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The best answer I have seen was given by Harlan House, a potter in Ontario. He said, Craft is 
  what I do all day, art is what I have at the end of it.   Jean Weller

HORRORS: Making a sensible financial decision today ultimately solidifies your position. You may believe that purchasing beautiful things for those you love is a simple expression of your affection, but others might not care as much as you think they should. Putting on a show with a gift can be a source of temporary enjoyment, but it's more personal to demonstrate your abundant generosity in non-materialistic ways. A sincere gesture from the heart means more than anything you can buy. 

Okey Dokey-  I was just about to head out the door to buy a birthday gift for a friend.  Guess I'll follow my own advice and not do it.  I'll send a card.  That's the ticket... 
  On the way to drop off the ArtyBra I stopped into Staples to see if they had a mounting thing for the TomTom, found it, bought it.  Then while I was in the parking lot I started messing with the mount already on the TomTom and found  way to make it work in my car.  So, I had to drive back to the Maul and return it.  There was unfortunately a new noodle shop next door so I figured I'd get lunch to go, something I never do.  Raced home to eat and it was solidly mediocre.  I shoulda known bettah...

Meanwhile I am now back at home with a TomTom installed, no work done on the Twins, and a belly full of ick.  So I'm going to stay in the rest of the day and work on the small quilt since time is closing in on me on that one too, only a couple of weeks left to finish it.  

Oh, how much do I love these! 

Mary O’Malley’s Bottom Feeders is a series of oceanic ceramics that look as if they were discovered among sea wreckage. These “porcelain crustaceans” appear delicate and dangerous, as the aquatic life that crawls among the porcelain seems as if could consume and become the dish itself. Inspired by her home by the sea, O’Malley created this series with porcelain, red Iron oxide, 22 karat gold luster, and a cone 6 glaze that shes makes herself using a recipe called Alfred White. She enjoys creating work that juxtaposes seemingly disparate imagery or ideas, such as the series of urns she created that she intended to be humorous.     Of this series, she says,“What interested me with this series, is by applying the creatures to plates and bowls I was reminded of naturally occurring circumstances where nature takes over man made scenarios. Humans are constantly vying for power against the natural world but we can never quite seem to win. Once I started to create these pieces I then started to notice the same pattern going on in the world around me: moss growing on a concrete wall, barnacles growing on the side of a dock, tufts of grass poking up through cracks in the sidewalk, etc. Maybe I am interested in this series because it is a truer representation of the world we exist in.”

Molly Crabapple and her stunning visual adaptation of Salvador Dalí’s “My Struggle” created exclusively for Brain Pickings — a rare synthesis of the legendary surrealist’s creative vision and personal credo, and a fine addition to these favorite manifestos for the creative life.  

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