Red Beads & Cascade Earrings
I revisited my red beads tonight and added in my pair of Cascade earrings. I love these earrings as they look and feel sexy.
I added the background last by dabbing in Quin. gold and then venturing by blotting with a napkin.
This is my replacement painting to Joan T. who did not receive the first Red Beads painting sent out… apparently that one is a wanderer…:)
Joan… please let me know after reading this post if you still have not received the first painting. I’ll want to verify your address again too! 
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Morning view while sipping coffee…
I woke up at the receivers this morning… the truck rocking as they unload it. The rocking comes with bangs and can jostle you right awake. This is the view I have most often…. docks and trucks.
I did my morning stuff…. without having to deal with the truck moving since we were docked. The hubby is very good about trying to get stopped for when I get up… which is around 8:00 am. That is also when he has to stop and send in his morning “macros” on the Qualcomm… fortunate for me!
After this we will head for breakfast… most likely Denny’s as it is the closest. No pre-plan yet, so we don’t know where we are going next. I have a growing pile of laundry… we have 2 nylon laundry bags… but I doubt if we will have that much time. Soon, though… as we ate filling the second bag. I want to do sheets this time as well so we need to ne at a truckstop that has more than 2 washes…. which, sadly is the norm for a lot of them.
I have not been painting this week as I am fighting off a cold that moved from my lower back to my right lung to my throat. It was mild enough so no doctor required, but has left me with no energy… so I have slept a lot. I am feeling better, but will take it easy for a bit more.
Haircut… on the road. Youight wonder about that. There are some shops in some truckstop, but we rarely use them. Timing for one thing… they are closed or we don’t have the time. I can and so cut both the hubby’s hair and my own… but I probably do a better job on his… lol. I can see all of his! I had let mine grow out all one length to just barely touching my shoulders and did not like it. I was going to just grow it out a couple of feet, but I reached the point where it was getting to long for me to deal with… blow dry and straighten, etc. So I started cutting layers. My hair is like a canvas…. a snip here and there… lol. I use to color it as well, but it is too much of a hassle on the road. The grey is coming in nicely…. looks frosted or high lighted actually along with my reddish haircolor. So… it is sort if layered as I am thinking of a bob cut, but ultimately will have to go to a salon on my down time to get that done. For now… i’ll go with this… you don’t “dress” up out here…. rather, It Is like perpetual camping out… do the minimum… and look slightly disheavaled. Oh… if I was single and on the prowl…. lol, but those days are well past me!
And, finally to clarify… I don’t drive. I was going to… went to school, but got sick and did not finish. I had the diabetes even back then…which explained a lot…. but it was not diagnose at the time. I do not have the stamina to drive 11 hours straight a day…. any time of the day or night. My night vision is not the best. A team truck is rolling 24/7. And one if us would always be in bed while the other drove… seeing each other for meals and showers. Nope, we did not like that idea… and that would be way too draining on me. I am his co-pilot… his second pair of eyes, etc. And…. I would never have time or energy to paint!
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Fairy Apples Study by Dabs
Another painting inspired by my Fairy book. This is so much brighter in person… the background is white… and the painting is soft and delicate, very watercolory.
Do you see the heart??
4 x 6 inch watercolor.
Fairy Castle Study by Dabs
This is from a book I have on painting Fairyland and Fairies, I am sorry the book is out of reach at the moment. It is softer in person than in the photo. I like drawing and painting this subject matter. Doing the reflection was a mind bender at some places… LOl, but good exercise on reflections.
I will do doing more from this book!
Embroidered Leather by Dabs
This was a fun painting… though it took a few turns that I did not expect. I based the pattern from a throw pillow I have in the truck… pretty embroidered flowers on it with lots of stitching. The painting became too busy after a while so it became an unsuccessfl one.
I decided to play and justed added some colors mixing them right on top to get a nice brown. OK… actually… I had no idea what was going to happen… LOL… the nice brown “appeared”!
I then spritzed it with water… waited… and decide more texture was needed. I remembered the napkins we have in the truck which has a great pebbly texture to them. I blotted and dabbed and this was the result… a leathery looking embroidered painting.
It does look better in person.:)
4 x 6 inch watercolor.
