al petty juxtaposition

Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage.  ~Author Unknown

Good news finally-  the second batch of yarn arrived last night so I can start on one of my projects right away.  Yeaaaa!  I'm not happy with one of them so might order another color and save the unused one for something else-  it's Koigu so I can always use it, my favorite wool yarn.  Now, I don't know where my first batch of yarn might be-  I ordered that before we left on vacation and cautioned them to send it after the 11th.  If I don't hear tomorrow I'm loading the shotguns and gonna shoot out some hornet nests.

Today's Note:  I wound all 8 skeins, though I only need 6-  backup choices!

Tuesday I was supposed to go to a local SAQA meeting down in Ft. Lauderdale but I backed out at the last minute when I realized how overwhelmed I am.  So instead I drank coffee, took a shower, picked up a bit and then headed out to lunch with some friends, and then on to the studio.  I was finally able to print the last two pages with the quotes on them, but not without a bit of frustration.  I ended up composing it in Pages which I don't ever use and that meant the ole learning curve was my first obstacle.  Then the ink situation was obvious so I went to the second printer and started again-  I was only printing black and that's archival in both printers.  I wouldn't use it if there had to be color since I have to coat the pages with gel medium and if I use the wrong printer it's nothing but a smudge.  Ask me how many pages I wrecked before I realized what I was doing...

Another note:  Got the whole Hand book together, added new titles and comments, overprinted a few light pages, and made corrections and additions.  It's finally REALLY ready to assemble, so that's today's project.

Anyway, I worked my fat little fingers until dinnertime without even turning on the radio and I think I am FINALLY ready to stitch these things together. In fact I made my dots where the holes have to be punched on the spine.  In addition I made my JetBlue plans, arranged for furniture delivery in Newton, and let my crit group know I'll be there. (Yeaaa!)  And got involved with a telephone tax issue between my broker and my accountant which involved way too many of my remaining brain cells

The 3 daughters of the guy next door to me were chalk drawing all over the driveway today-  he picks them up from school and they play on the cement until its time to go home.  Sometimes they visit with me but it takes so much time to keep them occupied and I just don't have the patience to keep them busy for their dad.  But today I gave them a box of chalk I wasn't using and told them that they can keep it if they color my little barricade in front of the car.  They have just been painted black so a bit of color will be welcome.  We'll see what awaits me tomorrow.

persistence

patience

pretty!

This is the collage, and or drawing, and or paper-cutting, and or printmaking work of California based artist Elise Wehle.  Here is a part of her Artists Statement which is so perfectly descriptive:

“I make the art I do to pull me away from the increasingly digital world that surrounds me. Every day I spend so much time in front of a glowing screen that sometimes I forget I possess five bodily senses and not just one or two. Making art makes me conscious of my hands again, and all of my work requires time-intensive, redundant movements that remind me that not everything is as instantaneous as a click of a mouse. By weaving together paper, cutting lines, and folding shapes, I manipulate drawings, photos, and prints to create new landscapes for me to explore.”

A couple of color wheels without wheels!~

So pretty when new

 And even prettier when tey are getting into each other!

And in our growing taxidermy department, I found this today.  Look closely, make it big...

two, three, four...

Yup, it's a giraffe head and neck skeleton over thee in the corner.  Are these people serious?  How hideous can you get!  And it sure looks like a dining room to me- 

perfectly gag worthy. 

hmmm, did I already post this?  It seems familiar.

OK, I'm going to end it today with this little guy who's nut slipped out of his hands and he was determined to get it even though it meant getting submerged.  The next picture in this little story is a happy dripping squirrel sitting upright and chewing away at his retrieved nut.