July 28, 2006

• just a quick update, since i haven't in a while! i'm finally back to work again after my surgery...half days for the time being, but i'll be back up to full days before long! and besides, i'm going to the sea in a week anyways...so that will make things even better! i am really looking forward to some time away..and there is nothing i love more than a nice trip to the sea! i've been pretty busy otherwise...cera starts secondary school in a little more than a month, and there is lots that needs done before then...school uniform stuff to get and all that other fun stuff...although i swear...the school uniform is going to put me in the poor house...we've had to spend £90.00 already just on the P.E. clothes! I haven't even started on the regular uniform yet...nor have I bought all the stuff she needs for P.E. yet either...I still need to get her some shin guards, a swim suit, a mouth guard and some track suit pants (because the ones they were selling were long enough to fit my husband who's 6'1" !!!)  I've bought all the shirts a bit big though, because who can afford to buy all that every year??!! but most of the P.E. clothes have the school's logo embroidered on them so we have to buy them from the school.....even the socks!! at least I can get away with buying most of her regular uniform at any ol' shop...black pants, white blouses..etc...the only thing that has to be bought from the school in that reguard is the sweater and the tie. (and polo shirts, but they can only wear them in july, so no point in spending the money now!)

  here is a new piece that i've created for a manipulation duel over at neosynthesis.  the object of a duel is that 2 people join in a challenge and you start off with a source image. the first person must make something out of the source..then the second person takes something from your image and makes a new image from it....you go back and forth taking something from each other's piece until you've reached the number of pieces that have been agreed upon beforehand... i find the duels to be a great source for building creativity...it really challenges you to work on images that you wouldn't normally work on..and perhaps even to learn some new techniques along the way....you can see the duel here if you'd like to see how it works...it's still in it's early stages, but we're going pretty fast, so it will not be long before we reach our 20 piece mark!

  anyways...here's the first piece:

  
  "The beginning"
  ©Tracy Adams
  

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