So, what is the best mother's day present ever?
Mmmmm...
Yeah.
Tickets to VNV Nation in June
Oh yeah, that's right
Being a mom has its perks ^_^


Something is wrong with my eye, so I can't see very well, and I have glass embedded in my right index finger, which makes typing this a lot more painful than one would think. So no writing going on. Ow. Nonetheless, the new picture will be finished in a few days. Tried a new technique for fog and trees and it worked super nice. I'm very happy with the outcome.

Three new deviations up in the last two weeks, one more on the way. Why, I might almost seem to be active - if one didn't know any better...

story:

I went to Michale's to get velum, 'cause I was out. Naturally, I went over to the drawing paper section and searched for velum. Nothing. So I went to drafting, and did find some, but it was 14Xsomething and 30 bucks. Okay. Not having fun: I only have about ten minutes to spare; this was supposed to be an in-and-out job. So I head over to poster supplies and continue my hunt. Nothing. Then I head up to scrapbooking, because sometimes you can get individual sheets there, but those ended up costing 2 bucks each, and they were smaller than I needed. So I head over to customer service, pretty antsy by this point. The lady tells me, "Oh, velum is back in sewing notions." So back to the very back corner of the store I run, then up-and-down hunting for the friggin' velum. Do I find it? Nope, no velum. And now I've almost given up, because I really am out of time, but I am desperate and stubborn, and can't just let it go. So I start heading back to customer service, when I see an off-duty employee chatting at the back of the store. I say, "Excuse me, but can you tell me where the velum is?"
He looks at me, says, "Velum scraps, or 8.5X11?"
Different sizes get kept in different places...WTF? I say, "8.5X11 would be great."
Now here's what made this story really worth while. The guy gets this look on his face, sort of rolling his eyes, sighing, and I-told-you-so all at the same time. He says like he is getting tired of having to say it, "I'll show you."
Then he takes me over to scrapbooking, reaches up on one of the shelves above my head and pulls down a pack of "Clear Translucent Sheets", which is what Michale's calls 'generic velum'.

Moral of the story:
There is no moral. Just don't go to Michale's when you only have ten minutes.