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Sunday 10 June 2007

Smoothing out the creases

Cherry Choker


For one reason & another, I haven't had many opportunities to flex my creative muscles recently. I'm not a good person to be around when this happens - I become twitchy, impatient & unable to sleep because I get stuck in overdrive.

Yesterday I struck gold because my son wanted to practice drawing some Marvel superheroes ( as well as an actor, he also wants to be a comic book artist & a game designer; preferably all at the same time!!) so I shut the study door on my computer & using Dan Jurgens' book for guidance,we spent the afternoon drawing in my beloved Shack. Drawing Captain America & Cyclops might not sound exciting, but spending 'Shack Time' with Tom & all the other super heroes was cool.

We have our best conversations in the Shack! Everyone does. People wander round to see what projects I've got on the go or look at books & then - wham!! They're sat in the rocking chair & we're talking about life, the universe & everything. My Shack nestles amongst trees & shrubs & has a panoramic view across the golf course to the other side of the valley, so it feels calm, restorative & peaceful. There's no noise except bird song & no clocks to watch. 'Shack Time' is good time!

Most of the knots & needles of tension which I'd collected over the week were relieved by Daredevil & Nightcrawler. Laura Sparling swabbed my petulance today because I played with some of her beads - yeee haaa!

Cherry is quite a big girl - she's about 3½ inches across. I need to take some more photographs of her because the dull background has interfered with the colours of the leaves - they are composed of shades of fresh green & olive in reality. I'll add that to my list of things to capture the next time the sun shines for my camera.

I'm celebrating because I'm back in the groove - I want another dose of beads - I'm a full blown addict today!


6 comments:

Christina J. said...

That is so cool. I love it!

Jean Katherine Baldridge said...

That is so, so pretty!

and have been having nice talks wth one of my children as well. I treasure this.

Jean Katherine Baldridge said...

That is so, so pretty!

and have been having nice talks wth one of my children as well. I treasure this.

the art of curiosity said...

Thank you my dear, darling dolls :-)

The beads did this. I picked them out, but they worked out what they wanted to be.

I love it when this happens - when you're looking at the beads, but not thinking about anything in particular & then you suddenly think to yourself, 'Oh, so that's what you want to be!'

Anonymous said...

The choker is just awesome, Jennifer!

Laura x

Romi said...

That is so cool!!!