A Quiet Day

I had one of those today. I spent most of the morning goofing off, watching CBS Sunday Morning, and working the Wordle on my phone. The only exciting thing that happened was when I woke up I reached over my head to raise the shade to let in some light and the window shade fell down and nearly clonked me on the head. When I plastic-ed the window the other day I must have pushed the end of the shade in a bit which made it barely hold onto the bracket and this morning's raising was one too many. Which meant that I was standing on the mattress again putting the darned thing back in place. Not my favorite thing to do.

 

Here's the first flower in 10-Step Drawing: Flowers, the book I chose to draw out of next. It's a rose which has to be the most difficult flower to draw in captivity. Why did they have to put that first? Couldn't they chose something simple like a pansy? No, it had to be a rose. Well, I did okay, I think.

 

I added more hat body rounds to the Pointy Red Hat this morning and evening. I think that I can knit ribbing faster than all knit stitches, all the time. All knit stitches should be the easiest because it's the first stitch everybody learns and loves. But evidently I can't be normal. I have to like Knit 2, Purl 2 better.

 

For most of the afternoon I reread my latest manuscript. I started out searching for places to insert more about Janet's arrest, etc. but then it occurred to me that I might have the timeline all screwed up so I kept reading. The timeline is fine, it just gets compressed as the book moves along. It's funny, I didn't remember writing some of it. 

I got an email from my writing friend, GBB, with the address of a craft show we want to get a booth in. So I filled in the info they asked for and sent it off. That one's in DePere about 5 miles south of Green Bay. The next day there's one at Pulaski Middle School which is about 13 miles west of Green Bay. We've never done two shows on two days back to back. Should be interesting, also tiring.

I was hoping to launch my next book, Anneke's Legacy, on February 1 but it looks like that won't happen because I don't have the cover's final files yet. This afternoon, I was talking to the owner of the bookstore in Sturgeon Bay that carries my books and mentioned my new book. He offered to have a launch event for me. That could be interesting. I'm thinking about it. 

--Barbara