This is my lame excuse for not having posted for awhile: I have not wanted to waste the little me time I've had by talking about and posting pictures of my doings. That would have been just plain old silly, because all of my precious time would be being consumed by blogger and not by the creative workings of my brain. Thus, I would have had nothing to talk about or post pictures of. I've been really busy-trying to fit in weight lifting workouts around work is just crazy; by the time I get home, all I want to do is shove food down my esophagus, watch Captain Kirk do those fabulous rolls of his, and sleep. I've been so exhausted I've been going to bed around 8:00 at the earliest, 9:30 at the latest. It's felt difficult to have any kind of energy to put toward being creative.
I did manage to finish my dress on time for the wedding, and locally I found some mega-amazing shoes to wear with it (there were a few minor disasters that came about trying to order a pair, but I won't go into that.) I am so happy with it, especially considering that it was my first time working from a pattern. What excites me the most about getting into sewing garments is the sheer enormity of what you could create. What you make is completely customizable and unique to YOU, from the sizing to the fabric to all the fun frills. ^___^
Since I'd like to show y'all what it looks like (and just FYI- I'm not southern, I just have a tendency to talk in weird voices...I guess it carries over into typing, haha) but don't have any GREAT pictures (yet) I'm falling back on a silly snapshot of moi dans la cuisine, taken hurriedly minutes before we dashed out of the door so as not to be late for the wedding. You get the idea :)
My geekish self hamming it up for my sister's camera.
The only other time that I've really had to do any drawing is when I sell strawberries at the stand. Sometimes things get a little slow, and when they do I'M READY! I bought a new sketchbook that's nice and small and easily portable, and I bring it with me. I've come up with some great ideas and characters to pursue further when I have more time. Here are some pictures of my favorite pages/sections of pages:
Joseph, the amazing 8 legged rabbit.
Yorik, who loves everything cute and fuzzy but is a notorious egg robber (his favorite are bluebird's eggs, fried sunny side up)
And some other guys...
A few days ago we had a rain day (yeah!!! You can't pick berries in the rain!!!) and I decided to drag out my paints once again. Here's Yorik in acrylic paint form:
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