once upon a time and long ago,i made lotsa postcard size art to mail .it gave me an opportunity to experiment and work in a way that suited my short attention span.So at a retreat decade ago, i made some sketches of a figure i came to call Seaweed Sue. i have a friend that manages this vintage beach houses and allowes a group of ladies that love to make things with fabric, a wonderful places to camp indoors on the sea shore. we stay one or two nights or were day trippers. We shared meals, stories, laughter andmany days of swimming and rolling up on the beach after being tossed there by a wave. collecting lotsa sand in your swimsuit
....a cause more laughter. later i sketched some ideas into pencil and paper, later to cloth and paint and later sewn and quilted. i made these two postcards to exchange with online artistic friends, Linda in Manahattan and Kate in Texas. they helped me start this blogging hobby i still enjoy. i admire those who can post often and have much wisdom and humor to share. i do well if i get one a month posted.my world has gotten smaller and i have less to share. i have less as i do less.i read a lot and find sometime just the daily maintenance takes as long as it takes.many doors close as one gets up in the years. any moment i will turn 78 and that is big number. i think we feel much younger than the number on your expired drivers license that need to be renewed every 2 years now.
Be well, laugh when you can, especially at yourself and make art from the heart if you are so inclinded.
that is so much better than housekeeping to me!!!!!
sonja
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Seaweed Sue is an engaging mermaid for sure! As an "age mate", I agree with you- it takes much longer to do the simple things I used to give no notice to! So slowing down really does happen. But the supplies proliferate and still call to me to get used in some project or other! Happy 4th!
OOoo now I'd like to see you post more, not with art per se but with your daily life... and memories of escapades, and pets you love, and flowers you see all the time, and views of sunsets over the water, you know... all that goes into making you your unique self... so... will you?
LeeAnna
Lee anna,Anna, I hope sew I've been painting fabric and my sweet Lily for a story quilt that needs to be told on cloth and colors of the rainbow.
Be well,sonja
I love your little mermaids and am sure that your friends will be over the moon when they get them in the mail. I've made quite a few fabric postcards over the years, but none lately.
I have a few years on you at 81 and yes, I see myself slowing down and it's a bummer. But I do the best I can and am so grateful to have my art that doesn't take a lot of physical prowess.
Norma ,thanks for you spot on comments. the art of making something that did not exist before is the magic we do when we follow the threads if "what if" slow and steady, stay the course, apply here to.
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