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.
