Retro and Turbo Entabulators

Ha!  I'll give these a run against some of the ArtSpeak I read in statements and I betcha the ArtSpeak is more jumbled!  (How many did you get through?)  This started with a mass email to TY who sent one to me, but it looked so false that I investigated and found at least these four versions and I think there are more.  I gotta buy myself a lab coat-  it lends such an air of intelligence and importance- almost like I know what I'm talking about.  I wonder if you can have them tailored to fit?  Maybe a chef's jacket would do but I think they are double-breasted and I am already too double breasted.  Please advise.

Tonight I am having my crit group here at the house- we are small in numbers now over the summer as the members take off in all directions for fun in and out of the sun.  Nancy is at Haystack this week and I am green with envy, but I would probably be green with envy at somebody in a stack of hay these days. Now I must go search the aisles of Whole Foods for decaf tea and a handful of lemons.  I made 2 quarts of actual tea but then it struck me that wouldn't do.  This bunch likes to sleep at night, unlike me.

 Last night at 2 AM I was rewinding the 3rd episode of MadMen and thinking about watching it again but stopped myself.  It's so easy to lose track of time when knitting, and there is always time for 'one more row', but better judgement stopped me along with shooting pains in my forearms ('...oh, I'll just knit through the pain...')

And I started printing some of the alphabet book pages but the images just aren't all that great.  So I've halted that and will tweak a few things to see what I can find.  BTW, TY's set of his Achilles x-rays make fabulous carrier sheets for printing on fabric.  Never throw away x-rays because they have so many uses.  I cut one right down the center and it's the perfect size for two-8 1/2" x 11" and 8 1/2" x 14".  The second sheet is 13" wide and probably 17" long for larger prints.  With plenty to spare.  My colon x-rays are now templates and stencils, my very old hand x-rays are the carrier sheets I print on in the studio, and an old set of my mother's spine is a pallette for acrylic paints.  They would also be good for making monoprints but I have a screen door insert of plexiglass that I have used for years so haven't tried that yet.

For inkjet printing on fabric I've found that a repositionable gluestick gets me three prints if I'm working fast.  When it losses the tack I just clean off threads and add more gluestick.  I go once around the edges, and then a big X in the center and stretch the fabric as I lay it down.  Works perfectly every time and eliminates tedious freezer paper ironing, hateful stuff for printing as it never holds the fabric as tightly as I want.  Hang out with old people or get old yourself for an endless supply of x-ray films.  Unfortunately.

Off to find some lemons.