All Drama, No Rain

Once again the clouds built up over the small mountain range just to the north, rumbled loud enough to make the dogs bark and then moved around us. We are so dry here and need rain badly! For a couple of weeks now, I hear the tantalizing promise of a storm, only to have it sneak away after a hour or two. Then the sky looks innocent, as if I dreamed the whole thing up. We are praying for rain!

I am a swap coordinator with a group on Swap-Bot (have I mentioned that before? Sorry!) and today I started a new one for a Skinny, which is a 3 x 5 piece of art. It's called Ink A Thing, using anything (other than a rubber stamp) to stamp inks to make a design. It's quick and easy:

I used styrofoam, small sponge, ink over lace, pencil eraser, crumpled paper towel and a wet baby wipe with chalk inks and black Stayz-On ink. The background was a greenish colored paper. Looks sort of Impressionistic, doesn't it?

Hot, hot, hot. I have two fans going in my studio, since it is tucked away on the 3rd floor of our house. It's actually the only room on the 3rd floor. When we bought the house, it was called a 2 1/2 story house, which I thought was a strange description. But I guess that's easier than saying "Two story house with extra small room on top"!