Sunshine Challenge #1

[pensnest]

There are at least a dozen bee-esque insects bobbing against the perspex roof of the verandah outside my craft room door. I'm not sure if they are confoozled honey bees or... not, but I have never seen such a collection of them in such a place before.

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Sunshine Challenge Time!



Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.

Goals for July

1 Complete UCAS application
2 Communicate with potential new Mosaic members
3 Work on Rainbows song
4 re-think the progress of Dragon in the Woods
5 finish the Gardens of Giverny scarf
6 block the big shawl
7 try to actually post to DW instead of composing things in my head and forgetting them

Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I have been going to a drawing class for the past three weeks—to my chagrin I won't be going today, because last night at about nine pm I was smitten with a vicious sore throat and a miserable nose. Having in consequence had far too little sleep, and being now obnoxious to be around, I won't inflict my woes on anyone else. (It's not Covid, at least not according to the test I took. But yuck.)

Anyway. I'm very pleased with this:




Excuse the dots at the bottom—I 'drew' a polar bear on the other side of the paper!

Comments

[muscle_wizard]

Very through goals list! Intrigued by how big the big shawl is o:

try to actually post to DW instead of composing things in my head and forgetting them

Yup, haha.

[pensnest]

I will only know how big the shawl truly is when I have blocked it! I think it'll be at least 5' long, possibly more.

[turps]

That is an impressive list, and an impressive sketch.

Feel better soon!

[pensnest]

I look at the list and feel somewhat guilty because at the moment I don't feel like doing ANY of it. Ah well.

[kitarella_imagines]

bee-esque insects I like that description!😅

I was bitten by a mosquito-esque insect yesterday, it was gross as I splatted it on my arm. Luckily I got the sudocrem on the bites ASAP.

Good luck with UCAS, what is the course?

A very good apple. I did O level Art and enjoyed drawing fruit 🍏

[pensnest]

The apple was sorta cheating, because it was a copy of a picture rather than a portrait of an apple, as it were. But I was pleased with it. Usually I don't quite get the outsides in the right place all the way around.

English Literature and Creative Writing! *fingers crossed*

[kitarella_imagines]

well it's pretty good, whatever you copied 😊

Ooh that is exciting! Fingers crossed!

[manna]

You might have a Tree Bee nest somewhere. We've had them nest in the eaves a couple of times. They're very cute. You often get a bunch of males hanging around in the air outside a nest, waiting for new females to emerge.

ETA: Wait, I missed the UCAS application thing! What are you applying for?

[pensnest]

Yes, they didn't quite look right to be the honey bees from the hive at the top of the garden, but didn't quite look like not-bees, either. They've all gone now, so perhaps a lady emerged.

English Lit and Creative Writing at UEA. It's right there, and I've wanted to do an Eng Lit degree more or less since I finished my original degree, and... it's ludicrously self-indulgent but I think it would be good for me. If I get in.

[sixbeforelunch]

Ooh nicely drawn!

[pensnest]

Thank you! I was rather proud of it. There's a loosely sketched sheep on the other page, but it's less convincing. Might be a were-sheep, even.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Lovely 🍎 apple

[pensnest]

Thank you!

[jacieleigh]

What a lovely apple!

I hope you're feeling better soon!

[pensnest]

Thank you! And so do I. I feel muggy, and the weather being muggy does not help at all. Woe.

[stranger]

That apple is convincingly 3-D, congratulations!

My summer cold last week sounds just like your description, but it cleared up very quickly while I stayed at home; hope yours does too.

[pensnest]

I suspect it's cheating to copy a really good sketch of an apple rather than an actual apple, but I was very pleased with it all the same! I do hope my cold goes away fast, it is most inconvenient.

[kat_lair]

Excellent apple *takes a bit*

[pensnest]

Thank you!

[dr_zook]

That's a very neat apple! Get well soon. :)

[pensnest]

Thank you. Apparently I missed guidelines for drawing faces this week - next time, we will be drawing each other!

[turlough]

I hope you're feeling better by now, if not sending you ALL the healthy vibes I can find! Summer colds are the worst.

All the good luck with your goals!

Your apple sketch is looking excellent!

[pensnest]

The cold is on the mend, happily. I'm not sure how long the scarf will take—it's a very fine yarn, on 2.5 needles, and although I am doing at least a little bit every day, it doesn't seem to be getting any longer!

[turlough]

I find it very helpful put in one of those detachable stitch markers at the place I stopped last time on a project like that. It's very encouraging to see that yes, it DID actually grow a bit!

[svgurl]

Good luck with the goals! Your drawing looks great too! That sucks about getting sick though. I hope you feel better soon. :)

[pensnest]

Thank you—the cold does seem to be in retreat, which is much appreciated.