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#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 32 ✒ INKED!

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 32 ✒ INKED! *phew* used the thinner nib this time. Now I need to figure out what it is so I can get more of them. I seem to have had this one forever but I really like it! If you're counting (and I assume you are not lol), that's 3 weeks finished and 4 left to go. 🌞 It was sunny and warm today and I got out for a walk with a friend this afternoon while the kids were in class. Picked up a gallon of milk on my way home as we are out, and walked the last mile with it, adding to my exercise. Ha. 🥛 I flipped work again today since I hate inking at night, and Wednesdays seem to be chill-er. So I'll be doing client work tonight after kiddo bedtime. Spouse is also working super late tonight. Dinner is in the oven. Getting back to my roots, I'm making Zucchini Pashtida. 🍽 #feelingaccomplished #inkpen #mixedmedia #gotoutside #tookawalk #springiscoming #100daysproject #100daychallenge #makingprogress

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 31 🔥 A fri

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 31 🔥 A friendly fireball. Started Netzach. Didn't get a whole lot done care of client work and then daughter fighting sleep until midnight. Frustrating. Guess I'll try again tomorrow. 😒 #fireball #netzach #perseverance #persistence #irony #gotheftosleep

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 30 🌞 I sto

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 30 🌞 I stopped saying "It was another crazy day..." because I was sounding redundant. Running late to get son to micro drama group, car was out of gas, couldn't find my wallet. Spouse on deadline so I had to miss a meeting to cover lunch. Finished client work after bedtime. You know. The usual. 🌳 I did finish coloring Tiferet. Now it needs ink. I set up Netzach and looked over the color palette. I think this week is going to look a bit more spare. 🔥 #anotherday #runningaround #whitepaper #prismacolors #palette

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 29 🖊 I loo

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 29 🖊 I looked into custom card printing today. It would seem I'm working slightly smaller than the standard tarot card size. Oops. I didn't exactly think this through when I started the project last year. It was just another illustration challenge. And Chesed is covered in glitter. I'm still contemplating redoing Chesed versus digitally removing the glitter. Hmm. Well... I scanned the first 14 card images today so I guess we will see. Lots of learning experiences on this project! I did color a little bit as well. Mostly the tree in Malchut. 🌧 As for the rest of my day... we had Purim Zoom. Sad that we lost the Purim carnival two years in a row. I had Mussar class and then helped daughter bake brownies. A few more rounds of Rubicks Race, and some family time with the kids. Unfortunately a Zoom Shiva call this evening. 🌙 #liveandlearn #figuringitout #customcards #treeknot #rainysunday

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 28 🖍 Six d

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 28 🖍 Six days of Tiferet colored, one to finish. Tiferet is harmony, beauty, compassion and balance. 🌞 Today was a nice, uncommonly slow day. Getting to be spring. I'm sad that I haven't managed to take the kids skiing this year as I'd wanted to. But Covid, spouse's disinterest, and my inability to juggle activity planning got in the way there. I didn't do the things I'd told myself I would do today when I woke up this morning but I did cream the kids in multiple rounds of Rubick Race. 🎲 #familytime #rubickscube #coloredpencilart #purpletree #makingcards

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 27 🖍 Color

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 27 🖍 Coloring backgrounds takes longer than it looks. Night night. 🌙 #coloringpencils #colorsunset #houseisasleep #sleeptight

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 26 💡 Anoth

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 26 💡 Another boring light box photo. Accountability posts aren't the polished pretty ones. But it should get more interesting after Passover when the Omer count begins. 😆 As expected, today was long. I made it longer for myself by baking somewhat successful (yummy but ugly) yeast hamentaschen. But I'm tired so going to bed is the best thing now. Purim Sameach! 💤 #lighttable #tracing #longday #nightnight

