You may have noticed I’ve been a little…lax about posting this last week or so. Well, there’s good reasons. Ch-cha-cha-anges are a brewin’. Oh my sweetums, SO MANY good things happening in Arty Life land these days! Good things! Uber good, super good absolutely freakin’ AWESOME good things!!! This is the week ALL the construction…
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Thirty years ago today, on a sunny Saturday in upstate NY, the first Saturday without rain in six weeks… Mr. Boyfriend became Mr. Spouse. Poof…Just. Like. That. Said, “I do”, gave me a ring, signed some papers and hitched his star to mine. And vice versa. The next day we hopped in the Rabbit and…
Big Boy Mud
Mr. Spouse likes to play in mud. Big boy mud. Concrete. He has his own mixer. Actually, it’s his second one, the first having gone belly up a few years back. Because he used it that much. Seriously. One concrete marvel after another. But until this weekend he never got to realize his big dream…countertops….
The Scream
You see that face? That sweet, innocent face? That sweet little innocent face put TEN YEARS on me in a matter of three seconds. Turned my hair white. Sent my heart leaping from my chest in fear only a mother can know. Only a mother who KNOWS that the end has come. She was around…
Behind the Scenes
Arty Life is moving at warp speed these days. Got a new studio to finish. Estimated move in date, three weeks. Mr. Spouse, AKA Weekend Construction Warrior, assures me I will be in by July 8th. He has yet to tell me the hour or the minute but I have no doubt about his intentions….
Passion and Purpose
For the past month or so I’ve been taking Michele Bergh’s class on creating e-courses. It’s been an eye opening experience for me. A heart opening one as well. Because Michele has encouraged brainstorming. Mind mapping. Thinking about what we want to teach and why we want to teach it. And planning how to go…
On Seeing
When I was a kid, maybe 9 or 10, Mama came home one day and said she’d run into her friend Marion at the grocery store. Or some other mom hangout. She knew Marion from Girl Scouts. They were both leaders. Cookie chairmen. Badge honkers. District council mucky-mucks. A chance meeting where Marion mentioned she…
Venus and the Transits
Or what goes on inside that head of yours, Miz Susan? Really, WHAT??? Okay, so last week I got all fired up about Venus traipsing merrily across the sun. Because someone told me that astrology-wise it meant ALL SORTS OF CREATIVE WOO-WOO. Whoo-hoo, I’m all for that, y’know. So I went home and painted. Might’ve…
Beauty. Grace. And Maia.
Old ladies run in my family. So do old men. I’ve got the DNA of survivors. Of people too stubborn to go belly up until well into their 90s. Barring unforeseen circumstances, I stand a damn good chance of being just like them. Old. I’m looking forward to it. Because I intend to age well. I’m…
Feelin’ the Itch
Studio Grande in living color. Yummy luscious living C-O-L-O-R!!! Look at that! Don’t you just want to dive in face first because it’s so EXCITING! Brushes! Paint! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh…. First tonight’s brushes…my special friends. The new favorite, the scrawny guy on the left. The one in blue. Came from a bin of cheapies at the local…
