I miss my camera!!

Silly me left my camera at my daughter (Margaret)'s house on Christmas and, wow, do I miss it!!  From taking photos of the sensor blocking cat asleep on the cable box, to pictures of the latest sketchbook efforts I keep rediscovering that I have no camera!!  Photos will just have to wait! 8-(

Yesterday I pulled out two pieces of chipboard I had painted and stamped 2 or 3 years ago when I made a little journal for my older daughter, Liszy.  Then I got out the Dremel, drilled two holes and made a cover for future use to hold watercolor paper, which I also spent some time cutting to size last night.   I cut some to ATC size as well.  Then while I watched/listened to my Monday night guilty pleasure TV, I made a sketch I like very much that may well wind up as a future art quilt.  (Photos will be posted when I get my camera back!!)

I had written down the line "The sea and the waves are not different" in the sketchbook maybe a year ago so that was my takeoff point for the drawing.  I began with Sharpie markers in brush and fine points to make bold wave-y lines, then colored in with colored pencils.  I have metallic pencils I like quite a lot so I used them as well.  Looking at the sketch in daylight, I'm really pleased.

In getting ready to make this sketch I flipped back through the sketchbook (which is almost full) and realized how much in there centers around an idea for a quilt, or a doll, or something I want to expand on further.  So making some of those projects can become a priority.

Even though we're not officially started with the Challenge, I have done more focusing in the last few days and have begun to overcome the getting started hurdle by pulling up something already planted, like the sea quote, and watering that seed.  It's given me a way in, to now take quotes I have scribbled everywhere and create a visual for the line.  Perhaps no more blank mind on what to do?

Clearing a new workspace on the dining room table is chore of the day.  I've been doing things in my sewing room but I really do not want to use that space for painting or anything else with materials like glitter (voice of experience) or water (forewarned is forearmed).  Just too risky in a room full of fabric!  At one time the table was available work space but I've left too many things out, in progress, or to keep close at hand and now there are only 2 little places, about the size of an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, where I can do anything like stamping, but certainly no room for painting. But this task fits in with my de-cluttering for the New Year plan so it's progress on two counts.  Off, then, to clear the deck before the first is here and the real fun begins!