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    Apples!!!!!



    We went to help the neighbor pick their apples today.

    It took under 3 hours to pick 44 grocery bags of apples!! Crazy huh!?!?

    Now comes the processing part. Washing, chopping, cooking, dehydrating, preserving, freezing… you get the picture. Yikes!

    UPDATE: I was corrected by the neighbor…It was 48 bags of apples plus a bushel basket.

  • Art - Blog - Creativity

    Completed old projects..starting new



    I finally bound some old tip-in and smaller size pages into one book this week.

    I’m on a mission to finish all these UFO’s (unfinished objects) I’ve started somewhere along the line.

    I was chatting with a neighbor just this evening over the bonfire about memory and lack thereof. Is it Adult-ADD or short-term memory loss but whatever you want to call it…I’ve got it!!! Geez… I can’t walk down the 2 sets of stairs to the basement and remember what the heck it was I went down there for!
    OK…I think I’m on a tangent now….

    My original point was…I have a ton of projects started or even nearly complete but never seem to tie up all my loose ends. THAT is my new mission.

    With that said….haha…I have started a new project or more of a challenge. It’s a call for art from Somerset Memories magazine. It can be either a group or an individual using ONE IMAGE to create a multitude of art. Of course since it will be up for submission I won’t be showing what I’ve created until I’ve heard the news either way… I hope to get my projects in the mail next week for consideration.

  • Blog

    Dream


    I was compelled to create last night so I started with an old book cover. I layered papers and gesso down. The new gesso I have is quite thin…not happy with that! I just had to call it a night since it wasn’t drying very quickly.

    This morning I put on the squares. Over them I put down white tissue paper. Then came the paints.

    It started to feel very dream-like to me, hence the words. Scattered around the painting are these words: Escape, Imagine, Freedom from reality and Let go.