tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112172772024-03-23T14:19:15.913-04:00waiting for the musewaiting for the museSandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04286461271083389001noreply@blogger.comBlogger2590125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11217277.post-87668508888611086422018-08-08T10:52:00.000-04:002018-08-10T20:25:14.011-04:00ONE LAST THING<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, it has come to be- I have finallystarted a New Blog! It is a WIP right now, but feedback will be taken seriously so let me know you found me again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It will be more of the same nonsense meanderings, but I miss you all terribly and hope you jump over to continue our journey- I have files and files of squirrels to keep us entertained!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMckVK8DQW07b0tYm9Avk89RHi8R618xzLQaqC5-I06cJfhgynwcBmn7Pw5BUEp6fPR14j-gUQ-bKgpgwHMeBE0ryMHcrnV2QG_GFksnKuaksN8qXFVPCI-dB5BKr84cf98cAa0w/s1600-h/IMG_1217.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344212329033930514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMckVK8DQW07b0tYm9Avk89RHi8R618xzLQaqC5-I06cJfhgynwcBmn7Pw5BUEp6fPR14j-gUQ-bKgpgwHMeBE0ryMHcrnV2QG_GFksnKuaksN8qXFVPCI-dB5BKr84cf98cAa0w/s320/IMG_1217.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 124px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 144px;" /></a>Sandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04286461271083389001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11217277.post-49452562128842006092018-06-15T12:26:00.000-04:002018-06-15T12:31:58.999-04:00Bye Bye<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After all these years of blogging and 2589 posts (OMG!), I am throwing in the towel. Blogger itself has made it impossible for me to figure out WHY people can't access my blog any longer- oh I know some people can, but it's about 1% of my former numbers, so every post is basically me talking to ...me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I also am dealing with a website I haven't updated for decades (well, maybe just 'decade') and cannot for the life of me figure out how to start transferring my domain to a new platform. It used to be I learned how to write code to start the first website- and oh boy, it was cheesy! But over the years things became very convoluted just as my brain was atrophying and it was harder to follow confusing steps which I found didn't work in the end anyway. So, oh well...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My so-called strategy is to find a 13 year old kid who can help me wade through all this, but I have at least 3 years, maybe 5 until I have some available to me. At my age you cannot rely on ever getting there to take advantage of them! So, since I am so-called RETIRED anyway, I'm letting it all go. I'm still sewing, still messing about in the studio, but all the noise out there now on the web has me stickin' in the earplugs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I guess I will delete my blog folders- pages and pages of quotes pertaining to art, hundreds of pictures of squirrels, and infinite lists of nonsense phrases for my titles. I won't even mention the hundreds of folders for the ARTY PARTY that I collect. I had planned to go on forever with a vision of me pecking out my last missive from my hospital bed. Nope, I am at my desk sitting in my Louis Ghost chair surrounded by giant tropical blooms I 'macheted' out of the landscape bushes the other day. And as soon as I post this I will head out to the studio to try to use up more of my sinfully large collection of fabrics. I have three quilts in the works, one about Murmuration, one about a Shiver of Sharks, and a third that will turn into a cutter for something else. All three are made from Marimekko black and white prints dating back to Design Research in Cambridge from the 60's. Somebody left it all on my porch one night in a giant black garbage bag, the way I got into this mess to begin with!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Parting words- if any of you are in South Florida and need some company, give me a call! If any of you need fabric, come on down and bring your own black garbage bag. Or if you just want to sit around on a rattan chair covered in tropical barkcloth drinking Keurig coffee, the door is open (email and I'll send directions.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And if you really want to be my hero, figure out WHY I've been blogger-banned! I seriously have tried everything and even asked them for help- never heard a word from that plea. So, I'll miss you all. PLEASE DON'T COMMENT HERE- needless to say I can post but cannot actually access my own blog! Go figger. You can find me any time at sdonabed@gmailDOTcom. Maybe I will send you back a few squirrels, ya never know. With many thanks, again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The Artist Formerly Known as:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been spending time at the studio in between guests these past few weeks, and finally managed to get a few pieces made for my on-line collage group. This is my third year doing it, and probably the last because I am finding I don't get to my own work when these are hanging over my head. I know, poor excuse, but I really don't need these prompts but I sure enjoy this years theme, 'Destruction'! For 8 pieces I have used just one collage- this one which is a combination of my own lino prints and commercial papers more or less imitating the view from our former house:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, got that? Here's what has happened to it~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I still have a few to finish up from this old collage, but the other one I have mailed out is from a different collage from a long time ago, called 'Blueberries' because it's about Maine and blueberry bushes and black bears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a standard Bears Paw block from some junk shop, so I reversed it to the wrong side to see the hand-piecing, and used a pretty sketchy bear photograph. The blueberry fabric was a donation from a member of my old and best crit group. This wasn't destroyed very much this time around, but from it's start it was about destruction so qualifies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And all these are now out of my house, studio, car, and mind and on the way to their new owners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Other Areas, I have finished two shawls, the first one is ombre from black to white and in luscious alpaca. It's so soft, but when finished it was (yawn) pretty boring. I wanted to stick a yellow and black border on the edge to jazz it up but my stitch group whined me out of it. Instead I had some black and white printed yarn so used that as it's edging. I was gonna make a mile of iCord but instead just stuck a crochet row around it. But for now, it's enough. But I'm not gonna say I won't add that yellow to it some day when my uber conservative advice team isn't looking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am STILL working on the two b&w Marimekko fabric quilties, they don't need much more at this point. The 'Shiver of Sharks' has hunks of lace around the base of all the shark fins poking out of their sea(ms)to look like a little wake, the 'Murmuration' is still thoughts in process. I am leaning to making several prints of different size starlings so I can layer them together to simulate the way they fold in on each other, spread out, and recombine. I'm tell you, watching them is so much easier than trying to actually DO them. But both are somewhat close to being done, just not quite yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then of course, there is the little problem of WHAT to do with my future. I absolutely need to be messing about with art supplies, but I think perhaps the fabric part is waning. Sure, I love working out fabrics in a collage, but the tedious steps that follow- the piecing/applique/ stitchery/quilting just doesn't grab me the way it used to. I do want to do more encaustics but my studio doesn't have an exhaust fan and working with the garage door open only brings in critters and dust. My 2 windows are fixed so cannot be opened. I am also at the point that I would love to move some of my bases of operation into the house again, but that does away with a guest room- not practical for living where everybody wants to visit all winter. I'll figure it out, either that or it will be too damn late to make a move. Whatever... something will be done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is what I am doing this week. Being at the pool today was a semi-pleasant break from being in the kitchen. But never fear- they were raring to go when I made them get out of the water- they wanted me back in the kitchen!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bet you are hoping for a bit of an <b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">ARTY PARTY</span></b>, aren't you? Let's see what I can find:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will miss Lisa, driving her to the airport today. She has kept Molly occupied, but the funny thing is that Molly cannot tell us apart and runs up to her to welcome her home, stops in mid-jump-and-fall to see another mom behind her- me! She begs from her, then turns to me. Actually Lisa talked me into cutting her bangs yesterday and I just finished when Lisa walked by the Molly went nuts barking since she saw finally there are two of us. Yikes, poor thing is blind and deaf and is sure a lot more work than <span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 129, 142);">orchids!