My future favourite author

There's nothing I love more than when worlds collide. So I was very pleased to see a special episode of Arthur, a cartoon series my daughter and I both enjoy. To my surprise, one of my favourite authors, Neil Gaiman, had appeared as himself, told the kids about graphic novels and coached a little girl who was trying her hand at writing and drawing one. I have been a big fan of the genre ever since I heard of it. Not much of a surprise, really, as I love to read, and being the geek I am, I love comic books too. Graphic novels are like the love child of the two genres, and I just can't get enough of them. It seems my girl likes the idea too, as she expressed her love for the Arthur episode by recreating the graphic novel written Sue Ellen in the story. Here is her first drawing of the chief circle and triangle:

Of course, nowadays contacting famous people is not as difficult as it was, let's say, twenty or more years ago. Since Neil Gaiman is very active on Twitter by the name @neilhimself, I couldn't help myself but let him know what my girl was up to and how she plans on writing graphic novels. To my surprise he replied within a few minutes, saying "my work here is done".
Yep. And I will continue to work on dragging her deeper and deeper into the magnificent world of words and images.

Kinda gone, kinda back

I know I disappeared from blogging, but I'm all right. I have done a lot of things in the meantime. I have been stitching too. No finishes, just progress on various projects, including the super secret surprise project. No progress photos now because I don't have the brains to browse on my hard drive.

Horseland

Horseland is one of Tamara's favourite cartoons ever. Mainly because of the many horses in it. 

What have I done?

Seriously. Is my Xmas SAL project cursed? I lost my floss! What is going on here? I know I had at least one more skein, but I cannot find it anywhere. It was right here, on my table, between the keyboard and the screen for ages. Along with dozens of other things, that, unlike my floss, are still here, gathering dust. All right, so I am not the tidiest housewife, correction, housesinglemom, in the world. In fact, I am sure I am somewhere at the bottom of the tidy list. But I always take care of my stash! There is at least one, possibly one and a half skeins of Raspberry Parfait floss located in my flat some place, I just don't know the exact spot. I spent the day looking for it. I found copious amounts of stuff I didn't remember I had, but the floss remains missing. I am fuming. In my day-long monologue I have used every curse word known to mankind and went on to invent a few new ones. Still the floss is missing. I swear, there must be an evil little goblin sneaking in every once in a while and relocate my stuff as a prank.

Desperately seeking

...for something to blog about! Seriously, I am tired and my brain is drained. But I made up my mind about posting every day and I am doing it!
I was browsing all over the net for something to share and I just found out that Tina Fey is the latest recipient of the Mark Twain prize for American humour! That is great because she really deserves every recognition she gets. Honestly, when I grow up, I want to be Tina Fey.
PBS is gracious enough to share the whole show on their homepage so even Hungarian housewives who only found out about the event after it was broadcast can see it. Make sure you watch the separate video with her acceptance speech, because it was much longer than what was televised and she is hilarious.