toenail
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Queens of Hearts
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

One of these ladies is mine – you can find her (if you haven’t met her already ) by the nose.

I was admiring Jenn’s sketchbook (2nd in on the top row) and thinking how different it was from mine. So I looked around of Flickr and found all of these. True, some are not queens but instead flowers, or only hearts, but I like it.

Still mucking out my room. This is taking waaay longer than I expected, but it is worthwhile and illuminating.

ORange!!
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

Have a little orange in your Thursday.

I keep being gobsmacked by the amount of variation in a color that we can still recognizably call that color.

The May TIF is almost done, and then I’ll be offline for most of two weeks getting my work space changed and cleaned and emptied. I really can’t stand it any more. Plus I want to be able to get to the window so I can look out it, and open it and close it, and not have the sunlight reflecting off the foot plate of my sewing machine.

see more crazy cat pics

they can jump??

March 19
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

Attempting to warm up this morning at Cup and Top before heading into the freezing rain – my coffee, plus a cup of crayons (in crayon, mind you) and colored pencils (in colored pencil).

I refrained from attempting to draw the coffee cup in coffee.

March 18
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

Dedicated readers will wonder if I will ever draw anything besides what I see in front of me at the table (or counter). They may also wonder if I spend any time not thinking about food. Short answers are, respectively, yes, and no. Eventually I will endeavor to introduce more color as well.

I am still getting into a drawing groove, and the whole sketchbook concept still feels kind of forced. I had to wrestle my plate back from two energetic wait-staff today so I could sketch the wreckage, which was funny but embarrassing. Forks are a really strange shape.

Yoga this morning, circus this evening, plus a band concert from Aerin. So we will race home from Vermont eating bagel sandwiches so we can sit and be serenaded by the middle school bands. Good times. Really. Knitting time.

march 16
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

My mother and brother came out for a visit, so I fed them: roasted chicken, roasted beets and fennel, baby artichokes braised in a frying pan, plus cake and two kinds of pie for dessert. A lot of driving for them, and nice visit for us all, I hope.

Pi day
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

Apple and Blueberry Pi(e) from Atkins, lightly toasted to make it properly crispy and make the crust crunch and the filling hot enough to melt ice cream.

Why Pie Day? 3/14 = 3.14 = Pi (I’ll have to dig around for the greek letter) the relationship between the radius of a circle and the circumference. Plus as an added bonus, it is Einstein’s birthday.

IMG_3463
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I remember now, the reason I made myself do something Every. Single. Day. for a lot of last year, was because once a week is not enough.

So, starting here, a sketch a day, on whatever I have handy. I will probably get organized into one of the (several dozen) sketchbooks I have collected over the last several years, until then I’ll be pleased with documenting whatever I manage via camera and Flickr.

I have a plan for the TIF, I’ll post more about that tomorrow.

I’ve been really busy, and have Nothing to show for it.

I’ve been riding a little bit, which entails trailering to a local indoor arena because Wendy’s ring is still under a solid 12" of combined snow and ice. I’ve been looking for a horse of my own, but I don’t think that is what I really want. I’ve been looking for riding lessons, which I do want, but I’d like to strike some fine balance between so hard I cry and easy enough to be boring.

In circus I’ve been learning new tricks on fabric, and they are HARD. There may be pictures later, it depends on Al’s ability to make the camera go, or Aerin’s being done with her class before I have to flee because she can make the camera go. It’s high tech. Even with a geek for a husband, there is a generational tech gap…

In my fabric/fiber projects I just finished a lot of prep work, so I have postcards trimmed to size and ready to go, because apparently that is a huge hurdle for me. I trimmed up a bunch of backs as well,so if I promised you a postcard in the last couple months, it should be headed your way soon.

Postcards soon. TIF challenge is underway. I don’t think I can do the colors, though I’ll stick some in, but I am all over the prompt: look hard at the details. That is my specialty.