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am DYING to get back to the studio, have so much to catch up on, so many things in progress and calling for attention. Hope I can<b style="caret-color: rgb(69, 129, 142);"> <span style="font-size: large;">X </span></b>off a few before kids arrive and want do artist stuff with me. I am so behind on the monthly group I joined, have many started but nothing finished to send on to it's recipient. Won't do this again next year because it's intrusive on my time AND I am quitting facebook where we meet up. Meanwhile, back at the SAQA pods, I quit the one I belonged to because I didn't want little projects every meeting, I was hoping for more of a crit (auto correct wants me to be in a carrot group)<span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 129, 142);"> setting but it didn't happen. Everybody was brand new and just not wanting what I wanted out of it. They all went crazy over sets of colored pencils. yawn. ANYway, I am thinking of rejoining the unit down in Boca next time, giving it another try. I know there are some good artists down there that I might learn something from. We'll see.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">First off, There was an unbelievable lightening storm going on at the end of the week. I watched it move along the horizon for 15 minutes before it occurred to me to go get my camera. Out of practice! Anyway I grabbed it and went up to the second floor balcony where I could get it over the trees. It went on for over an hour- I can barely take that much drama! But here is a short snippet of it as it was headed out to sea and wearing itself out- only 30 seconds so you don't need to go refill your coffee:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, now a chapter about New Orleans. OMG, the restaurants were fantastic, every single one was such good food, even the more old-style waiters-in-tuxedos places which seem to be a bit out of touch everywhere, but I have to say I so enjoyed seeing that kind of service again. Even the fancy places in Boston have gotten much less formal. So we hit a good portion of the old ones, but our top pick was Clancy's which ws 1/2 hour out of the city and a month ao had to give us a 9 PM reservation. And it was so worth i in spite o the NO fancy pretty horsey crowd- the 6 top next to us were outdoing each other on their adventures betting $60,000 on a friggin horse and the day they made friends with Jimmy Buffet on the golf course, or at the track or who can remember all the braggadocio? But I'll tell you it was the second most interesting thing going on, and very loudly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we got there, there was a fancy black limo 10 seater bus parked at the front door with a uniformed driver hanging around. We kind of figured it was some town council dinner meeting or something, but the van was still there as we left and were waiting for our cab to arrive. the hostess stepped outside and held the door open and a bunch of well groomed over-age rockers, in well tailored brown leather jackets and $200 haircuts, came bounding out. I said to the hostess that it must be a rock band. She averted her eyes and said HMMmmmmm and lit her cigarette as the last guy came through the door. As soon as they got in the bus she relaxed some and I asked WHO? Seems it was the whole Bon Jovi entourage. SO, I am bragging to everyone who will listen that we had dinner with Bon Jovi! Unfortunately he was eating on the main floor and we were upstairs in the wine room... I missed my chance o play the tambourine like I was forced todo in 1970 on Boston Common- thought for sure they would recognize me from that debut. Oh well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hey, in New Orleans they BAKE their oysters! I have never had baked oysters and still prefer the slimy raws guys but these were the biggest oysters I'd ever seen, right out of the Gulf they promised!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Next day TY went to the WWII Museum but didn't like all the interactive 4D exhibits much. He said there was little he could touch or get close to, and instead loves the WWII museum back in Natick and that's his benchmark. There you get personal tours from the owner, have to make a reservation to go, and can really get involved. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So they sat there and plotted how to get a book, arguing with each other, getting quite snippy, and frustrated. But they kept drinking coffee and eating pastry so could be ignored for their marital tiff. I fully support gay marriage but in my head all I can see is WHY? WHY would anybody ever get married in this day and age (yeah, I know I did- but that was 45 years ago when the 'day' and the 'age' were different!) Actually the trip to NOLA was planned as an anniversary trip, so I don't have a leg to stand on with this argument, just don't think this is the route I'd take if I could start all over again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moving on- Didn't get near the Cafe du Monde- we went one morning and the double and triple lines waiting to get near were 3 blocks long. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now maybe Id wait in this line if I could get a glazed cruller, but never got my beignet, not a big problem for me since I did this trip as a carb free experiment. s we were assessing the line we were standing on stone steps, looked down and the whole stairway was covered in powdered sugar.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9dQDwTDtRLYG8sM6dQq1Qw22QCDaYU6cVYsEWHkv9MELLyrwLjeuevp32DZWzzIKIxYL-mW0EZgKXiFqnaYNj41TJRdkPuMGYMHNEpzFPGjuAdyzZntlStjICr3wGu3_7h5ulg/s1600/IMG_4180.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9dQDwTDtRLYG8sM6dQq1Qw22QCDaYU6cVYsEWHkv9MELLyrwLjeuevp32DZWzzIKIxYL-mW0EZgKXiFqnaYNj41TJRdkPuMGYMHNEpzFPGjuAdyzZntlStjICr3wGu3_7h5ulg/s320/IMG_4180.jpg" width="320" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, time to fly home, we left the hotel (we stayed at the Ace and pretended to be hipsters all weekend- hard to do at our age.) and got to the airport an hour before boarding so I went to look for snacks- the only thing I found without massive carbs were a big bag of Chicharones (fried pork skin if you're not grossed out by such things) which have-count 'em- NO carbs I stuffed it into my carryall where it nestled up against the magazine I also bought. What a clash or worlds, eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trip home was awful- it took over 11 hours from the time we left the hotel in downtown NewOrleans to driving into our garage at home. I was exhausted, and had so much to do to get ready for our Easter family coming in tonight. I will leave you with one last shot, too close I know, but my new nickname I was assigned by United:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">All my apologies for being bad blogger, SandRat!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still futzing around with the Marimekko quilt tops adding shark fin shapes to the larger one, but not sure they will stay- hard to come up with a story that joins sharks with hunks of old black lace, but I AM working on it. The smaller one needs me to start the hand work but the thought of having to wear the dumb headlamp to thread needles every 5 minutes puts me off. So, instead I am working on alterations to a couple of blouses. Don't you hate it when you find something 'perfect except...'. I'm working on the excepts! Under pressure here from TR to pick out what restaurants we need reservations to in New Orleans, and I have to meet an old friend for lunch soon. I hate living frantic, and I do know these are what my daughter calls 'first world problems'. Seems I am no longer able to focus on two or seven things at a time. "Life sucks and then you die" has hit without the sucks part ever being terrible, well maybe a few times now that I think about it. I am not ready to die, can still see somewhat if I had a good needle threader dog to help out. So perhaps the eyesight thing is my full blown 'sucks'. We'll see.</span></div>
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Spent a few days in the studio but the list of things-to-do is way longer than I have time for. Today I did a full 9-5 stint until my toe gave out screaming in pain- think I might have a wee case of arthritis 'cause I wah hopping around like Mexican jumping bean. Not gonna investigate because it is just bogus to have a toe in trouble! What I was trying to do is 'deconstruct' a former collage into something for the Artist Unbound group Im involved with. I sign on with great enthusiasm and after the first piece is sent out I wither on the vine. But I have the destroyed collage, not just have to assemble all the pieces into NEW collages that somehow, in spite of the fact I had to destroy them, can be made to look good again. If anything they sure do fit the theme of destruction. </div>
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MEANWHILE, back in the cement box, I've been cutting up old Marimekko black and white fabrics and keeping to random for the most part. Ive done two different series of blocks joined up and finished the borders on both today (after finishing sewing most of the blocks together first! Wanna see? There are going to be big changes coming but I guess it's good to see how good they are coming so far. I intend to do fancy kanthan and machine stitching after I let them sit on my wall for awhile getting ready for renovations to come!</div>
