the moonless midnight of the mind. Dean Koontz
Wasted good time yesterday though I was out the door early headed for Michaels. My urgency was to find some fake cherries to sew on the bra I'm decorating but alas, all that was to be found were paper mache pumpkins and yards of black ripped up cheesecloth. I came away with two more fake pumpkins. this time black ones, to use on the scarecrow installation (if you can call it that...) and a couple of sheets of burlap paper (or maybe paper burlap?) I can cut up and use for the bra sides. No cherries to be found, but I got some sparkly red round jewels to glue on if something better doesn't appear. Their whole fake fruit was down to a couple of lemons and some ratty artichoke simulators. That of course took me several hours. Oh, and the stop next door at Loehmanns which yielded nothing after a vast scrounging hunt. They used to have good stuff, now just cheap clothes. Even the brand name stuff was cheaply made, bad fabrics, so they must be getting them from the lesser divisions. Nuts, I am always after the bargain.
So folks, that's it: two black pumpkins and assorted other junk.
Oh yeah, also some fake leaves and new pens and NECCO wafers. I forgot, in fact I forgot so badly that the Necco wafers are still not opened!
Also found two of the glass boxes that I put my Ironstone Book into that smashed to smithereens on it's way to be photographed for the Pages magazine. I've been looking for them for TWO YEARS, and finally found some.
Now I have back-ups.
And, what on earth is a smithereen?
So more procrastination today, but I have made a rule that there will be NO knitting until I've worked on the quilt a substantial amount of time. So, here I go to meet that commitment. Time is getting short to finish it. Giddyup!
(is it fun yet?)
Street art has become especially exciting and unpredictable over the last several years. However, the last place many would expect to find it is on the water. The New York based street artist SWOON designed three sea vessels built from salvaged material. The “flotilla” sailed from the coast of Slovenia to Venice, Italy. Though, definitely not the street SWOON effectively brings an urban aesthetic to sea. Photographer Tod Seelie was along for the ride to document the trip. The photographs and wild journey are as amazing as the vessels themselves.
Tara Goudarzi and Atefeh Khas are not guerilla artists or yarn bombers, yet they make their artistic statements by temporarily transforming natural or architectural environments with their large scale knitted and crocheted flower and roof installations which initiate a fascinating dialogue between themselves, their artworks, their viewers and the environment.
Trying to get IN! Desperate!
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