Hipstamatic

Not this year, dear

March 8, 2011

At last I can show you the photographs I submitted to Seattle Erotic Art Festival 2011, because today I received the very sweet rejection letter. It included the classic, “Thank you … ” and “We regret to inform you … ” and then the data about how very many pieces were submitted—1,984 in all (a [...]

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Streamline Adventure – Day one, two, three, 2011

February 15, 2011

This week is Refinish The Cabinets Week. I have the workshop all to myself. It’s quite warm (which the trailer is not right now)–the perfect spot to tackle the paint that is on these birch-veneered doors and drawers. In two plus days I’ve gotten through seven of eleven door fronts, with an additional six drawers [...]

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NaNo silence

November 5, 2010

Yes, I’m not around here much right now. It’s NaNoWriMo time, and I am off elsewhere, writing my second novel. My first was written in NaNoWriMo last year–National Novel Writing Month. And no, it’s not published (yet). I haven’t even gotten it beyond the rough draft stage … Anyway. I am giving my writing time [...]

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I love my woods

October 25, 2010

I don’t know how I could forget, but I did. I forgot how much I enjoy walking through my woods. Any woods, actually, but right now especially my woods. Funny. Somehow in the last two months I had not gotten up to my 30-acre woods, not until just two weeks ago. Getting “NO HUNTING” signs [...]

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Be Afraid, Very Afraid

October 22, 2010

These days I am terribly bothered by the prevalence of encouragement to BE AFRAID. I know this has been going on for awhile, and ramped-up a thousand-fold at 9/11. And it’s always been over-the-top, but OH MY GOSH things are out of hand. There’s an election coming up, and I attended the Candidates’ Forum held [...]

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54 and a day

September 14, 2010

It was a fine birthday. The day turned warm and sunny. There were many sweet “happy birthays” sent my way. I baked a tasty cake and made a rich buttercream frosting for it. And on my walk home from my sister’s, I saw the Milky Way. Perfect. (Cake: Pamela’s Products gluten-free chocolate cake mix. Frosting: [...]

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A Visit From Pseudacris regilla

September 4, 2010

Found a new friend. He’s very pretty, I think. And damn hearty; can be found at elevations up to 11,600 feet. The Pacific Tree Frog. I like their singing, too.

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Eggs Are Simply Nice

September 2, 2010

This is my art today. This lovely wee egg that is less egg-shape and more just a nice ellipse. ellipse |iˈlips| noun a regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is [...]

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The Blue Room

September 1, 2010

I don’t know that we’ll really call this space “The Blue Room” but it does have one blue wall. The space is a little “shop” that my brother built on his property many years ago. It’s small, about 250 sq. ft. altogether, and cleverly built from old truck boxes (but you wouldn’t know that just [...]

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Move Along Now

August 28, 2010

I covet my brother’s windmill. It’s all romantic looking, and reminds me of my grandparents’ farm in Redstone, Montana. The tower is very tall and sturdy, and if I was really an aerialist I could hang from it and do tricks. I stood under the windmill today, and wondered how in the world did my [...]

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