Kenso Turns One 🎂🎉Happy Birthday Kenso

 

Hello and Good morning Kenso. Happy Birthday little guy! This picture was taken just a few minutes ago as I type this up. It’s really early there so he was like you want me to smile mom. Look at his birthday boy button. His little shirt has cars on it and his theme is race cars. 

A bit of a morning smile is coming….. Kenso is so beautiful. He is so sweet and happy. We call him the King as his middle name means king. 

Crystal is always really good about sending me pictures which I do appreciate. 

You can see what a happy baby he is. 

This was back in the summertime when Crystal visited Alexis we drove down and saw him. 

Back last summer. 

The picnic with his big sister Skylar. 

He is so precious 

You see how he is very happy. I miss him so much. We saw him and the family back in January at Cooper’s Marine Corps graduation. 

I could just kiss 😘 you! Miss you 🥰 

Oh he didn’t like the Grinch. Who blames him. Over the years I can’t remember one of my babies or grandchildren that didn’t cry at that age. Can you imagine how scary that is. 

When he got new Halloween pjs. 

When we saw him in San Diego. http://creationsbydawn.blogspot.com/2026/01/january-20-2026-recap-on-san-diego.html

The birthday party is today at daycare and tomorrow at home. 

His Smash cake 

I love it!! Happy Birthday Kenso I love you so much. Grandma wishes she could be there with you. It makes tears flow that I can’t be there. I’m so excited for the party (parties) pictures. Crystal will send me the pictures which I will share tomorrow morning or tomorrow afternoon??? I never know what the day will bring. It is nice to get the pictures as it makes me feel like I am there. Today is my free class with Connie this morning newspaper print practice. So I am going to get dressed and be ready for that. Also I ordered strawberries and oranges from the tree ripe folks in which Bruce is counting change to buy. I can’t wait to taste those yummy strawberries. 🍓 They are delicious! 

Take care and again Happy Birthday Kenso. 

I love you! 

Good vibes and happy day, 

Dawn Gallop 

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Hello and Happy Thursday Everyone

Hello 👋 waving at you! I awoke to a cold rainy day this morning and a few times the rain turned to snowflakes……NO! I worked on the plants and we sat and folded laundry. Watched a bit of YouTube and then Bruce cooked a breakfast of pork chops and eggs. As I was working on the plants I moved some around and changed their lighting. We added more fans to the shelves. You want your plants to have air circulation it helps to strengthen them and it moves carbon dioxide around to increase absorption and reduces hot spots on the leaves and can prevent mold from growing on the plant or the soil. I finished mushroom 63 and started on 64. The #63 is a bioluminescence mushy and I had added the glow in the dark gauche. https://a.co/d/0eT7TTTI JIC you want some too. They really do work. It’s cool! So while I was painting kinda in a funk as the rain, no sunlight and zero money (a girl need’s things) you know just the basics. It can bring you down when you think about it. The good thing is I just keep painting so I get a text and Kim had sent me pictures of the Children’s Museum in Portsmouth Virginia. https://share.google/GfPAUjOCn4V7l6yHo

If you can go to this museum it is wonderful I have been taking my children there as long as I can remember. Jr. was born in 1987 and I know we took him there as well. Plus over the years we went many times I even took Skylar. Good times! So it just made my day to get the pictures of Levi at the museum this morning. I’m smiling thinking of it. 

Dusty even had one of these in a small size. It is so cool. 

Levi’s checking to see it the soil is dry 

Music 

You know he is the Captain. He has a hobby of loving anything Titanic and has been the captain of the ship. He even has bought hats that are captain hats. 

In Canada 🇨🇦 we loved that trip……Hmmm did I share that??  

I love it 

The Titanic Captain Uniform 

Tomorrow is Kensos’ Birthday he will be 1 and yes I will be making that post on him tomorrow. 

Levi waiting for breakfast at the convention center for the dance competitions. 

Last summer Jr and Kim with the girls went to Orlando while we stayed at the house Kim had rented. They took Levi to see the fancy cars. 

