Reading | Not That Kind of Girl - Lena Dunham (I'm rationing it out and reading it slowly because I'm really enjoying it).
Watching | The Imitation Game (with my friend Sara at the cinema), Grand Designs & The Asian Cup (soccer tournament).
Listening | Laura Jean.
Making | My first paste-up, a birthday card for my favourite cafe, working on commissions, painting addresses on envelopes, practicing my calligraphy and doing doodled daily diary illustrations.
Consuming | Lots of delicious, healthy, homemade food - my favourites have been frittatas, baked eggs, nut & date balls and big hot breakfasts.
Looking forward to | The next month; a big, uncertain, exciting, scary one.
This past month my brother and niece came to stay for a week, I did the #whole30 and C and I decided to separate. This week I was approved for my own little apartment and I'll be moving in next week. It probably sounds pretty unexpected, and in some ways it has been, but it's what is necessary right now and I really think our relationship will improve with at least some time apart. There's no unpleasantness, we're still very close and we share the parenting of our lovely little human, so we'll always be important people in each others lives. I don't really think its necessary to say much more than that about the situation, but I am genuinely feeling positive about the future.
I'm officially finished my week of illustrating my days. Some days I felt were just way too boring to illustrate but I found enough mundane details to fill an A4 page regardless! Maybe I'll still illustrate my days sometimes, if they're particularly worthy of illustrating. I hope you've enjoyed them. If you'd like to do something similar, link me, I'd love to see!
+ Ps. Click the images to see more detail.
I decided this week that I would do a little drawn summary at the end of each day in my sketchbook. It makes my day feel much more interesting than it actually was. Here are Monday and Tuesday's efforts.
What would you draw in an illustrated summary of your day?
"But Ma, I don't want to stop playing in the dirt and come inside for bed" - Theo.
My brother and niece have been visiting us for the past week and start their journey back home tomorrow. We've had a lovely time together, their first trip to Tasmania, and I've really enjoyed having art supplies spread across the kitchen table and drawing for hours on end with Rose and Luke. And I think just being in the company of an older child for a few days has helped Theo with his development. He is a bit obsessed with Rosie and I'm sure he'll be sad to see her go. They've spent lots of time playing. I love that the weather is warm enough at the moment for Theo to run around outside sans clothes. It's just hard to convince him to come back inside!