miscellany

not-quite-hiatus

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.

By erin, ago

march miscellany

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.

By erin, ago

photos

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.

By erin, ago