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I read about these pens at Laurelines and ordered a set; they came earlier in the week and I thought it was about time I tried them out. I can see potential for combining runny washes with line! To see them used to their best advantage, though, you should visit Laurelines.

A week of wheel-spinning where work is concerned: I keep working and working, but the pile of paper never diminishes! It happens sometimes and is tiring and stupefying--hence no blog posts this week!


Peter's uncle Tim died and we'll be driving to Quebec for the funeral Tuesday. Peter's mother, Mary Pat, who died this time last year at home of breast cancer, grew up in Quebec with her sister, Ann, and five brothers. Her four brothers (Emmett died some time ago; I never met him)--Brian, Tim, Mike, and Kevin Kelly--have been coming down to the Jersey Shore for a long weekend of fishing and visiting the past couple of summers. They're charming, delightful, old-world-ish gentlemen, always arriving bearing gifts, and full of compliments and kindness and fun. Tim, especially, had something life-enhancing about him, and was definitely possessed of the luck of the Irish: widowed with six small children, lovely, elegant Catherine married him and helped raise his children. She has been with him every day in these last months as he struggled to recover from a stroke, and was with him when he died yesterday.