This week I am curled up in corners with blankets, reading and writing and reading some more.
Tessa is “helping.”
Am not quite on an internet hiatus, but I have a lot of non-internet things vying for my attention (including Tessa) so blog posts about shiny objects and various other subjects shall have to wait for now.
I still have tons of things to post about but some of them require photographs that I haven’t taken yet.
Also, am baffled that it’s March already. But March brings Sleep No More, and therefore I welcome it wholeheartedly, even in my skepticism about the passing of time.
I have been petting my shiny, shiny ARCs. A few have scampered off to new homes already, and the fates of the remaining ones are being pondered. I have ideas but I need to see how practical they’ll be to execute.
I spent part of the weekend painting, because I haven’t painted anything in ages and I had new old sheet music to play with.
They’re a companion series to a trio of paintings I did last year called music for the apocalypse. This bunch is music for the apocalypse part II: nocturnes. They should be up on Etsy by the end of the week.
Other than that I’m all reading, writing & waiting for the snow to melt while I slowly work my way through my ever-growing to-do list.
There are photos of shiny objects forthcoming, too.
A few days ago I felt like I had nothing to write about and now I have a bunch of things, so I’ll spread them out over the course of the week and possibly into next week depending on how distracted I get. Excuse me, I have to get Tessa off of the scanner.
Okay, scanner is now kittenless. Today’s proper topic now that we’ve passed the misbehaving kitten interlude: photos!
Last week I had a photo session with the marvelous & talented Kelly Davidson for my author photos. I’d contacted her awhile ago about doing them but we had to work around schedules & a whole lot of snow.
We had a wonderful time despite the cold when we braved the treacherous icy sidewalks & the photos turned out fabulous, of course.
The one that’s going to be the official shot is now hanging out on my about page, and here’s a peek at a few of the others:
(The best of the umbrella shots will likely show up somewhere in the future, so for now it shall remain a secret.)
I highly recommend Kelly if you’re in the Boston area & need a photographer for any reason whatsoever. (Also, you should peruse her photostream, her recent photos from Paris are gorgeous.)
And I’m still impressed that my hair stayed mostly well-behaved.
Unlike Tessa, who is now on the printer. Sigh.
I totally don’t care if open umbrellas indoors are supposedly bad luck. It’s too fabulous to save for the rain.
I just need to keep it away from the cats, because they think it’s fascinating when it spins.
Happy Chinese New Year! Year of the Rabbit! So long, Tiger! Hello, BUNNY!
So far The Year of the Bunny is already fabulous, with shiny things arriving in the mail and packing materials for kittens to jump in and actual sunshine! Hurrah!
(This New Year greeting is brought to you by my Jellycat Bashful Bunny. I have been dragging him around all day to be festive.)
