lenyberry

 An intense desire to Make A Thing happened tonight. The trouble was, The Thing needed to be A) not too complicated (lest my generalized Failure Anxiety kick up) B) complicated and/or fiddly enough to remain Interesting C) not something I've been doing much of very recently (so no working on my knitting or crochet projects, no making oil blends) D) a thing that would produce a tangible and durable result (not food, food gets eaten too quickly) and E) something that I felt like I could maybe finish within a few days. Yay for brain gremlins right?

Started out on "maybe I'll finally mix up the lampblack ink I've been saving soot for", but then I couldn't find my arabic gum. I know I have some. I know it's somewhere in this house. But I looked three times in all the likely places, and at least once in several unlikely places, and it hasn't turned up. 

Ended up having a few swigs of rum to take the edge off perfectionist anxiety and then picking up an old, old project that I haven't hardly touched since high school. A little box, on which I was drawing some sorta tribal-style abstract stuff in sharpie, with the added challenge that I'm trying to make all the lines match up between the lid and the main box no matter which direction the lid gets put on, without having it be remotely symmetrical. 

I did not finish it. Not even particularly close. But it has more swirly bits on, primarily over the fiddly part where I have to keep track of the matching. And I think I finally have an idea what color to paint in the background with once it's done being designed.