Reality Approaches

The holidays are over and the bills are starting to come in. I was very careful with my spending over the holidays, but I did order specially milled wool for a cloak for my DH to the tune of $200+ (I got 10 metres of the wool, 60" wide - very very pretty stuff). So I'll be paying this bill off this week. Next week I register for two classes at Bead & Button Show - it'll be the least I will have spent on classes there in many years, but I'll have to pull that money out of my classes/workshop savings stash. And I want some new enamels to restock some colors that I have less than a teaspoon left of. But that one I'll have to save up for.

I have a piece sitting in my head. I have friends who are authors and who talk about "plot bunnies" that they have wandering through their minds and that bounce around so much that they need to be released to the paper via the pencil. I have art pieces in my head that are begging to be made. The two that I've had perched for a while are my "Houses of Gondolin" set and my "Straight Road" pictoral. The "Straight Road" piece has really been occupying my thoughts a lot and I finally broke down and asked DH for the loan of some of his art books so that I can get the foreshortened perspective of the main character down properly. Tomorrow, during my studio day, I am going to give myself an opportunity to draw a preliminary of this piece. I'm not quite sure yet how it will go together, but I know it will work itself through before it finally gets put onto copper with enamels. What fun!