

There is a sketchbook competition thing that is hosted every year and i would love to enter it. For $25 they send you a sketchbook and you decorate the whole thing according to either a theme you choose out of 30 or a random one they assign to you. I would pick "in Flight" of course right now because of this bird obsession. After you finish, they digitize your sketchbook and then all of the books join a collection at some art museum. It sounds pretty fantastic to me, but maybe next year.. or maybe i could just draw a lot.

I would crochet something to stay busy, but the printer is disconnected and we can't find the software so i can't print any patterns. The frog cross stitch is almost done, well about half way. I'm trying to stay really busy. I am going to finish my figures for the paper tomorrow and run into work long enough to ship some stuff to another PI. I got about half of the thank you cards finished tonight also.

Well, here are bird paintings #1 and #2. If i finish the picture of that girl, I will post it tomorrow..

Waiting patiently,

KP :/

The first bird pic (with and without flash) done in acrylic on canvas - Birds on Wire

The second bird picture.. Acrylic on canvas with copper paint pen to outline the tree. The tree didn't come out the way i wanted it to, but i made the most of it..

"Birds on Copper Tree"