I've been a little unplugged this fall (there's something gloriously refreshing about breaks from status updates and constant digital input). But it's high time I check in to my trusty old blog and say hi to the wider world. Hi wider world! Nice to see you!
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Speaking of places where we unplug...
My husband's maternal family has a little cabin on the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, right over the border from Upstate New York. We call the place "Camp Carpenter," or just: Camp. I LOVE camp. My husband grew up fishing and boating and swimming there. And now my son Oscar and I get to join in the fun.
I'm happy to say that this summer when we took Oscar there (he hadn't been in a few years — ya know, due to a little two-year excursion to Asia...), Oscar LOVED it.
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And Oscar's favorite part of camp, hand's down, was fishing.
And while we were there I had a little spark of inspiration for a picture book fishing story that now has been nagging me for a few months. Especially because I told Oscar about it and he keeps asking me about it (he really liked fishing).
So here I am in November (with a happy full journal of PiBoIdMo ideas) kind of obsessing over this one little spark from the summer.
So I've been writing a drawing a bunch this month with fishy stuff on the brain and I thought I'd share.
It's kind of the perfect focus when you are feeling a little prone toward unplugginess.
So these are all just super rough sketches I'm doing to get ideas for how the characters in the dummy will look.
I hope everyone out there in the wider world had a lovely thanksgiving (or fall, if you aren't in the U.S.A.!).
We had a very eventful November in our little corner of the universe: I got a new nephew (melt melt heart; something about newborn babies just makes you think everything about the world is beautiful).
And cheers to anyone else who participated in PiBoIdMo! Hope your fishing trip for ideas was a huge sucess!
