It's day 7 of Holidailies! (And I heard from Mary/Bozoette, whose Red Nose blog disappeared when Typepad went away. She is on Substack now.)
I've been playing with gouache lately. If you're not familiar with it, it's a paint that you can thin down so it acts like watercolor, but you can also have it be more opaque, so it's a little like acrylics. Either way, I'm pretty terrible at it. (It's a hobby! I'm allowed to be terrible at hobbies!)
One of my main problems is that you really need to have a layer completely dry before adding something new... unless you're trying to mix the layers together, in which case, rock on. I'm usually not trying to mix the layers, but I'm not patient. The combination of those two things means I end up with a lot of muddy messes.
(I dried the base layer today only because I got up to check on something and then completely forgot I had been painting. By the time I remembered, it was three hours later and the base layer was dry. I'm taking it as a win and a sign of my newfound maturity.)
Typical Sunday
The rest of my day was absorbed by kittens and writing. Elisabeth came over to socialize kittens, so the little gremlins slept most of the afternoon. That gave me a chance to clean up my office, which the Snack Pack had toilet papered overnight. That's what I get for leaving a roll of toilet paper on my desk when the kittens are getting big enough to jump up there. (It was leftover from the last group of bottle babies.)
Anyhow, I finished the first of two Patreon digital bonuses for the month — this is another Reddit r/AITA post for the world of Theoretical Magic. It's fun to write those. If I ever start an author YouTube channel, I would read those and make up some comments. Reading AITA posts on YouTube is a thing.
Obligatory Kitten Picture
The Snack Pack steals my chair any time I leave the room. They look so innocent, don't they? Not at all like kittens who spent the night tearing toilet paper into teeny tiny pieces.
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