Good Morning, Good Morning!!!

I woke up this morning to the sound of Debbie Reynolds singing "Good Morning" from "Singing in the Rain".  I then proceeded to have a song lyric pop into my head regarding every thought I had until I just had to jump out of bed and get my thinking right.  Don't get me wrong I love music but when you think about if its going to be a sunny day and you hear it as "Johnny Nash" singing "Bright Sunshiny Day", you get sidetracked in the feeling of the song and those lyrics about seeing all obstacles in your way lead to you thinking of all the tasks you must accomplish in the next fourteen hours and suddenly you start hearing Dido singing "Do You Have a Little Time", well you know its time to get up out of bed and out of your mind and into the physical world of where are my shoes, its a little chilly this morning and yes to the dog who wants to be fed and taken outside.  (By the way I know the above sentence is too long and runs on and on but I just wanted to give a taste of my mental side this morning.)

I have to acknowledge my friends for song lyrics popping into my head constantly.  We play this game called the "Glass Bead Game" from a book by Hesse.  It is in simplified terms just an open stream of conscienceness withing a group of people who respond to statements from others without censorship.  Now even when we don't actually start a game we still respond to each other with these connected thoughts with a lot of trivial knkowledge of tv, movie, song, book and sports knowledge.    There is also a lot of breaking into song.  I think this is one of the reasons it is hard for some people to feel comfortable when they are introduced to the group.  I love my friends. 

Now I am going to leave with lyrics.

Happy Trails to you!

Springing Forward

It is so confusing in my house when we spring forward into Daylight Savings Time.  Some clocks make the leap by themselves and some are just stubborn and must be pushed into getting rid of that hour.  The winding clocks can be changed easier in spring than fall when you have to wait for them to wind down and stop for an hour.  I am not complaining just musing.  I love that it will be light later in the evening.  It will make it easier for me and the dog to stay up just a little later.

We don't have lambs this spring.  There are not rams in the pasture.  I miss the bouncing lambs playing with each other.  I don't miss worrying about the weak ones or the ones who die at birth.  Country living can be hard on the emotional well being of soft hearted individuals.

The reception was fantastic Friday evening.  It was so much fun.  My friends are great!!!!  I set a record for pieces of art sold during a reception.  I may also have a large commissioned piece in the works.  Details to be worked out for size and color scheme which will make it harder because I really like working intuitively but it is for a friend so I will give it a try.

My friend Dragonheart had a bad day Friday but she didn't tell me until yesterday.  I love her and wish her some happiness.  We spent the day together and went to Friday Flings an art and craft fair at the Will Rogers Center in Fort Worth.  It was wonderful and all the vendors were so nice.  Sharing their wealth of goods and how to's.  Bought a bracelet and a necklace because they were so much fun.  Didn't take pictures so can't share the bounty.

We also shopped at the flea market in the cattle barn.  It was like a small Canton.  Bought a few bottles and things I must have really needed because I love them! 

Today is my sister-in-laws birthday celebration.  I am looking forward to lunch at Campisi's.  One of my favorite restaurants in Dallas. 

So all in all a great introduction to Spring.  Can't wait to see what is going to happen this year!

Trying to find a plan with Michael

I dreamt I was on roller skates last night.  This was after I was an assistant to a professor and I disrupted a student that had been allowed to give racist rant.  A mother of a student needed a ride home instead of taking the bus and I volunteered to pick her up at the bus stop.  I skated off the curb and around a parking lot.  I was surprised in my dream that I did so well.  I busted my tailbone rather badly during one of my last forays on skates.  I'm still working on the walking without falling thing so putting on wheels is a major fall waiting to happen.  Did my dream have anything to do with all the living that I a doing.  It must.  Oh, by the way, they were old school four wheel skates not the super cool modern in line.

My dream also made me think of the video my kids called "Sunset Sam"  although its true name is "Cruisin".  Michael Nesmith is a genius.  His video "Elephant Parts" was true musical wonderment with a lot of comical skits thrown around.  Can I get an "Ayrrrrrr!!!!"  We watched this over and over.  My kids and I still quote lines to each other.  He made Pirates cool in the '80s. 

Michael is also a Dallas kid.  His mother worked and developed Liquid Paper from her Dallas garage.  He then became famous as a Monkey.  I loved, loved, loved that show.  I was a young teenager when it was on  for the first time.  My Dad would not let us watch so we loved when he was gone and my Mom watched it with us.  When they went into syndication it was heaven.  Back in the day it was Davey or Mickey as the cool heartthrob with Peter as the addled clown and Michael as the smart one.  You were never supposed to swoon over smarts only beauty.  I guess it's still that way.

Anyway, enough rambling over dreams and icons.  Back to work!!!!

Dancing my life away.

I feel like this ballerina this morning.  Dancing in place at will of those around me.  I know this is a little exaggerated and others would deny my perception.  Some would say I do exactly as I want to and when I want to.  I am not a selfish person.  I do care about others. Details would only cloud the issue so you will not be getting juicy tidbits of my personal life.  This blog is supposed to deal with artistic adventures spiced with my reflections of reality.  Ha, there's the rub.  I don't think like other people.  Never have.  I have learned this through multiple conversations with friends, strangers and all those who fall in between.

I am on the brink of the next big change in my life.  And I find myself teetering on the edge and not wanting to take the plunge to the other side.  Fear and selfishness are preventing the leap.   It gets a little more difficult with age to make the decisions become facts.  Things will happen as they always do and I will continue my path called life.  There will be happy moments surrounded by sadness, grief, anger, angst and anxiety but I will continue until it is time to step off the music box and make the biggest change of all.

Celebrate Good Times, Come On!!!!

Come see this piece in person at the Visual Expressions Art  Gallery in Cedar Hill.  They are throwing me a reception on Friday, March 11th, 7-9 pm.  I would love for you to come and drink a glass of wine and slowly let the madness of your week leach away and leave you calm for the weekend.  This piece represents the need to continue forward and not fall away by going back to where you've been.  Hope to see you soon!

Blue Thursday?

I have been so busy trying to create work for the reception at Visual Expressions Art Gallery.  They have blank walls and need some bigger art to fill the space.  Going big with wax is harder than I thought.  It takes a lot of wax to cover those boards.

I would rather be making these small mobil gardens.  I love the rusty tins, wooden casters and cast off wood.  As you can see in the previous picture, rust seems to creep into a lot of art.

I filled this one with robin egg blue wax.  Really love how the texture of the tin is part of the center.

Or I could be pulling all the blue glass out of my cabinets and putting it on the mantle.

I am in fascination with all things blue right now.  It is showing up in a lot of my work and home decor.  Its forunate that I have picked up so many things from sales that I don't feel the need to shop to satisfy my blues.

Hope you are not feeling the blues but joyously living the blues!!!