Tuesday next I will be wending my way across the continent and the blue Atlantic, to eventually end up wandering around in Bologna and Rome and on the Canal du Midi and in Barcelona, eating good food and drinking fine wine. We'll be living in apartments and on a canal boat - no hotels! With any luck, I'll post more about the whole trip process this ( Read more... )

Another watercolor class - this time on Travel Journals. Specifically the kind of journal composed of quick small sketches on facing pages, in pencil or perhaps pen and ink, perhaps colors, with labels and descriptive words. I worked from photos, and played with non-permanent ink and a sharp pen. I chose colors without stressing about the color ( Read more... )

I am so not an artist, but alexfandra and I went to a watercolor class last weekend, on mountains and rocks. She mentioned the class, and she posted her exercises. So I decided that I should try it too. I hope this works -

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Just a short note to let everyone know that Snady's clean-up procedure happened as planned today - she's tired and cranky, but OK.

Very tired, actually, so she and Brie asked me to let ya'll know that all is well. Fingers crossed that the skutters got it all this time!

"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall ( Read more... )

Arnouds and kirs all around for emmarytz to celebrate another year on the planet! Congratulations!

A couple of weeks ago, gwyn-r seemed to be appalled that I wasn't bragging. So JL did kinda - if you go here you'll see what about.

I've discovered a wonderful new Brit drama called Life on Mars that's really cool and makes me happy (detective from 2006 wakes up in 1973, and doesn't know what's going on or how to fix it - yum). If you know anything at ( Read more... )

How did I miss this? It's all here!

Happy Birthday to movies_michelle! May your life be a romp around the galaxy, but preferably not on Mars!

jjjlllvvv found another interesting link  - this jigsaw puzzle challenges how well you know the new map of Europe. Go ahead, put Croatia in its place, or Moldavia, or San Marino ( Read more... )