I am happy that I can now post one of my latest calligraphy pieces. I saw the sentiment on Janice Schuster’s Facebook Page and loved it. So, since Judy’s birthday was coming up, I made it for her. I liked. She liked it. We’re all happy.
I love how the Faber Castell Polychromos pencils work with these flower stencils I found in my stash. I can just fill in the stencil and then do the alcohol blending with the stencil still in place. I don’t have to worry about messing up the lines while blending. I liked the process so much that I bought a set of smaller motifs ( 2″ x 2″) to use on other projects. I am now enjoying doing the wrapping paper almost as much as the calligraphy.
This is Cordelia with her second knitting project. I call it Cordelia with Chicken. I’m so happy that she has found that she enjoys doing this.
I took the girls to a movie the other day, or I should say we tried to go to a movie. We’ll just call it a failed experiment. I bought tickets a while ago to see the the grand opening of the new Disney film Stitch and Lilo. It was near here at the Hillside Theater. Chris dropped them off at 11:30. I checked in at the box office. They said I had tickets for the 12:30 3D version. The girls didn’t want to do 3D, so he said, “Just go in Theater 9; that’s not 3D.”
When we entered the theater, it was empty. After three moves, we were informed by a very nice lady that the only available seats were in Row 1. We sat down in Row 1, and the meltdown began.
Cordelia: I don’t think I like this.
Marie: I definitely don’t like this.
Everything was just too big and loud and overwhelming.
I said, “Okay, let’s get out of here and check out Theater 13. Maybe we can just go in and not wear the 3D glasses. Nope. Cordelia would not even go in the door. So, I said that was fine, I’ll just text your dad, and he’ll come and get you.
As we’re walking down the hall back to the lobby, Marie is now in tears, “I’m so sorry. Please don’t say I was naughty, but I’m just not ready for this.” How do I not laugh?
I had a bit of a shocker the other day. While I was opening a bottle of kombucha, it exploded at about 20x Champagne strength. It went EVERYWHERE. I was happy to be wearing my glasses. Even with them on I could feel the sting of kombucha hitting my eyeballs.
Back to the drawing board. It was likely my fault. The usual recommendation is to allow it to ferment for four days on the second fermentation. This was longer than that. I thought the longer the better. Guess not. I then realized that one had also exploded in the closet where they were stored. Lesson learned.
So, how are things going with the book you ask? I think I already wrote about the mess they sent me on the second proof: lots of mistakes, missing text… I sent that one back with pages of amendments. I think that was April 20. About a week ago, I received an email from them asking if I was ready to pay my monthly payment (remember this is a hybrid; I’m paying one-third of the cost). I told them that I would be happy to pay when I heard something on the status of my project. The next day, they sent me the third proof. It still had days of text missing and no changes were made to the paragraph formatting.
I sent it back again with a second page of amendments two days ago. I’ve decided I’m not going to make another payment until they give this to a different editor. Something is so off with this process.
I joined a new clothes-buying website online. It’s called ThredUp. You can buy clothing in excellent condition from great brands, some with the tags still on. I’ve selected Patagonia. Toad & Co., Athleta, Lulu Lemon and Ann Taylor. I’ve received some very acceptable items at great prices.
They also take clothing you don’t want and either sell or donate it for you, , and then you get a cut. I’m not expecting anything big here, I’m just happy that they will try to keep the clothes out of a landfill for a while longer.
So, as I was packing this up, I thought I’d separate everything into bundles and label them. Because I offered Stephanie a chance to look things over first, I thought she’d get a kick out of the tags. She already thinks I’m a geek.
The deer are enjoying the new troughs Dan made for them. :).
I was hoping to see the new fawn come up. Dan saw it in the front yard a few days ago when he went out to cut buckthorn. He must have scared the doe away shortly after she gave birth. So, that was the end of his workday. It was gone shortly thereafter.
Dan brought more stuff home from Ginny’s yesterday. Thank goodness she is now completely moved. We now have eight cans of WD-40. I offloaded a bunch of paper products at the church picnic today. I think I may need therapy.