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There’s another thing I want to do with this, but must go to bed!

Seaside Beach, just north of Solana.

i tried out the same tutorial that annie_22 posted about and tried yesterday:

there are some issues—like the fact that the border is jagged and there is a hard black edge. i would’ve worked on it more, but it’s late, and i need to get some sleep. i might try to tweak it some more later though… i learned some p-shop tricks that i didn’t know either, so that was cool… thanks for the tutorial, annie_22!

cotton in the bathtub #1

Originally uploaded by napoleah

i could not sleep. i went to take a bath and knocked the cotton balls into the tub. a surprise waiting for me!

(apologies for the photos….i dont think better lighting is happening in my bathroom)

Indoor Cat

How could I

not indulge

you

for a few moments–

Go!

Rub your belly

against the warm planes

of this green earth.

I want to see

your tiny frame

overcome with joy.

In my junkbox I found this vintage 1977 (or so) 76477 synthesizer chip- this model used to be used in arcade machines. It was gonna be another Matchbox Synth - you can see I have the case all prepped - but, whether because it’s old and broken, or because I wasn’t using it right, I couldn’t get any sounds out of it except for these.

Still, you may not have seen and heard the last of Syntho ‘77!

A collage that sort of came out of nowhere……
Robots, rainbows and ice cream oh my!

Even tho I did a show today, I also made a few graphics to use as contact images for my new iPhone. I like this one, which is a pic of my parents from 1973. Now, every time they call me, this is what I see:

Back in the Wall Street area on Maiden Lane, today.

Made a quick jellyroll cane and a sheet from this cane for a swap.

This month is coming to an end and I’m feeling drained of creativity. I normally make something pretty much everyday because of my store Pedras and my blog New Sprout or just because. I’ve been having the urge to take photos of things lately. I don’t know the city I live in very well and don’t really feel comfortable walking around it. Normally I wander everywhere I live and find interesting things to take photos of. Now I just don’t know where to wander.

Here is a picture of the only Godetia that has sprouted from seed for me. Not sure if the seed batch I got was bad but nothing ever happened from the many I planted.

Really easy (embarrassingly easy) thing today… I covered a box I had with foil.

I wrote about being gentle with myself under adversity a while ago, so I have been doing anything that I thought they would be uplifting emotionally. I was wrong though.

Indulgence has a hint of regret, or guilty to it when you use it, doesn’t it?

I did enjoy going to a ballet, orchestra, fancy dinners, but part of me was saying, ‘is this really what you are supposed to do?’

I tried not to listen to the voice, thinking, why not? I am not going into debt or anything. What is wrong with being indulgent as I am feeling like crap?

Because of the sense of guilt, I must say I didn’t completely embrace joy of what I love to do, which led me on a binge of all those things I did. I wasn’t fully satisfied with them, so I had to do more, more and more, which made me feel more insecure, worried and crappy.

The voice is mine, but this is what my mother always said to me when I was growing up.

‘You should save your money. Keep your room clean. Don’t be like that,’ and so on and on, and on.

In a way, my mother did a great job to ingrain what she thought I should be doing.

I am a grown-up woman now and I want to live my life. Not hers.

This is quite liberating. I can stand on my feet. Now, I wait for the time to make actions to pursue my dreams, which I neglected for too long.

I TRIED to get them to go, but they said no, no, no.

Quick thing today! I used an antique button from my little collection to finish up the bracelet I started yesterday.

 These were real simple to make yet look good when worn.

Tired. Don’t feel like typing much more today. So here is:

The colors are a little less boring in real life… promise.

I finished my serger table today.  Nothing spectacular, just a tabletop supported by four milk crates.  I sanded and stained the tabletop.  I hand-sanded it for two days, and on the third day, I gave up and borrowed a belt sander.  I think I’m going to put a polyurethane finish on it so it matches the other sewing table, this one is kind of dull in comparison.  But I’m really just glad to have a proper table for my machines so I can get to sewing!