Art Every Day Month

More work on the duster and you can hardly tell the hours put in. Sigh.

I replaced buttons on the back kick plaque and finished hand-stitching the left side of the applique.  The center of the applique needs tacking and I need to decide how to finish the netting area with sparkles.  Do I just cut it off close o the hand-stitching on the applique?  do I tack it with dark tread and tiny stitches?  or do I boldly decorate it with freehand white embroidery thread?  I don’t know yet (probably the last so I can personally see that I have actually done something – not being able to see the amount of work I have done is discouraging – feels like nothing is happening.  The artist in me wants to *see* results).

You will note I left one original button, the one on the top.  The rest are from my Mom’s button tin.  That alone blesses the whole piece.

By the time I finished the left side, I was getting annoyed.  Wrong attitude.  Need to relax.  In order to do that I’m going to have to figure out something about lighting.  I have two lamps over me now and it still isn’t bright enough.  Hubby notes I can just put different bulbs in the lamps.  Isn’t it great if that’s all it takes to fix it?  I haven’t yet.  I have to scrounge around and find where I stuck the extra bulbs when we moved last year.  I know I found a really good spot for them that I would remember.  I don’t remember.

NaNoWritMo 2018

1,966 words for a total of 16,780

I’m discovering that 1,600 words seems to be a natural stopping place for me.  My goal is to try to get close to 2k words daily (and I’m not counting blogging, tho blogging is writing and I guess I could if I wanted to).  When I hit “the end” of what I think I want to write for the day, I’ve discovered that if I push further (which usually means at that point I have no more ideas) and let the words just come (thank goodness for production typing in my early years, typing is like breathing for me and can actually keep up with my head when I’m composing), the story moves in directions I wouldn’t have thought of.

So for me, in addition to the goal of 50K words for NaNoWriMo (and the discipline of getting there), I’m learning things about my writing that I didn’t know.  It’s like art – get to the point where you think it’s done, open and something else may just come through.  It may not be great or even good, but it will be new and tell you something about tomorrow’s work.  I like it!