PetStudent

As you might have noticed, updates here more or less haven't happened for... ages. I started out with the goal to upload a picture per month at least this year. Modest goals, unless one is me, in which case it's fairly ambitious. Alas, it didn't happen. I haven't drawn anything for ages, but I actually have been through a lot of dress-making. Or at least some dress-making. This will result in some new pictures of existing costumes, and some new ones in the very near future.

Other than that I'm alive. LARP this year has been wonderful, with two big events with fun plotlines in quick succession. I'm very much back into larping.

You have by far outstayed your welcome.

Please leave.

(Woke to the sound of the snow plow again this morning. This is supposed to be southern Sweden?!)

I had a vague plan about uploading at least one picture per month this year. If I count VERY kindly I can claim to have made in so far (though the January one was posted on New year's eve...), but alas, apart from that this gallery seems neglected, I know.

I have most of a very messy line-art for art-trade with but have again got stuck for no good reason. Apart from that, creativity is directed towards dress-making. Festival and event season is coming up, as well as at least one larp, and I need to finish stuff. A dress is taking shape and more fabric has been ordered. I might make it, and I will try to take photos. Of that, and of the project that are already mostly finished.

So. In short. Am alive. Am sewing. Busy spring approaching at work. Will try to update here eventually.

A bit late, granted, but still.

I have survived the holidays just fine, and am back in my own flat. The silence is a bliss. I'm back at work, too, but since most people are off for three days more the phone is blissfully silent, too, and I can clear away the old piles.

After a total artblock lasting for the best part of the autumn, I finally managed to draw and paint again. Which was nice, and produced some things I'm actually quite happy with. Not only did I manage to finish the famous birthday present, I also finished the pictures I planned to finish for the holidays with one bonus picture as well, and I finally got started with an arttrade with the almost scaringly patient Toradh

To do-list for my (of course new and better) art-year of 2013 in no particular order, since I won't stick to the plan anyway:

Clean my gallery. DONE. A lot has been moved to scraps. Some pictures deleted altogether. Will probably look through the scraps for spring-cleaning later.

Finish picture for Toradh Long overdue.

Finish portrait commission. DONE A bit late, but done. And now it's scanned, too.

And then some requests collecting dust. Sort of deadline in February, I think.

Not that we have snow or anything, except for a few millimeters where it survived yesterday. But it's enough to make the ground slightly lighter and when the temperature finally fell below freezing, the sun actually came up this morning. I had kind of forgotten what daylight looked like! With six hours of daylight, a thick layer of clouds really make a difference. And not in a good way. Even better, it's Saturday, so I can go outdoors to enjoy it. Even better still, I finally, after weeks and weeks (it feels) of procrastrination, cleaned my flat. No more dust from sewing. No more piles of random stuff on any available surface. My flat is visible again, and when you can see it it's actually a very nice flat. Bread dough rising in the kitchen and the house is silent. I think all my neighbours, most of them students, are still fast asleep.

I'll embark on a raiding expedition for lichens (an absolutely necessary thing, of course) shortly, get back, have a shower, make the bread and then head down to town (another excuse for a walk in daylight) to make a final effort at the Christmas fair at the castle. To be allowed to walk around in the Renaissance castle in at least an attempted Renaissance garb makes the sewing panic worthwile. Really. I hope to be able to convince the actual staff that garb photos is ok despite the general ban on photography.

So. Why does this account seem entirely hibernated? Simple answer is because I've artist's block of the worst kind - no inspiration whatsoever and eye-hand coordination back to the level of a gifted five-year old -, I've tried to get a social life, and I'm been garb-making:

I have finished the outfit to go with fav.me/d4upfqu , though black with black makes for reaally bad photos indoors and also boooring background. Am pleased, though, and eventually I'll post photos.
I also finished and Elizabethan coif to wear today. With doublet and an odd skirt which in time will be replaced with a proper kirtle. But I finished something, which is awesomeness.

I also have a sadly neglected art-trade going with the awesome and a commission for a portrait (iik). And my aunt continues to state that all she ever wanted for her fiftieth is a watercolour of her summer cottage. And since I can't draw houses to save myself that's an iiik too.