December Recap

Happy Tuesday. Hope your New Year started off well. Ours started off with snow and cold. It took a while to melt but thankfully it was back in the 50's again a week later. We ended up with more snow last Saturday it is still hanging around because of the cold. We are suppose to get one day in the 50's this week and then another round of snow and cold the end of the week. Spring can't get her soon enough. Hope the weather is better where you are.

December started off okay. I made the piece above from Liz Kohler Browns Winter Watercolor Class on Skill Share.

 Hanukkah was really early this year, It started on the 2nd. I made this piece to welcome it in.

As of this writing Lily continues to do well and made it through Christmas and New Years. I am so thankful for that. We are still doing the same regimen and taking things one day at a time. I took this photo when the heat went out in November and had her covered with a blanket to keep her warm. Looking at her you would never know she has cancer and she doesn't act like it either. I just pray that things continue to go well with her. 

Things in our Etsy shop continued to keep us busy. I got another order from a return buyer from last year. This year she is having a combined Pineapple and Flamingo Birthday for her daughters. This is what we came up with.

I use my Ipad Pro so much I was running out of storage so it was time to upgrade to a newer model with more space. I was trying to find the best deal that would allow me time to pay it off without interest over time since they are expensive and that turned into a nightmare. I was going to buy it from Amazon but somehow the credit I was given to buy it was canceled by mistake. I was going to get it from Best Buy but they didn't have both the Ipad and the new pencil so I finally ended up buying it directly from the Apple Store and using Pay Pal Credit. I ran into a problem getting all my Procreate Files to transfer over all at once and have had to do them a little at a time which has been time consuming but overall I am loving it though especially the new pencil. I have found it to be much easier to use than the first one. Once I get everything copied over I am going to try and sell the old one so if anyone is interested in buying it let me know.

I made this piece for a Christmas Cactmus challenge from Mommyartsalot on Instagram. I had seen this tutorial on YouTube for how to paint a digital cactus a few months ago and added the lights and planter. I also used Nurse Abby's watercolor texture background and brushes.

The piece below was from a Skillshare Class by Jamie Kim. She is known as Inkandthings on Instagram and I am a big fan of her work. I was thrilled to find out she was a Skillshare teacher now too. This was suppose to be done in traditional watercolors but I did it digitally with the new skills I learned from Watercolor Wonders. I love how it came out. 

I learned how to do this piece from Karin Ipadlettering in the watercolor wonders course. I loved doing this piece and was the first one I did on the new Ipad. 

I skipped ahead in my monogram letter alphabet and decided to do snowflakes instead of flowers. The snowflakes are from Liz Kohler Browns Winter Water Color course on Skillshare. 

I shared this piece on Christmas. I saw something similar from Stefan Kunz he did a similar piece on YouTube using pen and paper. I changed up the colors and did this on my Ipad. Christmas and New Years were not good for me. I was dealing with a lot of family problems.  I just wish everyone could get along. Thankfully Emilia was still able to enjoy it though. 

Finally I made these Paleo Cranberry Bliss Bars. They were really good. You can get the recipe here.  

That's all for now. I hope the rest of your first month of the year is a good one and I will be back next month with more to share then.