My son, BlogBoy, dove in and is now participating in Illustration Friday. I love that weekly meme, even tho I haven't participated online. I've done but a few sketches out of several words that triggered images, but I've kept them all in my journal. My son, however, got his hands all virtually-messy fiddling with Photoshop. I love to see him figure his way around the progam. I think it's great! So now, as soon as he's done with homework, he turns on the computer.

What is even better is that I get to see how his mind works, from a different perspective. We went over several previous words, and his imagination and imagery is so much fun, wonderful and brimming with humor! He gets an image in his mind so quickly and runs with it. So he tells me from now on he'll try to participate every week. Yes, I'm smiling.

Now here's a(nother) plug. My friend Debbie wanted to set up a little space of her own on the web, and now she's got it. I've finished set-up and design, and now she's ready to roll. She's also doing some exploring of her own, so why don't you veteran bloggers pay her a visit at Ethereal Muse.