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#1 needs an additional border to contain it, #2 needs the stitching which will be based on some African fabric I've had for years. Probably almost as long as the Marimekkos! Ignore the dog with lipstick center both of #1- I was playing. Would like to come across another odd piece of black lace too for that one. #2 has some outcuts of the pink an gold African batiks, but I need to just use the lines in it for inspiration for the stitches. Whatever, I am at least AT the studio and not watching Netflix lately.</div>
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This collection I have amassed for your entertainment is self evident- it has to do with knitted garments for critters. Some are adorable, not so much a few others. Enjoy.</div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally a quieter week ahead! Good thing because my endocronologist gave me hell and demoted me down from her diabetes poster child last week. I had gained 4# since I last saw her 6 months ago all because we were suddenly 'the popular kids' and invited to something every friggin' night from Thanksgiving through January. And yeah, with wine, appetizers AND dessert. How can a gal say no? Well, I didn't.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO, as of that appointment I again gave up carbs. It's worked for me in the past and it's easy to work around on a menu and I just have to repeat NO WHITE FOOD over and over from the time I get up until 9PM when I go to bed in a huff of depression to get away from the kitchen. It also involves reviving my meter and testing which is such a pain to deal with. But I'll do it because I see her again in 3 months and I will be damned if I will be humiliated by my own body again. Anyway, she also changed my meds and the new ones keep me pretty dizzy but I am giving them a month to settle in before I go whining back to her. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consequently I have only ben back to the studio in spurts to pick up different knitting needles or grab something I need to work at home. I hope to get back today but am stuck at home waiting for a rug cleaner to arrive. I was gonna wait for Molly to leave us but I just can't wait that long to be able to walk across the bedroom again. So I wait.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did take a ew pieces of work to be JUDGED at a local art center for a show of local artists. I was going to take 2 quilts and went to the studio to grab them but instead took some encaustics. I really doubt they will get in and should have taken quilts but we'll see. I think the judging was Saturday but I haven't heard. Not expecting anything of a snap decision, especially because when I told TY what I entered he told me I was out of my mind. Sigh. Nothing like sheer honesty, ay?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So Saturday night were asked to dinner to go to a really famous Italian restaurant- so popular they take reservations weeks in advance. Like most Italian restaurants around here, it was filled to the brim but the people were much more dressed up than our favorite local spots. The wine was delicious, I had a half portion and made it last. My appetizer was roasted red peppers with fresh anchovies, lots of them. Then dinner was a veal scallopini dish without breading or sauce. Dessert was a cup of decaf cappocino, no cute stirrer of sugar crystals. BORING. But at least I got to eat there. I will try to go back in the summer when it might not be so full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Started a second shawl as a good old lady should. When I visited the knit store they had two cool 'cakes' of yarn that gradually changed color over the whole length. One was black-to-white baby alpaca and it worked up quickly- I am going to eventually stick a yellow-black-and-white edge on it. The other was cotton and very fine running from beige to olive green and finally to dark magenta. I started that on last night sitting outside in the breezes. It has a repeat pattern to it so I have to count as I go but so far so good. Wish they would have had a color way I liked more but this will be mostly green with the tips showing beige and magenta. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In OTHER NEWS, we booked ourselves into New Orleans for our anniversary weekend. TY is doing research every day and sending me list after list of things to do. Looks like it will be another Ralph trip with him rising at 5 and charging around like a bull for the next 16 hours. I'm the whiner 6 blocks behind looking in store windows and reading menus. Sit down? Hell no. I am dreading it, except I really do want to see New Orleans! But slower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none;">These whimsical wooden <a href="https://mcphee.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d15768fca971a09fbb50cbd51&id=e78b2ecedb&e=7ad154cd80"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #007fff;">automata</span></a> are the creations of contemporary Japanese woodworker <a href="https://mcphee.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d15768fca971a09fbb50cbd51&id=8f93086802&e=7ad154cd80"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #007fff;">Kazuaki Harada</span></a>. We’re particularly fond of the dancing ham and veggies. After first spending a year studying under English master automata-maker <a href="https://mcphee.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d15768fca971a09fbb50cbd51&id=c134345c4b&e=7ad154cd80"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #007fff;">Matt Smith</span></a>, Harada began crafting his own automatons in 2002. His playful pieces vary in both size and complexity, but all are operated by the turning of a single handle and are created in the spirit of simply delighting people. Why else would you create an automaton wearing nothing but socks, with the ability to boil a pot of tea on his own belly?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none;">Visit <a href="https://mcphee.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d15768fca971a09fbb50cbd51&id=79bc335a03&e=7ad154cd80"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #007fff;">Kazuaki Harada’s YouTube channel</span></a> to check out many more of his marvelous wooden automatons in action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The other day when they finished landscaping the side and back yard that had completely reverted to sand and dead grass, TR 'suggested' that my herb pots looked really scrappy and how about we build a raised bed in the really desolate other side of the house. I scratched my way around to see what he as talking about and it's very crappy back there so I know I won't negotiate the gates and irrigation and wet leaves to go snip a basil leaf for dinner. I suggested a plant stand nearer the house but there really wasn't a spot you couldn't see from the bedroom windows so he nixed that idea, but said I needed a potting table. I got right on it, thank yew Amazon, and found a really cheap work table with a cabinet below and a metal table surface. It arrived in 2 days in a flat pack the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then yesterday I went to the Palm Beach Fine Craft Fair but it isn't the same as it was when I wouldn't miss it for any reason. There is a new group in charge and all the vendors seemed to be Russians or Chinese or some language group I didn't pick up. The 'crafts' looked to be much more made for the masses rather than the wonderful one-off items they have had sinceI started going in the early 90's. It was quite disappointing, but I spent the better part of the day there looking for SOMETHING, ANYTHING that would inspire me. I used to love to watch the stylish old artistic Palm Beach ladies examining the items, but this year it was a bunch of old tourists seeming to just take pictures of each other in front of things they liked. I won't be going back again, It was very sad to say goodbye to a formerly wonderful show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then today several of us got together to go walk around Worth Ave in Palm Beach. My compadres were in a buying mood so I watched them drop a few dollars here and there to keep the economy moving along. I wasn't participating except at lunch- couldn't find a single thing to lust after. Disappointing. guess I have reached the point of distribution from my old stance of collection.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the In-Season part of living in FL, everything is popping'. There are craft shows of differing qualities every weekend, the professional ones are in Feb so the next few weekends are full with those. Also, the Farmers Markets are loaded with stuff, all giant sized and gorgeous. It seems every time I go I end up with a cart of food and a giant orchid trailing roots behind me. All the teams and organizations and fund raisers are in full swing, and I have contributed to everybody who asks. I checked on the step ladder I decorated for the Play for Pink auction and there was a price war going on that last I checked. I do so love to see things go way over their worth- a boost for me AND the charity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I need to get into the studio to finish up a new collage for my Altered Art group. I met the deadline last month and have a short window to finish the next one. These are just small collages using whatever technique we want to explore so it's fun to mess about. This season the theme is deconstruction and that's an easy one for me (!!) unfortunately. Will show in-progress WHEN I get to in-progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, right now I have a couple of chicken carcasses boiling away for soup for Molly who seems to be on a hunger strike these days. Also have a batch of ricotta dripping into my sink which I love love love to have on hand- I use it like cottage cheese. And I need to do more since I bought the stupid Insta-Pot and haven't used it. With only 2 of us, I don't cook massive loads of food, and being in south Florida we seem to go more for lighter things that basically cook in 2 minutes flat. But I made a promise to use the damn thing once a week and if all I do is make ricotta and yogurt it is a step forward. Sort of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I am heading out the door right now to get myself into something that is blog worthy at the studio. I got a stat report for this blog, or lack thereof, and realized I am woefully behind my every-other-day promise. You will hopefully be hearing more from me in the near future. One idea was to take all the classes I ever taught and change them to blog format- anybody interested?