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"The Creatrix" is inked and I started coloring the background because there is a lull at work today.

this is a small version of the inked drawing, which is for sale as a digital download in my Etsy store (proceeds go to my "take the family to England next summer" fund). This is "finished" as far as line drawings go.


and this is what I've done this morning in Photoshop. This is a work in progress.



My plan is to paint a gigantic mural of this and put it on the side of my garage. 3 4x8 panels, so the end size is 8 feet by 12 feet.

it's an evening class run by the local arts guild, because my little city is trying to make itself into an "artist's haven" or something. At the very least, it gets me out of the house and gets me drawing again.

Also, the teacher encourages me to see things differently and pushes me in directions I might not have thought to go. For example, I would have just stopped with the small page in the middle of this larger page were it not for him. And he got me to turn what was an exercize into something approaching art.

As you may or may not know, we had a tree down last October from the hurricane. We are finally able to get moving on remediation and repairs - not because funds have suddenly become available, but because I finally got tired of playing phone tag and excuse-du-jour with the tree/landscape service that hand originally contracted with me to remove the tree stump from my yard so I could replace the fence. This has been going on since FEBRUARY.

I found some other people willing and ready to take care of this for me.

The ground has been cleared this weekend and we are getting on the fence company's schedule this afternoon when we give them a deposit.
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Originally posted by wisedonkey at What we talk about when we talk about pockets

We were without power for 8 days - we got lights back yesterday around 3PM. I've been updating on facebook for the whole week, keeping my foreign friends informed, and yesterday I decided to change up my update:

Science Officer's Log, Day 8. We are still running on auxilliary power. The Chief Engineer thinks maybe we'll have the warp engines back online sometime today, but the attack from the Sand'ees damaged quite a lot of the ship and repair crews have been working ceaselessly for the past 8 days.

The shift in duties has become routine and wearying. Keeping the alternate life support systems functional takes up much of our time now. Much of the ship's life support has been restored, but we are still under general quarters rules.

We are fortunate that the Captain chose to leave the low- and medium- tech systems in place. Otherwise we would not be here to warn people of the coming invasion.

We lost a magnificent spruce tree in the back yard. Photos are here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/104522672600158508854/albums/5805126783777838289
It fell across the entire back yard, and into the parking lot of the condos next door, killing 3 vehicles in the parking lot.

Work was closed for 6 days, and I almost knitted an entire sweater.

1995 - a cell phone picture of a photograph. We were looking in the old photo book and I have a series of pictures of my first quilt. It was a wedding present for my brother. Pieced on a serger (I think) and quilted with a Singer Stylist. It's just stitch in the ditch quilting, because I really didn't know what I was doing (and nobody told me I couldn't quilt a king sized quilt on that tiny machine! I think I watched some episodes of "Simply Quilts" and picked up a Ginny Beyer "Quilt in a Day" Shining Star book for the instructions. The fabric was all from JoAnns.

Xposted to quilting

There will be at least one art quilt out of this; possibly 2. This is the cliff notes version, as I think I'm reaching my limit to being at the computer with the sun blaring in the window full force. The anesthetic administered to me was properophol (or whatever it was that killed Michael Jackson). they had to give me three doses of the drug that keeps the eye from moving and me from feeling anything. I think I was scared and breathing fast and hard through out the procedure, which only took 5 minutes or so.

they covered my face with that blue surgical paper/cloth with a hole cutout over my left eye. The surgeon arrived and then I saw a very bright light that became my universe for a few minutes. In the bright white light were three gray-blue ovoids with edges that faded into the white. I felt pressure and discomfort but no real pain. Then I saw a series of very large, concentric thin white rings move across my field of vies. I asked the doctor if that was the lens, and he said yes. Multifocal lenses have rings like that. (that's going to be the quilt -white with blue ovioids and concentric circles. Very abstract; my first "real" "artwork").

they said I wasn't gong to remember any of this; however I hate not remembering stuff like this, so I made a point of telling R, A and my friend N (who called on the phone last night), and that let me remember it today.

I woke this morning with no discomfort at all and the ability to see things far away. It's not so good right now; the eye is tearing up a lot and it aches and stings a bit - I think it's too bright in here.

What I wanted to mention today is the color shift. the new eye has a distinct blue shift compared to the natural eye which has a much warmer filter on it. For those who remember old photographic films, my left eye is now Ectachrome, and my right eye is Kodachrome. so I'm seeing the world as a much colder and harsher place. (this would be quilt 2: a scene split down the middle with the color shift apparent).

I'm actually quite anxious to take that internet color test again - the one where I had a lot of trouble in the blue/green transisitons, to see if I can score 100 percent on ti now. But it will have to wait until after my post-surgical appointment this afternoon.