Inna Minute

Here, there and everywhere

Here's an update, a to-do list for me, and a nice picture of a flower.

First the update: I spent yesterday polishing the  Eiderdown Stocking audio with Director/Editor Pat Jackson. We had recorded some alternate lines with Andrea and it was time to make the cuts. I'm glad Pat is a pro-tools wiz. The screen looked like a fever chart and her script binder was covered with post-it notes, but she made it look easy. 

Task accomplished, we took a break over homemade pie and cappucinos. Pat read me an amazing alternative to Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha (see Strong version under Parodies here). Inside...outside...indeed. I laughed and swore to knit her a mitten!

We also timed the musical segments. Michael Gold, the theme composer, had supplied an electronic sketch to work with. I brought along examples of music-to-voice segments from other audiobooks which Pat and I listened to on my laptop. In the end we came up with a good sample timing for our composer. 

Not every audio has music, but I'm excited that Michael has signed on. I like the idea of setting a mood as if a curtain is going up inside the listener's head. We should be recording his final theme in August. I promise to post a snippet when we're close to final.

My To-Do List this coming month is a little daunting...

• finish the design of the Eiderdown Merit Badge • select and scan portfolio samples for an OkayKate website due to launch in the Fall • write a sample case history for same site • draft three more chapters on the second novel • outline a new Eiderdown story • get over it and finally balance my checkbook. Whew!

Two things I can cross off my list....

 

1. Test knit a hedgehog pattern.

2. Photograph the latest bloom in my neighbor's greenhouse.

I can't believe it's the end of June already. Happy Fourth to us and Victorious Canada Day to our northern neighbors!

Two pups for two little girls

My campaign to knit for all the little girls in my circle of friends continues. The pup above is one of two. The other is wrapped in blue tissue and ready to mail. 

Part of the challenge here is to knit with yarn I already have (that being the stash under the bed). I found a skein of brown sock yarn and a cone (!) of fun fur and found myself with a dog in progress. Fun fur is NOT fun on the needles, but I perservered.

 

I think the girls are going to like their new friends. I did take into account the Sister Factor  since my sibling always got the better gift than I did. No matter what it was, her presents were bigger, pinker and more exciting than mine. My poor mother...

These two dogs are exactly the same except one has green eyes, the other blue; one has an A (for Anna) on its ribbon collar and the other has an M (for Meghan). 

I feel so clever! I think I'll make the feeling last by having an ice cream right after I deliver these to the post office.