warning: boobs are below!

Because this culture is stupid and prudish about female nipples, I had to mark this as mature on deviantart. I'm pretty sure that also means I can't post it to facebook to share it.

I could go on a rant now--I mean, really: everyone, and I mean everyone has nipples. What's so mysterious and porny about them if they're constructed of XX genes?--but I'd rather talk about my picture. Ahem.

This took me about four hours, which is much improved from past projects I've done. I think a lot of that is because I got a new program: Artrage really makes me confident enough to do my pictures 100% digital, and being able to go from sketching to inking to coloring in one picture speeds everything up nicely. (Oh boy did that sound like a paid promotion. But I'm not being paid. Not even in anchovies. I just like the program.)

checking gauge is for suckers

And I am apparently not a sucker. I'm not quite sure this sock will fit me--same pattern size as my last one, but very different yarn. Oh wells. If nothing else, I have a sister with small feet.

 

I got quite a lot done during the evening session of Stake Conference today, and I'm hoping to get even more done tomorrow. I don't mind the three hours sitting in church at all; I often wish church was a lot more listening and knitting and a lot less herding six-year-olds. Sigh.

Lynx is way too cute.

sock it to me!

 

I finished a sock! I really should be working on things for my etsy shop, but I've been knitting socks instead.

I finished this one and started another. The pattern is Cakewalk Socks, since I wanted more handknit socks for less work.

And my cat is sleeping with her head squished on a pop tart box, because she's like that.

the end is nigh

For NaNo of course, but I hope for my novel as well. I've been half-busy with Etsy stuff this year, and half incredibly lazy and unmotivated. I managed to reach 50k by the 15th, but I haven't even added 20k more in the time since. So I'm aiming to change that today (and will be blogging throughout).

I've decided to have a last day of NaNo crazy writing day, despite the fact that I woke up at 6:30 yesterday morning after about 3 hours sleep. But I've decided I'm not going to bed again until I either pass out, get way closer to finishing (maybe final confrontation done, but not final wrap up), or write The End. I'm hoping for the latter, but I'll take what I can get--even passing out would hopefully give me good dreams. After all, this entire convoluted mess started from a dream I had during last year's NaNo.

Na-Na-Na-No

As sung by Lady Gaga, of course.

But yes, I'm doing NaNo this year, of course. At this point, I really can't picture my year without it. I would be totally lost in the month of November. And it's been a very sub-par year for writing (deciding to put a lot of focus on majoring in Illustration and starting a small business will do that, apparently), so I'm hoping to make up for that. Not with an impressive wordcount, as in years past, (although that would be nice too), but by finishing another novel during NaNo. That felt way cooler even than my 135k year. I like that feeling. I'm a bit addicted to it. And March was the last time I got my fix.