Inauguration Day

I forgot that I had taken a picture of the quilt after all. Here it is ~ or was. It was my first try so kind of lame. The next one will be stupendous. As I mentioned, the "sleeve purse" idea seems to be turning into the "sleeve hat" idea. So far, the prototypes look extraordinarily goofy ~ but they're warm.

Used Books

They were all packed and ready to go. But then I saw this how-too-torial on wrapping books. So, I unpacked them and added some decorative book covers for you.








That's better!

Shrine

This is the picture you took of Ande's front window during one of my trips to GR, I don't remember which one. I like this one a lot. Life has been quiet in the tiny apt. (Well, except when girl girl upstairs entertains. Then it can get thumping loud). As far as the art goes, though it's been quiet. There are piles of paper and projects waiting to be re-started. It's January and I have three solid months to get ready for April. I wonder how that show will go.

Looking Toward the Future

New Years Day brings yet another holiday photo opportunity. This time from Gambrill State Park located outside Frederick. It's cold and clear up here. There are a smattering of cars parked in and around the park so there must be hikers on the trail. I don't feel like hiking today ~ I'm sure they'll be just fine without me. This park offers pretty spectacular views especially on the other side of the mountain. You have to hike to reach these spots and I plan on visiting all of them this spring and throughout the year.

Fly, Flu, Flown

Today I drove out to the Air & Space Museum for my free flu shot. There's the regular Air & Space museum in downtown DC and then there's the facility located out by Dulles Airport ~ it's like a huge hangar filled with all manner of flying machine. It's, you know, planes hanging everywhere and what not. Turbines, engines, yadda yadda. Wright Brothers...zzzzzzzzzzzzz.



Then I found me some SATELLITES! Holy Mother of God! It's like every gay man's dream of what Mardi Gras should be. Shiney gold and copper, fins, wings, delicate netting spotted with lights! A whole display of gigantic Christmas ornaments...and then my camera konked out. sigh. I get in free. I'll be back. Battery fully loaded....

Let's Go Shopping!

My new motto is: go shopping, take home only photos. Today I took a long walk around downtown. I felt like looking at weird stuff so decided to go to Paul's. It's usually deserted and has a big back room that's far enough away from the girl at the front counter that she'd never notice me taking oodles of photos of stuff I'd never buy at that price.


Paul wanders the globe picking up all sorts of refuse then transports it back to Frederick. Here he stacks it artfully and slaps on a Pier One inspired price tag. One person's junk is another person's photo op.
Yay for Paul! Here is a sampling:





Of course, there are plenty more where these came from by visiting the tiny town link. Not to be missed are the rest of my laundromat photos including those of Lester proudly displaying the sparkly skull t-shirt he thought you'd appreciate ~ as well as a collection of antique spool photos that I especially like. Enjoy!

Time to Sit & Spin, 123!

Fall Color

The leaves are turning a mile a minute around here. Today it's sunny and breezy and I have yet to step out the door! I KNOW! I need to get my ass walking and taking some more pictures. There's a ton of art to be made, though. One of my buyers, Katie is coming here in a couple of weeks with a friend or two. They're going to visit my studio and then I'm going to show them around downtown during First Saturday festivities. My goal is to have art too gorgeous to pass up!


I took some photos of new work in progress this morning that I'll use to update the other blog. These colorful shots are from that batch of a.m. photos. I just finished several more crocus-shaped botanicals that I'll add to my etsy shop later today. They all have pieces of those comic books from India about the life of Buddha in them ~ so I guess they're a series.


On an unrelated topic, and because you committed Facebook suicide, I'll have to tell you here ~ I'm back in touch with Chris Rosendall. He's a friend from way back when who made me mix tapes including the famous Songs to Birth Babies By. He's sending another one ~ actually new cds with songs from "that era." I"ll send you copies...

Words

What my heart does when I think of you:


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