JEFFREY DAY

Jeffrey came to spend a few days with us.  We started out with breakfast at Lowell's at the Market.  We wandered around the Market for a bit and walked around town, looking at the architecture.  I think he enjoyed that.

Looking at our medallion at the Market

The new Rainier Square Tower under construction

We left downtown and headed to The Museum of Flight, which opened at 10am.  We arrived to find quite a line to get in.  This is the last weekend of the exhibit Destination: Moon with artifacts from the Apollo 11 flight to the moon, including the actual capsule.  We all enjoyed the exhibit.

Some of the original consoles from Houston were there, too.

What the typical living room looked like in 1969.

Parts of the engines that were recovered from ocean bottom.

The capsule that brought them back from the moon.

We explored the rest of the museum, too.  Darrell loved seeing some of the older airplane models.  I sketched a few while we were there.

I sketched 'The City of Auburn' and some of the planes overhead while Darrell and Jeffery went in the flight simulator.

Here's a B-29, one of the planes outside.

FIRST LETTERED

I got the rows sewed together on the first of three Lettered quilt tops.

I still need to put a small row of white around the outside.

TUESDAY WATERCOLOR

STILL LIFE

I needed to make an assymetrical 'design' for my design class.

I originally thought I'd do something with the sunflowers - a still life.

But, I ran across this cute little stainless steel teapot in a pile of garbage next to a homeless camp we encountered on our morning walk on Longfellow Creek Trail.  I couldn't find it's missing lid.  So, I'll have to use it as a vase, which rules out the sunflowers.

I picked some of the yellow flowers from the front garden to put in it.  Next, was to find a couple of more items to use for the still life.

BUSY SUNDAY

After breakfast and grocery shopping we went for a walk at Camp Long.

Jelly's eyes have been running and are red and swollen.  I didn't want to wait until Monday for our regular vet and thought I'd give the 24 hour vet a try.  I called, they said the visit would be only $30, which is cheaper than our regular vet, I think.  It turned out to be a definitely longer wait though.  We were very bored.

Bentley wants me to paint his portrait with the sunflowers.

 I started on the next block in my flower series.

IMPRESSIONIST SUNFLOWERS

So, I started over with making an impressionistic painting of the sunflowers.

It went quickly.  I like it.

  I did do a few more touches on this one and then I took it upstairs to put on some coats of sealer.

LAST ITERATION

I changed the table and fixed a few things.  I think it's done.

THIRD DAY SUNFLOWERS

Here's after the third day of painting on the sunflowers.

SECOND DAY SUNFLOWERS

I was back at the sunflower painting this afternoon.  It's coming along.

SUNFLOWER PAINTING START

I went to Daniel Smith today for my watercolor class.  Great fun again.

While in the store I bought some stretchers and made up a canvas when I got home and made a start on my Sunflower painting, outside under the gazebo on the picnic table.

BLACK AND WHITE TOP

I got the top done. 

ANOTHER MARKET BREAKFAST

Well, it was back to Lowell's for breakfast again this morning.  Skyler had oatmeal with berries (she ate the berries and drank her hot chocolate).

Posing by our medallion.

We didn't spend much time there, and headed back home after a quick tour of the Market.  I bought some sunflowers.  I think I'll do a real painting.

I helped Skyler make a little pillow for her dolls from the leftover fabrics for her pillowcase.  [ Edit:Sara sent us a picture when she got it home.]

SKYLER COMES TO VISIT

We traded Quentin for Skyler today.  On the way back home we stopped at Joann's Fabrics where Skyler picked some sparkly unicorn fabric for her pillowcase. 

While she and Darrell when biking around Alki, I made her pillowcase for her.

Jelly enjoyed the nice summer day.

MARKET DAY AND SEWING

Quentin is staying with us for a few days. 

We went to Lowell's for breakfast, then wandered around the Market.  We walked up to the Rainier Tower, looking at the architecture of it and the new tower being built next to it.  

Next stop was the Seattle Art Museum,  we had a few minutes before it opened, so I sat and sketched the Hammering Man. 

Quentin enjoyed some of the exhibits.

 He especially enjoyed the interactive activities in the Special Exhibit: Victorian Radicals.  There was a projector where you could arrange small pieces of plastic where they were arranged like a kaleidoscope and displayed on the wall above.  It was great fun.

 Darrell and Quentin went up into the Smith Tower, while I stayed in the Irish Pub below and sketched.  They joined me afterward and we had a nice Irish lunch.

We took the light rail back to Westlake and then walked back to the Market and the car.

Unfortunately, we drove down to Alaskan Way where it took us the better part of an hour to go the half mile to get to Hwy 99 and out of town.  The traffic was at a complete standstill because of the construction, or should I say deconstruction of the old viaduct.

When we got home, Quentin and I made a pillowcase from the fabrics he had picked out.