Friday!!!

What a week this has been.

I am exhausted.

I am exhilarated.

I am officially finished with "Big Sky Country" and now I can start a new book.

But first, a little art.  A little reading.  A lot of sleep.

See you Monday!

Image Transfer Technique Using Gel Medium

Overslept!

I must have been tired, because I rarely oversleep, but I did this morning.  :) It was almost nine a.m., which, as my dad would have said, is "the middle of the damn day!"

I spent yesterday goofing off and it sure felt good.  That new story is already bubbling up in my busy noggin, though, so I'm making notes, etc.

As for right this moment, I've got one of my gel transfers soaking in a bowl of water downstairs.  It's like Christmas when I roll that paper off and see the image.  For those of you who are curious, I'll post a link to a demonstration of the process.

Bernice has had not one walk this morning, but TWO--evidently, there is an illegal gathering of field mice in one of the culverts she patrols.  Yesterday, there was a whole flock of turkeys out by the back fence, and she didn't even know they were there.  That's my vicious guard dog for you.  :)

I'm off to putter and perhaps even do something constructive.

Be kind, be brave, be YOU.  (Everybody  else is taken.)

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Goof Off Day

Today, I'm doing art--okay, more properly, I'm experimenting with the supplies I bought yesterday, at Hobby Lobby, where I got into a wonderful conversation with a gentleman visiting from England.  He and his wife have friends in Spokane, also artists, and the two couples trade visits.  Anyway, I told him about my latest passion, doing gel transfers on little metal sheets, and he showed me a set of vinyl letters for his project--said he'd come 7000 miles to find them.  :) 

Conversations like this one often happen to me, because I always have such a wide variety of stuff in my shopping cart.  Everybody wants to know what kind of project I'm working on.  Hard to explain, because the end result doesn't matter nearly so much to me as the process.  I love to try something I've seen on TV ("That's Clever" is back!  Reruns, alas, but still my favorite.) or on Youtube.  Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine has a website with free tutorials on all sorts of things, and that's where I got hooked on the transfers and of course there are all sorts of online art courses, too. 

Yes, it's a goof off kind of day, but I'm also doing some brainstorming for the next "Big Sky" book, which I intend to start next Monday morning.

Special note to Judy, sister of Bill Scott.  Did you email me?  I didn't receive it.  Please try again, with your name in caps on the subject line.

That's the news for this gloriously beautiful September morning.  Oh, that sunshine, gilding every needle of every pine tree.  Throat-catching beauty.

Be kind, be glad, be grateful.