Nervous Wreck

That is EXACTLY what I wanted to know. Perfect. Thank you so very much. Also for all your great work. ❤️✍🏼

(this is a quick question so it's kind of a nice distraction, actually!) I use a screen cover from a brand called iCarez - dumb name, definitely not from an English-speaking country, but I LOVE the product! Cheaper and, imo, nicer than Paperlike, at least the ones I've tried. Hope that's helpful to you!

Danielle Corsetto

Yup— count me in on that! I start getting nervous, kinda shutting down creatively and mentally oh, say, three months before I go anywhere— as soon as I can “see” the month around the curve of the year if you know waht I mean. And on a different topic, have you ever heard of /tried the ipad screen cover “paperlike?” NO need to answer this if you’re totally slammed; it just looked so cool and satisfying to add texture to drawing on the screen, and i wondered if you had heard any reviews. Thanks either way! You’re the best.

I'm one of those nervous travelers too. I get so wound up I'm just about barfing getting on the plane.

Aahh, my heart breaks for you and anyone whose loved ones live over a border!

Danielle Corsetto

I wish you a safe and pleasant trip if you do go!

Tuspa Mouse

Solidarity. I live in Germany, my family is in the States. I have gone through that process several times of planning and canceling trips in the past two years. So nerve wracking!

Tuspa Mouse

(Oh and yes, they have a teachers' dorm for me, and I've got a combo hotel & AirBnB for Copenhagen.)

Danielle Corsetto

Yeah, for me it's like... I've barely left my zip code for two years, so I'm gonna throw all my eggs into this one basket, and in that basket I get paid very well to do my dream teaching job in a highly vaccinated country, and then visit my best friend and just stay in a hotel and work in between. How cool that you were born out there!! It's a very chill place, I love it. :)

Danielle Corsetto

Now I see that it's a ribbon!!! Duh. I guess it's a "you pays your money, you takes your chances" thing. You've got to do what's right for you. We can't live in fear forever. Do you have a place to stay lined up in Denmark? I visited DN once a few years ago (although I was actually born in Copenhagen). Totally fell in love with the country.

Ruth Merriam

Oh good question! The final painting is an ornament, so that's a bit of ribbon for it to hang from. :) Yeah, a lot of my friends have been coming down with it, too. But even the unvaccinated few have said the symptoms are mild. I know we don't want it spreading regardless, but it sounds like good news that the severity seems to have died down on this variant. I'll be tested twice before I go out, and I've been reassured that not only are the numbers super low at the school (and hospitalizations less frequent in the country), but there are testing sites everywhere, Danish resident or not.

Danielle Corsetto

Not to be a party pooper, but 7, count 'em, 7 of my fully vaxxed, boosted, mask-wearing and careful friends have caught omicron. Hubby and I are now ratcheting back all of our social stuff as the county's infection rate rises over 20%. No thankyew. We're old and don't wanna play. But as far as sticking around for just ET or whatever, that was a jest, yes? And another question. What's the burgundy snake thing in the third painting?

Ruth Merriam

ahhhh us and MAGFest =C I'd just cancel but we already avoid being near people + strict vaccination + mask-wearing + distancing policy = could easily be safer than stores...

Minzoku Bokumetsu

Ahh I'm sorry buddy!! Berlin is amazing, if you haven't been - I hope you get to make up for that trip especially in the future. But, also, all the rest of them. BOOOO.

Danielle Corsetto

I feel you. I love traveling, and my company sales kickoff was supposed to be in Berlin this year! Cancelled. And my first quarter trips to NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, and Austin, all got cancelled. It’s the right move, but I’m still lamenting what could have been. 🖕🏻🦠

Chris Driggers

Those are great paintings!

Fred Baker

Luckily the actual teaching is just 2 weeks, so it'd only kind of suck!! But thank you very much. I'll definitely eat all the licorice I can find in the States if I don't get to actually go.

Danielle Corsetto

Spending 6 weeks on Denmark time and not actually in Denmark would really, really suck. I hope you're able to travel safely. And if you can't travel, I hope you at least get some Danish food and pictures.

Wade Richards

Good luck! I never seal anything, because it only leads to more cat hair in the paint, in the long run. XD

Amy Crook