Stuff inspiring and strange.

• My kids are full-fledged adults now, or I would be really tempted to buy these incredible toys for them. Maybe if I ever have grandbabies. . .
• There are rules for creativity (but one of them is create your own rules).
• For the writers: I am critiquing a romance right now, and I’m so impressed with the author’s pacing. The words disappear and I’m watching the action play out like a movie in my head. I love that as a reader. How do I do that as a writer?
• I recently bought a few new brushes, and one of them was a wedge. I can’t wait to try it, probably next month during World Watercolor Month.
• I love the fabrics this quilter selected for her challenge block.
• Here is another artist who is participating in the Index-Card-a-Day challenge.
• When my son was a little boy, he called certain cars “face cars.” The term “face” came up in this article about how to draw a car.
• Colorful chameleons. I’m itching to paint them.
• Islamic tile work.
• My God, what have we done to the earth?
• I know about the painted desert, but I never heard of the painted cliffs.
• The validation of seeing your photograph on a billboard.