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What My German Shepherd Taught Me About Loneliness

What My German Shepherd Taught Me About Loneliness #dogs #cats #loneliness

People often talk about how their pets provide them with companionship, acceptance, and love. But they are capable of teaching us much more than that. This is what my German Shepherd Cora taught me about loneliness.

When Cora moved in with me, I was already living with Sherlock and Mycroft, cats from the same litter that I had adopted years before. While the dog was intensely interested in the…

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Inktober 2019: Week One

Inktober 2019: Week One #inktober #inktober2019 #dailydrawingchallenge

The first week of Inktober 2019 is over already, and I’m happy to say my ideas on how to approach this daily drawing challenge are working well.

Inktober 2019 gets underway: drawing by Kit Dunsmore.

The ten minute time limitis just right. It’s long enough to let me get something done, but short enough that I don’t feel like it’s impossible to find the time. Some days, I drew for more than…

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Too Tired For Words...

Too Tired For Words…

… so I’m going to take a break from the blog.

I am in dire need of a rest and I have to cut back on something. Since I’ve already committed to Inktober for this year, I will be posting once a week on Mondays to share some drawings and any insights I get from a month of daily drawing. But otherwise, the blog will be inactive.

Need a NAP! (Drawing by Kit Dunsmore)

I’m in the midst of…

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Seven Tips for Crushing Inktober 2019

Seven Tips for Crushing Inktober 2019

October is almost here, which means it’s time to get ready for Inktober. In 2018, I was busy putting a house on the market and moving in October, and I still managed to draw every day thanks to Inktober. Here are my seven tips for anyone worried about failure.

A drawing from last year’s Inktober. Sketch by Kit Dunsmore.

Draw for ten minutes a day.Or five. Or one. Set a time limit that you…

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Baggie Bag: Crazy Quilted Waist Pack

Baggie Bag: Crazy Quilted Waist Pack #sewing #quilting #handmade

My favorite pattern is for a crazy quilt fanny pack. While it’s meant to act a as a purse at quilt shows, I use my “waist packs” to carry baggies when I walk the dog, so I refer to them as Baggie Bags. I’ve made several at this point, because with daily use, they wear out. I let the last one get really bad before I decided to make a new one.

The old baggie bag was starting to fall apart.

I…

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Fooled By Color: Wildflower Identification

Fooled By Color: Wildflower Identification #showyfleabane #aspenfleabane #asters #wildflowers #color

This week I decided to identify the wildflowers I took pictures of on a rainy hike in early August. Some were a snap to identify, like wild rose and cow parsnip. But one in particular, a purple flower from the Aster (Asteraceae) family, has turned out be much harder than I would have guessed, requiring reference to several different resources and a new definition for purple.

Cow Parsnip (Herac…

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The Coin of Your Life #CarlSandberg #quote Thought for the day: we only have so much time. We need to spend it wisely.

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Gone Camping

Gone Camping #announcement #break #backsoon

Happy Friday! Summer’s almost over, so we are heading into the mountains to camp, bird, and star-gaze.

While I wouldn’t want to haul around all the stuff that they had in their campground in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, I wouldn’t mind camping Narnia-style some time.

My health this summer has been less than stellar, so I am grateful to be able to get out at all. See you in…

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Fight Perfectionism: Lower the Bar

Fight Perfectionism: Lower the Bar #procrastination #perfectionism #gettingstarted

It’s easy to get stalled out by perfectionism. Perfection can keep you from finishing, but it can also keep you from starting. That’s why I’ve embraced the following saying:

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.

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To me, it’s an anti-perfectionist war cry, in complete conflict with the more usual version of the saying, “Anything worth doing is worth doing well.”

When I am…