The Staff
Yesterday morning when I woke up I had no plan whatsoever to be in the kitchen all day.
But then...
...I got the urge to make bread.
I tried a new wheat bread recipe.
Molasses and honey.
And yummy whole wheat goodness.
Perhaps my impatience for spring is what brought on the bread-baking spree.
I just needed to see something grow.
From this blob...
...to these beauties...
...which today I call "Breadkfast"
I also made what I might later call lunch.
Makes me want to sing with Billy Joel.
"Uptown girl, you've been livin' in your white-bread world, as long as anyone with hot blood can..."
The Stuff
When I was up in the abandoned studio with Little Man the other day I found a walloping-big pad of quality watercolor paper.
I bought it several years ago to do some work commissioned by my neighbor (three copies of a family crest).
It must have intimidated me with it's great size, because after I finished the pieces I never used it again.
I don't have enough confidence in my talents to think I can fill a 15x20 sheet of blank paper with something wonderful.
But when I brought it down into the new workspace, I had the sudden realization that I am the boss of that pad of paper.
And I own scissors, craft knives, and paper cutters of sundry and wonderful kinds.
Yes!
Surely I could cut those sheets of paper down to a size suited to my skills.
So I did.
I cut them into one inch squares.
And I started my "Inch-a-day" project.
Just one little watercolored line-drawing to represent something from each day.
We're three days into March.
And I'm already thinking I might've overestimated my skills by about three fourths of an inch.