Oh look...it's "The Early Adventures of Peregrine and Ian", before they became big and scary.

Hell's Belles Makeup Artisty (aka, Erica Hellier; aka my step-sister) is teaming up with Concetta's Closet for a vintage makeover contest. She does a truly fantastic job, and I think people should totally enter to win. Feel free to share!

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Yay! Color in the Foxenwood!

Yesterday was a Bad Knee Day, level somewhere around last Fall bad. Gods I'd almost managed to forget how sucktastic that was. Oddly enough, it was fine all weekend (for which I'm eternally grateful) and was even alright on Monday. Of course, I'm not sure if that's because everything else hurt so much more (a winter of enforced inactivity followed only by a few weeks of daily walks of no more than a mile and half is NOT conducive to a launch into full-on larp combat) that I didn't notice, or what. Things to keep an eye on next event, I guess. *grumble* I have the sinking feeling that I'm likely to make exactly the same choice my father made with this and say "Screw it, I'm not missing out on having fun just because it's going to royally suck in a day or two. It's not like it's going to make it any better or worse!" I'm not going to sit idly in the tavern buildings just because it's going to hurt later. Really, as Dad is proof of, it really won't make a difference one way or the other, so I may as well have fun beforehand and buy stock in Pfizer.

On the plant front, the grass patches I started are doing phenomenally well, for which I'm terribly excited. Will need to price out the larger bags to see if it's feasible to get the rest of the lawn turned into a lawn. My basil and cilantro are thriving, though the chivelettes are looking a little sad just yet. The wildflower bed sprouted over the weekend, so I'm hopeful that will hold out against the violets.

Need to work on PEL. No idea where to start, though my standard bullet-pointed section is pretty much done. The weekend ended up being WAY more intense than I was expecting, and now I'm not sure how to even go about writing about it. This will be interesting.

Today, my plan is to clean off my worktable and get at least one of the Foxentrees transfered onto the watercolor paper. I've been badly slacking on that end of things for the last week or so, and I need to get out of that particular rut. I'd wanted to yesterday, but the aforementioned knee issues made it too much of a pain in the arse to hobble back and forth. I even tried working on the couch, but just couldn't get the right angle to not make a mess of it. Happily, I'm back to what passes for normal these days, so back to the table for me.

That's about it, I guess.

OHGODSOHGODSOHGODS!!!!!

*muppets around wildly*

Sometimes I wish I didn't know that me + heeled boots + woods + larping = plunging to my death and rolling my ankles. My Canada character should really be in heeled boots instead of my good, practical hikers. (Ok, so really her entire wardrobe should be relatively impractical, but still...)

Yay, two more days!

Oh gods, two more days! *flails*

I have a confession to make.

I have not had a library card for the last 6 or so years. (Yes, yes...as a librarian's daughter this is a sin nearly as grievous as saying I haven't read a book in years, which is probably ranked somewhere between swearing at a nun and spitting on a saint's grave...It's just not done.) In my defense, I never intended to stay in any of the towns I have ended up in for very long, and so didn't figure on being around long enough to bother getting one. I have an extensive book collection of my own, and no qualms about re-reading things, so really, what was the point?

Well, today I finally acknowledged that I am likely to be here for a bit and with my personal collection residing nearly an hour's drive away, this is somewhat problematic. So, while I and the boy were out running errands I stopped at the town library and got myself a library card.

I didn't realize how much I'd missed that library smell...

Flower bed planted? Check.
Lovely nice compost added? Check.
Impatiently festering for tiny green flowers to grow? Check.
Knee informing that going for a nice long walk immediately after gardening was not a smart idea? Check.

Someday, I will learn. I swear. In the meantime, my little flower bed is now just waiting for things to start making with the growing. My little grass patches seem to be doing nicely, which means acquiring more grass-seed is probably in order. All of my potted herbs are now growing (the basil is multi-colored, which is neat...some of them are PURPLE!) and in a few weeks I'll be able to have nice fresh herbs in my food.

Hooray for green things!

As of today, I am now (finally! Something in it's entirety!) fully set up to be able to produce my own prints.

Guess this means I should start letting the rest of the Foxenwood out of my brain now, huh? Also, new discovery? Gouache over ink is the awesomest thing ever. OMG <3 it.