Time's flying...

[wiseheart]

... when you're having fun. picowrimo's just ended two days ago and I'm already missing it. Those were two months of intense writing, exchange and companionship. I wish I had a writer's group somewhere, either in RL or online. I miss having the chance to discuss such stuff with similarly minded people.

Pico was very fruitful this summer. I've finished "Brothers-in-Arms" and "Terminus", made considerable headway with "A Matter of Time" and pushed "An Excellent Mystery" a bit forward, too. Yesterday I even dug out my original fantasy epos and typed up a tiny bit of it - by that speed, it will be posted to Fictionpress in half a century or so. And that without having rewritten the one-sixth in the middle that got lost.

I've picked up felt work this summer and had great delight in hand-sewing Christmas ornaments. I'm closing up to 50 pieces. The most beautiful ones will go to our Christmas tree, which promises to be spectcular this year, the rest I'll sell on the annual charity fair of our school in December. I'm planning to make Nespresso ornaments and embroidered cards with the kids, and perhaps even cork ornaments, should I get my hand on wine corks. I even brought a hot glue pistol!

Other than that, I'm just tired all the time. The heat wave is coming back next week, ruining the last few days of summer break, and then slave labour starts again. Too bad, I enjoyed so much being home, doing needlework, writing and occasionally cooking - I made Shepherd's Pie today, and Kaiserschmarrn mit Zwetschgengeröstl last week.

Comments

[saki101.livejournal.com]

How soon do you go back to teaching?

I thought you might try naarmamo (http://naarmamo.livejournal.com/) this month since you've been making ornaments.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Nah, I only make them by hand, not by computer. *g*

School starts on August 17 for us - no kids yet, but conferences and inventories and all that stuff - but before that I'll have to escort the kids to summer camp for a week. Just get them there, I don't have to stay with them, but it means getting up at ungodly hours each day.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is soon!

But, naarmamo isn't just for computer-made art. It's any kind of non-writing art.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, as you know I suck at taking photos of my art, too...

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I didn't get involved in pico in the summer, but might be ready for November. I'm glad it went well for you and hope the heat eases up.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid the heat is just about to get really serious. *sigh*

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Good for you! Hope Miss Marple will inspire you again soon.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That would be nice indeed.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Christmas in July! (Or at least ornaments,). Neat!

I, too, have been tired, and the summer here hasn't bee ridiculously hot. Maybe it's just something in the air? Mother Nature wanting us to slow down and enjoy the flowers?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, felt work requires lots of spare time and lots of materials, so you can only do it at home, when you have the space and the quiet...

I don't know what Mother Nature has in her mind, but I find it hard to relax when there's almost 40 °C and the concrete walls of our flat are glowing red. You've seen how small it is, you can imagine what it feels like. And I'd love to slow down, would they allow me to retire, but they don't!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I can start holding onto my wine bottle corks, perhaps get some friends/colleagues to save theirs, and send them along when I have enough. They are so light that it won't cost much.

How many corks would you need for your kids?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, I could use all what I get, but won't it be a bit ridiculous, shipping them over the ocean? *g*
Still I appreciate the offer, and when the source I'm hoping for turns out not -functioning, I'll holler. ;)
Thank you for your kindness.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Come on! Corks from America? You will be voted "Most Cool Teacher"! [grin]

Cork is a very lightweight material: shipping a bunch of them would not cost much at all, even by airmail. The only problem I can think of might be some kind of agriculture-related ban -- if, for example, the corks can carry a fungus. But bottles of wine are sent all over the world, so I doubt that's a problem. I'll see what info I can scrounge up. If there are no import issues, then I'll set a basket out to catch my corks and put out word to fellow imbibers!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is very generous of you, my dear. :)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Lots of progress over the summer! It is sad that pico is over, and that term starts again for you soon. Good luck surviving the heat!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm still not convinced that I will.