Quick update
1. Still sick with the cold from hell. Stupid cold. Please send Raspberry Earl Grey tea. And be careful - the good folks who make it for Zhena's Gypsy Tea have had some packaging issues and I've gotten Ginger Peach in my Raspberry Earl Grey tin. Twice. The second time is particularly funny, since it was a replacement tin sent to me by the company when I wrote to alert them of the issue with the first tin. D'oh!
2. While hopped up on cold medicine, I spent a day last weekend (as in a week ago) painting two of the walls in my dining room orange. I show you the newly orange walls with the new curtains and the artwork restored to its proper place. The cat painting is an original piece of art that hubby and I bought several years back - I have to look up the artist info, but I believe (from memory) that it's signed T. Shanley. It looked good on the "before" cream wall, but it looks spectacular on the orange, I think.
3. I've been working in a somewhat yeomanlike manner on a small new collection of poems, which, at 14 poems, is nearly done its first-draft form. I just need to write a few more (somewhere between 2 and 8 more, I think), and then I'll let be able to let it sit for a bit to await revisions. I also did some work on a sort of commission for a friend, and a joint project I did with another poet is out wandering the world, looking for a chalk drawing of a cat (meaning "kind lady lives here" in hobo signs, or so I'm told).
4. You might notice that I've not been working on Jane. About that: I've been doing additional research for Jane this month, from finding film footage of the Cobb at Lyme (which I posted as part of this post for A Winter's Persuasion, but which I really wanted since - thus far, at any rate - I haven't been able to afford a trip to England to do my own first-person research) to reading additional texts on regency etiquette, Austen's life, and Georgian architecture, among other things. I shall plunge back into the Jane project by Ground Hog day.
5. This coming Saturday, I'll be at Children's Book World in Haverford, PA to celebrate the launch of my good friend Jennifer Hubbard's first novel, The Secret Year. I couldn't be happier for Jenn, whom many of you already know here at LiveJournal as writerjenn, and I am very excited to see her, and to party hearty, and to, well, shop a bit at my favorite indie kids' book store. I hope to see some of you there!
2. While hopped up on cold medicine, I spent a day last weekend (as in a week ago) painting two of the walls in my dining room orange. I show you the newly orange walls with the new curtains and the artwork restored to its proper place. The cat painting is an original piece of art that hubby and I bought several years back - I have to look up the artist info, but I believe (from memory) that it's signed T. Shanley. It looked good on the "before" cream wall, but it looks spectacular on the orange, I think.
3. I've been working in a somewhat yeomanlike manner on a small new collection of poems, which, at 14 poems, is nearly done its first-draft form. I just need to write a few more (somewhere between 2 and 8 more, I think), and then I'll let be able to let it sit for a bit to await revisions. I also did some work on a sort of commission for a friend, and a joint project I did with another poet is out wandering the world, looking for a chalk drawing of a cat (meaning "kind lady lives here" in hobo signs, or so I'm told).
4. You might notice that I've not been working on Jane. About that: I've been doing additional research for Jane this month, from finding film footage of the Cobb at Lyme (which I posted as part of this post for A Winter's Persuasion, but which I really wanted since - thus far, at any rate - I haven't been able to afford a trip to England to do my own first-person research) to reading additional texts on regency etiquette, Austen's life, and Georgian architecture, among other things. I shall plunge back into the Jane project by Ground Hog day.
5. This coming Saturday, I'll be at Children's Book World in Haverford, PA to celebrate the launch of my good friend Jennifer Hubbard's first novel, The Secret Year. I couldn't be happier for Jenn, whom many of you already know here at LiveJournal as writerjenn, and I am very excited to see her, and to party hearty, and to, well, shop a bit at my favorite indie kids' book store. I hope to see some of you there!