Snowflake Challenge: If I had the talent ....

[dragonyphoenix]

In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

January tends to be a sad time for me. My mother's birthday is in the middle of the month and ever since she passed away, I tend to get depressed. This is the first year I've seen it coming. Usually I'm in the middle of it and wondering why I'm do down. Anyway, it's a time of the year I just don't get things done.

Specific things I don't have the talent for (yet!) are drawings. I'd like to draw an image for It Seems the Hills and Rivers Have Been Waiting a story where a pig farming trans woman becomes a Jiang cultivator except she can't really cultivate, she's just super strong because she builds her muscles. Anyway, they have her in cultivator garb and her hair keeps whipping into her face and mouth. Apparently it's a magical thing that it doesn't happen to cultivators. So I want to draw her in cultivation garb with her hair whipping into her face.

I also want to draw Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji holding each other and floating maybe with a "I'll never let you fall" caption.

Knitting. I'd like to learn to knit and I tried watching a video. That did not go well.

I'd like to go for walks in a more wooded area. Since I injured my knee, I've been sticking to flat walking paths and now it's too snowy and wet.

Comments

[tsuki_no_bara]

first, i'm so sorry about your mom. i like flamingsword's idea of taking her birthday to just... feel your feels, and really grieve for her. it might not make the rest of the month more bearable, but it might help to deliberately devote a day to her, to remember her and miss her.

second, do you know anyone who knits, who could show you? even online (over zoom or facetime or something). sometimes it's easier if you can interrupt someone to ask if they can do it again or explain what they're doing, rather than trying to learn from videos.

[dragonyphoenix]

Thanks. I did take her birthday off. That day itself wasn't bad but I got real depressed the day after. I'm starting to feel better today.

I've found a local knitting group but I'm waiting for Covid to die down more before joining them.