mad gaming skillz

so this what i do a few times a month. "Heroscape (sometimes HeroScape) is an expandable turn-based miniature wargaming system" according to wikipedia. the full article is here. cameron (my 11yo son) and i play by our house rules and a game takes about an hour and a half. i'm the only one that will play with him. nobody else has the patience. honestly, i think it's also because somewhere in me there's probably a bit of an 11 yo boy/tomboy lurking. it takes strategy, a little luck, and a bit of ye olde trashtalk. again with the prepubescent boy coming in handy. it usually takes him a little bit of sweet-talking to talk me into a game but once we get into it, it gets competitive. we're pretty evenly matched. (yeah, i'm not even gonna think about the implications that makes on my intelligence.) pictured are two of our favorite heroes, syvarris the archer, who belongs to cameron, and agent carr, my hero. and of course the 20-sided die, beloved of geeks everywhere. anyone that plays it seriously would laugh at us and our batardisation of the rules. then kick our butts.

portrait of a lady

at etsy as usual.

i owe several emails and replies. getting right on that, bob. i'm also a day or two behind on my macro shots. i don't count wednesday since it's my unplugged day. convenient, eh?

sometimes life just bites you in the rear.

point of view

when you look at him do you see abject sorrow or do you see meditative prayer?

it's saturday?!?

it's bluebonnet season in texas.

this is the holly bush in our backyard.

and just one of the many pieces of milkglass i own.

i also did a little painting. i have prints of this one, above, available at etsy and i did some work on some new ones. the new girls will be a series entitled "mother, sister, lover" and will portray survivors of breast cancer. they will show women who have undergone partial mastectomies. they will be available at normal price or a special sale price with a donation to the breast cancer association of your choice, i think. i'm still working out the details on that part.

oh, wow. i just realized it was saturday evening and not sunday. :D i'm off to enjoy it.

playing catch up

yeah, i pretty much suck this week at blogging. and i'm getting yesterday's picture up a day late. but i have a bonus picture. :)

the skeleton and eggshells are from a a little cabinet of drawers full of weird things like kids' teeth, a dead lizard, butterflies and feathers, quartz, and a dead locust. oh and a rabbit's foot keychain. but no ordinary one. this one the fur came off years ago and it's just the poor little skeletal paw. it might seem a little creepy but i see it more as an appreciation of things formerly lovely. my kids bring alot of these things to me. like the skeleton. they felt they had hit the jackpot that day. it was in a little hole between some bricks in a wall, poor thing.

the stamps are my most favorite ones in the whole wide world. :) they were a find in a junk/antique store a few years ago. i fell in love with them and my sis in law bought them for me for my birthday. a few letters are missing so many times i mix upper and lowercase together. the hand is what kills me. love it. the rubber is dried so you have to really press hard to get an impression but i wouldn't trade them for anything.

the things i would lose if there were ever a fire. what would you miss?

shells and say "cheese"

the top one is my macro photo for the challenge but i think the second one is the better composition. i'm really enjoying this challenge. i think i'm learning quite alot, not only about my camera but about photoshop, both of which i've only had about a month and a half.

no time, no words

just a photo for the challenge.