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 25 🍎 Got

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 25 🍎 Got the kids in school and got started on an 11 minute morning meditation to get motivated for the day. Three minutes in, the phone rang. Client tech support. A cascade of tiny events, some leading to others followed. Two hours later, I defiantly restarted the meditation WHILE beginning work and bookmarked it to try again another day. At least it was sunny and warm though I didn't get outside today. 🖊 In order to keep from being grouchy and have a better workload balance, I flipped personal and client work today. I did a bit of swap coloring on 4 different cards. It was a nice bit-sized chunk rather than more nibbleds like the past few nights. Conversely, I only got a little client work done. 🖥 Looking at my client ticket list for tomorrow, I see work assigned to me after the listed due date on one project, and another requesting work finished by Friday. Good thing I'm only part-time for them. Yeesh. 🍞 I also have to make time for the yeasted hamentaschen I've been wanting to make for the past week as tomorrow night is Purim! 🌙 #gonnabealongday #tomorrow #colorfultrees #notenoughhoursintheday #jewishholidays #feelingproductive #prismacolorpencils

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 24 🌞 The

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 24 🌞 The sun came out! It was warmer.. The kids went outside after school. I got out for a walk for the first time since I slipped on the ice (which was almost 3 weeks ago. Yikes!) Everyone seemed to be feeling better today. We made more hamentaschen dough during lunch break, and baked after dinner. I'd thought I'd have a half day of client work but nope, another long one. Maybe tomorrow. I managed to message doctors and make dental appointments for the kids. Many more things still unfinished on the MUST DO list but these things are sometimes harder because they require planning, or a period of unbroken thoughts. 🎶 Astoundingly, the kids went right to sleep tonight. I still wrapped up after midnight. Did some more back and forth coloring while listening to the Cobra Kai music mix on Spotify. Interesting thing about 80's music... so much of it seems to be about how we're all heros and someday we're all going to make it big and arrive and win! No wonder GenX-ers are a mess. But the music still just gets you there. 🖍 For better or worse, I settled on the orange. Hopefully it's not too bright and the inks will offset it. 💤 #80smusic #orangetree #thesuncameout #amcoloring #onedayatatime

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 23 🌳 Had t

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 23 🌳 Had to stop and sleep on this one. I'm not sure what color I want the background of the leaves to be. Using the same color palette, it should probably be olive green but that's boring. Introducing the orange would allow me to use the green on the leaves. Maybe. And/or gold. There are 4 colors in the leaves. I need to decide how to introduce new colors to the palette anyway since I don't have a red for the fireballs in Netzach. 😔 In other news, the kids were troubling today. The girl is neurodiverse ADHD. The boy is non clinical but sort of passive aggressively acting out. My brother battled the dark that ended his life and I will be forever on edge about my children. I think this past year has worn them down. I'm at a loss for myself most of the time. Not sure what's the right thing to do and I always feel that whatever it is is not enough. Sorry to be a downer tonight. 🌙 #sleeponit #pickacolor #colorleaves #tomorrowisanewday #parentingishard

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 22 🌙 Annnd

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 22 🌙 Annnd back to the late night posts. I refuse to call it early morning. Another hectic day. I played tech support for the kids during religious school Zoom as the ancient computers kept losing connectivity. 🍪 In the afternoon I ordered new colored pencils then helped the boy make a small batch of hamentaschen. Studied a little mussar in advance of my chevruta meeting this evening. 🍲 Spouse fed the kids dinner during my meeting where we discussed the differences between chesed and compassion. Then I made ramen for spouse and myself while the family finished watching Star Wars. 💜 After we got the kids in bed, we watched an episode of Cobra Kai which actually mentioned chesed by another name. But then I read about more tsuris on Facebook. I need to be better tomorrow as I have been remiss with others. I can't just discuss chesed, I have to live the midot too. ✏ Back to the lightbox tonight to start transferring hod. ✨ #purim #chesed #hod #mussar #kindness #whatsustainsyou

