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I submitted it at least 2 months ago and it just now got accepted.

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( Horsey Picture! )

This commission I have already been paid for, of a horse's head, has been driving me batshit.  Last night I tried to work on it for an hour and couldn't get the sketch right, no matter how I tried ( Read more... )

I'm too tired to come up with some epic and flowery entry tonight (not that I usually do anyway).  Just wanted to say Thanksgiving was way better than I expected.  Played Scrabble with Mom and sis, got to catch up with my cool Aunt Diana whom I haven't seen since I was 21 (i'm starting to think she is the gossip of the family).  Also, found out ( Read more... )

I had a decent night at work tonight, which got me in a good working mood when I got home.  I crocheted another entire panel of the afghan I'm making for Nate, which means it's now 3/4 or 3/5 done, depending on whether I decide to make it eight or ten panels wide.  I might go nine, just to be different ( Read more... )

Stumbled across my all-time favorite poem today while rambling around the house, trying to find something to do (that something ended up being laundry).  Lines from this poem have actually been the inspiration for ALL of the Art-0-mat blocks as well as my "I Carry Your Heart" paintings.

( i carry your heart by ee cummings )

Ive been working on a new painting and I've had my moments of artistic doubt.  Things just wouldn't look right. A branch would be off, a tree would look too crooked.  Then I'd get up and walk away ( Read more... )

Everytime I meet someone from another country, I try to learn one phrase in their language, "I love you."  I figure as long as I know that one, wherever I go, I will be safe.  After all who's going to hurt some American stranger who has just said she loves them ( Read more... )

I've gotten into the new place and am slowly getting settled.  I've got most everything unpacked and am steadily cleaning the place up (it's a bachelor pad...or was til I got here).  Thrown a few painting up on the walls and a few candles around the room ( Read more... )