I Write To Understand. I Write To Stop Time
The return of the ’90s – something I have started dreaming about maybe last year. You see, I realized that the fashion of the late 80s and early 90s was coming back, but also – and this is a bonus I didn’t expect – I knew what did and didn’t look good on me. So I was already ahead of the game!
I’m waiting for the baby doll tees and baggy jeans, because I can wear those like it’s my job. I think we have about a year or so.
In my guild at the Ren Fair, we’re going to make t-shirts and stuff for this year’s cast. This past week, we were presented with the opportunity to come up with a new slogan which would require a new image. (Our guild chief got conked in the back of a head during the keg toss – and he was a good 20 feet away.) We were talking about other slogans, kind of playing on that incident (which could have been horrible but wasn’t,) and I drew a few sketches of a sheep in a kilt to work with it.
I don’t know if they will be used and I’m trying to surrender any expectations I have to that end, but it felt nice to do. I’ve never tried to draw anything for anything other than my own enjoyment before. (Perhaps for good reason.. 🙂
I even gave them both names.
Here are pictures from my Renaissance Faire, just this last Saturday. It was the Scots weekend, so we were super busy. It was so fun, though! Unfortunately, I’m not in any of the photos, though several of my friends are. 🙂
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Herein lies an illumination of the most pleasing and satisfying thing I saw all week. Nay, longer! Month!
(Image licensed by Nintendo, which makes that little girl cooler.)
For the fair month of May, I remember my very first kiss. It was magic – the perfect first kiss for any teenage girl.
He was floppy haired and funny, and considered relatively cool among band kids. We’d been “going out” for a week, holding hands in the hallway and leaning on each other after practice.
One afternoon, he walked me home, about a mile, a mile and a half from his house. We hung out in my carpeted kitchen in roller-footed chairs, drinking Cokes. As the evening fell and his time to leave approached, the unspoken expectation rose.
This is a weekly post I do about blogs or posts that have inspired me in some way this week!
1. This post on I, Myself, Am Strange and Unusual, was at the top of my reader for a day or so, and I was inspired by it every time I opened wordpress. In this painting, i love the wash of color and the simple drawing, but especially the theme of circles that is pulled through each panel.
2. The second is this 2009 post from The Well-Tempered Ear in which the author cites a few stories that integrate classical music. As I was leaving from a home visit today, I was struck with inspiration to write the stories I see when I listen to classical music. Since childhood, my family put favorite TV shows on audio recording because that was all we could afford, and I regularly listed to audio recordings of Rodolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Care Bears, The Wizard of Oz, and Peter and the Wolf.
Therefore, I grew up imagining stories and scenes as I listened to music. I created a whole story around the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack and would listen to it/tell myself the story at night when I was trying to fall asleep.
What did you find that inspired you this week?
Where do you line up?
My first official stint as a real live acting Rennie approaches, and I’m sick. I was out doing site work last Saturday, and fell sick. In truth, I was already coming down with something, but then I didn’t hydrate properly. Bot now, just a few days out, I’m getting excited and watching Brave to prepare for me accent. As I think about the month that approaches, I realizes it will pass quickly.
Continue reading “Let us gingerly place a timid foot e’er closer”
Hello friends – I’ve been sick this week. Feverish headachy hard-to-breathe nose-blowey sick. (When was the last time I slept for 15 hours? And how can one woman produce so much mucus?) I, unfortunately, have not been very active in the greater blogging community. I don’t have the usual round-up of blog posts that have inspired me some way this week.
I did, however, think about writing. How I would write, how I would get better at it and closer to that publishing ambition. I found some information on writing contest opportunities, and in lieu of my traditional Inspiration Engine, I’m going to share the links I found.
I began Creo Somnium in March of 2013, but it was on May 16th of 2013 that I really began blogging in earnest. To commemorate this first blogaversary, I would like to revisit that first post, which I actually thought I lost. It’s a memory I don’t revisit often, but I like.
