9 years of Silence

Gosh, it's been a while!  My last post here was in 2012 and now it's 2021!  At least the numbers have only changed places...

    Since 2012, a lot has happened in everyone's lives but the reason I stopped posting here then was because both my Mom and my Mother-in-Law died within a few months of each other that year.  It was not only emotionally devastating, it was pretty fraught with activity since I was the executor of my Mom's will and we had to go to England for Evelyn's funeral and to see our family there.  

    It was the year of my 6th decade on earth and a momentous time in terms of my Chinese reality... your 60th year is also the only time after your birth when your astrological worlds all line up the same way.  I was born in the Year of the Golden Rabbit of the Chinese calendar and I had initiated a mail art call for the event.  It was really wonderful and very successful but I never did get the final documentation out because I was working on it when my Mom died.  All these years later, I still only have the online archive of what came in but that's pretty cool in it's own right.  Check it out if you have the time and interest. 

    

  Golden Rabbit Mail Art Call 2012

Life has been interesting in so many ways but one of them has been my participation in Inktober for the first three years and then, again, this year.  

    I love a creative challenge and working in pen and ink, Rapidograph pens, and then Pigma Ink pens (Sakura's microns in black and sepia were first) has certainly been that for me.  My drawing skills have improved immeasurably and the fun of finding off-the-beaten-track responses to the daily prompts is never-ending.  

    Here are links for the Inktober years I've fully finished as well as Inktober Alternates (the ones I didn't end up using but which I liked anyway).     

Inktober 2016

Inktober 2017

Inktober 2018

Inktober Alternates (2016 through 2018)

Inktober 2021