Friday, May 8, 2009
More time killer
This comes from CJ's blog...
1. What is on your desktop wallpaper?
Shepard Fairey art
2. What is your favorite zoo animal? Monkeys!
3. What was your favorite toy as a child? Hmmm - nothing's coming to mind
4. What food do you eat too much of? Only one? (this was CJ's answer & I'm stickin' with it!)
5. What kind of hairstyle do you have? Long, with a green streak in there somewhere
6. What was your favorite activity in gym? concocting excuse notes
7. What is on your shirt? Mooby's
8. What is the picture nearest you? The Pope & my Plenary Indulgence. (If you've seen the movie "Dogma" it dawns on me the answers to 7 & 8 should make you laugh 'til you pee.)
9. What is your favorite kind of salad dressing? Toby's Feta
10. What is your least favorite food? Cafeteria food (and yet I'm off to a calligraphy conference this summer.)
11. What do you do on Sunday night? What? Are you questioning my American-ness? my love of Portland? I watch "The Simpsons" (Portland, OR, which lends its street names to Simpsons characters.)
12. If you could use only one condiment for the rest of your life, what would it be? Does fudge sauce count as a condiment? (again, this is CJ's answer and I must stick with it due to it's brilliance.)
13. What color are your sheets? Today - fitted sheet turquoise, flat sheet purple.
14. How big is your computer display? 17" on desktop and laptop
15. what pair of shoes do you wear most often? not one particular pair, but they're almost all adidas ;-)
16. What is your favorite game? Rumikub
17. What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? my grandmother's meat stuffing (which never actually stuffed the turkey)
18. What time do you plan to wake up tomorrow morning? Morning?
19. What is your favorite day of the year? Halloweeeeeeeeeen!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
10-minute collages
Part of the busy has been the studio remodel - photos to come as soon as I can locate the digital camera. One of the great things about the remodel is that I know where everything is, everything but the paper & book 1/3 of my studio has been sorted, organized and LABELED (very important part of the process, I'm discovering.) I've got my act more together and it's easier to do fun, quick art...
... like this. Last year for my birthday a friend gave me a very lovely travel tea mug and some very delicious tea. I truly appreciated it but you know paper-geeks, I was almost just as into the wrapping paper & ribbon as I was the gift itself. I put it aside to make some collages for my friend and I and the bag was unearthed this week. When everything's organized and labeled it took me 10 minutes to do both collages - and yes, I put my toys away when I was done - probably the MOST important part of the process.
The background papers are tissues I decorated in the Jacqueline Sullivan workshops I took in February. The upper one is tissues torn and glued down to the little board. The bottom is tissue that was painted on to phone book pages, with a piece of twine stuck in between. The little birds and accompanying leaves are from the wrapping paper, the leaves running diagonally in the corners are the ribbon my present was tied with. Everything's stuck down with matte medium. The pieces are 2"x3" and will go in little black frames. I'll see my friend this week (I don't think she reads this so I'm safe writing about it) and will put one little frame in each hand, put my hands behind my back and tell her to pick a hand. That will be the collage she receives.
I just realized doing this blog post took about as long as it did to do the collages. Here's to organization. Shall I yet again make my Scarlet O'Hara like declaration? "As God as my witness, my studio will never get that bad again!" Hope I stick to it.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
What a wonderful way to spend some time
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Happy Day!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Happy Belated Valentine's Day
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Don't Waste Any Time!!
So what are you waiting for?