(Every time I write 'folks' autocorrect sits me down and says, "Honey, y'all ain't Texan. You can't use 'folks' that's cultural appropriation. The word you're looking for is 'fools.' You're welcome." No thank you autocorrect, my readers aren't fools!)
Moving on.
I'm sure you're all thrilled to learn that I didn't die in a horrific accident while driving. So far so good. I still hate driving but I'm getting...no, actually I'm not getting better at it. I'm still super bad. I traumatized my mother so badly while driving home from church Sunday night two weeks ago that she has yet to let me behind the wheel again. That's okay with me. Postponing death is my favorite hobby.
To completely switch topics, let's talk about little Lissy. Little Lissy was adorable. The most adorable child in the Millah household (obviously). Little Lissy liked to draw. She wanted to be "The bestest artist in the whole world." I specifically remember using the word 'bestest' when I explained this dream to my Excellent Mother. At the same time I handed her a picture of a humanoid with a vast head, tiny arms and straggling yellow dreadlocks. At this creature's beslippered, itty-bitty feet, were great big pink and blue flowers, which clashed spectacularly with the purple dress my crayola creation was wearing. Yes, Little Lissy was sure to go places.
Guess what, despite my glaring lack of skill, I still wanted to draw twelve years later. So I tried. And failed. And lowered my standards and tried again. And failed. So I looked for an easier form of drawing. I found it.
I've been doing a lot of drawings lately. Unfortunately, my type of drawing is unlikely to get me places. I don't draw people, or flora and fauna, I don't even draw inanimate objects. I draw tangles. It's fun and relatively easy.
A tangle is a drawing made out of random patterns. Here's the one I put in my music notebook.
My favorite type of pen is one with blue ink. I draw almost all my tangles with blue ink. This tangle was made with eleven blue ink pens of various shades. It's the only one of it's kind that I've made so far. I designed it very randomly, and it reminds me of a crazy quilt.
Here are two of my newer, full sized tangles. These two are consistently favorites. Out of all the tangles I've drawn these two are always picked as the best. Tell me which is your favorite.
Squares
Or Circles
Kennedy says Circles looks like cells. Weird. Arthur says both are a blight on his eyesight and haunt his nightmares. Ungrateful fowl.
I'm also making bookmarks to give as tokens of friendship and to slip into library books as gifts to nameless strangers. Because I'm very fond of finding things in library books. Being as fond as I am of it, I assume other people also like to find things in library books, so I put things there for them to find. It's like hiding Easter eggs, but you don't know who will find it, or when! It's lot's of fun. Does anyone else do this? Am I alone? Or weird? Or alone and weird? Anyway, here's some of my bookmarks, which one do you like best?
In other news, look at this nifty satchel I picked up today!
It serves as a handy background (for whatever reason I decided to put my tangles on the satchel instead of directly on the bed, and by the time I'd taken all the pictures and realized how ridiculous it was to photograph drawings on a satchel I'd already taken all the pictures and didn't want to redo them. I am a very lazy photographer, I'm afraid.) and hopefully it will be sturdy and hold up well for a good long time so I can carry all my books and notebooks around without spilling them out of reusable bags every time I slam on the brakes. Yes?
