Yesterday I proved conclusively that it's the way I use my tablet that provokes my neck. I only used it for about 15 minutes and I was paying for it all night and all today, and felt proper sorry for myself.
I was so tired and droopy all day that I took things very, very easy and didn't brave the cold gloomy weather.
I did do a little drawing though; sitting at the dining room table to write or draw seems to be okay for short periods of time.
My usual sunny good temper (?) was severely tested throughout the day; every sentence I began to write (including this one!) seemed to be subjected to a series of interruptions; a phone call from the architect, the arrival of the man to service the stairlift, a delivery, a pressing need to go to the loo, a question about this, or that... at one point I came back to a sentence in my 'notebook swap' after several hours to find to find the word 'Also', but what had I been going to write four hours previously?
I do know I was writing about Johanna Basford's Inky Wonderland colouring books. She wrote a book on how to create the pictures she makes. I lent my to a neighbour yesterday; now that she's on her own (her husband died about a year ago) she finds the evenings very long sometimes, but said she enjoyed doing colouring books. I thought she might like to create her own pictures.
That put me in mind of the series of YouTube tutorials JB released,
so I found one and followed the step by step instructions. I've drawn these in the current notebook swap that I was having so much difficulty writing complete sentences in!
Johanna Basford makes it all so easy!
Normal walking will resume tomorrow!
Sending hugs. It sounds like a draining day, the sort that exhausts without much being achieved.
ReplyDeleteI love those pictures. They remind me of the iron on transfers for embroidery that my grandmother used. You have such skill.
I did wonder about using them as embroidery outlines. When you see the step by step way she constructs the flowers it suddenly becomes achievable!
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