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October Sipdown Prompt – Art Day!

I have been hitting Simpson and Vail’s Almond Black hard, and this morning I remembered that I had just enough of this similar tea (almond heavy) left for one pot.

As for the art, I haven’t created it yet, BUT my daughter had a themed gift at the table for me again today and this time is was not tea but art supplies!

When I got my cancer diagnosis in August, I decided it was time to try watercoloring. I am not a good artist by any stretch of the imagination, but our local cancer center offered free art nights once a week to patients and their families back when I had my first diagnosis years ago. At the time I was much busier and much more worried about not being good at it so I didn’t participate.

They still offer it, but when I mentioned I might try it for stress relief my friend bought me the Emily Lex workbooks to get me started and I made enough headway to make a few greeting cards that were good enough to send.

Now thanks to my daughter I have some tube watercolors, a tiny travel palette and paper holder, and a whole stack of good paper, as well as a pot of good tea to sip while I wait for inspiration to hit. And who knows? This time around maybe Ashman (who is a VERY good artist) and I might participate in an art night or two.