Church is also for dragonsharks

Or it is when your three-almost-four-year-old nephew is sitting with you and he's full of genius ideas. This picture is for him, because dragonsharks are clearly the best idea ever and hopefully Syfy will make a movie about one.

My niece told me that a dragonshark eating a person was too violent, but I disagree. It's more a suggestion, anyway.

She then requested that I draw a horse picture. What the heck am I supposed to do with a horse? I somehow think it wouldn't transfer so well with marker. And I can't think of an appropriate way to conform it to my tastes (I was thinking I would make it breathe fire, but we'll see what happens).

Dang. I just discovered blue inkstains all over the fingers of my left hand (really? I'm not even left-handed! Why is that the hand that's so dirty?) which invariably means I have blue ink all over my face as well. I've learned this about myself over the last year or so. I like messy projects, because they're so much more satisfying, but inexplicably the mess always leaps straight from my hands to my face. Always. Without fail.

Apparently I touch my face a lot.  With my left hand.

That stinks. In other news, I finished my first summer dress yesterday! I wore it to church today and only found one spot (after I got there and sat down and it was too late to do anything about it) that had gotten kind of wonky, but I think it will be super easy to fix. And no one noticed. So at some point I will get some pictures up of this delightful dress, and I'll tell you all about how I botched the bodice at the beginning and my mom had to majorly help me fix it so it didn't look ridiculous and there were some struggles and I hated it with all my being until yesterday when I added the skirt and finished it and could love it again.

We had some ups and downs, this dress and I. But there were some fun things about it and I think it turned out really well, apart from the wonky bit, and I'm excited to share. And I think I'm even excited to work on the next one. Ahem.