Things have been busy, busy, busy!! Last night was the first Friday of the month and that’s a big day in the artist’s community here in Raleigh. The galleries downtown open their doors in the afternoon and stay open late in to the night. Sometimes there’s food and wine, but mostly it’s a great night to network with other artists in the community or buy some art.

Last night, I went down to the opening day of a show at the LoDi Project Gallery.  They put out a call to the artists in the community and across the world to unite to support those in need in Haiti. The LoDi Project received over a 1000 pieces of artwork from around the globe! Each piece will be sold for $25 dollars with all the proceeds going to support those in Haiti. I submitted three pieces of my own artwork and was very happy to hear that one of them (iHeartbronze) sold before I could even get down to the gallery last night! I haven’t heard about the other two , but I hope that when they are bought, I might hear from the new owners. :)

iHeartbronze by =Sachula on deviantART

I’m a little stumped with Grim Aspects at the moment. I have written about 350 words of a brand new beginning, but I’m not sure if it’s the direction I want to go with Gabrielle’s voice. Here’s a snip-it, the very beginning of the first chapter. Feel free to tell me what you think.

The smell of burning wood tickled my nose. I opened my eyes to see a small fire burning only a few feet from me. The heat from it felt wonderful.

I sat up and rubbed my face. The dull ache behind my eyes was still there. That’s what I get for letting my emotions get the best me. Seriously, when was the last time I’d cried like that? I sighed and looked over at the fire.

Only one person I knew would go through the lengths to build a fire instead of trying to wake me. He was my saving grace, the only person I confided in and yet, when I think about it, I didn’t really know much about him other than his name.

Adrian.

“Do you have a death wish?” a voice said behind me.

I grabbed at my chest to keep my heart from jumping through it and spun around to face him. Adrian was stepping over the remains of the broken wall. He stopped, posed with one foot on a sunken stone and just like that, I was just caught in his presence.

It happened every time we met and every time, I couldn’t be less prepared for it. The way the moon light behind him caught the honey color strands of his hair and made them glow. The lines of his face that he had so carefully composed to give off that air of indifference. Every movement, the slightest gesture to the merest of nods, thought out intensely in the depths of his hazel eyes.

I shook myself from the weight of his gaze and found that, yes, I still had a working jaw bone.

“I have a death wish?! I think you’re the one with the death wish. Sneaking up on a highschooler in the woods at night. Jeez…” I turned my back on him and immediately regretted it, remembering all too late that even the thought of him standing behind me sent quivers down my spine.

For a while after we’d first met, it was a healthy fear of a stranger in the night, but as we met more over the years, my mind began to wonder just what Adrian would do if he were to stand against my back? Those thoughts brought an entirely different type of shiver to my body.

I need to keep working on it and I’m very, very glad that I have my cell phone. I’m away from my computer more often that not these days, and it seems that the notes app on my phone is getting a very healthy work out. I’m also still working on my Three Act Structure. I’m not thrilled with it yet, if I ever finish it – it will be a Christmas miracle. XD

This week I watched the anime Peacemaker Kurogane. I remember watching most of this a few years ago, but I couldn’t remember if I ever got to watch the ending. So, I looked it up on CrunchyRoll (my new friend, btw) and was very happy that I did finally get to finish it this time around. I enjoyed the historical aspect and it reminded me a a series of books that were set around the same time period. I’m going to have to go look those up and add them to my To Read List again.

Here’s today’s amv : Dive Right In // anime: Peacemaker Kurogane // music: Dive Right In – Story of the Year

its snowing again…

And here’s the project that that’s been eating up my time lately. After finals I’m going to sub it, so for those of you who don’t speak Japanese can understand what’s being said. I also want to make a Making of Video, just because we had some awesome outtakes! And the best one wasn’t even caught on film! XD

I woke up this afternoon,  and went on my normal rounds about the nets: Gmail, BBC News, Deviantart. When I got to deviant, what I found scares me. I know our government isn’t the brightest of the bunch, but this is seriously demented. > http://news.deviantart.com/article/46388/
I’m so angry at the moment I can’t see sight. I hate being here and being apart of a worldwide problem, that’s all I see the USA being.  I will always be an American, but I WILL not be part of a problem.  I will stand against this as much as I can, for the sake of artists everywhere!

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