cobaltika

it was an extremely busy and full weekend. a good one! and i am so so so SO glad that i am not in the office today! am i going to chill out and rest a bit? NO WAY. i am having way too much fun. i have been finishing so many small pieces that were in progress and dribbling them on to my ETSY. i have resisted posting everything insanely, as i understand it is better to space out your listings, but part of me wants to see them all at once and in the way *i* arrange them, but i am trying to go for as much visibility as possible without spamming my small following to death. anyway, it is sort of fun. and especially when that email “etsy transaction” shows up in my box! wheee!

other things completed:
31 collages - the gallery of the daily collages created in October
the penCam book - the gallery of all pages of the penCam book created in October
tesoros - is back

besides art and webstuff, there was also time for wandering in the woods, two days. some images were made, buy my favorites were the drivebys out the “new window” (see above). that heavy clear vinyl is almost better than nailpolish for the lens! the woods were beautiful. the scent of dead leaves on paths is one of my favorites. we have also watched films, read books, cooked food and all etc. today it might rain. and i am HOME! (-:

i have really been having fun feeling motivated to finish and list these new pieces. they are very recycled. if anyone does archeology on one, it would be silly. so they are dense in a secret way, even though on the outside they are mostly just pretty little pieces. i wish i could arrange and hang them all over a shredded plaster wall, in an altaristic fashion. instead of the way i am required on etsy. hmmmmm… i wonder if i could make a web page like that? they would be so tiny though…hmmm…thumbnails that click? well, we’ll see. i don’t want to sit at this computer all day. again it is beautiful out and wandering with a camera or two will probably be desired. and there is MORE art to make and scan. and even some mailing to be done! hooray! but my poet will still have to pay for *all* the groceries this week. /-:

already i have had too much coffee, i can tell. what happened? i used to be able to sit all morning with my big white cup, refilling until the pot was empty? now i am about to jump out of my skin. wheeee!

everything has been incredibly beautiful lately. i walk around gawking. thank goodness i acquired the habit of carrying the pencam last month, because now it is snap snap snap all the time. because of the time change, i am completely unsettled and can’t sleep past 5am. i have way too much energy (not so good in the slumbering fluorescent prison, but GOOD at home), sometimes to the point of edginess.

on the weekend, i finished so much fall cleaning and pulled out my cozy garments. cleaned up the garden, dug the herbs and put them in pots. did not art one bit, although i did clean up my space wonderfully. monday evening was evil. i didn’t know what to do with the energy, so i watched Picnic at Hanging Rock and chewed my cuticles. finally i got a grip and have cleaned up much web stuff and starting completing many small pieces of art that were in progress, etsied, and so on.

i feel hungry all the time.

i forgot what a JOB it is to scan and post things on etsy. but, man, i hope it will be worth it. there is going to be some good stuff on there. NEW things! (ok, some old, but newly listed) starting tonight. at the usual embarrassing giveaway prices. i *have* to … the stacks … everywhere! i didn’t realize my hands have been *that* busy in the past few months…

it has been a different sort of weekend, so far. i have been out of the house more! yesterday flew home from the fluorescent prison (early) and went to kansas city with traci for first friday. i haven’t been in … wow … a year? too long, for sure. but this is the weekend of the dia de los muertos exhibit at mattie rhodes and i really really wanted to see it. we met a new flickr friend there and no one seemed to mind that we all made many images. i love that place so much. then we went to crossroads for the open galleries and wandered all around. i had what could have been an embarrassing event involving an unlocked ungendered bathroom door which opened right into a cafe but we all laughed instead. (no. i was the one who *opened* the door). we lost our flickr friend. and stayed until we were kicked out of the last gallery. then traci and i had guacamole and drove home.

today i cleaned the kitchen finally. this was a big deal. it was homecoming football and there were beautiful leaves falling and too many cars everywhere. maybe it is an inconvenience, but i sort of like the tradition. we bought what felt like lots of food for what felt like not too much money. for a change. i talked to margaret. and wished i had more more more. for them. i hate for my girls to struggle and worry. it just doesn’t seem fair, even though i know that it is inescapable. i wonder about betsy. she seems so far…

and then i went to hang out at traci’s artBarn with lydia and i got to MEET RUBY, the sweetest and funniest little dog! it was fun just being there. i made a rather stupid collage and wandered in the cemetery with my cameras for a while before leaving. home and finished laundry and made dinner of veggie italian sausages with red sauce and whole grain baguette baked with butter, mozzarella and GOBS of garlic. there was red wine involved. then i played with pictures. now i want to go read. because i am tired and somewhat dull and glad i have another day.

the not-very-good-but authentic images from first friday are here