August was hot!!!
Pool water, watercolor, backpacking, canvassing, coffee, rollerblading, and more coffee!
Pool time.
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Prepping for camping.
We have found that spraying down camping clothes eliminates most bug bites.
Trying on her pack.
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Mama & Wivi weekend!
Dada & sisters are out backpack camping.
I'm staying with Miss who had her weekend booked.
Making the most of our morning.
Blading time!
Post blading cold brew.
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Getting to that age where I'm trying out reading glasses.
Been recording reading-alouds of a highschool Biology text.
Collecting all of my recordings into a podcast.
It's a long slog, to get through even half of the book.
(Audio booking a textbook for one of my kids, because there isn't one available.)
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Found a new-to-us coffee shop.
Very popular, out-of-the-way gem.
Pre-canvassing coffee.
Off she goes a-canvassing.
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Final morning before the rest of the fam returns from backpack camping!
Crêpes!
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Miss is back from backpacking!
Magic time coloring with markers.
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Miss wanted summer camp by Mama.
This week: watercolor!
Day 1: wet on wet.
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Miss hosted a mini-carnival...
There were snacks.
There were games.
Hungry-hungry hippos.
Operation!
Much fun.
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Miss 3's latest sculptures...
Baking...
Leaf sheep sea-slug.
Painting...
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Day 2 of watercolor summer camp:
color mixing gradients...
Mixed media.
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Going off to canvas again!
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Coffee with a dear friend.
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Day 3 with watercolor: putting it all together in realism.
Some of the watercolor work of this week...
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Birthday coffee!!!
Mushroom.
Birthday coffee cake!!!
Birthday lunch outing.
Loving my piggie hat.
Yes, I wore it out.
It was a birthday present from a previous year, so why not?
Birthday rollerblade!
<3
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In teepee with burb.
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The realistic rose was a multi-day project...
Mostly because we had to let areas dry in between layers...
Miss 3's wet-on-wet above.
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Birthday dinner.
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Driving Miss to more canvassing.
Date.
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More progress on her watercolor rose.
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Meeting with her mentor.
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Cotton Candy Love.
Love!
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She started two mirror image roses.
This is her first completed one!
Gifting it to her friend.
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More pool time.
Weather remains hot!
Me with them...
Right before they talked me into going into the pool for some fun!
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Wild Backyard turkeys!
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She's helping me with decorating a brownie+blondie robot cake.
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Post test snow-cone.
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Baked robot brownie...
Decided to jazz-it-up a bit.
Added chocolate.
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Backyard bird watching.
So many turkeys!!!
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Finalized brownie robot.
We threw on some edible sakura printables that I had.
Robotics sister soirée party!
Fun times.
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Miss 3's projects: clay and finishing up that second rose...
My two roses...
The one on the right is closer to completion.
