Every cold wave for the past month and a half, I say ‘This has to be the last one, it has to start warming up!’ The sun was kind of shining yesterday, and I so wanted to get outside and play in the dirt with my bobcat, but with everything still covered in snow and a frigid NW wind, it didn’t happen. It’s 6° right now, and that NW wind is still blowing. So very, very, very tired of winter.

I’ve been playing with a new style of beads. I think I’ll try putting some murrini on the next one I make.

My parrot drawing is progressing. As usual, I’m not entirely happy with the progress. Maybe after a few more watercolor washes to pop the color I’ll like it better.

And a little humor for the day,

It’s a blustery, cold March day here. Oh, how quickly we forget… it’s 43° here, a month ago that would have been a heat wave.

I’ve opened a new Etsy shop (besides revamping my website) to sell my prints and notecards, and am slowly getting it stocked. It’s https://www.etsy.com/shop/GreyhavenArt. Between the website and the new shop, everything else was put on the back burner.

Our last trip to Florida we spent several days at a nice RV park in Gainesville, and they had an outdoor aviary with parrots in it. They were nice enough to let me spend some time inside to take pictures. Here’s the start of my drawing of one of the parrots,

I’m still doing beads, here’s some of my latest listings,

I really, really enjoy Pinterest. I’ve got lots and lots of recipes there, along with gardening and bead and art inspirations. I’ve also found a couple of my drawings there, with others claiming to have done them. I just can’t put my finished drawings on the internet without a watermark any more. I don’t like doing that, because it really detracts from the drawing, but really have no choice. I was really surprised to see how many people were using my Friesian stallion drawing, but the majority of them were using it for their profile pictures, so no harm done.