Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
where does the time go?
So if you had all the time in the world to do what you love, in my case that would be painting fabric and turning my hand painted fabrics into something that was not here before, touchable before. what would you do?. And this the last year has been as such a time, Did you use it well? i did not. i fell into that camp of people that were sort of frozen. it all started with viewing you tubes on how to make cloth face covering masks until i was completely numb. i have a lot of fabric to tinker with but i was not inspired . i experimented . i found pony tail elastics hurt my ears as i could not get my hands on that soft, thin elastic that was a limited as toilet paper at the beginning of the Covid 19 season. there is a difference in stocking up and hoarding
i found i was often not inspired, often tired and well just sorta lazy. so many options were limited or curtailed and then there was.... " i look at the floor and see it needs sweeping..."
reading and caching up on the 3 magazines i still subscribe to and falling asleep in the big red leather chair while doing so.
Finally i started with the old tee shirts my DH had all stacked up. i found the sleeves made good covering and the 1 1/2 inch ripped strips were comfortable on my ears. and i could paint them any color i wished!
It hangs from my rearview mirror between stops reminding me of the years, well decades gone by, when we hung our graduation cap tassels from just such a mirror.
so
who knows where the time goes ?
sandy dennis sings " who know where the time goes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oBMDcLf6WA
be well, sonja
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Sunday, January 17, 2021
to new year 2021, please be kind
ideas for the new year 2021
when out, be kind to those you meet,
hold the door for someone younger or older than yourself.
arrange food in a harmonious way and eat the art.
or make soup if it is chilly outside
chop up a bunch of veggies
and use up those small bowls of delicious planned overs before
you have to give them to the chickens.
Then make a mocktail of ginger ale and cranberry juice, garnish with orange slice.
be kind, stay well and don't forget to dance when you get a notion!
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
a Charlie Brown Christmas music and wisdom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EdlTA5n2h8&t=5s
Charlie Brown Christmas sound track
the poinsettias bloom
Christmas cactus Isabela does too
a felty festive snow dude wishing
a Happy Christmas to all of you !
be well, stay safe, sonja
Sunday, October 18, 2020
some pumpkin things
this little folk artsy fellow was inspired by the lines of a poem about
frost on the pumpkin . Well i have not seen frost for decades! however, each fall the salt is in the air where i live because winter /fall is when the waves get larger and stronger and toss salt into the air...
so as i made this little painted fabric folk art figure. i wrote a poem on the gown as it came to me as i made it. . in the original one i made a tiny snowman pin i called frosty, hence
frosty is on the pumpkin. Most years i make one for my collection.
Then there is the count down to the search for the most sincere pumpkin that Charlie Brown is forever looking for in that adorable cartoon i must watch each year.
It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown [Full Soundtrack] - Fixed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ0XTlof8bc
Oh, this little jack o lantern i named punky. i made him back in 1976 with the help of a potter that threw the pumpkin shapes for some of us to carve and embellish and glaze.
as you can see he has a slight astigmatism, much like his carver....
So each October i take punky out of the china cabinet and dig around for new votive candles. luckily my local Longs drug store (CVS) has those stubby little candles we keep on hand in case the power goes off, again.
our very first computer had an etch a sketch
feature on it that i was able to make this little card on.
Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Cast your fate to the
wind."
And until today i never knew it had words.
everyday i learn something new !!
Be well
A month of nights, a year of days
Octobers drifting into Mays
I set my sail when the tide comes in
I just cast my fate to the wind
I shift my course along the breeze
Won't sail upwind on memories
The empty sky is my best friend
I just cast my fate to the wind
A month of nights, a year of days
Octobers drifting into Mays
I set my sail when the tide comes in
I just cast my fate to the wind
Saturday, September 12, 2020
red fruit Friday
a little Dragon fruit appeared on a stalk last week in the area that all the Night Blooming Cereus tangle and climb and show there silky flowers for only a short time. This is the second go round for these rain forest cacti this summer but the first time getting a fruit.
When you cut it in half this is what a common variety looks like. The taste is sorta like kiwi and green grape sorta. hard to nail down and very subtle
here it is on the leggy stem with thorns
tiny brussell sprouts!
These tiny cherry tomatoes are Finally turning red and will be picked and used today and savored!
a blossom today
I started the plants from the seeds from the plum tomatoes gone soft purchased from Costco
last spring.
be well, see weller, sonja
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020
sun dappling through window and curtain on quilt back and through kitchen window
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
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