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mostly just a normal sunday around here, the last day of a pretty normal weekend. quiet, slow, dull, restful. and all etc. to be sure i was missing my family though. today. i woke and sent the girls some $$ via paypal - part graduation, part economic stimulus, part i’msogladtobeyourmother. that felt good. i received more than i thought i would and even though i know the whole thing is a joke, not doing a *thing* for the economy, and that they will just eliminate that much from my refund next year, well $$ is $$ and beggars can’t be choosers. so i shared, and bought some adhesives (gluestick and soft gel matte … mmmmmmmmm) and then socked away the rest. betsy called me early, on her way to work ALL DAY, a restaurant in Harvard Square gobfull of reservations. she sounds pleased with her summer job. that’s so good. then i called my mother. she did not sound too good, i am afraid she was doing too much scurrying, trying to prepare for family dinner at her house. she sounded tired and still-congested. she has never really recovered from her mess of the winter. i worry for her so much. but we chatted and laughed for a while. then flowers came. azaleas! followed by a call from margaret (of the azaleas), who was spending the weekend with my sister and on her way to my mother’s. i was jealous. i wanted to be with all of them.
instead i went to the artTable for a while, then decided to do my weekend duty in the basement. and had a GREAT clearing out time. 5 bags of fabric and scraps to the porch and picked up by a freecycler. 2 giant bags to the trash. much consolidation. it feels so good to release things that are … finished … in my life. then i made vegetarian tacos and guacamole. we ate it. then back to the artTable, where i am making some small “canvasses” and also clearing out stuff. i think my allergies might be finished. yay! later i think we shall watch an old hitchcock film. then sleep.
sleep seems to be my favorite thing lately.
20080512 10:04 pm
love this picture, bobbi… the pink, the white, and the green. omg, and the yellow (just scrolled up to look at it again)!! just beautiful.
i wanted to tell you how much i love my altered book… i lOVE it. i am not far in it but carry it with me everywhere. i just got back from a month in dallas where i tried out a new kind of gesso on it. if you remember there are a lot of flowers on a kind of tissue paper in it. i DO NOT cover up these flowers. but the blank paper, yes, i am slapping paint or gesso on. oh, and i just got some *clear* gesso… i think clear gesso will be nice…
xxxooo
20080513 1:31 pm
thank you, lynne!
and i am SO glad you are playing with the book. what kind of gesso?? i love gesso. lately i’ve been tinting mine and it is so pretty and pale. i’ve never tried clear gesso though! how tempting. then the flowers could still show… hmmmmm… misterArt, here i come!!!
20080513 10:30 pm
it was just liquitex white gesso. i’d gotten the ’student’ version before… this (non student!) is a lot creamier. i’ve used white paint for a long time, but, no doubt about it, this is better. yeah, clear gesso… who could resist? hey, tinted clear sounds good.
20080515 11:29 am
tinted clear!!!???? squeeeee! you are brilliant!
now i have to go *back* to misterArt!!
20080515 7:28 pm
This is so gorgeous. I’m quite envious of your photography skills :) You have a terrific eye!
20080516 9:15 pm
thank you deryn! sometimes i get lucky … (-;
20080520 10:30 am
spend some wonderful catch-up time lollygagging on your site. it feels good reading about your days, i feel like the energy behind your writing parallels mine right now, from making my hands move at the art table and missing my girls, to being continually tempted to the quiet and comfort of bed and a book - sleeping feels like my favorite pastime as well. and your photographs are exquisite, always. the flowers brought back a memory of a certain live journal friend we both had from canada - i can’t remember her name; she was putting together a book, and had a website i wish i could remember… do you know who i mean?
i hope you had a good excursion day with your rental car - i looked up Harveyville, how cool!
20080521 11:04 am
I love the way this emphasizes the shape of the flowers, bobbi, while still retaining the colors of the flowers.
The more flower pictures I take the less I like them. Maybe this will inspire me to be bolder in photoshopping my flower pictures.
20080527 12:26 pm
hi loren,
yes, i think after a while, flower *pictures* become less interesting. i still love to look at the flowers, but am not always compelled to capture them, as when i first acquired a digital camera. they are still fun to abstract and play with though at times! photoshop is your friend!!
20080527 12:27 pm
katie, i’m so glad you came to visit! and glad i am not … alone.
was the person we liked Mia F? i miss her so much. her work is always astounding.