Today is day five, and I am summarizing at 12:40 in the aye-em because it represents the first moment I have had to myself, as we have had out-of-town friends in, all day.
*The final painting of today's stone. Now it goes off to dry/cure*
Clearly, doing a *"100 day project"* is not for those who have *any* kind of social life!
## *Random Project Notes:*
I feared it would be a short one today, and I was right!
I basically had time for pretty much *nothing,* but I *did* manage to not fall completely off the board by simply acknowledging that I would have no time... and so I *made* time to sit down and at least paint a stone, this morning... squeezed in between having breakfast and running to town for grocery shopping.
*As always, I start with a center point*
As it turned out, it was actually quite a nice stone; better than I had expected, given the time constraints.
I was working with a color set I don't use very often because the red/orange/yellow pigments tend to be rather expensive and typically don't *cover* very well... meaning that I have to trace every single little line a *second* time, after the first coat dries.
People want to know how I get my colors to be so bright and vibrant. Well... that's how. They are all double painted!
*The design starts to take shape*
## *Day 5 Summary:*
**One new stone painted;** quite pleased with this one, all told... in spite of being very aware of the time pressure. I will be very happy when life returns to normal, tomorrow!
**Daily Twitter/X post:** *Fail.*
**Daily Facebook Page post:** *Fail.*
**Daily Instagram post:** *Fail.*
Just did not have time to even *open* social media today, let alone post something. I feared that might turn out to be the case.
*Starting to look like something!*
**Other Stuff:** Determined to at least get in this Hive post; after all, I took the pictures of today's painted stone and I want to document it. Daily shoutout to **@gillianpearce!**
Day 5 is in the bag. I feel like I have *"peopled"* more than enough for a month or two! Hopefully I can set a better routine now!
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