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Markus Linnenbrink garnered attention in the U.S. and Europe with wall paintings at the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld. Recent significant commissions are 75 Rockefeller Center, New York with a 7-by-90-foot painting installed in their public concourse lobby; and Morrison & Foerster, New York installation of eight, 9-by-42 foot wall paintings</span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">, one on each of their eight floors; and Jorge M. Pérez SLS Brickell 40,000 sq. ft. wall painting, Miami, Florida. Over 50 works are in public collections, which include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; UCLA Hammer Museum; The Hague Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands; Neue Galerie, Kassel; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss; and 75 Rockefeller Center, NY.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I really love doing these to see what the kid was really concentrating on- here it was the carpet, the chair, and the dog sinking into the chair back. I always try to copy closely but 'fix' the composition to make it a bit more readable. Here I allowed for cropping when she has it framed. I was kind of thwarted when it came to finding scraps of white background plaid or check with matching big dots. I don't have many patterned fabrics left but YEAAA, the plaid rug with the change in direction was a must-pick and really adds to the piece, doncha think? I also added a black bead for the dog eye which she can snip off if she wants. Most of my small beads won't fit over a needle I can thread any more, had to find my miner's glasses for that one.. </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I started doing </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this copies of kid's drawings back when my daughter was about 3 and did a highly detailed picture of a Christmas tree complete with little people standing on each branch that were the dough ornaments she had remembered for a whole year! I was blown away by her drawing and made a embroidered/ appliquéd pillow for Christmas the following month and we used it every year after. Then I did one of my niece's rendition when she was about 9 of her parents wedding. After that I did one for each grand kid, and am patiently waiting for the last 2 to produce something beyond wild scribbles! The last two were for my SIL who commissioned me. This one is in the envelope ready to send off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beyond work for other folks, I have been toiling over a giant knitted sheep pillow for anther granddaughter- wanted to have it done for her birthday in November but was messing up with the bobbles about ten times, which of course throws off the count and makes me nuts. Many restarts, and finally a rest in it's bag so I might get on with life. But last week I finally figured out I don't have to do the hugely p-i-t-a bobbles as per the pattern which involves both working from the back and the front and counting different numbers with each turn. NOT working for me with my ability to count to only three before losing track time after time. I rested to wrapped bobbles and that seemed to work, though I think I need to recount each row as I go along because each row is different. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bored with this? IMAGINE how I feel...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway I typed up the instructions very carefully with one line per row so I can cross off each row as I complete AND CHECK it. I will never do this again. And I am aiming for her second birthday now, in November. If this doesn't work I will re-knit it into a noose just in case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here I am at the West Palm Green Market yesterday- I have a new passion of Vanda orchids thanks to my very accomplice gardening Dutch friend who manages to keep them happily blooming year after year and looking healthier and moe beautiful every year! These babies are huge and gorgeous and are in the upper price range for black-thumbers like me. I am struggling to get mine to rebook this season and may have to give up. I seem to have better luck with phaleonopsis and currently have those all over the house. And that has all necessitated a potting table so I am on the hunt for that now too. I can hide it behind the house along with my ugly herb pots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Super Bowl Sunday- guess I should make some nachos, eh? Before I get involved with that I am gonna have myself an <b style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">ARTY PARTIE! </b> The 'theme' ere is growing stuff, but in the hands of this accomplished artist, I am daunted!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Peruvian artist <a href="http://anateresabarboza.blogspot.ch/"><span style="color: #fc4349; font-kerning: none;">Ana Teresa Barboza</span></a> has <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/12/new-embroidered-landscapes-ana-teresa-barboza/"><span style="color: #fc4349; font-kerning: none;">previously</span></a> been drawn to recreating full landscapes with yarn and thread, embroidering large tapestries with rivers, valleys, and waves that spill out from the wall and rest on the floor. Barboza continues her exploration of installation-based tapestry with a new body of work that charts the growth of individual plants, while also expanding her practice into weaving with a new work of interconnected baskets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Her series <a href="http://anateresabarboza.blogspot.pe/p/crecimiento.html"><span style="color: #fc4349; font-kerning: none;">Increase</span></a> charts a plant’s shadow for 15 days, steadily tracing its growth and movement over the two week time space. Balls of yarn lay at the foot of each tapestry, providing a visualization of the diminishing material as it is slowly added to the changing portrait. The colorful embroidery provides a charged glow around the white space of the original plant, its increasing mass illustrated in a collage of jagged shapes and vibrant hues. Love this woman's work, I've been following her for years now and this is entirely new. More next time-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A WATERSKIING SQUIRREL, look at the crowds! This little guy was found as a baby and kept to perform circus tricks. And all he gets is a few nuts. Life is so weird, especially for oddly talented water-skiers. Sorry, I forgot his </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I finished up the Spools Collage and got it off yesterday to the new owner. Hope she isn't disappointed, but I am gonna use the two samples I made in the Littlejohn Beaney workshops. This one I only got the sears of paint on before I packed up, but finished it up with more stitching and a layer of tulle to hold it together. Also, a real binding and label, Done doobie do dum dum... Gabrielle, its on it's way and actually doesn't have to go too far up the peninsula to reach you! For the rest of you who don't know what Ilm talking about 10 of us have a little group where we exchange 10" collages, or 'pages' if it's for a book with any techniques we want. One a month goes out and supposedly one a month comes back to us too. It's been a way to force a focus for me. OK, I know I have 30 days to turn out a 10"x10" piece BUT that means I have to get a shelf cleaned out to access the paints, or practice 20 hours on the Q-20, or find a bunch of magazine imagess that relate to each other, or order more archival glue and wait for it. There is always something that everything else is dependent upon. It's a rule, I think.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Mae Haffenbrookins' New Glasses' was done in the 80's, and it was when I was hired to do a lecture for the New England Quilt Guild in a big auditorium, I remember it as being during lunch so I figured no problem, everybody will be out eating, right? Nope. This was my first program and 600 people showed up. There as a big stage and a deer-in-the-headlights Sandy up there in the middle. The thing is that I was a Middle School Art Teacher so NOTHING scared me! And away I went surprising myself more then I could imagine. It helped that all my quits were loaded with 'story'. So, even though Mae told me I was ready for bifocals, she led me on the way to be out teaching about my stuff and that led to a </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wonderful, few years lugging stuff back and forth across the country- back then it was even fun to travel!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">One of those projects is “People matching artworks”. Although at first Draschan’s images seem perfectly staged, the secret behind them is actually patience. The photographer enjoys visiting different museums mostly in Paris, Vienna and Berlin where he waits for visitors to suddenly match with a piece of art in a funny way. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there I go.