Still waiting Levi?? The breakfast is coming…….❤️
 

Yep you see how high the snow was 

Samantha’s dress for the Viking Ball 

Dakota’s Dress for the Viking Ball 

Dusty leaving for MEPS 

Dusty is trying for the Air Force, but with his medical (the shoulder surgery) it may not be a possibility. 

Kenso 

Pick me up 

Picture of Cooper, Skylar and Dusty in Portsmouth Virginia. Skylar is Kenso’s big sister. Well I better get back to painting. I was just waiting on the watercolors to dry for the next layer. Sending everyone much love and happiness. Good vibes all the way. 

Happy Thursday 🍄‍🟫

Mush love, 

Dawn Gallop 

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The 100 Day Project Scribbles Days 50-60

Hello and a warm welcome, thanks for stopping by the blog. I want to tell you something about the 100 day scribble project. It started on our group with Jessica Swift we are on day 63 now. If you have been following along you know it’s about moving energy and doing whatever mark you want to make. I have been producing whatever comes out on that particular moment. It has truly loosened me up. In my art journey I have always had the feeling that if I’m going to create it has to be something meaningful or something that is really a perfect……yes that’s what you heard. Not perfect in the sense of a perfectionist (although I do have those tendencies) as well as when I first got married I would come home and ask my husband (we had three children) why he moved the pillows?? Yes I was 21 and obviously had serious OCD. I knew it! It was something I would work through in counseling and still continue today. So in essence I couldn’t make art unless it was going to be a perfect piece of art. Yes even if someone else thought it was not perfect in my mind it was. So I couldn’t practice or as one of my favorite writers says Make Shitty Art!Art Even if you or someone believes that you can’t make shitty art! I doodled all my life. On everything from a grocery list to a contract. Yep you might see a very important paper with one of my doodles. I seriously will not even notice I’m doing it but if I have a pen and paper that’s what’s happening. Well I could of not just put it in a journal it was on yellow sticky notes, lined paper etc. it never went into a book. Well when Jessica said about the scribble project it just opened a world to me…. JUST MAKE SOMETHING!!! So I started the scribble and it was freeing just letting go. I was it first just making marks then it went into a more detailed creation which I understand it wasn’t just a scribble anymore. The idea is I was letting go and making something if it wasn’t so called perfect anymore. I was enjoying the process and not expecting anything. No JUDGEMENT!! Enjoy the journey and whatever comes out it’s out. It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks or says as long as I enjoy it, that’s the idea. 

Here I am on day 63 still making these paintings or drawings or whatever one calls it. It makes me happy and filled with joy. 

The tree above 👆🏻 is just a watercolor painting that came out and I love it!!! On Day 57 I had to switch to a new journal as I finished the dog chewed up and water spilt on the journal sketchbook. Yay! A new journal to start. This picture right below in the cadmium red light. 😊 it’s on my journal shelf now. 

A North Carolina From Mountains to Sea. You know I am missing NC right now. Not to mention we have went through 39 inches of snow during this 10 days with still huge amounts still left out there but at least yesterday I did get a walk in. It was lovely. I added more books to my little free library and it felt good to be back outside. 

This one I just wanted to share all the energy I am feeling right now. Just one of the girls I like to draw from my brain. 

This was just made from the inks I had on the angel fish below. 👇🏼 It’s called Artistic Rorschach Ink bots.  Andy Warhol is one of the artists that has these kinds of paintings. Look in the painting and see what you see. 

This was an angel fish that came out from the ink I cleaned up that leaked out. 

It was St. Patrick’s Day 

Highlighters and mushrooms of course 

Just another girl I paint 

Just playing 

This one I love I used gouache paints. So you see if I worry about making it perfect as I was basically taught to be. I wouldn’t have these paintings nor would I have the muscle memory of making something. It feeds my artist soul. It keeps my hand moving and my brain learning. Plus it’s FUN! So be free and just let the art flow. No matter if it’s just a few marks or a full day of painting. Mush love, 🍄‍🟫Dawn Gallop

See all the paintings here http://creationsbydawn.blogspot.com/2026/03/days-31-40-scribbles-project.html

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