Time

Time is the best treasure in life after health.I think.It is so important to have some time for ourselves. To do the things we love.To think.To cleanse our brains.To organize our thoughts.Or just to be.To feel the moment of life.I have time now.I am rich.At the moment.I have eight days off work.I savor every moment,when I do what I love to do:read,sketch,look at the other people's blogs on my tablet,knit,take pictures and so on or even when I do nothing.The pictures above are like illustrations of my life during the last three-four snowy winter days.The spread from my sketchbook is from a year ago.I have some new sketches but I have to take pictures and upload them in the computer.I even tried to bake a bunt cake yesterday and it turned out pretty delicious!

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Random pictures from my life. I 've been too busy recently.Too much work and no play.No time even to think let along dream or do art.The closest thing to something  creative was to take pictures during those two or three weeks.As you can see in the pictures I still try to keep up with my New Year's resolution and drink a lot of herb tea.This one is mint and the ginger bread cookies...well,I had to make them even after Christmas,They are so delicious!!!One of the reason to be busy after work were my daughter's basketball games.It is so much fun to watch her and her team play.They are not the strongest team  in the area but they grew up a lot and it is so entertaining to watch them play.I look forward to watching every single game.At some point during those endless work weeks I started feeling the cabin fever really bad .I had to go out for a walk in the snow.I had to...Down the bridge,down the bike trail I went in wind and cold....But I felt really,really good after that walk.
And yesterday we went to eat out at Texas Road House.It is a little bit spendy for us but we had a good reason.My husband and I celebrated our anniversary and it was a special treat for all tree of us.The secret is:we looooove their BBQ ribs.
The last drawing  of a random cat was inspired by the Internet.I hope I haven't posted it before,It's an old one and I do not want to bore you with the same images over and over again.She reminds me of our new cat Maya.I am under the influence of her overload of cuteness and at the same time she can be a naughty little thing.But I can never be mad at her.

The most wonderful time of the year!!!

It's the most wonderful time of the year as they say in the song.I enjoy every minute of it whenever I can.Especially this weekend.I am almost recovered from the nasty flu I got at the beginning of the week.It was not fun I am telling you.My whole family was sick with the cough,fiver,chills,body aches-the works!But we survived and everything is back to normal now,thank god.These pictures are snippets of  my day today.Very rarely I will be able to post pictures on the day I take them but today is one of these days.I got a lot of rest and drank a lot of herb tea with chocolate cakes,did some chores and took a lot of pictures,cooked delicious creamy potato soup and went to the Christmas parade with my girl and her friends.It is one of those days that create memories.

Arctic cold

Yeaaa,this is the coldest winter I have ever experienced in my life.It was arctic cold the last two or some weeks.-23-24F. And there is more to come.It looks beautiful  and sunny outside at the moment but it is coooold!It makes me want to snuggle up,put warm socks, drink tea and crave hot soups.The good side of the cold weather is that we have more time to read,sketch or browse the web on our tablets.My latest passion is to look at illustration blogs on Tumblr.My favorite ones at the moment are- phoebe bird,Missy Dunaway,someforeignletters,carnetimaginaire.They are so inspiring!