Doodling... I really shouldn't... :P

[my_thestral]

Dammit, BF's brother with his son are visiting and I can't really write in the evenings - and I just started another piece! it's hard to focus with being interrupted every 3 seconds and with howls of laughter coming from the other side of the room, accompanied by "you've gotta come and see this"... no, I really don't. :P But I know that BF misses hearing his native language and his family, so I'm trying to be less grumpy than usual when my "evening plans" don't happen. But they can't stop me from doodling,can they?! *mwahahahaha*  Sadly. Oh, boy, I really should keep my day job. *giggles madly*

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[my_thestral]

LOL, I guess if you grew up in nature cats and rabbits play an important role and they're so very adorable as well! :) I used to make scrap books of everything that went on in my life - from travels and every day events: concert tickets, movie tickets, maps, brochures, even wrappings from chocolate if I was never likely to have that one again - and lots of pictures. I still have those in my parents home, tons of them, and I have to make a London one now! :)

I'm still in habit of having all the prettiest pictures developed. BF prefers to keep them in digital form (at least he did until one of the kids dropped the hard-drive where he kept all our pictures since our 1st son was born and now he'd have to have it fixed - 500-2000 dollars!) - but even he appreciates the calendars I make for my family members for Christmas with the best pictures of kids and our family events!

And I used to make my own boxes for things like jewellery (I still have one of those around, it's very clumsy, I'll show you a picture once, LOL!) and pencils and such. I'm not a very outdoor person and not very artsy, but I do like some craftsmanship every once in a while. :)

But I never really doodled much to be honest (I'm doing that in the last few years) - I always felt so damn inferior to everyone who can really draw and paint in my family. ;)

[philharmony.livejournal.com]

That's really cool. I own about a dozen journals starting from when I was eleven on, and when I reread them I'm more prone to bust into giggles or blush in mortification at my young self than anything else. e.g. "I learned today that Ben was having an ice skating party this weekend. I don't even care that I wasn't invited. I'm being serious, Percy" (the name of my journal) "It may sound like I care, but I really don't. Really."
My mom does these really beautiful watercolor drawings and she sells them at farmer's markets and stuff. I never felt inferior per se, but I've never felt incredibly proud of what I draw. It's easier to just label all my stuff as doodles and then it doesn't matter if they're good or not! I dunno, if you just draw for the fun of it then anything you draw is good because it's fun :) !

P.S. I LOVE little boxes. My parents used to go nuts, because I would just collect fancy little whimsical boxes from wherever and there always ended up being too many of them and my mom would be like "where did you even get this?" and I'd be like, "I dunno, but I put pressed flowers in it and it's pretty..."

[my_thestral]

I only ever wrote a journal when I lived in England, because I found the family I've been paired with so damn surreal, and because I was lonely, to be honest.
Heh, my fits of doodles usually also surprise me, because I'd be scribbling something one moment and before you know it, that something has a nose and eyes and hair and there's a person looking at me and I'm waiting for it to introduce itself.:) I usually try to hide it, since I do most of my doodling during our boring company meetings, LOL!
Heh, I guess I started making customised boxes because I could never find any practical ones to stuff my things into, so I figured if there weren't any, I better go and make some that suit my needs, heh. :) They are terrible creations, but I'm still very fond of them. :)

[philharmony.livejournal.com]

That family sounded for real insane! I'm not quite sure how you survived.

And boring company meetings are basically asking to be labeled as "doodle time". I graduated as Valedictorian of my High School, and I swear I read Novels and doodled my way through at least 60% of my classes. I even got sent to the Principal's office once for reading in class one too many times (That was the worst, because they stuck me in a room with a desk and a chair and absolutely nothing else for an hour and I was beside myself with boredom).

[my_thestral]

They left you waiting with nothing to do?! And that was before smart phones, so you couldn't even read dirty fanfiction on your phone!? That's mental torture! :D You should have doodled them something on the wall, ha! :D