Fabulous dreamery...

Well, I'm working again. Nothing remarkable, just re-stocking some popular items because I have several large events coming up soon.  I just pulled a half-dozen of these guys out of the oven...

 

...and I'm working on a bunch of these as well...

Three out of four of these events are medieval masked ball-type things, so I need a lot of these little half masks 'cause they're affordable and quick to make.  I like doing them because I just free-hand them, and the variety keeps me from wanting to gnaw my own hands off at the wrist.

I'm feeling so fragile these days.  All the turmoil in my life has really upset my ability to work.  I'm just barely able to be productive.  I work for two hours and break for two hours to play video games (and do the dishes or the laundry to cut down the heavy guilt factor), them back to work for a half-hour before I break again to take a nap...  It sucks.  I'm forcing myself to work right now, and that's just how it feels; forced.  I hate being this way.  I haven't been this bad in years.

Time to compile a list of happy stuff; it's therapeutic.

Good Thing:  Now that we moved the kid upstairs, this old bedroom is becoming the computer room/excercise room/guest room.  Neat!  It really ought to be a studio for me, but I kind of like my work station where it is in the center of the house.  It keeps me distracted and also this room would really isolate me, which is the last thing I think I need.  Still, it's nice to be in here with just myself, the computer, and the cat perched on her kitty shelf.  Simple and pleasant.  AND the funky smell that was in here, that I blamed the cat for, was apparently all due to the kid.  Weird!  Proof that teenagers are lawless, hormonal, stinky creatures.  They don't need parents, they need handlers, like circus animals.  :::is confounded how anything that spends an hour in the shower can smell like a monkey house:::

Good Thing 2:  Greg got his promotion, his raise, AND a surprise bonus.  Yay!  It'll cover the cost of putting that carpet in, which is a very nice development 'cause having that expense hanging over our heads made me nervous.

Good Thing 3:  We put in the order last night for print supplies, so by next week I'll be making prints again.  This makes me happy 'cause it means I get to unleash my new drawings on the public. 

Back to work.  :::trudge trudge:::