Thanksgiving Day and the day Before and the Day Before that and so on ...

 My husband and I worked together as a good team this Thanksgiving. We cleaned the house for a week (it needed it badly); we shopped for food (he for the meat, me for the veggies); we each cooked our own favorites (he the turkey meat; me the 2 squashes and onion dish, the asparagus, mushroom, onion, zucchini, garlic and spinach dish topped with roasted almonds; the twice baked yams stuffed with fresh cranberries, dates, orange zest and orange meat relish. Our one guest, my brother, brought a pumpkin pie for dessert. It was all delicious.

I was to draw veggies for Every day in November prompt #26 so this is what I drew:

 I received a gift this week of this one beautiful persimmon and my very first thought was I must draw it. I used General Pastel Chalk pencils.

Again, in EDiNov there was a prompt #25 with a "kid on the beach". I chose instead to draw from a photo of my twin grandkids running on a different beach!


The next three ink drawings should be in reverse order. It was a few groups of people who seemed to be studying something very seriously and then coming together to compare notes. You'll recognize the gal on the left here in picture #1 alone.

Prompt #24. I loved doing this one. It was "A Window Display" which I changed to "Window Dressing". Same thing right? But I took it a little bit further!

Prompt #23 was "Poppy". This one reminded me of a trip I took in Israel in 1961 with my soon to be first husband and when we got out of the truck with our group we were in the middle of a huge field of these delicate red poppies for as far as the eye could see in either direction. It is truly one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

Last Sunday we went to the Pure Grain Bakery where I drew the people there. I do enjoy giving them things to say and think.

Prompt # 22 was "Pattern"

I know this was Starbucks from the red cup!

This one was fun. He kept changing positions so I drew him in two of them (same guy) and I could hear him talking so I just wrote what I heard him saying...

Same day at Starbucks ...

 ... and here! You can tell it was a warm day. One guy is wearing shorts.

Prompt #21 is the "Ford House" museum in Mendocino, CA. Been there many times.

Prompt #20 "Butterfly" I wrote the poem about the Jewish Ghetto by Pavel Friedmann around the butterfly. Children in the concentration camps in WWII in Germany drew lots of butterflies on the walls. They knew they were going to die and they hoped the butterflies would take their souls out of the camp.

A quiet moment at Starbucks on another day.

... and people talking together on the same day.

It's Thanksgiving Day today. I hope this finds you well and healthy. I hope you had plenty to eat, and people's company to enjoy. We kept it simple this year. Just my husband, my brother and myself. We ate well (as mentioned above); we talked and reminisced, we played cards, and we enjoyed good food. We have much to be grateful for. I hope you do too. Be safe where ever you are.

Have a creative week. I sure hope to as well.

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.

They really do keep me drawing!

I am grateful to you for that!

Kaeli's Pillow And Happy Thanksgiving

Today I wrapped Chanukah gifts for my 14 yr old grand daughter to get them in the mail for her.

This is the pillow I made her a while ago to go with a red/white/pink afghan I crocheted for her last year! I also wrapped the fish pillow cases to go with the fish quilt and a ton of books! Oh and a dreidel. I like to send eight small gifts, one for each night of this holiday!

A grandma having fun!

I also wanted to draw a Happy Thanksgiving Greeting to all who celebrate this delicious holiday and for those who do not.
Happy Thanksgiving anyway!

Forever Young had a list of five things she was grateful for on her blog site.
Here is my list: Feel free to add your own.

My list:
1. I am grateful for my good health and new found energy.
2. I am grateful for my wonderful, thoughtful, caring, loving husband of 29 yrs. (Who guided me to several craft and quilt shows to see on TV this morning that were actually GOOD!)
3. I am overjoyed with having grandchildren I can actually interact with because they live close!4. I am grateful to have a good, satisfying, career.
5. I am grateful to have made many new wonderfully creative friends here in blogland such as yourself!
6. and I am grateful that my creating is being stimulated here and is flowing over the top.