PLAN FOR TODAY: wake up, eat leftover rice and curry breakfast while watching new episode of Shetland (such a good show) (DONE) reschedule 9 a.m. meeting for 10 a.m. (DONE) drink tea and chat with Roshani on her drive in to work (DONE) prep for 10 a.m. meeting, working on publicity for my books (DONE) […]
Today was a tough day. I tend not to post much about tough days, because they often involve other people’s personal details that I’m not comfortable sharing. Not my story to tell. But then y’all get a skewed view of my life, so I’ll just say that I’d expected today to be back to regular
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I needed a sign for my Berwyn Sprout shop, and I have been very slow about it, but Kavi has now designed one for me. No critique, please — I like it, and also, I’ve already sent it to print. 🙂 Only praise! (We will likely refine it later, but for now, it’s set.) And
Happy with this experiment too — crystal resin paperweights / decorative objects, with dried panicle hydrangea from my garden. Pinky Winky hydrangea! Super-cute.
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Learning more about how to make these blooming resin flowers — I’m a little in love with them. This one is rose gold alcohol ink, white pigment paste, and rose gold leaf. I tried painting various different shades of gold on the back of the earlier ones, but even though it’s more work, I’ve think
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Working with resin can be kind of a pain — I can be clumsy, so I make a lot of mess which leads to a lot of challenging clean-up. But I love waking up to un-mold treasures the next morning — might all be worth it for that moment of surprised delight. (Resin keeps moving
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It’s become my own personal New Year’s tradition, to try to do at least a little of everything I want to do in the next year on this day. So today, I: spent nice time with the family read several chapters of a good book cooked yummy things exercised brought some order to a bit
I’ve been trying to think about a promo I could do for Vegan Serendib in January — lots of people do ‘veganuary,’ so it seems the logical time. What do you think of something like this? **** I post a set of recipes from Vegan Serendib — maybe two dozen or so, to get people
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I have been trying to be on vacation and not work, but it’s hard, in part because if I don’t make something creative regularly, I tend to get cranky. Took an hour today to experiment with watercolors — I watched some YouTube tutorials and tried doing branches and stems mostly, with watercolor pencils, watercolor brushes,
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I’m trying to figure out what’s most useful in terms of pages — right now, I have a Serendib page, and a Mary Anne Mohanraj page, in addition to this personal feed, and I’m not sure if I should keep both of those. (About 300 people follow those currently, so not so many people to
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