*summer picnic in the back garden. sweet pea
around seven months here.
my sweet pea is six years old today!
i sent her to school with some brownie bites
and mini chocolate chip cookies (purchased)
and she got to open her pressies this morning.
she chose both, one a sort of bejeweled sticker
by numbers and another paper beading bracelets
or some such. [...]
Category Archives: celebrate
happy 6th birthday sweet pea!
November 10, 2009 – 2:42 pm
the bread bar lunch date
August 16, 2009 – 10:20 pm
you can tell how busy i am by the lack
of food and vanity cam fotos. ha! i’m busy!!
i’m basically done with the first draft of the sequel
but there’s a lot of revising i need to tackle.
my favorite part, yes! but percolating is always
required. i definitely prefer to see writing as some
mystical magical process than one [...]
that feeling
July 19, 2009 – 9:42 pm
my desktop is littered with fotos from the
newbery banquet–which i hope to post soon.
but tonight, i have neither the energy nor focus.
i spent most of the weekend working on the
sequel, and i’m falling in love with it.
it feels exactly like when you start falling for another
person–you can’t stop thinking about him.
you wonder what he is [...]
back
July 14, 2009 – 10:00 pm
i’m back from my weekend at ala chicago.
it was incredible. filled with so many unforgettable
firsts for this debut author! i came home pretty
much shattered as i was so excited and inspired
after the newbery banquet that i couldn’t sleep until
4am. the house is a mess! i have yet to unpack.
this morning, i spent 9.30am – 2pm [...]
white ribbon
July 6, 2009 – 9:24 pm
*foto courtesy of k!
i failed to mention a few weeks back that
my lotus painting with the delicate dragonfly
(the one featured on my bookmark!) won the
third place ribbon at the fair this year. yay!
and here’s an anecdote to go with that winning.
all artists were invited to a reception to preview
the exhibit before the fair opened–it was [...]