Sunday all day

what threatened to be a hot day started out cool and cloudy. I dropped down to the model railway exhibit and took my photos which I put on yesterdays post as promised. An updated picture of Louis, not quite so baby faced and cute anymore (chuckle) and a wonderful display of a Miniature circus with beautifully crafted antique German toys the exhibitor had motorised so they would work. I wish I had taken hundreds of photos. I helped with the lunch although i had said I would not this year and had my lunch with H. I really enjoyed the miniatures.

So today I drew more kids. I am slowly increasing my skills with shading and expression. I am enjoying watching the development of my own work since November. I display the weekly art then put it away in a folder and start the next weeks gallery. The 52 week challenge is another good focal point to encourage me to keep making art.

The neighbours came home from their holidays and it was lovely to see them. Hopefully their chook wont come for a visit too soon.
The weather by mid afternoon had warmed up considerably from the morning but not the dreaded high 30s as forecast. Maybe elsewhere but not here. I have a soft breeze blowing the curtain and caressing the wind chime in my window.

I started morning writing this morning. Several bloggers and fellow writers had spoken of "The Artist's Way" a book I had but cannot seem to find and in that book is a suggestion to free write each morning, by hand not computer and allow the free flow of thought onto paper. After a week or two go back and examine the pages and see if there are patterns emerging or if the mind has quieted or if ideas are springing out to be plucked and filled out. Stream of consciousness writing is apparently quite powerful for helping creative people tap into their creativity. I will see how it goes.

So today is the official start of 12 x 12, wait no, today is the official start of Revise our manuscripts ReviMo and I need to go to the website and find out what I am doing so I had best get going. Back later...(12 hours later)well it wont start for me until tomorrow Australian time and still today US time so I might as well get a good night sleep and wake early then go do the thing and the other thing. I have had a birthday invitation to see a movie for my birthday and lunch on my birthday so I am thinking I might just have a good birthday week even if it will be the hottest day so far this summer.

Model Railways

The last couple of January's around about my birthday day, I have assisted Helen O in catering for the Model Railway exhibitors here in Warrnambool. They come for a weekend and set up their displays and hundreds of people come to admire the handiwork and hours of dedication to the passion of these exhibitors. I went a few times to the exhibition in Stawell and in both places found the tiny worlds fascinating. I like watching upgrades to Minatur Wunderland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s and I would love to go visit this exhibition one day. So this year I decided I could not stand around making salad rolls so I made soup and potato salad. I might pop down there tomorrow for a look at the exhibits. What is that fascination we have with such tiny effigies of real life.

images borrowed and do not belong to me. I will replace them when I take my own tomorrow.

12/01/14 my images

Today has been quite cool after yesterday's 30+ degrees and I noticed a large number of sunburns as I wandered through the shopping mall. We never learn. I am only super careful these days as I wait for my third surgery in less than twelve months, to remove skin cancers. I wasn't the type of teenager to go out and sunbathe but I was badly burnt on a number of occasions, out swimming, not renewing sunscreen and the lack of hat and long sleeves all damaged my skin long ago and now I am paying for it. I had a basal cell on my nose which would not stop bleeding and melanoma on my back and both were removed in February and April 2013. Now a squamous cell on my cheek has become larger and harder and painful and is coming off in the next week or so. Thank fully young parents are ensuring their toddlers and little ones have hats and SPF tops and sunscreen and all the other factors to protect their skin but there is not enough happening to encourage teenagers to slip slop slap. Maybe if popular celebrities made hats a trend item that would help.
go watch the Sid seagull video, its a catchy little, irritating tune and might help stick it in your memory.
http://www.cancer.org.au/preventing-cancer/sun-protection/campaigns-and-events/slip-slop-slap-seek-slide.html

I am day five into my Spanish lessons and have managed to make five million mistakes with the gender/number specific articles. argh and I keep forgetting the 'll' has a kind of 'y' sound to it. Early days early days. I have also regained three notes on the clarinet and fewer squeaks so maybe the neighbours ears won't bleed for too long. So have I written much then? I have created a few more story ideas and have some research. One idea has already been turned into a book and I am going to read it to see if my idea on the same subject is the same. Time to go do things writerly other than blogging. Tootles. Oh it is the last day before my life changes forever... 12 x 12 ReviMO and Picture book dummy all start after today. :)