accomplishment

The days of summer are ticking away! I was determined to cross off more than one thing on my summer to-do list, so even though I needed to be working on sketches and other things, I took the day off to paint the downstairs bathroom (#4 on the list).

This bathroom has been my responsibility to paint since we moved into the house over two years ago. There are still SO many projects...but the downstairs bathroom has gnawed at me. It's the guest bathroom and it was rather dingy:

You can't tell so much in the photo, but it is a well-worn, much marked-up, off white.

But a new nice green (fyi, Benjamin Moore Jolly Green) and a whole day of labor made it into:

maybe i should get prettier hand towels!

Looks nice, doesn't it? Anyway, I feel much better! How many more things do you think I can knock off the list before summer is officially over?

back to our regularly scheduled program...

Hello!

The summer is pretty much over. My goals for this past summer were pretty much the same as last year (I even used the same list) BUT this time I got to cross something off:

it's only one thing, but it was biggie!

Yes, I finished my novel!!!!

When the Sea Turned to Silver  (and that is the final, set-in-stone title) will be out in Sept. 2016!!!

Of course, now I have to do the art for it and a million other little tweaky revisions to it, but because the majority of it is done, I can now return to other things--like this blog! Yes, I am now officially back from hiatus!

 My newsletter, of course, will ALWAYS be the best way to hear the important stuff (like when I give away advanced reading copies of the book, so sign up!) but I'm so happy to be able to come back to blog and fill this place again with silly posts about writing, Rain Dragon and dying gardens...more on that later!

on my desk monday

So tomorrow is the Autumn Equinox, which means summer is officially over.  Since June, I've had this nice list of summer goals pinned to my bulletin board:

Notice how none of them are crossed off? Didn't do finish any of them. Oops. I guess I shouldn't have put "finish novel" first.