set up the mailing list

Hi all,

Per Barberaluel's request, I've gotten the skinny from Melissa, the admin for group 82, on how to send a mail out to everyone when someone has posted, etc.

Here's the instructions as a friendly FYI:

• From the "settings" menu within blogger click the tab for "email settings"
  scroll down to the setting "email notifications"
  type in the names you have, or make everyone an admin and let them add their own.

I've done this for your group, as well as checked and you all indeed do have Admin privledges.

Here's hoping the group will spring to life again and get flowing with goodness once more!

Cheers,

e

Niniji's angel, our Moly_X_3 guardian angel and I, wish you happy new year!
Barbara

Merry Xmas, Buon Natale, Nadolig Llawen

Hello guys,

I see that there have been no postings since October... and I haven't seen a book since I sent two onward on 3rd February. Maybe my expectations were wrong... I expected this to be a project that might be reasonably fast-moving-- each person hanging on to a book for a week or two or may be a month at the most. Or if they have too many other commitments, then doing something spontaneous the day they get it and keep it moving.... ah well.

Have a great Xmas and a Happy New Year everybody,
Rowland

Jenn's entry - Jan's book

Well this took longer than anticipated.......

I had a great deal of difficulty following Barbara's entry.....so beautiful, delicate and full of meaning. Seemed anything that I tried to do was shallow in comparison.

It's mostly gouache with felt pen over it. The purple flower (columbine) was done on watercolor paper and cut out.

Will mail asap.

Hope all are well.

--Jenn

oO update

Hello,

This is just a quick note that I'm back in action and should be able to finish and send the 2 moleskines that I currently have in my possession and send then along to Australia.

A lot of stuff has been happening over the summer so the whole sketching thing, or at least the MolyX component of it, had to take a back seat. I've recently decided with my business partner to close down our mobile technology consultancy, and I just started a new position in a film studio in LA. I'm the new Director of Technology at Method Studios, and that in itself is keeping me pretty busy.

I'll send you an update when I can, but something every interesting happened with my sketchbook recently. Actually it all started at the beginning of the summer. I was sitting on a bench in Chinatown, sketching and drawing away, when I was approached by someone that was very interested in my sketchbook. I let him look into it, we talked for a little while and exchanged business cards.

Last week, that guy called me back, and told me he was working with a gallery in Chinatown to organise a sketchbook exhibition, and was I interested in showing some of my work. So I gave him my 3 most recent sketchbook for the show. I'll send more data as soon as I know when the show start, but we are planning for october in LA's Chinatown.

Rowland's book, ready to travel again.

a quick note of the media:
diluted craft glue for the lace, red & a tad bit of brown acrylic for the heart.
pencil and watercolor-pencil for the fox.
some iridescent watercolor over the business card.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Memories from an English Summer

now I am back in California.

Working on... almost done with Rowland's book. I tried following this "stream of consciousness" trend just to see where it'll take me. I hit several dead ends before coming to this composition (or lack thereof). I've been in a collage-y mood lately. So I started out by pasting a couple items to the pages (and they are: a piece from a lace ribbon bought from a haberdashery in London, and a business card from a garden gift shop) hoping some inspiration will come soon after.
Well, ideas didn't come gushing but I ended up looking through my tourist photos and found this gigantic straw fox I saw from the bridge at Waterloo and decided to make a drawing of it.
I still need to give it some color (or colour?) and then the book will be ready to move on to o_O. (btw, I passed by a Japanese restaurant called "Ozu/小津" near Waterloo and thought of o_O for a second.)