fear of failure
December 8th, 2011 by Ravven

Today I have read approximately 5,678,987 tweets and pretty much everything in the blogoverse. I have stared at blank white screens in Scrivener for hours. I have thought about doing a thousand really important things, but I haven’t done any of them. I’m not a lazy person. I approach pretty much everything from art to [...]

Giving Thanks
November 24th, 2011 by Ravven

I love Thanksgiving. I love the fact that (until the day after, anyway) it isn’t an overy-commercialised holiday. I love my memories of my sisters and I in my parent’s huge kitchen, helping to prepare the meal and talking. You notice that I didn’t actually say cooking, right? My mom was a wonderful cook and [...]

Back in the UK
September 14th, 2011 by Ravven

I’m finally recovering from the trip back home to see my father. (Recovering in the sense that I don’t really get jetlagged, but I seemed to have stopped sleeping entirely since getting back.) It’s good to be home again. As my father has terminal cancer, I can’t say that it was exactly a fun-packed trip, [...]

A Room for Golden Mornings
June 5th, 2011 by Ravven

I painted the bedroom a while back, but I wasn’t posting at the time and so didn’t post any pictures. This is my over-the-top golden bedroom designed to chase away the blues (to the extent that our always-grey English weather allows, of course!). In the mornings it just blazes…and makes me happy. :)  

A Place to Work
June 3rd, 2011 by Ravven

Well, I still have almost total writers/artists’ block, but as of this morning I now have a place to work. Excuse the clumsy stitching of images together. And that is one cat…she was just moving fast, as usual. :)  

More Work Avoidance Strategies
June 3rd, 2011 by Ravven

This has been a quiet week for me, just rest and relaxation and losing the residue left by a long period of stress. It’s sunny and warm here in England, which makes a nice change and is greatly appreciated. Aside from relaxing, I’ve been doing some re-reading and planning for my book project. Nothing has [...]