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMckVK8DQW07b0tYm9Avk89RHi8R618xzLQaqC5-I06cJfhgynwcBmn7Pw5BUEp6fPR14j-gUQ-bKgpgwHMeBE0ryMHcrnV2QG_GFksnKuaksN8qXFVPCI-dB5BKr84cf98cAa0w/s1600-h/IMG_1217.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344212329033930514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMckVK8DQW07b0tYm9Avk89RHi8R618xzLQaqC5-I06cJfhgynwcBmn7Pw5BUEp6fPR14j-gUQ-bKgpgwHMeBE0ryMHcrnV2QG_GFksnKuaksN8qXFVPCI-dB5BKr84cf98cAa0w/s320/IMG_1217.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 124px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 144px;" /></a>Sandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04286461271083389001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11217277.post-80457650632076858482018-01-24T20:34:00.002-05:002018-01-25T09:31:49.452-05:00scorecard scoria formulae <div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yeah, it's me again. Bet you thought you lost me, eh? No, not lost, just derailed! This past week has been completely off the charts busy, and I just haven't had time for silly blogging. I heard on one of my 3AM podcasts that, 'NOBODY BLOGS ANYMORE'. Well, OK. It's just another remnant of the dinosaur age here. Some day I'll be bones stuck in tar with my fingers fused to the keypad. But I'm first gonna talk about my week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I received my monthly present from the Altered Art group and it's a lovely collage from Janis. I already am working on the piece I have to send out by the end of the month and just may make the deadline. Last year I banged out 10 of them at once and mailed them all in the beginning to get behind it. Then I sat back and awaited the mailman and didn't have the stress or guilt of having to do itty bitty bits when I was too involved in something big. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My 'theme' for the year is going to be sewing so this one is called 'Spools'. As you can tell by the pins it's still in progress, and as a matter of face pretty much done after this. I trimmed it down to 10" square. It's trans-web painted with acrylics and fused onto felt. Then it's random circles cut from vintage kimono fabrics with the remnants from that forming the I-beam shaped spools. Then I did the ole internet search and grabbed some old spool labels to attach. Once trimmed it got much less confusing. The cool thing is that the stitching, and there is a lot of it, was all done on the Q20 which I have been avoiding like the plague even after whining about buying it for so long. IT works fine, but *I need some practice. SO, that will be the other requirement for this series- I have to use the Q20 in every piece to justify it's floor space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next, I finished up the auction stool for the Play for Pink challenge going up at our club. Since I was at the end of the stool choosing, the one I got was not very easy to establish a relationship with (!), the steps were very narrow, and the top piece could have been much bigger too. the legs are too spindly and it just isn't a good design. So all that complaining over, I like how it tuned out. I free cut a bunch of handmade papers and hand painted cardstock I've been hoarding, thinking of tropical plants while cutting away. I used papers without thinking about realism, just getting a feel of lush growth and twining vines as I cut and pasted. It only took a day of arranging after the piles of cut leaves were done, it was dry the next day and the second poly coating went on yesterday so it's ready to go- even with a tiny signature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I opened up the studio for several friends to come make their messes with me, even supplied the acrylics if they promised to toss the dried up tubes as they encountered them. As much as I love having people in the studio to chat awhile, I did find it hard to work with people around. thankfully it was only few hours over two three days and we all finished yesterday. I will turn this in tomorrow and think the auction itself is mid February but I could be wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So then on Friday I started my 3 day workshop with Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn from the UK. You may know them from their (no kidding) 34 books they have written together! Their class was about embroidery and layering stitches and building up textures. And the approach was way more complicated that I am willing to attempt- in my head I argued with them every step of the way but DID it. Now that I am back on my own I will see what can be eliminated, what can be substituted, and what can be additions to what they taught. This was my first sample, the second became 'Spools' and I will get a better picture when I finish it up tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, so its not that compelling, I admit. And it certainly needs some cropping. But it's my first intimate connection to Solvy, or something that acts like Solvy except that it's sticky, but it only available in the UK. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In conjunction with the workshop, there was also a Jane Dunnewald workshop at the same time, and then a big fiber show with two other artists at the Armory Art Center in West Palm. If you have any time and are in town I urge you to see what's being done- an amazing show! You should see what Jane D. is doing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The designers–Creative director Jim Van Raemdonck; graphic designers Phoebe De Corte and Dries Caeckebeke; and assistants Claar De Waele and Sil De Boeck–flipped through old magazines and printed materials, and selected a wide range of colorful paper to form the incredibly detailed legs, body, and wings of each creature. Layer upon layer, the artists cut, shaped, assembled, and transformed the paper into these delicate sculptures. The hand-crafted bugs are filled with a vibrant energy that radiates from the delicate composition of materials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We've known it for eons, at least since the early 70's when I came aboard the quilting bandwagon. Remember when those giant Amish dark quilts were touted as abstract art?New York Galleries were snapping them up. They were the art world's new darlings, and very influential to a whole army of new quilters- the ones who were convinced they were art and evolved into, what else here- Art Quilters! (duh). The <a href="https://www.sarakaygallery.com/exhibitions/">Sara Kay Gallery</a> has an exhibit up comparing old quilts to modern female artists abstract expressionists and some of the compare and contrasts are amazing. OK, so you can't get to the gallery, at least here is your today's reading assignment:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Coming down off the auction of the Bocce Art, I was happy with what my piece brought. We can pick where we want our 'donation' to go so I figured Planned Parenthood is my choice. I normally don't donate art to charities, in fact I hadn't;t known it was a donation until it already had some bids, so kept my mouth shut. I felt better that we could pick our own charity rather than have somebody else do that so I feel better about the whole thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, the next thing is that I have been asked to 'donate' again. We have been handed out step stools, part of a 'Step Up' campaign for the annual cancer benefit. So now I am working on that- and there goes January too! I offered my studio to the others who are involved since most will be getting paint all over their kitchens, nd I am also looking at this as a way to cull the herd of my giant acrylic collection. Hoping that the dried up tubes will be tossed and the inferior quality paints will get reduced and leave me with just one giant plastic bin of miscellaneous paints. We'll see. Already I have rejected painting the stool and instead am cutting palm fronds out of many different papers and decoupaging them on in a willy nilly fashion. My stool is already painted black and I think the bright greens will look great against the dark background. My problem with the stool is that it's not very substantial, the rungs and legs are skinny, and the steps themselves are pretty narrow- not for stepping, but for doing significant design I mean. It's hard to integrate all those thin legs and braces into a design, but we will see what happens when I get my glue pot out. I'll take some in-process pictures tomorrow. Studio will be open tomorrow nd Thursday- hope some people show up- always fun to have somebody else around even if it precludes me listening to my murder podcasts... damn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423;">Swedish designer </span><a href="http://www.usw.se/e/" style="border-bottom-color: rgba(252, 67, 73, 0.247059); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #fc4349; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 250ms ease;" target="_blank">Ulla Stina Wikander</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423;"> uses household appliances and cooking tools as the base to her cross-stitched sculptures, bestowing outdated objects with a new life. Most of the items come from the 70s, yet the patterns she covers their bodies in are much older. The cross-stitch designs come from the 59-year-old artist’s vast collection, allowing Wikander to give a new context to each blowdryer, rolling pin, and typewriter she covers. You can see more of her sculptures, as well as a variety of designed accessories, on her </span><a href="http://www.usw.se/e/index.htm" style="border-bottom-color: rgba(252, 67, 73, 0.247059); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #fc4349; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 250ms ease;" target="_blank">website</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423;"> and </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/uskonst/" style="border-bottom-color: rgba(252, 67, 73, 0.247059); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #fc4349; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 250ms ease;" target="_blank">Instagram</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423;">. (via </span><a href="http://mymodernmet.com/ulla-stina-wikander-cross-stitch-sculptures/" style="border-bottom-color: rgba(252, 67, 73, 0.247059); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #fc4349; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 250ms ease;" target="_blank">My Modern Met</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423;">)</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMckVK8DQW07b0tYm9Avk89RHi8R618xzLQaqC5-I06cJfhgynwcBmn7Pw5BUEp6fPR14j-gUQ-bKgpgwHMeBE0ryMHcrnV2QG_GFksnKuaksN8qXFVPCI-dB5BKr84cf98cAa0w/s1600-h/IMG_1217.