delays ahead

seems like every time i sit down at the computer to update my blog the computer decides it hates me.

that's fine.

i mean who really has anything to say? 

who really needs an "outlet"?   
the previous two posts were done over the past few weeks...so when i refer to dates you can pretty much bet that it occurred a while ago. not yesterday. or the other day.

i have a plastic cup on my desk at work where i fill it up with staples. otherwise they just go all over the floor... in the end it turns out like this....

the only difference is currently the cup is red and longer. i've been wondering if i should try resin-ing them. that would be pretty neat-o just a cone shaped stack of staples. i bet it would make a nice paper weight.
nicer weather kind of equals prime time to resin. hmm i should see what the mc61 thinks.

time management (post that never posted!)

blanket stitch book made not in the last class but the last class before that.
ha!

so far this is the best one i've made so far. a personal best.
if i dare say...

although, i like things that are generic... brown davey board and white pages just aren't doing it for me. so now i'm sewing in some "content". 

years ago i purchased one sheet of hand made paper with an orange flower pattern pressed all over. i've decided to cut the flowers and sew them every other page. the fun part about this book and the pattern i've chosen is that the back can be the front, meaning the back stitch patterns can be the front. 
and we all know the backside of my pieces are the better part. 


so far it looks pretty darn cool.




i keep starting  little blog entries. saving them as a draft and not posting them. a few sundays ago, mc61 and i purchased two dungeness crabs fe'dinner. 

i don't have any issues putting a live crab into a pot of boiling water.

i know where my food comes from!

what's creepy is when the live crab is in the fridge wrestling around. 

the bag is all flopping this way and that way. 

you shut the refrigerator door only to imagine

what that dang crab is going to be up to 

the next time you open it.

that kinda freaked me out..

a little.

but you know, 

like most things, 

you get passed that!

Dang, 

that was some good crab!

.. or sometimes it does feel good to accomplish things?

it does. we finished the blanket. that felt good. not to mention it came out looking really great. i guess it doesn't matter that the recipients haven't been glowing over it. i guess that's not the point. giving isn't about the praise.
i finished my winter scarf, a/k/a the cable scarf. yup finally got motivated and just got'er done!
i haven't quite finished doctoring up my blanket stitched book. or worked on any stitched cards, birthday or other.
it's not so much about doing a million projects at once, it's really about doing projects. right? i've been more active lately but yet i feel lazy. i have more energy but yet i feel drained at the end of the day.
i have been getting great night sleeps though!


in the news today,a four year old was having a show at a new york gallery. it wasn't her first show mind you. that was when she was twenty or so months old (so almost two) in australia and hong kong. it definitely raises all the usual questions. is it really her work? could she be that talented?
i'm not so shocked that her work seems real. to me that actually makes sense. she's a child, she hasn't learned to be purposeful. she has no boundaries.
many, many years ago i was fortunate to see a william de kooning show at the walker art center. in this show were never seen before works that he did at the end of his life when he had alzheimer's.  the reviews for these pieces in particular were over-whelming. he later works had become very streamlined. less chaotic and smooth on some levels. they consisted of  minimal colors, red, blue and yellow. there were beautiful.
 http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/107

     

to me, i always wonder, if he had alzheimer's did part of him forget all the things he had learned about painting i.e. techniques, structure, etc. leaving him to be painting more "like a child"...  more free. that's why i don't necessarily have any issues with a young "artist" especially when the child is surrounded by artist parents and creativity.

what i do take issue with is when i looked up the mother, who is listed as a photographer, i didn't really find any of her work. i saw pictures of her. but not of her work. i see from her website she is her daughter's manager.. so i guess she doesn't