Final Days Of 2017 Day 5: Eye For A Lie

This single jingle bell isn’t exactly funny on its own. It depends who is wearing it and how, or where you put it, or what song you try to play with it. Use your imagination. I bet you can turn this single jingle bell into a very odd decoration indeed. I know the photo’s aContinue reading “Final Days Of 2017 Day 5: Eye For A Lie”

Final Days Of 2017 Day 4: Two Of One Or One Of Two

This is an ornament I made myself. If you look closely, you may recognize the Victor Bilibin image I used for the back of my handmade Tarot cards. This ornament was made as an example of a simple craft one could do with stickers. For this one, I took 5 rectangular stickers and placed aContinue reading “Final Days Of 2017 Day 4: Two Of One Or One Of Two”

#FD2017 Final Days Of 2017 Day 3: Pretty, Naughty Pig

This little piggy was not created as an ornament, but has been donned by many of my “Christmas Trees” (in quotes because instead of a tree, I have used a hat rack, or gathered fallen branches).  A festive and naughty pig, note the Mardi Gras beads and dirty feet, perhaps she represents the greed, gluttonyContinue reading “#FD2017 Final Days Of 2017 Day 3: Pretty, Naughty Pig”

#FD2017 Final Days Of 2017 Day 2: Explore Your Preface

I know what you’re thinking. Why is that a silly ornament? It’s a pretty angel. A nice silver ornament. But take a closer look. What’s she wearing that hat for? Is she going on safari? And what is she doing? Smashing some vines into a crescent moon? And what’s going on with her neck onContinue reading “#FD2017 Final Days Of 2017 Day 2: Explore Your Preface”

Final Days Of 2017! #FD2017 Day 1: Creating Achievable Goals

For our visual prompts this month, I thought it would be fun to share some of the odd ornaments I’ve been given and some strange things I’ve used as ornaments. If you have some strange or funny ornaments that you would like to share as a visual prompt here on Experience Writing please let meContinue reading “Final Days Of 2017! #FD2017 Day 1: Creating Achievable Goals”

Revision: The Plan and then What Really Happened

Today’s revision was inspired by two things. One, last weekend at writers meet-up we were each challenged to come up with a goal to accomplish during the two weeks before our next meet-up. I announced to the group that I would have a re-write of my first chapter done. This felt like a reasonable goalContinue reading “Revision: The Plan and then What Really Happened”