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344212329033930514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMckVK8DQW07b0tYm9Avk89RHi8R618xzLQaqC5-I06cJfhgynwcBmn7Pw5BUEp6fPR14j-gUQ-bKgpgwHMeBE0ryMHcrnV2QG_GFksnKuaksN8qXFVPCI-dB5BKr84cf98cAa0w/s320/IMG_1217.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 124px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 144px;" /></a>Sandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04286461271083389001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11217277.post-13229955728829865102018-01-16T21:31:00.001-05:002018-01-16T21:31:12.199-05:00kazoo embroidery alcohol <div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK, back again from Boston and I escaped just in time! It was 62 when I got up early in the morning, it was 44 when I got in the cab 4 hours later, and it was 38 as I got out of the cab at the airport. When I landed at West Palm it was 68. Still very comfortable and hopefully healing for the damn 4 week cold! I managed to stay warm and dry by mostly staying inside and not getting wet. It was great to see the kids and for the most part they were adorable. Mister has entered somewhat of a naughty stage but hopefully it will work its way through before too much longer. Glorie is adorable and funny and in constant motion but always happy, no matter what. A good day and one step closer to a lesser peanut reaction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day I had open was unfortunately rainy all day and everything I tried to accomplish was thwarted, so I went home and played around Netflix. And loved sitting there and watching the storm through the big windows on the world. No fireplace, no marshmallows, but cozy and quiet, something I don't get often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The slice I took out of my finger before I went to Boston was painful but I took care of it by changing the bandaid a couple of times a day- BE CAREFUL around your mandolin while slicing a fennel bulb- I thought I had several inches before I had to pay attention, and how wrong I was! Today is the first day in over a week it hasn't opened up to bleed. Hope this is the end but it still really hurts when that finger hits a key- I'm trying to keep it up and out of the line of fire like a pinky with a teacup, except not the right finger! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing more to report about the trip. I kept knitting on the giant fat scarf I started a trip or two- I love having some hand work when I am able to sit and this was perfect. Its too thick to wear, too bulky to race through the airport, but as a keeping-hands-busy project it's perfect. When I finish I can unravel it and reknit with bigger needles to get an airier fabric. But I still have a way to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last summer when I was in Santa Fe we visited my favorite all time museum ever (excluding the V&A and the PEM but let's say it's in the top three...), the Folk Art Museum. As usual I made a fool of myself over one exhibit after another , and when I got to the exhibit on Tramp Art I thought it would kill a bit of time. You, I was right- it killed about 3 hours! This was an amazing exhibit with examples covering a wide range of the 20th century. The reason I like Tramp Art so much is that it so reminds me of my dad and his hours of working at pieces of wood- usually from branches of a tree felled in our yard. He would find the best branches and season them for awhile in the basement before working therewith his pocket knife. He would carefully carve out a ring and then another ring that intertwined the first until he had the beginnings of a chain. It would be added to until a ring split or a cut went too deep- whatever made it suddenly imperfect. And he would toss out the little chain to one of us to treasure for a day or two. They didn't last long. Next he would fashion a little cage and then work a ball inside the cage so it would rattle. Sometimes he would get several cages together with different balls in each. My dad always used his pocket knife and he worked outside in the summer evenings because my mother wouldn't put up with the shavings inside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To the uninitiated, the phrase “tramp art” probably evokes a stereotypical hobo, train hopping with a cartoonish bindle or drinking moonshine around a fire pit. This was even the case for Laura Addison, curator of North American & European Folk Art at New Mexico’s famed <a href="http://www.internationalfolkart.org/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(145, 215, 248); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s;">Museum of International Folk Art</a>, who organized<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <a href="http://www.internationalfolkart.org/exhibitions/exhibition-details?eventID=2834" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(145, 215, 248); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s;">No Idle Hands: The Myths and Meanings of Tramp Art</a></em>, a massive survey of work within this genre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“[Tramp art] was made by family men with settled home lives,” writes Addison in an article for the spring 2017 issue of <a href="http://www.elpalacio.org/" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(145, 215, 248); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">El Palacio</em></a>. “Signed tramp art pieces and anecdotal evidence demonstrate that is was a working class pursuit characterized by pragmatism and thrift.” Indeed, it is difficult to imagine someone with an itinerant lifestyle having any need for the decorative boxes, picture frames, furniture, and devotional objects, decorated with repetitious and painstaking care that are characteristic of tramp art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm all signed in for my flight to Boston tomorrow, but just as I was throwing stuff in my bag TY brought out a 'thing' that hadn't arrived for our son at Christmas. It was sealed in a box and called something like 'Jet-Pro-Pack' so I thought I had better open it 'cause it sounds a bit iffy for a TSA inspection. Good thing- the main part is shaped like an electric hand drill, it has two very heavy boxes sealed in bubble wrap with knobs on the sides, plus another odd piece I can't even indentify as 'looks like...'. I just know this is going to be confiscated because all the wires and connections will X-ray just as clear as can be. Since I have to actually carry a suitcase because of this thing, I am thinking I need to check it. But that will cost me $50. I don't think this THING cost that much. What is it, you ask? A heavy duty tire blower-upper he can use for kid's bikes and basketballs and pool floats. See, the last time I flew they took out a bottle of sweet hot pepper relish as questionable. Told the TSA guy to make sure and confiscate it for his own table, but I was pissed, its my favorite relish and isn't sold down here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bocce triptych is in a bidding war which is quite entertaining. There was a bid or two on it the other day but when I got in to see it today there was a list of new bids- made by two crazy friends upping each other by 32 cents, or $1.12. Since high price was at (I think) $320 these tiny increases and giant signatures as they try to outplay each other as so funny. The party and playoffs scheduled for tonight was rained/flooded out, don't know what will happen next but you can be assured I didn't;t want to stand around in the rain tonight. Whew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Warren King began sculpting with cardboard as an attempt to add fantasy to the lives of his children, <a href="https://thisiscolossal.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d6c1d1d7c7f055e30321f9a6a&id=d1caa625df&e=78fabd59a4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #ed6058;">creatively crafting masks and helmets</span></a> out of the recyclable material. This slowly evolved into a more time-consuming arts practice as King began focusing less time on costumes, and more time making large sculptures of his own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still hacking and wheezing here, tried for all week to fight it but it just stays the same of gets marginally worse. If you heard me around the corner you'd run for your lives- I sound like a Mastiff when I cough. Kind of look like one too with my lapse in personal grooming and sleep!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">TY took one look at me this afternoon when he got home and said I need to hydrate so he brought me a giant cafe of water and I drank it right down, guess he was right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">James Ostrer, not much info on this guy other than he likes to cover his subjects with junk food! Perhaps he had trouble making a living from it? Whatever, these came from 2014-ish and I can't find anything newer.