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 21 🌞 It's

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 21 🌞 It's Saturday! And I'm not posting at 2am! Spouse took the kids for a walk this afternoon and the house was quiet so I got out the inks. ✒ Inks scare me. I need absolute quiet for this trick so I can concentrate... so my next door neighbor begins hacking and scraping the ice off her driveway under my window and continues the entire 2 hours my family was out. 🤦‍♀️ The amount of stupid little resistance bits are becoming ridiculous. But inking got done, nevertheless. I probably should have used 2 nib sizes and card 14 was a little rushed but not awful. Also noticed I spelled Tiferet wrong. Guess I'll fix that one digitally. ✅ #inking #accomplished #timetocookdinner #workingsaturday #gevurah #megaliths

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 20 🌞 Today

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 20 🌞 Today I'd planned to work on this in the afternoon but client meetings and work were relentless and then it was 5pm. So I turned frozen turkey burgers and cans of stuff into taco soup, with spinach and cheese fajitas... and once again I find myself posting accountability at 2am. 📺 To be fair, I have to admit my current obsession with Cobra Kai is also pulling some time and contributing to my continuing failure getting to bed by midnight. Luckily only 9 episodes remain. ☁️ Tonight's work is sponsored by the color, "70% Cool Grey." A lot of it. And one dead blending marker. A long time ago, my brother asked why I do things "the long way." It was in reference to computer coding but processes often apply to other things in life. It probably would be a lot faster to paint the sky but then it would look very different. 🖍 Coloring like this is very meditative (hence the uptick in adult coloring book sales) and I found myself back in 2nd grade where my group for the Halloween play was coloring our craft paper backdrop in black crayon. The others were so cleanly going back and forth. I, of course, scribbled black in crazy circles. I wasn't particularly well liked to begin with and boy, did they let me have it! Well, my lines are pretty even these days, gang. 😆 #reminiscing #coolgrey #coloringnight #cobrakaifan #waxon #crayonjoke

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 19 ❄ Astoun

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 19 ❄ Astoundingly, the kids didn't go out to play in what turned out to be more ice caviar than snow. They built blanket forts and played video games all day. I had a easier morning and got a bit of client work done. 🍞 I experimented with my cast-off refrigerated leftover dough from the king cake and discovered that it's best to keep the dough as cold as possible while trying to form yeast hamentaschen or they completely fall apart. Still tasty though. 🖍 My aunt called to continue reading with the kids at bedtime. I colored. I'm unsure of the colors for this set, so I'm swapping between cards to try and help keep them consistent. 🌸 #makingtimeforart #prismacolor #floweringtrees #stillwinter

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 18 🧺 Today

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 18 🧺 Today was much like yesterday except the house cleaners came this morning and cleaned around the kids in class and spouse on deadline. I cooked dinner around picking up my car after hours. I left it for the family and secretly took my plate to the monthly meditation Zoom with my synagogue. I kept my camera off until I'd finished eating. Didn't want to be rude as I'd already arrived late! 🧘‍♀️ Didn't leave much time for the project tonight. I did client work after meditation and then a wind-down episode of Cobra Kai. But I did finish the color on one card and the tree trunks on two more. 🌳 School is already canceled for tomorrow. Even virtual. Since the house is clean, the kids are guaranteed to repeatedly track in mud and ice throughout the day. ❄ #snowday #treetrunks #isitfridayyet #ohwell

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 17 🤪 Back

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 17 🤪 Back to the hecticity. Is that a word? Today was another day where I start something, it gets interrupted, then te interruption gets interrupted, rinse, repeat until the thing I started with at 9am finally gets finished at 4pm and it should have only taken a half hour. Luckily most of the vertigo is gone. 🍎 New bell schedule for the kids today in advance of concurrent school starting in March. Spouse is uninterruptable on deadlines. Found another dead mouse on the deck. Car is fixed but there was no time to get it. 🃏 Amazingly a Mardi Gras king cake takes very little hands on time to make and tastes like a stuffed, frosted challah. Alas... we didn't plan ahead on dinner so frozen burgers. Getting tired of frozen turkey burgers. Hopefully the house is tiny enough for the cleaners tomorrow! The chaos will continue. 🖍 Started coloring the Week of Tiferet while waiting for the kids to fall asleep. Tiferet is harmony and balance. I could say it's ironic but I'm striving for the balance so perhaps it's timely. I'm using flowering trees for the main representation. 🌳 #theusual #hectic #harmony #bakingandart #trees

