I thought the Easter holidays would provide me with lots of time to work on a little animation project that I have been wanting to do, but when I went in to the film lab, it turned out someone else had the same idea and my terminal was busy. That was okay, since I needed to draw my characters anyway. The topic is "a day in the life" and so here is my main character - a teacher who is having a rough day.
Here are the students in her class. A tough audience to say the least!
Okay, here is the hat that I messed up so badly on yesterday. I ripped it out and fixed it and although I think it still needs a pom pom - at least you can see the pattern a bit from the picture.
I gotta pay my models more - this one sure isn't woking too hard at looking beautiful!!
I was going to post a picture of the new hat I am knitting, but when I looked at it after several hours of work, I noticed a big mistake, so instead I'm going to show you the model characters for the cartoon I'm doing on "a day in my life." I don't draw very well on the computer and this would be so much quicker with a couple of magic markers and a pad of paper, but this is what I have so far. The teacher:
And here is part of the class:
That is about all for now.
Well, I've been overworked and stressed out of late and I know you can see this from the quantity and quality of my recent non-blogs. I do have one good thing to report - I have broken my own record for incredible waste of time. Here is what I have done.
Now if I can only get to 50 wins in a row, I'm sure all my stress and troubles will disappear! (Or else I could get off my bottom and actually start taking care of some of the problems! Hmmmm.)
I saw this in the Sunday paper. 
Baby sale, huh? Two for the price of one is a heckuva deal!
This is what I am working on right now. 
The brown yarn is an alpaca/silk mixture and the white is dog hair. I spun both fibers and am making a cap to keep me warm during this endless Minnesota Winter.
(crocuses courtesy of the bbc.com website)
Robin at Pensieve had a (now elapsed) challenge to finish the lines of her limericks and then write one of our own.
Fred, a green leprechaun
In Spring, flew a kite until dawn.
On Easter, so windy,
His shamrock kite got all bendy.
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"Fly a kite!" you might want to shout.
When Poetic License I've asked you to tout.
Or perhaps, you'll agree
And you'll write two or three--
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Here are my responses
In Spring a wee leprechaun
flew his kite, a shamrock, 'til dawn.
One Easter, so windy,
His kite got so bendy.
it looked like a little green prawn
(The alternate line to that last one using her last recommended word "irish" is:
it looked like a green Irish prawn.
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"Fly a kite!" you might want to shout.
When Poetic License I've asked you to tout.
Or perhaps, you'll agree
And you'll write two or three--
Or write none and sit home and pout
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She also challenged us to write our own limerick, but she is an amazing Eirophile and gave us a bunch of words that all shout to the world IRELAND. (Yes, I know why!) Well I have just finished racking my brain to do IRELAND in the poems above and I am tired of Leprechauns, Guiness and kites, so I wanted to have a different tone - not all of us live in a green world of rainbows and pots of gold.
As the season of lent has gone by
The talk is of blossoms and sky
Alas, the Spring crocus
Will hit Minnesota's
Gardens May, June .... or July.
(Actual Spring flowers in Minnesota from June (Smartstepfamilies.blogspot.com))
My sister's movie:
A woman from outerspace has far out sex and tries to stop evil - all in a days' work for Pimerella.
