Erulisse Dances

So I now begin my journey towards my 59th birthday. Eeek! It is such a large number. I grew up as a child of the 1960's and don't think I've ever truly left my hippie days behind. One of the sentiments that we said so blithely in those days was to never trust anyone over the age of 30. Well, I've left that age far behind me. I guess I can't trust myself any more. Hmmm....

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I've got two stories in the pipeline that have to be completed by early next week, so I've got some work to do on them this morning. It is a holiday weekend, many people didn't have to work yesterady so we had a nice regular day at the shop - lots of hand-holding and helping people out but a really fun and interesting day. Ideally today will also be a busy one, we really need a good week this week and the potential is there but we won't know until I lock the door at 5 pm

( Remembering my Mom and group hugs below the cut )

Yesterday at this time they were forecasting snow - 6"-12" of the white stuff to hit us. But we got rain and sleet all night instead. It has just now (4:30 am) changed over to snow which we're supposed to have for most of the day. So over an icy and slushy mess, we'll get snow. It's going to be a very icy day and treacherous driving. I'll get my errands done as soon as possible and then settle down at my computer. I started printing my overheads at the shop yesterday and was having variable success, so I will be continuing working on that today because I have to get this nailed. If this doesn't work, I'll print detailed hi-def photo prints and then copy them onto overheads at the copy shop tomorrow am. One thing is for sure, I'm going through a lot of ink. But the overheads I've done are beautiful. Things are falling into place - none too soon :-)

( Yes, I'm drawing...but you can't see it. Why? Read on... )

For you, my friend and gardener, I chose a night blooming Cereus flower. I hope your birthday lives up to your childhood dreams and that you have a phenomenal next year of your life.




- Erulisse (one L)

My DH had a really nice birthday. He had requested a Candy Cane pie, so I picked one of those up first thing in the morning. I gave him my replacement iPod from the replacement I got after my iPod bit the dust at Thanksgiving (it seems so long ago - LOL).

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 I'm focused on my schedule for the next two weeks until I leave for Bead & Button Show and...I'm out of time. 

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I have stories to write, of course, but I also have artwork to produce for Big Bang.  At the time that Big Bang was accepting signups, I wasn't writing at all, and even now the thought of that many words is not necessarily something I would like to do.  So, after showing the moderators the types of art I do, I was accepted to sign up for the artwork aspect.  That means that I illustrate or depict one author's text in at least a single image, multiples are my own choice.  I was assigned someone whose work I am already familiar with and I am so pleased with the pairing.  I have begun to work on preliminary sketches, but I'm trying to figure out what media I want to work in and just got my timeframes and sizes from the moderators.  I'll be working on this during some of my off time during the B&B Show, since I have two days where I have free time available.  So, in my current life, everything revolves around my upcoming trip to Milwaukee. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my friend Esteliel.  For several years now, you have totally rocked my world and I hope you have a fantastic year ahead of you. 

 Blogspot has been having some "issues" over the past few days and I have been unable to post.  I really prefer to post here first, copying this over to my other two blogs, so I'm grateful that things are working again. 

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I have been writing like crazy, and reading lots - head-deep in a series that has me totally pulled in.  But NookColor just expanded their hardware and I also broke down and downloaded the app "Angry Birds" to play on it.  Fun.  But I still tend to dive into a book rather than play games.  I also downloaded an app for a digital drawing program and that will be fun to play with.  All told, the two apps were $5 combined, so I figured I could stretch that far. 

I have to thank everyone for the many birthday wishes I received.  I had a fabulous day and my DH and I will go out on Sunday to celebrate with a nice dinner out and then come home and watch the finale of Survivor for this season.  We made a decision on an electrician for my father-by-marriage, and are doing a final interview with a new accountant next week, so things are progressing well.  I hope your week has gone well and that Blogger has come back to life once again.