We are in the midst of sacrificing the home office so that my teen daughter can have a room of her own. Well, they’ll both get their own rooms now, though I keep threatening to make the pre-teen sleep in the bathtub.

The computer’s new home is in the dining room, which isn’t as disruptive to working as I was afraid it would be. So far!

Every 8-inch knight needs a 3-foot gargoyle to keep him company.

Who IS that guy?

I guess I’m going to have to “grill” him to find out where he’s been…

I have a passion for papers. Some of them, like these, I will probably never use, because I just love the paper itself too much to cut it up and glue it or do anything else that would make it less than it is right now…

I offered to do his too, but he declined.

Since it is May and the jacarandas are blooming, I thought I’d do an all purple week of photos. Eventually, when I have time to find a place to set up a good shot with the knight (harder than it sounds, given the size discrepancy), actual jacarandas will appear….

In the meantime, here’s some of my favorite purples from around the homestead.

My Mother’s Day loot: a tiny orchid, from my little sister and her family, and a tiny unicorn, sculpted by my 14-year-old daughter. How tiny? Well, remember that the knight is only 8 inches tall!

I haven’t posted a photo in nearly two weeks, because that’s when I started a new job. I don’t adjust all that well to changes in my routine, and the days without taking knight photos slid by with alarming rapidity. At some point, three or four days in, I decided that it was way too many to try and catch up, and that maybe I just ought to take a deliberate sabbatical from the project. So I did! It’s amazing how quickly the guilt for not taking daily photos disappeared when I gave myself leave…

But now I’m back and ready to pick up where I left off! I’m not going to try and make up the missing days…I’ll just append them to the end of the year to reach the full 365. My project…I make the rules!