Artful Thursday

Thursday is now my favorite day of the week! I adore my painting class, I love the people in the class, and the instructor is an absolute gift of a gal! Class isn't nearly long enough, it flies by and when I leave class I feel like I am on the tippy top of the world. No bad thing to be me on Thursday. I left the museum after class and went to hang my work at Penny Lane Coffee House. The show has an opening reception on Saturday from 2-4. There is some amazing work there already, I can't wait to see it all of the work installed. I think there are two more artists to go, very exciting.

The whole entire Richardson family made it home yesterday, they are now a family of 4 (six if you count the fur balls) with the addition of Grant. Congratulations to them!

My "Hot Flash" tiara is top heavy, so the paper doll is doing some serious leaning forward. She looks like she is trying to lunge out of the box and directly at you (if she were really having a hot flash that might be the case). Naturally that leaning thing is not going to work, so I have been noodling around today, trying to figure out how to get her back in balance and keep her fabulous crown in place.

On another note entirely. I was whining to my friend Celeste about how incredibly uncoordinated I was in my Pilate's class. She calmly pointed out that it didn't matter because I could wear really, really impossibly high heels and pull off looking completely graceful. Did I mention we will be friends for life?

Ice and Snow and Ice and Ice and Ice

I know its winter; however, I am so over winter already. The ice started here about 9:30 last night, it woke me up off and on all night long. I hate weather of any kind, I find it creepy. The ground this morning was so hard that the puppies didn't even make a mark when they went out for their morning constitution. I had to drag Gizmo (he is the young one) back into the house, he was very intrigued and was beginning to turn into an "icekimo".

I had a ridiculously excellent Saturday morning. I found a junk store that sells by the pound! Really, by the pound!! They had scads of double deluxe wallpaper books that had been abandoned. I tore out all of the cool papers I wanted, gorgeous, fabulous, yummy papers. I found an old champagne box, and some lovely fabric remnants. Fifteen bucks, buys you 25 pounds of "Stuff". I have 8 pound of "Stuff" left on my "Pound Pass"!! The little shop is only open from 9-12 on Saturdays, guess I know where I will be for the next few Saturdays.

My friend Tresa, who has a fabric store-Grateful Threads-was having a sale and I helped to unload some of her inventory of smallish pieces. I was waiting to meet her dad, who was in for the weather (just kidding) and decided that all of the little piece would make great eyeglass covers. So, on Saturday afternoon I made 27 eyeglass covers out of a wondrous assortment of embroidered silk, tapestry, paisley, check, plaid, metallic and one piece of wierd faux leather. They are absolutely gorgeous and will be for sale at "Grateful Threads" as soon as the ice melts. Tresa is always on the look out for ways to make money donations to the MS Association and part of the proceeds from the eyeglass covers might be just the ticket!!

Saturday afternoon, I also got a call that my artwork had been accepted at "Penny Lane's" for a showing of women's artwork. Show is in March, six artists, three pieces from each of us. Pretty cool! Many thanks to the owner; Heidi K.

Now I am off to make lemonade of the rest of my day!!!