Written before Breakfast
Sheesh, I can’t believe it has been over a week since I updated! Well. let’s see:
- Yesterday was the first day I sat outside in the sun {but under the umbrella} reading.
- I have not yet gotten any flowers in the boxes. Every year I promise I will have these done by my birthday and every year, I don’t do it by May 15th!
- I am spending some of my time trying to remember how to use a sewing machine. I was thinking about this yesterday and realized that it has been about fifty years since I used one on a regular basis! I did use one when I was in the SCA but that was only intermittently. So far, I have figured out how to thread the needle and how to fill the bobbin! Slowly, the skills are coming back—very slowly!
- Last night we turned on the bedroom air conditioner.
- The part of my brain that deals with art is slowly settling down again since the mentoring session. I am trying my mentor’s suggestion to deliberately use geometric shapes since she pointed out to me that I was finding myself doing this without planning to do this. In the last few days I have painted two backgrounds, one in mostly gold and the other in mostly bronze. I will tape them and start glazes today. On the mostly gold one, the glazes will start with quinacrindone nickel azo gold and get progressively deeper in color. This is going to take a couple of days since I can’t put on the next tape-then-color layer until the previous one is dry. After that some small {4×4} squares which already have a coating of black gesso will be mounted. I am considering decorating the squares with a gold ink pen. Well, perhaps not all of them. There will be five or three depending on what looks right when I do it. I also have some striking black and gold fabric. I think some of this is going to find its way into this painting.
- Today tidying and vacuuming is definitely part of the plans.
- OK, the timer has buzzed which means off to breakfast!
Is the life I’m living the life that wants to live in me?
Parker Palmer
"I yam what I yam."
Popeye
Do you know of any flowers that take almost total shade? and not too much water?
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The painting sounds so neat. I want to sit out in the sun under an umbrella.
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I need to refresh my sewing machine skills. Desperately! Thanks for the reminder/nudge on that one. 🙂
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The ONLY way to sit outside around here this week is under an umbrella. Unfortunatly no sun will be involved. Yesterday, I had to wear my winter coat! Usually I’m fighting Thorn over the cooler. This year, we’re still using the heater. Ugh!!!
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a belated happy birthday to you!!! i’ve got to vacuum later today or maybe tomorrow morning. you mean you’ve been warm enough to need the a/c? i’ve turned on my furnace a couple of times this past week. enjoy your painting. take care,
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It’s hard to believe that it is warmer in Vermont than Michigan. Weird! 51 degrees here, not cold enough to turn the heat on, but definately no a/c needed. Your taping and glazing artwork sounds like fun.
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I inevitably run the needle through my fingertips whenever I try to run a sewing machine, so I learnt to do it all by hand… I like the idea of using a gold pen on the squares. I hope you will be posting your new creations soon.
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I couldn’t live without my sewing machine. I don’t really do much but mend and take in anymore, but I’d be lost without it. Loves to you! ~M
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I have never been any good on a sewing machine. My mother had a foot-operated treadle machine when I was little and I did manage to run the needle into my thumb. Traumatic!
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Every time I get the sewing machine out, I have to try to remember how to use it….. even if it’s only been a few months! I’m glad you got to sit in the sun and read! :o) !! hugs, Nicky
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I hope you have better luck w/your sewing machine skills coming back than I do. Whenever I get it out & try to sew, the bobbin falls out & I can’t get it back in. I’m really desparate to get those skills back as I have lots of mending to do! Your art work sounds beautiful; hope you can show us some pictures!
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The night my husband proposed to me, I told him, “I just want you to know I’m going to save you some money right from the start.” “Oh, yeah? How?” “You’ll never have to worry about buying me a sewing machine. I don’t sew. I can cook and clean with the best of them, but I draw the line at sewing!” LOL!
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I think you got the hard parts of the sewing machine down with threading the needle and loading the bobbin. Now the fun part starts!
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