Me and the baby are in the studio each day of the week with Steve’s fabulous assistant, whom I have stolen. We’ve been making it an artful and practical and cozy space. When you have the choice whether or not to leave your house, as I do, not a demand, the place for which I leave my house had better be as good as the house I’m leaving. And now the studio is. It is gorgeous. Bright, full of drawings, tall ceilings, a LETTERPRESS, and even little plants now. If it had a kitchen and a full bath, I’d try to move us all down the street to live there. I will post pictures. And I will have an Open Studio at the end of summer / early fall to showcase drawings from the past two (three? no it can’t be) years of hibernation / procreation. To relieve my drawings of their hard work of being with me through a difficult time and offer them up to others’ eyes and hearts.

But I have been very busy with the studio and with the baby, for sure, and the baby has been teething perhaps, and so he has been less content than I can handle. And he just fell asleep, so I’m here to mark this day with these notes after a too-long silence before I watch an hour of mind-numbing / self-stabilizing tv.

I painted the fireplace wall Tapenade, an olive green, color-matched to Joon-dog’s eyes. It is perfect, at least in this season.

I spray painted the coffee table raspberry, and though the veneer is puckered a bit from leaving it out in the rain, it is still pretty great. I dragged it out to the screen porch and it brightens and finishes the space.

We went to Ikea today and I bought ($200 of stuff, always, plus) a small nightlight that changes from blue to blue-green to green and back again.

The day is a very bright gray day, and tonight there is the most perfect wind (WIND IS ONE OF MY TOP TEN FAVORITE THINGS) so that, even if I didn’t have to walk my baby to sleep for two hours after a long day, I would have wanted to anyway.

Rosie is in her last two days of school and she is bright and nostalgic and getting the best grades yet.

As soon as I am in the studio with time to draw, I have so much I have to do. Inspiration! A very good feeling.

My new concept: Modify.

(We leave on Sunday for Carrboro, NC to Charlottesville, VA to Philadelphia, PA to NYC.)

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