Coming Up for Air

Wow - I completely immersed myself in my artwork and errands yesterday and didn't even have a chance to respond to comments on my blog. But I promise I'll respond today - promise! Yesterday was rather crazy from start to finish.

I wanted to pick up The Hobbit movie on DVD. Target, my local go-to source was advertising the Blu Ray/Standard DVD/Downstream version for $22.99, a price that I could live with, so I decided to go for it. After a totally FABULOUS breakfast (egg whites scrambled with a great veggie assortment and accompanied by a great variety of fresh fruit - Happy Me!) and equally FABULOUS coffee (coffee BOGO at my local coffee shop which led to a happy driver with two cups of espresso-boosted dark roast coffee sitting next to her) I entered Target's doors armed with four coupons to spend. Twenty minutes later I left with an iTunes gift card (15% off - SCORE!)  but NO DVD! They were completely sold out of all versions except the 3-D DVD version which I had no interest in. So...

$25 of iTunes for $21.25? SCORE!

Back into the car and north a few miles to the next Target store. This is the location where I usually shop, but it wasn't as convenient for me this time, but I had no choice - I wanted my copy of the movie. Here I got one of the LAST FOUR copies of The Hobbit that they had left of their shelves. Because they had the movie, they also got my standard business (after all, I still had coupons to use), so they got $60 of my business and I left happy with groceries, paper towels and my movie copy in the back of my car.

I like the David Tutera cardstock from JoAnne's
Crafts. He has lots of colors, etc, they are very
affordable, and I can take the blank cards
and make portable artwork for all of my friends.

One more stop - this time at my grocer for fresh produce and veggies and a quick lunch, a stop by the office supply store for printer ink and a quick drop-by Joanne's Crafts for holiday card supplies (40% off - SCORE again! and yes...I'm already thinking about my year-end Solstice cards) and I was ready to dive into work. I colored out the final inked piece for CB's Big Bang story. I'm really happy with it and I'll scan it today. That leaves me with a single small addition to an already completed piece and the finalization of my Erestor pic. I actually did get a good start on the pencil work, but at the end of the day, looking at what I had done, I decided to switch methods and put his pic into the same format as the other pics for the story. So I transferred what I wanted to draw onto a new sheet in my sketchbook before I put my toys away and I'll ink it today. That will leave me with the coloring portion, but that's the fun part - watching things come together is like magic. So I'll be working on that next week and have the final piece to her just under the deadline. Sorry for the delay...but it's been a lot of fun to play. Now to breathe again....