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The bear is back!

While the rest of the USA is barbecuing in the backyard and enjoying the local swimming hole--I've been at my desk all day. Well, after the neighborhood parade anyhow. We lost the balloon and egg toss and our jacuzzi is broken so what's a girl to do?
WORK!!!!!
I've been working on the sequel to SNOWBEAR and it should be the next manuscript on the chopping block in the next month or so. I'm on a roll. It only took a few years to get me going and now I'm not stopping.

Meanwhile, tonight after our dinner, we hope to drag the little one to the fireworks in the hopes he'll tough them out. Usually we have to bail within a minute or two as he is too scared. Fingers crossed we'll get to see them.

Happy 4th!

Set Your Course You'll see, Wild Butterfly

Set your soul adrift Wild Butterfly
Let your spirit free Wild Butterfly
Moments come and fall to the ground
And slowly fade away

Lift it up
Lift it up up and fly
Lift it up
Lift it up up and fly

Set your course you’ll see Wild Butterfly
Towards the sun, to me Wild Butterfly
Why don’t you go
Fly so far away

I know what you want
I know what you’ll see
I know what you want
I know what you’ll see

Lift it up
Lift it up up and fly
Lift it up
Lift it up up and fly

It only took five years...

Today is a good day--today I put another submission in the mail. This one has been in my file cabinet for five, count 'em five years! It was 95% done too--just had to do a little bit of work on it and voila; done!
I guess I just didn't have it in me to work on it at the time. Life did that 180 thing. It was almost a go back then--a possible vehicle for Snowbear~but in the end, they wanted me to change the characters which I always thought was a good idea anyhow. So, here we are with the changes finally--you think five years was too long to wait? Guess we'll see. Chock it up to the The Johnny Factor.

At any rate, it always feels good to toss some seeds into the air to see where they land. Now we can get on with the next best thing. Go, Go, Go.

lovey dovey elephants

So all I know about these two elephants is that they are totally diggin' each other. They are so busy doing that, they aren't really talking to me a whole lot.
All I can do right now is spy on them from afar.

Meanwhile the kiddo graduates from kindergarten this week and we've been told to pack tissues as he will be leaving his preschool forever (but we still get a bit o' summer school, thank GOD). I will miss all the security we felt there--public elementary school seems pretty scary in comparison as far as handling the food allergies. I hope summer lasts a good long while.

A New Direction

The Mr. told me his favorite animal was the elephant--so I figured I'd try my hand at elephants and see what they have to say to me.

These are my first attempts at coming up with some new characters. The subject matter will certainly be a lot lighter than it's been with the last ones. But I don't know anything yet about these two, so we will have to spend some time getting to know one another.

It's funny but I noticed now, when I'm coming up with designs, I'm also thinking about how they would look in mohair.