Just Arts & Crafts

I just realized that I didn't take any wildlife pictures or sprouts pictures today. I will say that the birdbath was iced over except around the heater so, yay!, it still works. But by the time I thought about taking an icy birdbath picture most of the ice was melted so no pix. And the only birds that showed up that I saw were Sparrows, Mourning Doves, and Starlings. I didn't take their pictures either.

 

I went back to the list of flowers in Sketchbook Challenge and the next one was a Peony. I didn't even try to draw one on my own, I went right to 10-Step Drawing: Flowers and got to copying. So much better than I could have done on my own. Plus it says to draw with pencil and then outline it in pen and it looks so good that way, I almost left it black and white but decided to color it in. It looks okay.

 

After supper I drew a gratitude page for today. The thing I'm most grateful for was getting to pick up LC after school and bring her here for a bit before her mom picked her up after she got off work. We shared some Clancy's baked cheese puffs and worked on her math homework. Not too exciting but I enjoyed the company.

 

Then I knuckled down to see where I could make room for more scenes in the manuscript. I did a little rearranging of one scene that was out of place. Then I tried writing something new. I got barely a page written before it was time for supper and Friday Night Knitting.

 

I got to the heel flap of the Zauberball Crazy Sock and somehow managed to be short a stitch. I didn't drop one so I must have inadvertently purled two together somewhere. Instead of going back to find my mistake I just made one stitch on the next row and kept going. It's going to be stuck in a shoe anyway so who's going to see it? Only me and I don't care. 

My ten author copies of Spies Don't Retire came today. I got them all autographed, stickered, and bookmarked. I put two copies in the box in my car and two in the bag to take to the Market a week from Saturday. I was supposed to go to a Writers' Meet-up at the Art Garage tomorrow but I just learned on FB that it's postponed. I did fill out an application to have a booth/table at their next book fair on Nov. 1. I didn't realize there was a fee but it wasn't much so I paid it. It's always something.

--Barbara