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Using Keyka Lou’s pattern for a Moleskine cover, I spent an hour working on my own cover. It’s about half done at the moment, but the bobbin thread kept knotting up, so I’ll finish it later. I’ll post the finished product when I’m done.

While working, I’ve been watching/listening to my favorite movie, The Lion King. It amazes me how every time I watch it, I hear something new, giving the film even greater depth than what I remembered from the time before. The in-jokes and references are outstanding. I believe The Lion King broke the mold for Disney movies and set the standard for which all other movies must complete against. The subsequent “sequels” are awful though. Fortunately, The Lion King can stand completely on its own without the shoddy writing of copiers.

I posted my submissions for Raw studio’s Christmas by Color, an international design charity project. Today I found out that one of my submissions made it. Unfortunately, with my work problems and now needing to work on the car after the wreck, I can’t afford the $20 to buy a copy of the poster for myself. Instead, here’s a link to the list with my name on it.

What a nice Christmas surprise!

Falling Leaves Brocade Fabric

For Christmas my boyfriend bought me these fabric for my next sewing project: a corset. The one I’m making is the one in the top left corner.

I’ve watched 18 episodes from season one of Scrubs tonight. Before that, I brought my friend’s daughter a sketchpad and an artist’s kit of assorted art supplies. She insisted I knew nothing about art and I have to say, that at four, she may be right. A painting called “Crayon” for instance might be the truest thing I can think of.

Shiver’s character Delphie because its raining.

A few summers ago, between one semester and the next, I picked up No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days at the library. I remember a general sense of being amused and intrigued, but not enough to be really inspired. When I found out there was a website, I was even surprised.

Now as you know, I attempted to join this year’s NaNoWriMo challenge but dropped out after I decided to apply to graduate school. Tonight I sent off two portions of the text I wrote at that time to Shiver who was pretty amused by it. She said my writing had improved. When I was researching writing tips, I had gotten a few ideas on how to make my writing more accessible and less sucky and incorporated them. The basic idea there was: sentence variation.

I still haven’t picked back up on my book because [click to continue...]

YES!

I’m $55 poorer, but I’ve now got that bad boy out of the way. It looks like I have to snail mail in my personal statement and resume which is disappointing. I was hoping it could all be done online. I supplied all three of my writers with the paperwork for their letters so I’m hoping that now I’ll be done.

Until I realize that now begins the scholarship/grant hunt to fund my tuition in case I don’t get an assistantship.

BUT YES!

I did it!