Yes, I'm still alive. Not a lot of sketching going on lately and even less so with the atrocious sleeping habits of a 6 month old spending the holidays at his Grandma's. I'd heard this can happen to babies when they are away from home but it really is quite the test! 'Baby's First Christmas' is mostly trying to keep him from crawling into an open fire/pull the guard down, a lot of screaming at alien cot/highchair, and being woken every hour throughout the night.
I was bought a sewing machine for Christmas as I've had a bee in my bonnet about wanting to do free-motion sewing i.e. drawing with a sewing machine. But I am pretty sure I'm not even going to have time to take it out of the box for 5 years until Alexander starts school - yeah, those pre-birth notions about home-schooling are dwindling faster than you can say 'mummy's just going to put you down here while she...' 'Waaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh'. Fortunately I also got something else I've wanted for a very long time, a sketchbook with squarey-paper. It's actually a notebook but it is fine for using with the V Pen I also got. So, I've managed to keep Alexander happy playing with my phone long enough to draw 'in the style of free-motion'. I don't get to do my nails these days and would never usually put glitter on my nails but, being at Grandma's I have fallen under her influence and bought this Barry M glitter varnish which I put over Rimmel teal varnish while Grandma held onto Alexander.
I hope everyone had a good Christmas. We had a real Christmas miracle...Alexander's Daddy finally came to see him! I'm actually wondering now if it was all in my imagination. Also, we have sold our flat! It went on the market on a Wednesday and was sold for the full asking price by the Friday. So the new year should see some big changes for us. I am sure I won't blog again before 2013 is out so I hope all a y'all wherever you are end 2013 with good thoughts of the past year and lots to look forward to for 2014.
