The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 17th- A few of my favorite things...

~A young model maker picking up a kit that was gifted to her

~ The power of good directions, paint, and imagination to move the project along

~After 50 years in the package, a boat that deserved to set sail under the hands of a young boatwright

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Feb 8th- A few of my favorite things...

~The power of paint to create delicate petals for waiting bees,...

~A bouquet of flowers for the table, and...

~A fragile orchid usually in hiding in the woods

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Jan 12th- A few of my favorite things things...

~The journeys that a palette of paint and...

~One small stuffed guinea pig muse lend to...

~A creative portrait of "Sir Oreo the Guinea Pig"

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Jan 7th- A few of my favorite things...

~Two young artists spending the morning at the library learning to paint a dragon

~Watching the artistic choices of each painter

~Having two paintings of dragons to hang on the wall that are as wonderfully different as night and day

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Sept 9th- A few of my favorite things...

~A trip to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute to see an American master storyteller in paint

~Seeing how Norman Rockwell turned an ordinary slice of life into a cover story

~Finding a bit of yourself in the human experience recorded by a skillful hand...and giving it a try

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Apr 18th- A few of my favorite things...

~The quest to turn parts in a box to a ship with her sails

~The patience it takes to paint, glue, and rig together the ship

~The pride that goes into making a ship you've learned so much about along the way....drum roll, please...meet the Cutty Sark!

The Cutty Sark...

sailing with the flag of J Willis and Son on the main mast,

the British Nautical Flag,

and Letters that Spell out JKWS

(for the tea company who owned her)

on the halyard line...

and the numbers 2 on the foremast

and 2 on the mizzen mast for '22,

the year Thea built the model....Great Job Thea!

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Mar 24th- A few of my favorite things...

~The possibilities in a bagful of letters

~Highlighting a few with paint

~The questionable addition center of a ship's wheel giving new meaning to "falling asleep at the wheel"