Donna Young

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I planned the first week to be a disciplined approach to doodling lines or that is what it appears to be. Actually, the whole purpose of this week’s exercise is to draw lines in a controlled manner, not completely mindless doodling, and then to observe the effect that the lines have on the drawing as [...]

Monday, Aug. 27, we had the first day of our last year of homeschooling. When my first child was in his last year of homeschooling, I felt rather sad. This time around, it is different. I will be completely finished and I think I am looking forward to being finished.
My daughter has only four subjects, [...]

First and this has nothing to do with embroidery, but I’d like to introduce you to chapstick man and tomato man (a double cherry tomato). Chapstick man lives on my desk and tomato man is just a visitor who is already gone now. Chapstick man is ever-present and is dependably clutching a tube of chap [...]

One day in the recent past, something like over a week ago, I noticed that the little animals in the area had consumed every ripe sunflower seed that inhabited my little speck of earth that I fondly call garden. It just meant more work for me and getting it done sooner was better.
One evening, four [...]

I just sent this out via the dy yahoo update list. I will post the same here, later I might or might not elaborate on the new dy content.
Updates at donnayoung.org June-August 2007:
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