It's
been almost a week since my last post...sounds like I'm in a BA group
- Bloggers Anonymous...but I
haven't been doing anything out of the ordinary. Just
working, finished the model for the feather on the beach and then put
that stuff away to start on the intermediate sized 24” wide
drawings for the A&M job. Finished one, started on another, and
I figured y'all are probably tired of seeing these models and
drawings over and over but here's the pictures anyway (and before anyone gets all excited about how great the drawing is, I traced it from a photograph onto mylar from which I will get a print).
Saturday
I worked at the antique store and sold a sweet little dresser that I
really liked. It came in just after I bought the larger striped oak
dresser and if it hadn't been about the same size as the one I
replaced I would have switched the new one out for it. But the whole
point in getting a new dresser was getting a bigger dresser. Anyway
this lady came in and just loved it but it was twice what her budget
was and wanted to know if she could get a 25% discount. I confabbed
with my sister and long story short, I offered her 25% off but she
had to buy it right now. If she decided to look around and then came
back, the price would be higher, still discounted, but higher. So
she went for the deal.
Speaking
of deals, my sister and I went to an estate sale up the road last
week and I got 6 wind chimes/bells for $6 each but they aren't the
cheap cheesy mass manufactured kind but, all bar one, artisan made.
I'd take pictures but it's raining outside. Been raining all day so
far. It started yesterday afternoon depriving me of my dedicated day
out in the yard but we really need the rain so I don't really mind.
It gave me some time to make progress in the book I'm reading. well, the rain let up enough for me to run out and get these pics...
Recognizing
that the rain is good, still it has me in a funky mood and I've made
no progress so far today on the second drawing. I've been trying to
put together a political post for weeks, months even, but the whole
sorry spectacle is just too fucking depressing. Not just the
candidates but the general nastiness that passes for social
interaction these days. My poor little psyche can't take it. It
makes me want to retreat even more into the natural world and my
non-political-without-content art.
I have some nice wind chimes that need restringing and every time I look at them I think, "Shit. I should just throw those away but ELLEN would restring them and so should I!"
ReplyDeleteStill, they sit. Want to come fix them for me?
I'd buy that dresser too. It's beautiful!
I wake to the chimes every morning when home and enjoy laying there and just listening to them and morning birds.
ReplyDeleteI love a few days of rain, but it lasts too long, I can go over to the dark side. I have to work on that.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in this year's RNC. Speculators are building Marriots and Hiltons near me, thirty five miles from the action. The mayor of Peninsula is pitching them to the trustees of Boston, "They're coming; what can we offer?" and the trustees are "So what." Best of all, Spencer Tunic is doing a nude installation. They won't know whether to ogle or hide their eyes and wave their bibles!
ReplyDeleteI always love seeing your art - share away! I have a friend in Walla Walla who's selling a dresser that looks a lot like that one - in fact & did a double-take, but no, you're in Texas - she definitely didn't take it to your sister's store to sell :)
ReplyDeleteI've got a set of those tuned "Music of the Spheres" windchimes that began in Austin. If you go to this page on their site, you can hear them. I have the Quartal, in alto. I've had them for at least 15 years, and they've never needed to be restrung -- amazing. Given my balcony's location, they only ring on a NW to NE wind. That means the sound of the wind chimes always is my first hint that autumn breezes are stirring.
ReplyDeleteWind chimes are one of the many things I miss by living in an apartment. That dresser is a beauty. And your art is always wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI'd much rather read about your wind chimes than politics, anyway. Seriously, those are great chimes! What a find! And the work looks like it's coming along nicely, too.
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