Monday, August 26, 2002

 

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Missed a few writing days. Friday afternoon I was running ragged. It was such an exhausting week. Saturday I slept in. After a lunch date with my mom and some friends I got to work painting (more later). I managed to finish it by 10 PM Sunday night. Sunday morning I just could not get myself up early enough to write. So here it is Monday. I worked on it some today, but I'm running out of gas. I had to fight with myself to get any wordage at all. But I think the story is beginning to take shape. I'm working it out further and further.

James' parents are here for a visit. We are talking about taking a day trip to the beach tomorrow. I'm taking the laptop along to hopefully get some work done in the car.

About the painting project: I decided that it would be neat to draw the map from Winnie-the-pooh of the 100 Acre Wood on Xander's sliding closet doors. I drew it freehand from the picture in about 45 minutes. I thought it looked great, but James encouraged me to paint it. It looks much better. I never knew that I could do something like that. It was very satisfying work; a great confidence builder. I'll take pictures of it soon and put it on Xander's site.

I'm working on another one on his wall. It says "Xander's Room". The "Room" looks like blocks and sitting on the blocks are Pooh, Eeyore and Piglet. I'm planning to add Tigger hanging from the 'X'. I don't think it will look as good as the other.

Now I'm considering doing this to make some money, but I don't know if I could make much after all the time involved in doing it. We live in a poor area and I don't know how many people could afford it either. A friend did ask me if I could paint a stepstool for her 3 year old daughter. She likes to sew, so I think I'll ask her if she could finish one of the cross stich projects I started, or sew an outfit that I bought materials for, but never sewed.

Anyway, I want to leave you with this quote from my 'quote a day' thingy on my desk. I've been reading this everytime I sit down to write.

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney

Dawn posted this at 12:36 PM.

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