Holiday sketching

. . . or just another story for Kiddo to tell about her wacky family. You see, the day before Thanksgiving we went looking for figs to make fig bread. This was inspired by our friend's recent experience eating fig bread while on one of his travels, and wanting to share this new treat with us. We located a recipe and three stores later came home with figs. They were so interesting to look at that we all decided to sketch them first, before making the bread. Meanwhile, Kiddo is patiently waiting for dinner to happen. She knows how involved we can get with our watercolor sketching.

So Kiddo finally comes into the kitchen to check on the progress of dinner and finds the adults in her life standing on chairs photographing our sketching set up, because the table was so visually interesting you know, what with all of our sketching gear, and figs, scattered about.

The table was eventually cleared, we had a lovely dinner and made the fig bread later that evening, which we thoroughly enjoyed as a breakfast treat Thanksgiving morning.

Thanksgiving day our table was in much the same state, watercolor supplies and sketchbooks about. But Kiddo kept us on task and we had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner.

The following day we were back at it again, with watercolors and sketchbooks. Holidays with family, friends, and good food (that also makes a good still life subject) is a holiday well spent.