What did I do???

 ' The last two months have not resulted in productive work by me I think at first, but then again there are the multitudes of postcards to voters I sent out in Sept and Oct, many of which I block printed or painted and of course I had to make the block prints. (Did I post about that? I should check and if not, will post about my first ever linoleum block print.)

Then all the retirement drama (not really drama at all) and then the election drama (that WAS drama) and finally I’m here, somewhere, wherever that is now.  

My summer painting of the Kadunce River was accepted into the MIA Foot in the Door exhibit/show. Here is the direct link to the painting (update 6/30/2021-- it no longer works). .If you go there, click the heart on the bottom right to favorite my painting, even if you don’t like it!  . 

Maybe of all my postcards, one or two convinced someone to get out and vote. I retired from my paid-work job on Nov 2, the day before Election Day. The whole week was a weird limbo week waiting and waiting and hoping and dreading and hoping and finally celebrating. The news came while I was in a zoom class on Long Stitch Bindings. 

The Long Stitch Binding class was right in time. Last week Lara Gastinger gave a seminar to our Horticulture Department about Nature Drawing and Perpetual Journaling. She uses a journal that is one week per spread, on Fabriano Artistico 140 lb Hot Press paper, long-stitch bound, 6x9” (closed). I’m going to try and make one. To start, she uses a .003 or a .005 micron pen and sepia watercolor paint with a fine-tipped watercolor brush, dry. 

I have managed to go to the Artists Circle Monthly Meeting that Regula Russelle does on zoom every month and look forward to it. There really is no lesson but it’s a time where we all check in and talk about what we are doing or trying or starting and show it if we want. 

Buckthorn berry ink/paint — an idea that I followed from Ursula the Geographer in the monthly meeting. Sarah and Cora helped me harvest the berries and then I cooked them and made ink/paint. I think paint. 

I might have more time for baking. I can’t tell, my desultory days are in the majority so far.