A weekend, plethora of projects randomocity

I found a really nice Callas Lilly at Publix this morning. Bought that sucker and will be using it as a model for a painting I'm going to attempt tomorrow. I got some small stretched canvases and I plan to use them for a little series of paintings of various flowers--they'll all be close-up views of the blooms. I plan to call it Wallflowers.

That's assuming that what I do doesn't suck so bad I just toss it. I'm still new at this.

So, today I have to get the canvas prepped by applying gesso to it, letting it dry, then applying more gesso. Three coats, altogether.

I've also now made peach cobbler twice, after never having made it even once before this week. The first one turned out really well, too.

 

It was just a tad dry. Next time I used more peaches and it's perfect.

 

 

I'm just past the mid-way point of The Sorcerer's Daughter, and I'm sort of catching my breath before getting into the really deep stuff. My hero is about to finally completely lose her innocence. This is a big deal to me, really--I like this girl. And I'm about to put her through hell. She'll come out of it much stronger and wiser--but she'll also be more aloof, downright cold, and cynical. The shattered fragments of her innocence will remain but they'll be spread throughout her soul, unable to find each other and put themselves back together again.

 

 

Which, I suppose, is as it should be.

 

 

Looks like we might catch the tail-end of that storm system that's hammering Oklahoma and Missouri. Hopefully for us it won't be all that bad, but you never know. I'm hoping after this system passes we'll all catch a break for a while.

 

 

Oh. Laundry. It's Saturday, so I'm doing laundry. Like always.