I am still working on goats. Doing them from memory and in ink with no possibility to erase mistakes is still a bit challenging. But I guess it would be called the daily doodle challenge if it were easy.

I have been working diligently on the ‘real’ goats for a promotional postcard I want to send out before September. The struggle there is with some perspective issues. But I am still on the pencil/planning stages, so it’s only a matter of time.

Speaking of time, I sketched this little guy while waiting in the doctor’s office with my daughter. The office was like Grand Central with all the people walking in and out of the exam room! I think there were a total of 5 different folks.

Things went well there. The kid won’t have to see this particular doctor again for a year. (If mumsy can actually remember to schedule an appointment in the summer of 2011. Just saying.)

I took Saturday off. Well, sort of. I spent the first half of the day in intensive training for my position as a CASA learning on the needs and issues surrounding foster children who are about to ‘age out’ of the system. Missouri kids are a bit luckier than others since they can stay in care up until age 21. Some states only provide care until the teens turn 18. Then they are on their own. Literally. It’s heartbreaking. I know the teens in my own extended family count on their parents and other relatives long past their early 20s.

After the training, I took the rest of the day to play at a fabric store. A real one with racks upon racks of bolts of fabrics of all kinds. I only left because the store was closing and they were kicking us out.

I finally have the remaining pieces for the steampunk outfit I am concocting. And a few other things besides. When I got home that evening I jumped right into my first project. I made a padded drum case and strap for my lion ashiko. It’s a matching purple and I am quite pleased with the final creation. I’ll post a picture as soon as the timing and weather cooperate, the light inside just doesn’t do the fabric justice.