 This month our prompt for my year 2017 is favorites. You of course could take that in a lot of different ways. I chose to think about that as favorite things in my life rather than favorite physical things. The obvious thing I could have done is favorite art supplies. I have lots of favorite art supplies and I just love art. So that would be easy and difficult at the same time to work out. But I thought it would be more interesting if I created some more free illustrations for you all. And actually some of these are really cute and they may come out in the 2018 stamp design line. So look for that because some of these turned out really cute. And use these little illustrations to put in my section for October this year to really write about and illustrate my favorite things in life. So I printed each one of the illustrations in a small size on a piece of card stock. I did six to a page. So I have plenty of extras should I screw up or to share in Happy Mail or something like that. And I have mine sitting here. So I'm going to fussy cut them out. This first one is I need some glasses before. These are little. Okay, let's see. Oh, that's better. Okay, this first one is a dinner plate and fork. Let me zoom it so you can see. This first one is a dinner plate and fork. And I'm going to cut it out close to the line of the image. I'm not worried if there's a little bit of white space and getting it exactly. And as I'm cutting these out, I'll talk to you about each one of them. So this first one is a dinner plate and fork and it was honestly the very first one I thought of. Because next to art, I really love food. I love sharing a good meal with friends and family. I used to like cooking more than I do now. I think that's just age and menopause. But I do enjoy cooking, not as much as art. But mostly what I enjoy is we have once a week, oops, where are we? We have once a week our daughter and her boyfriend over for dinner and we have a family dinner. And I love that. So for me, this dinner plate illustrates in a visual way the enjoyment of a good meal with friends and family as often as possible, the talk, the conversation. I love that. So we have that. Oops, okay. And then the next one is a variation on a theme. So some of you youngsters might not know what that is. It's a telephone. My grandma there actually had one like that. So this is a telephone, an old-fashioned rotary phone. No push buttons. But anyway, for me, it illustrates really my enjoyment that I get out of weekly, daily conversations with friends and family, really keeping in touch with people. It's one thing to message people on the internet. It's a whole other thing to actually talk to people. I, you know, there is nothing that's honestly more enjoyable than sitting and having a good conversation with somebody, especially somebody that you can trust and you care about. And I love that. And when we have weekly art chat conversations with friends that I have met and made with some of you here in this group over Zoom. And those are really fun to have. Most of us are home alone during the day and, you know, it's nice to know that we're not the only ones out there. So cut this out again. I'm not too concerned if I am not exactly, you know, super close to the line. I just want to be kind of close. If these were rubber stamps, like for next year, I could really see using these in a bunch of stuff. So there we're gonna have our telephone. The next one are a pair of feet. I like that you love the feet. So I really love walking. I love going for a good walk. I love walking in nature. I'm not a super big fan about getting sweaty. I know those two things kind of don't go together, but I love, you know, going down to the beach and going for a nice long walk. We have a couple of places that are near home that we like to go hiking. And I, you know, I love it. And I will go until my asthma gets the better of me. I do bring my inhaler when I go. If I can't just manage to get out anywhere, I get on the treadmill. I do have a treadmill here at the house. It's not an expensive one, but that's okay. That was a gift from a friend. And I love to just get out there, you know, turn everything off, put a book on the treadmill and just walk, put some music on and just walk. So I love that. So the feet for me represent that. Of course, art. Art, art journaling, writing. Actually, I enjoy more than I thought I would. So I created this little pad of paper with a pencil and a paintbrush. I love that. So we're gonna cut that out. And again, these little illustrations are free. You can print them and of course, make them much bigger than I did if you so choose. You could print them on stickers. If you have a scan and cut, you could probably do that and then scan them and then have it scan them and cut them out. And then the last one are just nature and flowers. I love, I've said this already. I love being out in nature. I love the inspiration that you get from it. I love being at the beach. I love taking pictures of beautiful flowers when we're out. Even when we're just like out at the shopping mall. If they have any kind of pretty flowers, I'm there grabbing my camera on my phone and taking pictures. And the family is used to, you know, me kind of like losing them a little bit because I've stopped somewhere to take a picture of something. That's, it's pretty normal to be honest. I think they're well and used to it by now. Sometimes it embarrasses them, but most of the time they just, you know, care. You could just of course cut this out in a circle, but I kind of want some of the detail of the petals on here. I love sunflowers in particular. They're really big ones. They're so beautiful. I haven't grown any in a long time and I probably have old seed around here somewhere. It's probably old and past it, but I'm thinking in the spring about maybe planting them in the back garden. If I can keep the dog out of it and the local squirrels and stuff from eating the seeds. So I'm just going to spend some time. You could definitely do this, turn on some music. You could color these. These of course are black and white illustrations. You could color them and then put them down. I'm going to leave them, I think black and white. I want you to think of what your favorite things are in life and art. I want you to write about them, create art about them, illustrate them in your journal this month. It's really easy to focus on the things you don't like, but this month I want you to let that go and I want you to focus on those things you do like, those favorite things. The things that truly bring you joy. And if you have things in your life that don't bring you joy and that are really holding you back, maybe rethink them. I'm no expert, my life is not perfect, and I don't claim to be. And there's lots of people out there with serious, serious issues that they can't help and they can't fix. But if you can, maybe you should. So I am going to put all these in and I'm going to do some journaling. And that's going to be one of the things I do for this month. I love the way that looks. I might just have to, I think that's really cool. So I'm going to do that and I will post a picture here at the end when I get it done. Think about what your favorite things are. If there's some of the similar ones to mine, then you have access to these five illustrations. And I hope that if you're not a part of the My Year 2017 Facebook group or the new one we're going to have for 2018, that you think about joining us. Both links for both groups are in the description below if you're watching this on YouTube. There's a link to my tip jar if you want to support the free content here on Facebook. 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