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">We finished up our last parties on New Years Day and oh, what a season it's been. I guess being invited to everything isn't what it's cracked up to be. Both of us are happily retiring to one event at a time, moderation in all things, and embracing down time. So, don't invite me to your party and Ill gratefully thank you. The festive stuff is still hanging up but it seems to far to go to climb up the stairs to turn on the wreath. Next year I will get it on a timer. Next year WE will have the party so we can just slip out without notice and lock the bedroom door.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Today I also slipped back to the doctor and get another shot and a pack of steroids to knock this darn cough and cold right out. The first visit brought a level of relief, but I only got so far before a plateau was hit and I was coughing all the time and trying to explain I was 'all better'. That's all until I lost my voice and croaked like one of my live-in toads. I could move around but that's about all. So, an hour after the shot my cough was so much better and I am HOPING that I will be done with this by Wednesday when I have my assignment back in MA. I actually cooked dinner tonight, first time in weeks somebody else didn't supply it! I had seen a few references to a pannetore bread pudding so I made it today, very odd- the only cake I could find was balsamic cherry infused but I went ahead anyway. Definitely odd flavors but sort of addicting- seems we made a pretty big dent in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Dispersed about the grounds of Malmö’s storied Wanås Konst sculpture park stood “Untitled (Tree Pants),” a series of trees dressed up by the New York-based artist <a href="http://old.aspenartmuseum.org/archive/archive_peter_coffin.html.">Peter Coffin </a> who </span>has always enjoyed playing in the overlap between human and natural systems.* His works include a human-sized version of a bowerbird’s nest <a href="http://old.aspenartmuseum.org/archive/archive_peter_coffin.html">made entirely out of blue objects</a>, and a model of the universe <a href="https://www.perrotin.com/presse_expo/New-cp-Peter-Coffin-eng-ok-.pdf">inside a hollow log</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none;">Well, that kind of ends on a bang, doesn't it? A lot of substance, not long on style! See you guys soon, maybe I won't be hacking tomorrow? Wishful thinking I bet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am to be excused from good taste and keeping my mouth shut about things like this because I am under the influence of Da-Quil which is currently the only thing I've been consuming since we got back from Massachusetts. We escaped before the temperature dropped the next day to a balmy 4 degrees where it has stayed ever since we hit Palm Beach where we are suffering at 40's and 50's. Hey, it's just as awful when you are used to sleeveless shirts and toeless shoes! I spent the whole MA week in my big Uggs and still caught the horrendous chest cold/cough/sore throat 'thing' going around. Lots of folks here are sick, many on plane were hacking and wheezing, and of course there are four grandkids all with runny noses and low grade fevers. I stayed in bed the whole day, next day gave in and called the doc who gave me the Christmas Cocktail of prednisone and some giant antibiotic 3 day wonder pill. It helps but not quite enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Finally we had a night without a party last night, gave me a chance to eat up last week's Blue Apron offering, yup more kale. Tonight we finish up last week's box o' kale and then we are caught up to last Wednesday when I received two more meals. Since we are leaving Tuesday and out Sat and Sun, I guess we will be eating kale and sweet potato breakfasts these next few days. I am longing for a giant pot o' spaghetti with some fatty non-vegetative (read that as kale) sauce. I have cancelled their deliveries until after the first of the year when I will reassess if it helps me or hinders me. Food is good, just a bit kale and sweet potato oriented. And I do like two days of food decisions made for me. Hey, I also have built up a bunch of free meals so if you're interested, fire me off an email and I'll arrange to have it sent to you. I can't use them myself, have to pass them out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">I don't have long at the studio today, just enough time to finish up a few of the piles of to-dos so I can see my tables again. I lost a big button from a vest I was wearing the other night so have to fix that AND my quilt and the top of another quilt finally reappeared from the NEQM, but without my ingenious stick I made to fit into the 60" mailing tube. Rats, it was perfect, basically two half sticks drilled on all 4 ends but able to be attached if desired at the centers. It has a split sleeve so offered OPTIONS. Didn't matter, nobody even looked at it and it was made out of 200 or so (I'</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ll re-count when I re-hang today) of my cut up quilts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't think I started saving the centers until I was well into the project. Hey, I'll take a picture since I sent it off without one last year about this time. I kind of like it- I had it draped over a chair when I pulled it from it's box yesterday and TY entered the room: "Who's quilt is that, know it's not yours because it's COLORFUL!" Well shit- it's made out of all the quilts I have made over 40 years so I most certainly don't agree. I think I counted 140 different quilts, guess it was over 200 in the tower, not this one- I started this as the tower was about finished and I had already thrown out a lot of circles. I WILL acknowledge it is a bit heavy on red. Sigh. But so many of mine are...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This season has about fried me. Ao much to get done, so little time. Of course, as I'm sure you are complaining about too, I have bitten off more then I can chew. Too many people retuning back, too many people heading out so we simply have to make a plan before they go, too many parties, too many... um, cocktails I will admit to. And too many plans in general. I'm out of clothes, my roof in the studio is leaking and I'm meeting the maintenance guy in half an hour. Woke up to the smoke alarms peeping, and my oil light is on in the car so I need to get it in for service. Plus I am befuddled as to what happened to the Amazon list I had my DIL make for things to send the kids- it's completely disappeared. Thankfully I already sent two gifts but they weren't on the list. Anyway, problems are mounting and time is shrinking around here. And Molly is peeing in the house again so she needs a glucose curve done before I stick her into boarding. Yikes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The thing is that it happens every year like this, and very year I swear it won't, that I can handle it, I'm ready. But there I go again heading to five different stores trying to find wreath and extension cord that will go under a door and not get cut. Five stores. That means I spent a whole lot of money on STUFF from those stores. You know, the Christmas mantra, "one for them, two for me..." and I can happily find things I really really need in automotive supply stores. Shoot me now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I am not one o those happy shoppers who sends out cards and greetings, I can't even keep up with thank you notes for some pretty nice dinner parties! I have been promised by TY that tonight is a event-free zone and we can possibly get to one of the three backed-up Blue Apron orders before two more pile in on us tomorrow. One step ahead, two steps back. Plus my refrigerator stinks from all the kale that's in there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So. instead of hitting UPS today to mail off two boxes, instead of picking and choosing which Blue Apron I will use, instead of taking an actual free afternoon after the leak-checking guy shows up at the studio, I am here whining yet again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But yesterday I got my velvet pants cut out and marked ready to go. The jacket is also ready for sewing. I have a couple of bobbins wound to use, but somehow between Joanns and home the roll of elastic for the pants has disappeared. And also my motivation- it's a long way back to Joanns for a few yards of elastic. Black pants are always OK, right? Time is getting scarce and the plans are stacking up so we are busy most every night. Not my idea of a relaxing holiday. I may take another swipe at the pants later this week, who knows, perhaps Walmart will have some elastic- OR a zipper. Some way to hold up my pants other than clothesline.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #999999;">Working with photographs, film clips, and illustrations lost to time, San Francisco-based filmmaker and stereoscopist <a href="http://www.bdom.