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 16 💫 Still

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 16 💫 Still a little dizzy and fuzzy but getting better. Which is good as I haven't exercised since I fell on the ice and ought to get back to it! We dropped my car off this afternoon to have the battery replaced. 🌧 Another wet cruddy day but the weather isn't bothering me like it used to. I like the excuse to hibernate. The rest of the family is cranky. Started a new king cake recipe for tomorrow. It's supposed to rise in the fridge overnight. Guess we'll see! 🖍 Week of Gevurah is colored and waiting for ink. I think it's best for me to ink during the day when I'm less likely to screw up since I haven't picked up the pen in months. Picked the base colors for Tiferet. Started thinking about whether or not I'll have to redo Chesed because of the glitter. I should start scanning those and see. 🎨 #week2 #standingstones #coloring #ontothenextone #microblog

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 15 Happy Vale

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 15 Happy Valentine's Day! 💜 Still a little dizzy and fuzzy but nice to have a slower weekend to catch up on laundry, bills, letters, and such. Piano lesson and Girl Scouts today as well. ⏰ I'm finding that the trouble is not a lack of time but a lack of uninterrupted time. It's the constant switching that's mentally exhausting such that the simplest tasks can take hours to complete because they're not completed in one chunk of time. 🖊 #backtothedrawingboard Since I had to re-lightbox the piece I ruined* last night, I also finished boxing the week of Netzach. I'm doing the corresponding pieces of Malchut at the same time. So now I have my next 2 weeks transferred and ready for color. I was hoping to be able to ink today but not yet. *Husband likes the piece as a stand-alone though it's inconsistent with the set. 🍕 Tonight we're having our traditional Valentine's dinner of pizza and, hopefully, donuts. I hope you are having a good day! 🍩 #valentinesday #lightbox #twostepsforward #create #100daysproject

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 14 I killed i

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 14 I killed it. It doesn't match the others in the group and it's over-renderered. I must have target fixated on failing and I don't even want to post it tonight but this is about accountability. I guess it will be better next time. Another problem with failing on a schedule like mine... you literally do lose sleep over it. 😠 #screwedup #goingtobed

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 13 😵 Still

#the100dayproject #100DaysOfOmer Day 13 😵 Still have vertigo. Luckily it's mild but good thing I don't have to go to an office! My car battery is dead right now so I can't drive anywhere anyway. Worked a long day for the client to make up for yesterday. More spousal friction at what should have been dinner time but wasn't. I lost my temper. 💜 Son's teacher popped by everyone's homes after school like the Valentine's fairy delivering the bags I made and two other moms filled with the whole 2nd grade class' valentines. The parents dropped the Valentines off last Friday. I think it was a lot better than the usual class exchange. There were happy emails tonight. 🖍 Only a little coloring tonight and left unfinished. I'm too tired and cranky and this one is intimidating because it's a visual memory and I want to get it right. Long ago on a night in the Bahamas, I walked on the cool sand with a boy. There was a storm out at sea even though the sky overhead was clear and full of stars. Lightning flashed on the horizon and the wind rattled the palms. "You've sunburnt your lips," he'd said. It was more than half a lifetime ago. 🌩 But that story doesn't make sense with Hod in Gevurah. The image does, though. It is sometimes translated as Humility in Discipline. I chose another translation, Splendor (or Glory) in Strength. 🪨 #longago #beachatnight #splendor #notfinished #valentinesday #100daychallenge

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