storeyed greenness insouciant

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your   

contemporaries or predecessors, try to be better than yourself.    William Faulkner

The day is taken up, at least the first half, with housewifely duties and dog health checkups at the vet.  No time for the studio until perhaps this afternoon.  This time away, while inconvenient for my projects there, has given me time to do handwork and make some progress on that front.  On the other hand, it also means there are pins all over the floor again-  hope I can find them all before TY gets back!  He has magic magnetic feet when it comes to finding them-  I can tell when he's successful by the blood curdling screams.

The knitting I am regretting-  it's on #3 needles and fingering yarn so takes forever to make any progress.  I am deathly afraid I am running out of yarn too, here in the last three sides border areas.  Wouldn't that be my luck...  and using yarn that has been 'marinated' for a few years and can't be replicated.  Shoot me now.

Yesterday UPS delivered my NEW BOOK:  'Showcase 500 Art Necklaces', and there I am on page 269.  I entered on a whim, and actually got in with all these fancy jewelry designers.  My entry was made from the plugs out of cigar boxes that I had glued together for wedding centerpieces last year.  I had a 2" bit to go through the boxes to make room for a small 2" vase, and all the plugs that popped out had glorious colored cigar papers still attached that needed to BE something.  Unfortunately it isn't very wearable because the boxes were brittle and give off splinters even after much filing and sanding.  I only wear it over thick clothes that don't pull...  not very practical but I sorts love the way it looks and the facts of it's making.

This is an intense day, especially if you have a disagreement with a close friend or partner. Thankfully, you have an opportunity to turn an uncomfortable dynamic into a positive one by establishing new boundaries. Rather than analyzing your current choices within the narrow confines of your personal beliefs, step past your old limitations. Reframe your experience in the spirit of gratitude and abundance. It's not about getting more ... it's simply about appreciating what you have right now.  HORRORS

Using ingenuity and superior craftsmanship Brooklyn-based artist Jason Peters creates glowing light installations consisting of plastic buckets strung together in snake-like formations. Transforming discarded items into unexpected works of art has been Peters' artistic mission since graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Peters says of his work, "By using large multiples of discarded items in repeating designs that establish unexpected patterns, societal cast offs are made beautiful through the alliteration of form. Once removed from their traditional context, the objects' interaction with the environment becomes unpredictable and unstable."

Watch the beads play follow the leader!

Master Haberdasher Patrick Blanchfield's Artisanan Tinfoil Hats.  He has a Kickstarter Program at the link.  The hats don't show me much artistry in the image supplied, doubt he will make his goal.  And I'll make my own tinfoil hat.

On Tuesday June 25th, to celebrate George Orwell's 110th birthday, Dutch artist duo Thomas voor ‘t Hekke and Bas van Oerle aka FRONT404, decorated several surveillance cameras in the city of Utrecht with festive party hats. Orwell’s novel"1984", published in 1949, describes a dystopian future society where the populace is constantly watched by the surveillance state of Big Brother. The project aims to create public awareness of the omnipresence of surveillance by making these inconspicuous and often ignored cameras stand out.

weird.  Just plain weird.

with beer!