The last few weeks, I’ve worked pretty hard on my (Masterpiece from the Mundane) assignment. The Masterpiece from the mundane was to simply take shots (of anything) around our home (inside or outside) to create a masterpiece. I need 40 shots total to complete the assignment.

Here are a few of the shots I took this weekend to finish up the assignment.

I thought it would be fun to gather thread from my stash for one of the shots.

And my colored pencils came to mind too.

I really had a lot of fun working with these guys.

But this was the most exciting thing that came from all the playing. To keep the pencils from rolling all over the place, I took a piece of tape to hold them together.

And as I was moving them around, they sort of did something like this (below) on accident. So I tweaked them by spreading them out and I really like what happened.

 As far as our weekend goes, it’s been just great!

Friday, the hubs and I made a nice little trip up to LA to visit our daughter and her boyfriend who flew in for a few days. We enjoyed dinner over the ocean, as the restaurant was on a pier/stilts and the waves crashed below us.

And I have absolutely no pictures to share. I know, shocker. I was afraid of getting too camera happy with the daughter and her boyfriend. Little did I know the daughter told her boyfriend to be “ready” for pictures. Makes me sad I left the camera behind. Next time,  I won’t fret about my camera being in the way. Look out, I’m going to make up for lost time the next time around.

But the beauty of the afternoon/evening is this – we had such a great time together. And I told our daughter that I really, REALLY like her boyfriend.

The last couple of days has been quite relaxing just hanging out with the hubs. Tonight we have a fire crackling in the fireplace and I think we’re getting ready to play our usual evening round of backgammon. And I think I’m getting ready for a cup of coffee.

Cheers to a wonderful weekend and for being all set for class tomorrow.

Blessings – Debbie