Day 117: 29 miles logged since last FRI, 248.25 miles to go… A lot of four mile morning runs over the last week, but a few evening jaunts as well thanks to this wonderfully cool weather. Successfully turned in all of my 4H Open Class entries over the weekend, and will be taking home a few colorful ribbons when I pick everything up on SUN : ) Great MON night Art Smart Class; got rained on, hailed on, and snake slithered by at Howell Wetlands for our TUE night SMILE calendar photoshoot; and taught my first Hobby Lobby art class and had a fun SMILE dance class on WED. Busy with SMILE Buddy Walk prep. Excited we’ve added a 5K this year. This are coming along smoothly, and I look forward to sharing more information on the event. Extremely grateful for such a productive week! A few fun pics below. Also, BTW, WC= 60,045 ; ) less than 25,000 more words to go!
Got to help with THUR’s summer fun at the SMILE Center and Wired
SAT fun with Mia included teaching her to crack eggs one handed while we prepared breakfast for 92 people at the homeless shelter on SAT followed by driftwood collection along the river
Got to play with powertools with said driftwood
LOVED THE FINAL RESULTS ON THIS, but truth be told it didn’t even place for open class. Oh well! It’ll look great on my back porch!
This little labor of love unfortantely did not fare so well. Turned out so pretty, but too fragile! I will also state that at this point I am totally over wood glue! Apparently drilling and wiring is the way to go with these driftwood projects!
A few more cute open class projects
Hit the pool with Mia SUN afternoon after our Open Class drop off before Bob and Cooper made their way home from their baseball tourney
Fun times with stamps at my MON night Art Smart class!
Funny story behind this pic… two minutes later we had torrential rains and hail for my calendar shoot. Then just as I was starting to post this pic to Facebook, a snake slithered right by my flip-flopped foot- ugh!!!! Heebie jeebies. I high tailed it out of the spot right quick!
At my mixed class, participants can be as creative and carefree as they’d like, but for those wanting structure, this week’s class focused around creating a piece that described the person. This is how mine turned out- media: card stock, acrylic paint watered down, magazine collage, and stamping : )
1000 Mile Mom 
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