Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer, and I'm so excited to share with you ideas from a good friend of mine, Rochelle Baborna.

Rochelle, thanks for joining us again. Your Nature Notebook looks so different from mine, because mine is just lists and words, and maybe a little tiny duckling here if nobody

looking, you know?

But yours is much more artistic.

And my goal is not to make my notebook look exactly like yours.

And that's okay.

But I would love to continue to grow in my abilities to add pictures and paintings into my

notebook.

So do you have, I'm sure you do, would you share with us?

I hope I have some tips for you to grow.

Yes, some wisdom, some encouragement and how we can all keep growing in that.

Right.

So I think that we're going to be talking about two different things really, and that's going

to be the art lesson and then nature journaling, because they are two separate things.

That's a good point.

I didn't think about to improve in

the Nature notebook. It might be good to take some art lessons. So historically, Charlotte Mason

had handicrafts three times a week and then an art lesson or a drawing lesson twice a week and these

were 20 to 30 minute lessons but the point is is that our nature journaling time is not it's not our

art lesson time it's not the time to learn these tips it's the time to practice them to apply them

really i think the beauty of what sitting down to paint a specimen that we found in nature

or that we're out in nature observing is that it gives us that time to observe and to make

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