Eyes-Closed New Bear

 bink was over as usual on Sunday morning for coffee--and this week, to help me arrange furniture. (HUGE help!)
She is at the six-month mark of being concussed, and while she's a lot better, she is still made dizzy by looking down and by too much noise and movement.
She just does stuff anyway, and bears feeling ill afterward...*

And speaking of bears, she loved New Bear and said she'd have bought the statue herself. Bear's name is Rummage, coming from a church basement sale (50 cents!), and also, how Bear likes to snuffle around and find stuff.

Because of not being able to look down, bink's been keeping an eyes-closed sketchbook, and she added Rummage:

Unlike "blind contour" drawing, where you sketch without looking at the paper, with eyes closed, you don't look at the object either, so it's an exercise in memory too.

Some (many) of bink's sketches are better, in my opinion, for being drawn with eyes closed. Otherwise her sketches are sort of too perfect. Being just that bit off makes them more... like, alive.

Here's bink, eating breakfast off one of my new plates--also, you can just see her new WEDDING band, on her left hand of course.
She says it's odd--a visible sign of belonging to a club you'd never considered joining...

* bink says she didn't feel ill after her wedding last week, amazingly. She wonders if the adrenaline overrode the dizzy-making hours of whirling motion and noise.