Not that I mean to bore anyone with my progress in writing, but it’s my blog and if this bores you then you can skip this part! LOL

With school over, I want to get back into the writing grind. The two writing projects I started last year are unfinished, and it is my goal to finish at least one of them before the fall. I have selected the story that I started about my World of Warcraft guild because it’s published on our guild website and it looks rather silly sitting there only half done. It’s also the piece of work that has taught me the most about the writing process - at least to date. And also because I actually like the story. It’s funny and fun, it doesn’t have to be taken seriously, and I feel like it’s something that I can really play with since it’s about my friends’ gaming characters.

It’s been a long while since I have contributed anything to it, so I have decided I would start doing an edit process on what’s already been published. Oddly enough, I’ve learned a great deal by going back and reading what I’ve written and, not only am I looking forward to cleaning it up, but I think the lessons learned will be helpful going forward. This weekend I will be working on chapter 10. It’s about half way done, and I’d like to say that I plan on finishing it but I have no idea. Over the past year, I have gotten faster at the writing process, but it is still very slow going for me.

Anyway, since it’s been so long that a chapter has gone up, I may just hold onto the whole thing until I’ve gotten a big head start, and then start publishing chapters on a regular basis. But we’ll see…

Today was the “big day” for my interior design rendering class. All 18 of us got up and presented our rooms to the class, the head of the program, and the two rendering teachers. I waited until the last possible minute and ended up being the second to the last person to go. Of course I was completely nervous, and paranoid about my design - and I still am. We won’t get our grades back until tomorrow at 2:00, so of course I’m going to be stressing out until then. When I stood up, I put my color board and rendering up for the presentation, and about half the class said, “Oh my God.” So that’s good, right? What I’m mostly nervous about is that there are some glaring errors in my rendering, and when Randy, the head of the program, gets up close to grade me, he’ll see them all. I have no idea how my grade is going to turn out. The paranoia is now that I am so proud of what I did, and I spent a lot of time and hard work on it. If I don’t get an A, then I’ll know my best isn’t good enough. So that’s the fear.

So without further ado, here’s the design. It photographed a little dark, so I tried to adjust the picture settings. Not sure if I was successful or not.

Color board:

Rendering:

With two classes left before the final project is presented, I’m still making tweaks and changes to my design. I suppose it wouldn’t be so bad if I was making the claimed “tweaks”, but they happen to be substantial changes - like the entire ceiling. It’s not that big of a deal, since the ceiling changes happen to be added molding and paint, but it’s a huge deal to draw out.

I also changed the chandelier.

Hear me out on this - when I usually find something I love, I find that it’s the concept that I love, more than the actual piece. So when I’ve found my concept, I have learned to keep searching until I find the piece that’s right.

The new chandelier will be a bold statement against the creamy walls - now I just have to decide what colors I’m going to slap up on the ceiling. Right now, I’m thinking dangerously bold…

And sconces to match.

Couch fabrics (smooshed and color-warped by the scanner):

And the couch that these fabrics are supposed to cover (couldn’t get a black and white pic to look right, so you’ll just have to try and imagine this upholstered with the above fabrics):

There’s also a small, light sage colored fabric that goes as an accent pillow (the small, rectangular pillow in the front) and will also go on two accent chairs, but the fabric color doesn’t come through all that well on the scanner so I won’t post it.

The walls are a light cream color that picks up the golden tones of the couch, and will act as a nice backdrop for the sconces and chandelier.

Flooring and area rug: I chose a warm, wood floor that has a lot of the golden tones in it. It’s hard to see the little yellow additions in the scanned sample, but they are there, and beautiful.

On top, a handmade area rug from Aga John.

And more things - curtains, sheers, club chairs, a wine bar, plants, art, a fireplace that I won’t bother scanning the tile for… The drawing for this must be finished tonight. I’ll snap some pictures of the finished product and post it next week.