My Dream Garden

Got so lazy the past two days to blog. I’ve concentrated on attending online masses instead, different churches and mass presiders. And I got engrossed reading again. Fancy having read five⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ books lately. Just glad I went back reading.

Three vials of blood, ten kinds of laboratory tests. I went back to TheMedical City Clinic yesterday to have everything  done. I’ll come back Saturday morning to get the results  and to see my  endocrinologist. If there is enough time, I have to consult the naturapath practitioner since he had basically the same requirements for lab testing. Their clinic is only open during Saturdays. Besides, I need to ask him if I still have to continue my food supplements. It’s been two months since I started.

Whew! I just can’t resist. I waited for a few minutes for National Bookstore to open at the mall so I could take a look of more designs of Paint by Numbers. They have plenty but most of them are rolled without frame. And they have very good designs. I was tempted but I don’t know where to buy a frame and assemble one. They don’t sell them. I chose another framed designed instead and it cost me a little expensive because I also bought a magnifying glass to see those tiny, tiny flowers, what color they are. There are thirty acrylic paints in all. This seems to be the most difficult design that I will do. Wish me luck please.😘 I’ll call it My Dream Garden.

It is really summer here now, in other areas, it reached a high 41°C. Some Asian countries are having heatwaves. Although we are conserving on water, I have to water some of my plants twice because they easily dry up. Our LGU has released some advice on how to combat the heat. For one thing, you should not drink very cold water when you come from outside. It might cause your veins to collapse.  Wait for a few  minutes for your body to adjust from the heat.

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My Last Two Projects

They are the easiest to do so far. Maybe I could now experiment on painting flowers but I need to buy a blank canvas.

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Pretty Girl

Haha, just imagine she is pretty.  My fifth DIY project. It was so hard  painting on a very small 20cm x 20cm canvas. Yeay, I did it.

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Painting For Beginners

This may sound crazy and an ambitious pursuit but I really like to try painting without the aid of numbers. I’ve been watching several videos on Facebook and they make it appear so easy. Using cotton buds to make cluster of flowers,  kitchen scrub for several leaves, a line of paper to make a distinction, the possibilities are endless. When Nissa brought me to Sip and Gogh for an afternoon of learning to paint back in 2018 as a birthday gift, I was in awe of the several paint works displayed there. The subject as you have seen here  before were kids watching the sunset from a dark place. They were silhouttes in a dark sky. They taught me spattering  to make those distant stars in the background. And yes cotton balls too to make the trees alive with leaves.

I know, painting is an art that you have to learn. You must be creative enough to do it. Why not try, why not indeed? I need more practice though. Ordered two 20cm x 20cm canvas (paint by numbers), simple designs that a kid can do probably because they only have a few acrylic paints unlike the four ones I did lately wherein I have to use more than twenty paint colors in each subject.

Can I do it? Only time will tell.

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My Fourth DIY Project

Finally done with my Seascape. Whew! I could resume reading now. I still have to take a closer look at Jovy’s gift. I wonder if I’ll be able to do it. I need magnifying glass…haha! Yes, they all have pride of place in our living room.

You may click the photos to enlarge them. I actually reduced the resolution so it won’t eat up my remaining space.

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Gosh…Haha

I am about done  with my Seascape. All of my five projects are on a 50cm x 40cm canvas. They are big and require so many colors.

A while ago, Jovy gave me a new DIY project which is too small at 20cm x 20cm, a square one. And it looks really, really so complicated,  it looks like a layout of a girl in pony tails. There is no picture. I wonder how I am going to do this. So, so small numbers.

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DIY Projects

Proud to say I’ve tried some DIY projects over the years. I’ve started with cross-stitching, simple designs at first but a bit complicated later on. At first I used the usual 14-count Aida cloth but graduated with 20-count. So small for my defective eyes back then. I gave some framed pieces to close friends, four are on our wall, some unframed ones and a few left undone. I have several skein threads left but I am not sure where I kept them. The unfinished and unframed projects were rolled in a plastic tube so they won’t fade and get dirty.

When I got tired of cross-stitching, I tried candle making even reusing some left-over candles in our cabinet.My brother Noel sent me a candle thermometer. Nissa helped me source raw materials in Divisoria. I had a lot of scents for all the jelly candles I made. I even bought a dozen shotglasses for it. Wicks can be bought by the yard and I also bought some candle molder. I didn’t try tapered candles though because they needed a peg board to dip the candles.

Right now, I am on my fourth Print by Number project. The longer it takes, the more complicated it gets. I  gave them all a title, the first one A Man With Flowers On His Head, the second one I called Giraffe, the third is the Lighthouse. I thought of naming the fourth By the Sea but I think Seascape sounds better. What do you think?

So far although cross-stitching and painting need a lot of concentration and are both hard to do, I guess the former is harder.  When you make a mistake even on a single stitch, the whole design would be destroyed while in painting, you can paint it over when it dries. The smallest numbers are the hardest because when you are not careful, they overlap.

Who knows, I might try diamond painting one of these days as Nissa suggested. As long as my eyes are still good to see small figures, it’s okay. I let them rest frequently.

I almost forgot that for a while (that’s about a year) I did rosaries too and gifted most of them to friends who visited me. Nissa is more of the arts and craft maker in the family. She did her own cords when she got married using various designs of swarovski crystals. She made rosaries too which she gave as mementos to all her secondary sponsors. When Nate was born, I gifted her with a jade rosary that I made along with a short prayer included in the rosary box, prayer for Nate and for her to get well soon. She delivered via CS.

I opted to use the prompt WordPress posted today, it is a little easier when you can’t think of a good content to write about.

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My Fourth Paint by Numbers

I am starting another project. I am calling it By the Sea. Wish me luck please.

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Hobbies

Really, my hands are itching to do another paint by numbers. I have two of those canvases I made hang finally while the two remaining ones are in my small gallery. Nissa suggested that I do diamond painting too. Don’t know much about it but it uses beads attached to a canvas. It is a relatively new form of art, a combination of cross-stitch and paint by numbers. Nissa has made one and she tells me that it is easier than cross-stitch. Back in the nineties, I was so enamored with cross-stitching. My former boss at the bank who owned an arts and craft shop taught me how to start it and even said that candle-making was also easy. Tried that too and made jelly candles which I gifted to friends.

One of these days, I’ll try painting some flowers in the garden.  So many left-over acrylic paints.  Ambitious? I guess so.

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Lighthouse

Done it. Finished it yesterday. Neglected reading the past several days. This is even harder than the other two.

My third canvas…Lighthouse

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