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bill Domonkos</span></a> creates darkly humorous animated GIFs. The resurrected photos merged with modern animation are almost completely nonsensical in subject matter and yet perfect in their execution, the more random the better. From his artist statement:</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #999999;">I experiment by combining, altering, editing and reassembling using digital technology, special effects and animation to create a new kind of experience. I am interested in the poetics of time and space—to renew and transform materials, experiences and ideas. The extraordinary thing about cinema is its ability to suggest the ineffable—it is this elusive, dreamlike quality that informs my work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica;">One of my new favorite Tumblrs to follow is </span><a href="http://un-gif-dans-ta-gueule.tumblr.com/" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Un gif dans ta gueule…</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> (roughly ‘A gif in the mouth…’) run by French photographer and animator </span><a href="https://www.behance.net/UGDTG" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Nicolas Monterrat</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> who brings his surreal sense of humor to historical photos, paintings, and other borrowed imagery by creating bizarre and humorous animations. Collected here is just a sampling, do yourself and dive into his </span><a href="http://un-gif-dans-ta-gueule.tumblr.com/" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">archive</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, you won’t regret it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">SO, I spent all day yesterday watching </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Netflix and knitting. I got about 6" done and now am dealing with the thought that no way will I get this thing to 60" before Christmas. I will set it aside and try something similar on bigger needles and using a double strand of the same yarn so it may go faster and be ever so much less tedious. I cant just rip this one out, so I can continue on it after the holidays- I nee something to work on that's less mindful at night. Although TY did allow my Ott light into his tv sanctum as long as I sit behind him and the light doesn't reflect and I acknowledge this as a non permanent addition to HIS room. I laugh. heh heh And have no plans on moving it out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some big doin's around here this weekend, all things I want to do and will do alone. There's an outdoor art fair at the Armory tomorrow, and also the Clematis Green Market AND since I will be in the area, I will check out the new warehouse retail spot called Elizabeth St. Station. At some point doing those things I will probably have to lie down in the grass and be revived, but I'm gonna attempt it all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got my new pillow covers from William Sonoma and love them- needed an upgrade and one of them has a gold embroidered alligator on teal velvet- be still my heart! It's now officially an alligator theme in my living room with this addition- it joins the alligator textured table and the 5' vintage wooden alligator sculpture. Actually TY says it's a crocodile and I'll not argue. We got it done in Key West and it barely fit in the way-back of the car for the ride home. The other two are woven cowhide like I loved in Santa Fe this past summer, couldn't resist. They are pitch black though I was expecting more of a charcoal but they are still way cool and sort of go with the secondary theme that started with the cowboy picture- a still from The Magnificent Seven covered with (yeah...) diamond dust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And that leads me to the news today that glitter is going to be banned because it's some un-biodegragable plastic. Imagine a life without glitter, so sad. Hope they (THEY???) come out with some cheesy substitute that molds back into the ground. Or maybe why not just throw mushrooms at each other and skip that step altogether? It worked with weddings by throwing grass seed instead of rice though I'm sure it's just some rural parish that needed their lawn reseeded that season. Better than releasing captive butterflies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And lead you on to the reason you came- the <span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: large;"><b>AHTY PAHTEE</b></span>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That my mini-me squirrel ashamed the I played hooky all day and sat watching Netflix and knitting. I have to have a scarf made by Christmas and think I perhaps bit off a bit more than I can chew so I dedicated today to making 6" of scarf and learning the pattern by rote so I don't spend most of the time Unknitting and going backwards. But I think I got it now and will try to finish a couple of inches every day. But I will also go buy something of the same ilk JIC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FYI, today The Guy came and cleaned the whole fountain, fixed the outlet breaker, bought new stones, shiny black ones, and (bless him!) CLEANED it back to pretty! He also built a shelf inside for a pile of the black stones to keep the blasted toads and their toady excrement out forever more. The fountain is now working at optimum with bubbles and water coming out the top. (The picture above flattened out the clean water- it really isn't milky.) I will happily install razor wire around the bloody thing if I so much as see those Bufo toads coming near.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now if you know me, you know that Disney Princesses R not US! I have spent the last 35 years disparaging the Magic Kingdom so I have valid excuses to never ever go there again. My almost 10 year old granddaughter is more a snakes and owls kinda of child, and no American Girl Doll shall ever enter her house. The second granddaughter just turned 1 so the jury is out on that one yet. But then I sw this- me, a Disney Detractor at best! I NEED to make these... might have to wait until after the holidays because I have too much else to do right now, but check it out: Wish my paint brush cold wiggle so fast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also I ACTUALLY had a real life flesh and blood visitor one day at the studio! My place was making her nervous because she is somewhat of a beatnik and completely removed from what the hell I do, so we went out for a walk instead. Good for me to get out too, but great to have a human stop in! If you're a human, please c'mon down and interrupt me! I can handle it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other project is a small painting for a bocce based show. This isn't something I want to invest myself in, just need to make an effort to have something to show. I've cut out a bunch of greens and reds in circles and glued them onto a background that I 'raked' the paint like our courses used to be. Now that it's all flat and straight I will go back in and add dirt to the balls and splatters of rain and those little lines around the equators- gotta do some research on that to see how many, why, and where! Or maybe I won't bother and just print them wherever! I'm suing a plastic drinking glass for that effort. So, yup, I've got the paint boxes out and spend too much time looking for brushes that aren't stiff as knives from bad sanitation practices. But these brushes I had before I went to college so I guess I perhaps should buy a few new ones next time I am in Jerry's Art-o-rama and have a nice empty credit card. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've finished a few more of my extra fabric shirts and jackets, and now am gonna tackle a big piece of velvet for pants. The thing is I need to use a real pattern so I get the fit right, rather than just making a big square and sewing together the top like the tee shirts. So today I will haul down the big box of old patterns and see if I have any pants patterns in there, make a muslin out of the ugliest fabric I and find to test it, and then the real version. Since Walmart is the only place around here I guess I need to go investigate their notions dept. too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also found a really big silk shawl with digitals of Positano printed across both ends- I haven't used it for years because of it's width so that will be the next top. Much to do to keep busy, but the quilts just aren't coming down the pike these days. Neither is the new website, but I got the mast-head ready:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I have to find out how to transfer it to the new site. Wish I had a web designer, except I don't have much left to put on it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Later: Spent the day in the studio moving buckets from one leak to another- we had a huge downpour that started just as we (Molly 'n Me) entered, and it was so heavy that I got leaks even though I didn't in the hurricane! Don't know who to call, have to find out. But instead of sewing I spent more time setting up the computer, adding a few more thanks that didn't migrate automatically. I got Dropbox installed and that only took an hour and a half between them demanding that I had to change my password because I've had it too long (!), and downloading all the associated stuff. How frustrating., but it's done. I had to run home to feed the livestock and get ready for a dinner out tonight. I had a friend here who stopped coming to FL when she got grandchildren and she reappear yesterday and we're going out tonight before she gets away again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today's <span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><b>ARTY PARTY</b></span> involves a couple of recipes- Let me know if you try them. First, a Sub Sandwich~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And maybe top it with some Guacamole</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's raining again, guess I will wear my plastic shoes, the fancy ones they call pool deck shoes, not the emergency pedicure flip flops. So chic.</span><br />
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