Plan of action for tonight

1. Finish first full draft of essay. 4000 words done; approximately 2000 more to go but I have notes and a plan for this so shouldn't take too long. 5300 words written, which is too short really, but I have some stuff I need to go and look up tomorrow to add in. I only started the research for this on Tuesday but it's proved ridiculously easy. Unless I'm really missing something. *grins* But hey, this is only the paper for the seminar. I have until December to do a revised version if I should need to.

2. Work on chapters 2-4 of Meeting the Weasleys for canon-compliancy. Percy shouldn't need too much, nor Bill, but the twins is going to be a challenge. I think I have an idea though.

3. Maybe, just maybe, write another chapter of 'The Muggle Girl'. I always meant for there to be one more and this morning I started thinking about it again.

3.5 Have long, funny, good conversation with my landlady and abandon the idea of doing anything else useful.

4. Sleep.

I'm excited that I'm planning to buy a second-hand but unused sewing-machine from a friend for $50. This will mean lots more possibilities for Pay It Forward. I've had the materials for CHK's gift lying around in the new flat for weeks, staring at me, just begging to be made into something beautiful and I've had NO TIME to do anything! I also really, really want to finish my felted bag this weekend. It was made and felted about a month ago, and I have the lining, handles and fastening ready to go. Just need a couple of hours to actually do something about it.

Free online picture editing

Because hfleming8 was asking and I know one or two others would like to be able to make better icons etc. Try Snipshot or Picnik.

Both will let you upload pictures, resize, recolour, reshape, add text etc. They seem easy to use and much more flexible than, say, Paint, for this sort of thing.  I haven't tried them at length so I can't really compare.  I use Photoshop Elements, if anyone's interested.  I think it's great for what I like to do - make icons, manipulate images, occasionally produce actual art work.

Any of these, btw, would produce suitable entries for The Gallery challenge.  Hint, hint.