"After serious & cautious consideration.....your contract of friendship has been renewed for the New Year 2007! It was a very hard decision to make. So try not to screw it up!!!
My Wish for You in 2007- May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address!
In simple words ............May 2007 be the best year of your life!!!"
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Happy New Year
It's 11:46...even thought it's pouring rain, the neighborhood across the brook is erupting with fireworks and sporadic gunfire. Earlier this evening I swear I heard a burst of semi-automatic rounds. I watch enough cop TV to know it when I hear it. Even though I seem to be living in a mock Beruit, I am at grateful peace. My sons are both home, their friends will be spending the night, all the cats are in and my GoodMan is snoring beside me. Two pieces of art got almost finished and something new and tasty got started. Here's to 2007!
They are going nuts here in Georgia. It's New Year's Eve and a Sunday. That means that because of the Blue Laws, any establishment that serves liquor but not food will NOT be able to sell any alcohol until after the stroke of midnight tonight. I guess you can tell by my attitude that I'm not shedding a tear for them and I wonder about the lives that might not be destroyed because of alcohol tonight. Enough of my cynicism. Here's a gift for all my readers.
Just sit in front of this for a few minutes and marvel. Happy New Year!
And this just in from Val
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
continued WIP (Mopery)
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Monday, December 25, 2006
samples
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the Booty
As much as I have been suffering with my annual case of humbuggery, my Goodman once again came through with a small thing to delight me and lift my spirits. Love by the Beatles is that gem this Christmas.
I've been a Beatles fan since the first time I heard "She Loves You" coming from my mother's portable, leather bound Zenith radio. Something so different and compelling in those young voices working those flirty minor chord lifts captured my attention so completely I scorched a huge brown "V" in the back of one of my Dads dress shirts because I was so intent on this new sound. This is more than a new compilation or greatest hits. The way it's been produced reminds me of how albums connected one song to the next to make a whole that was more than the sum of the parts. For me it adds up to emotional time travel.
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Saturday, December 23, 2006
Nothings wrapped yet but art gets done
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Tub Thumping Time
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Self Indulgence
Now that it's too late to buy anything online and hope to get it in time for gift giving, I found a few pennies left in my PP account and decided to get myself a treat.
I went grubbing about in my Shopping bookmarks and found a link to a product that I have loved for years. Long ago these little clay pots were filled with fragrant cremes from Nadina's Cremes. The scents made me dizzy and the cremes were all-purpose wonderful.
I have cherished this trio of empty pots for so long - it was time to bring some new ones into the fold filled with magic potion!
The paperweight is a one-of-a-kind original by Josh Simpson, glass artist extraordinaire, who I just happened to have gone to high school with back when the Ark was launched . We re-connected briefly over the web over some old photos that I scanned and passed along to him and he most graciously sent this beautiful example of his art.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Holiday Stampede
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Sewing Again
Seems like a long time but it's going well. "Mopery..." is under the needle and making me very happy even though I really don't gravitate to reds, especially the bluish reds, but there you have it. Up close, there are many other little color things going on that I plan to accentuate with stitching. Machine stitching- so you know I haven't gone totally round the bend.
I've added a Work In Progress link to the sidebar and created a non-Blogger place to keep better track of work in progress so I don't have to scramble all over for information once I decide to add the piece to the main gallery. Also (whispering)
I don't trust this new Beta Blogger all that much.
I must publicly thank Shoshana for featuring me in the sidebar of her blog with Senator Barak Obama and Knit Tits. What an honor! She also asked aloud about what folks do when they become creatively adrift or stale. Beside cleaning, I go digging about in my old digital files. I'm a fiendish collector of bizarre miscellaneous digitalia specializing in round things. Go figger. Here's a few I dug up:
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Saturday, December 09, 2006
Mopery in Progress
I have been having great e-converse with the Empress of Dirt (don't I hang out with the nicest crowd?), author of Fabric Dyeing 101 a wonderful and generous resource for folks who want to take a crack at dyeing their own fabric. I was reading through her take on the whole process and occasionally giving myself the old "Palm to Old Forehead, Sharply" gesture - the way you do when you know you are screwing up even as you do it...like ironing the wrong side of the fusible crap. Damn I hate that stuff but it's the only way I can think of to close up the birthing slot left when I pillowcase a backing...(who else but another art quilter would know what the hell I was talking about.)
So I took a moment to tell her about Table Moppers, but she'll elaborate on that.
Anyway, to finish off the discharging session I started last night, there was this one piece of fabric left on the kitchen table, one of nastiest Table Moppers from the last dyefest.I got rather caught up in the thing and before I knew it, there were seams and batting and backing and birthing and
"3 to 5 for Mopery" was hatched, another whole-cloth monster just begging for lots of paint & stitching. It's just amazing what can happen when there's a clean place to work and you (mostly) know where all your stuff is.
Just a lazy eyed jump from mopper to mopery, the title refers to a family joke around here. If one of the boys was sulking about and had the nerve to utter the phrase "I'm bored" they would be convicted of Mopery, something I had a nodding acquaintance with as a teenager.
Somewhere on my permanent record it must say "suspected of mopery with intent to creep", not convicted mind you, just suspected.
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Friday, December 08, 2006
New Stuff, Like I needed More New Stuff
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Born with the Platinum Spoon in her Mouth
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Friday, December 01, 2006
Photoshoot
Sunday, November 26, 2006
What Happened to My Weekend?
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Saturday, November 25, 2006
More company for Dinner
Friday, November 24, 2006
Feast Day
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
Buy Now Button Fixed
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Food Frenzy
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Webwork
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Sunday, November 12, 2006
Loose Ends
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
the Best Gesture
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Saturday, November 04, 2006
Thursday, November 02, 2006
waterworld
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Monday, October 30, 2006
A Witches Work is Never Done
Disconnected
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
Oh NO!! Another Postcard Procrastination Period
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Loot from MaryJo's in Gastonia
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Friday, October 20, 2006
Playland
I've been up to NY to visit family and haven't lifted a needle in a week.
There was a new addition in the backyard.
Yep, it's a pirate ship alright. Complete with gangplank, rigging and yardarms although my brother took down the jolly roger because a neighbor complained. Just wait until he puts the Christmas lights all over the mast!
They are having the time of their lives with this. That's Rob, Emma, (one of the neighbors who is really happy about the USS Braine being docked at Port Useted) and Rob's boys
Reno & Ryder...um, I think that's Reno in the choke hold.
Even Debo joins in...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Whole Cloth Mania & Post Season Funk
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