Good Sunday Morning

On a normal day ( what's that ? ) in my normal life ( seriously, what IS that ? ) I do not post a lot of the cute pictures that come my way but these two made me laugh, giggle and snort my yogurt through my nose! I hope they make you do the same thing except maybe the snorting! Love, Lois

These are two pieces that my friend Justin made. An angel and a patchwork cross. I love all the symbols of religion; the angels, crosses, churches and little signs of faith that surround us in our daily lives. Wherever I am, I build little altars with the symbols and images of the figures of faith like Christ, the Buddha and Ganesh, to name a few. Anyhow, Justin makes images in the colorful folk traditions of Mexico and they are joyful and colorful and remind me always to keep faith. Good night now.

Up to my aching elbows in lucite beads!

Once again I have been dying vinatge lucite for the Tucson show. This time I did the flowers and other shapes. I have managed to make the kitchen a mess and given the stove top a case of purple mottled metal. Or at least I THOUGHT that part of the stove was metal! It's actually plastic and now the purple mottled color is permanent. Jacob is in love with the big pinkest of pink flowers. He marveled at how I was able to acheive such an awesome color. He is one of my biggest fans and really likes seeing my end results. I think this does the dying duty for awhile. Now comes the stringing. I think all of this will make a beautiful stash of beads to sell at Tucson!

As I was waiting for Andrea to pick me up to begin our luncheon day together; I ran around and took a bunch pf photos around the house. This one painting, long since sold, of my very festive crow made it into a poster for a solo gallery exhibit I was doing.

The second painting titled, " when the yellow brick road leads to a house with no doors " is one that Phil bought from another gallery show I did. He said it was the first original artwork he ever purchased and I secretly think he bought it to impress me. I usually do not hang my own artwork in the house. If I look at it too much, I never feel it is done and I always want to tweak it!

These are on a funny angle because I could not face them straight on in my hallway and I was just too lazy to move them into a more open area.

By the way, our day was great fun and we had a wonderful lunch, delicious ice cream and it was so good being with Andrea and Christine again! I would love to have a sister relationship like theirs! Maybe the next lifetime! xo, Lois

Ahhh...the weather!

How can I describe it? As much as I love the snow, or at least the little girl inside me loves the snow; I am welcoming back the rain, rain, fog, mist and tempertures in the upper 40's! Yippeee - I am leaving town today with out fear of snow and ice! I am going to pick up a friend at the Bainbridge ferry terminal and have lunch. A girl's day to just fool around! Yes! I NEEDS IT!

New CAMERA!

These are the first two pictures taken with my new camera that I received for my birthday. They were taken from the porch as the sun rose on a snowy morning. So early that I , the camera owner, was still sound asleep! Jacob got up early and said the sunrise was so beautiful he took the pictures and then woke me up to tell me that a. the sunrise was pretty and b. he used my new camera without asking and c. I needed to look at the sunrise myself in person, out of bed, through the living room and onto the porch. Well, I am very glad that he is so appreciative of sunrises! I hope he will always be that way.

It is snowing yet again tonight but we still had a wondeful dinner at my friend, Honey's home.

This is part of what I accomplished today; dying all the vintage leaves for the Tucson show. I mixed colors using all sorts of dyes from yarn coloring to fabric dye. I was aiming for a spring to fall color pallette. I also managed to semi trash the kitchen but then I made a most excellent beef noodle soup from scratch for dinner. I think I redeemed myself and the kitchen. I also did three ( count 'em, 3! ) solid hours of paperwork! Way to go, Lois! Tomorrow we dye flowers! Good night for now, Lois