Meet My Sci-Fi Planet

I'm working on two books that focus on History, but the footnotes can be hellish, so I edit bits of my Sci-Fi story, too.
In my fourth book, I have an appendix with maps of my different continents. The main map of the planet originally had the continents in white and a somewhat blue ocean...
Yesterday, I decided to have some more fun and I worked to make the "planet" look real.
Thanks to this lovely site, I could do this (the stars are from Guille Pozzi on Unsplash):

My (Oh, Yes I'm Going to Try It!!!) Next New Hobby

I think I will definitely try sculpture, but I've found something else. Something I've been wanting to try for a long time.

The arts supply store is going to be fed up with me when they re-open...

I'm going to try this:

  

It's glass I have a hard time finding... Everything else is already located, or already in my possession.

This will be fun.

My (Possible) Next New Hobby

I'm far from being bored, as I'm still in touch with my students by e-mail (which takes even more time than "just" being in class), I've got some spring cleaning and DIY stuff to do in my flat, and I've got an invasion of plot bunnies at home (yes - even more than usual!). I've got a dress to hem and a new portrait to start, too.

I'm busy and unbored.

And yet, something new-ish is making its way into my head. In fact, there are two things I'd like: I'd like to try pottery again (the last time, I was in primary school, but I loved it - in spite of the bullying teacher who didn't allow us to create what we really wanted; she expected obedient sheeple), but, alas, I have no access to a kiln, so I'll have to store that idea for the moment and... I'd like to try sculpture.

We have sculptors in the family (artists and monumental masons) and I'd really like to try.

I could order stuff online, but I don't want to burden my post officer with trifles, so I'll go shopping when we're allowed to go back to arts stores.

Maybe I won't like it.

Maybe I'll be rubbish at it.

I'll give it a try, for fun - and because I'm curious to see if there might be some marble in my DNA...

Good or bad, I'll keep you posted.

How I Got away with Naming Things (Sort of)

I name things, as in... my computer has a name, my printer has a name, my MP3 player has a name.

This is a thing I do.

I once had a friend who knew that I do this, and he joked that I couldn't possibly give names to the veggie tins in my kitchen. I said, deadpan, that they didn't stay long enough for me to give them names.

If it bothers people that I name things... I don't give a fig.

Some of my relatives find me odd (what's new?), and one tried to make fun of me, because of this, recently.

And then... the "universe" (it's just a lovely coincidence, actually) decided to help me as my new phone has a name. I don't mean something like XYU-tw2159. Her name's Lola, and I can call her that, coz that's her name; it's on the box and everything. And when that relative snorted that I'd given a name to my phone, I could say that she came that way, which is 100% true - and I like her name.

Now... did I buy that one because she had a name? Another post may answer to this question one day......