Project Updates

Dollhouse - On hold, temporarily. I need a stand for the house, so that I can build a yard, primarily a side yard, and a greenhouse. This all falls under *“long term projects”, of which I can really only focus on one at a time.

Sea Holly Impasto Painting - the textures are built up, so progress.

Furbinator - Untouched*, see above note about “long term projects”

the writing project - Untouched*

the shrimp - Untouched*

the window book - Untouched*

Temperature Quilt - Untouched*, sort of. I’m tracking the temperatures still, and now that Annatar is complete I have emotional space for this other sewing project.

my Voynich Manuscript - 15% complete. I’ve also created a digital layout with the intention of creating a print version of my manuscript once it’s completed - with 7 foldout tipins it will probably require a Kickstarter to fund, which works out anyway because what else will I do with all of those copies?

With Annatar finished and PCCKC over, I have a lot more time to work on things, and clean up after myself, and go to the gym. Speaking of which…

With the “Witch-Queen” of Angmar, aka the Witch Kings wife

…and the Witch King, who needs to go find his wife.

I had a great time giving out rings, seeing my friends, and going to panels. Of course now I want to grab my favorite local photographer, Russ Matthews, and get some foresty glamour shots of all of that hard work.

There was a plan, now there's a new plan.

I stumbled into this year with a plan - a plan I made back in November. Read too many books, learn silversmithing. It has been just over three weeks and already that plan has been flung out the window.

I had an idea. I mulled on the idea, I plotted what the idea could look like.

I bought paper.

I came home yesterday and shared my idea with Husband, who got so excited for my idea, immediately declared it my thesis, and encouraged me to push back my “plan” for the year and Do This Thing.

And I am. I’m doing this thing. It will be a while before the paper arrives in the mail - assuming it’s even the correct paper (I might need the heavier stock). And there will be other things I need to explore before I start - what paint works best, what pens and ink work best: it’s all very particular and I’ll probably need to wear gloves as well. And while all of that is going on I’m going to Finish Annatar.

And then…