Brand new download ~ Smash This Nature Journal #3 with a free sample download! Welcome to some brand new fun & adventure nature journal ideas! Be warned ~ you and your Nature Journal may get dirty or wet, but you should have some real creative fun! There is something wonderfully liberating being instructed to tear, … Continue reading Smash This Nature Journal #3
This past week I noticed our grapevine leaves had started to turn pale green, browns and fall off. I sketched some autumn grapevine leaves for my weekly mom’s nature journal. I played around with my watercolor pencils, mixing, blending and coloring different blocks of autumn colours along the left side of my page. I painted … Continue reading Mom’s Nature Journal Signs of Autumn
For my weekly nature journal time, I decided to focus on unusual leaves and I was inspired with these colorful plants ~ This week I took out my watercolor pencils. With just my fine waterbrush and the watercolor pencils, I was able to create detailed, blended colors that suited my leaves perfectly. Watercolor pencils have … Continue reading Mom’s Nature Journal Leaves
With my teenager’s increasing independence in their homeschooling, our days have settled into a new rhythm, and I have found peace in making some new, small, personal goals for myself. Charlotte Mason calls it “Mother Culture“. One of my goals is to regularly sketch in my nature journal. I look forward to quietly making … Continue reading Mom’s Nature Journal inspiration
Every now and then I find fresh nature journal inspiration and here’s a fabulous blog I spent most of my afternoon browsing recently ~ Middlewood Journal Helen is a freelance writer and illustrator and a regular contributor to the Wildlife in North Carolina magazine. She teaches weekly nature journaling classes and various workshops. Her journal … Continue reading Nature Journal Inspiration
I am super excited! Barb over at Handbook of Nature Study has posted her review of my Smash This Nature Journal and is offering her readers 3 free copies of Smash This Nature Journal #1. Please pop over to her post to enter. She writes, “Don’t miss this giveaway which will end on Thursday night at … Continue reading Smash This Nature Journal Review and Giveaway
Brand new downloads ~ Welcome to adventure outdoors journaling ideas! Nothing stiff, stuffy and serious here! Be warned ~ you and your Nature Journal may get dirty or wet, but you should have some real creative fun! I have created 2 Smash This Nature Journals which you’ll find on my Packages Page. Here’s how it … Continue reading Smash This Nature Journal
This month’s Outdoor Hour Challenge theme is Trees We studied the Karee tree just outside my bedroom window. I sketched it one afternoon. This week we examined the leaves and bark of the same tree. Miss.L10 took paper and made some bark rubbings and picked some leaves to bring inside. We used the bark rubbing … Continue reading Nature Journals ~ Karee Tree
Hundreds of Cape Weavers have made nests in several of our trees on our farm. They only come for their spring breeding season. The males flitter and fight over branches and frantically build their exquisite nests. They hang upside down from their nests fluttering their wings and singing to attract the females. With so many … Continue reading Nature Journal ~ Cape Weaver’s Nest
It is spring/ summer here in the Cape. Cape Weavers noisily build nests and raise their chicks in almost every tree in our garden. Swallows, Wagtails, Sunbirds and Sparrows feed often at our feeder or fly about in the garden. Charlotte Mason said, “As soon as he is able to keep it himself, a nature … Continue reading Nature Journal ~ baby Robins in a nest
