Daily Face: December 31st and Reading Challenge

 This is the last day of my Daily Face portraits for 2015. I am happy with the progress I made in drawing a portrait almost every week day. I usually don't attempt them on the weekends because the calendar pages has lines on the those days.
I also completed my reading challenge of 80 books. That was a difficult challenge for me, although I love to read, I had to push myself and sometimes I had to choose shorter books to read to stay on track. Reading a 500 page book just wasn't the best option.

My goals for 2016 will be to continue daily portraits. I signed up for a weekly Color Me Positive challenge and I am challenging myself not to purchase any books in 2015. The reason for this is because I have a lot of books that I have been purchasing and not reading. I am the type of person who does not like having books on the shelf left unread. Whenever I have guest over and they look at my book collection I like to say that I have read that if they pick it up to look at.
Also I am challenging myself not to purchase any new clothing. How many clothing do you really need? When I help others declutter I see the results of constant shopping. Soon you run out of space and think you need a bigger space. I find it quite sad when I go to estate sales and they had so much stuff, that is not worth anything. I want to just keep the things I love if possible, and enjoy my family and friends. Happy New Years Eve!

Daily Face: December 9th

I heard a wonderful news story this morning about a farmer in Harris County, Georgia who is working together with the school district to provide fresh produce for the school cafeteria. I think that is wonderful!
I wish my vegetable garden skills were better, Each year I try to grow more of my own food. My grandparents had a large farm in North Carolina. My parents would take us for the summer. We thought we were going to die from boredom and shelling peas. I miss those days now.
 My grandmother sold fresh farm eggs which were brown. At that time we (city kids) thought that was disgusting having only seen store bought white eggs. Now I only buy organic brown eggs, lol! My children think its disgusting to buy regular white eggs and only like organic milk.

Daily Face: October 21, 2015

I am a Good News type of person. I often wondered if the news focus more on what was good and right going on in the world, would it make a difference. Yet when you listen to the news it mostly covers the bad and evil. Why is that? My husband knows how much I love good stories, so when they broadcast something good he saves it for me. He'll said"I have a story you will like." It always makes me smile or fills me with joy and hope. What if they just split it 50/50, for every bad report they countered with a good.