Nino Chakvetadze – Vanda Art Gallery –
Children by Nino Chakvetadze
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More Matt Wilson Art
Filed under metal art, motivators
The Art of a Dog
Filed under Amazing Animals
Mouth-Watering Sculpture
Filed under sculpture
Despite the Weather –
I’ve had a good morning.
Our weather experts are predicting scattered showers and a heat advisory this afternoon and evening of 100+, so I got out this morning and did another session of weed whacking in the waist-high area behind our shop and beside our garden. You can actually SEE the 250 gallon propane tank now! I also cleared the area around the trash cans where we keep the ingredients for Mel’s Mix for the square foot garden.
While I was out there, I went into the shop and worked on the Christmas presents for my friends some more.
We’ll eat lunch in about an hour, so I have time to cool off, drink a bottle of water, treat myself to another cup of coffee, and enjoy being at the computer before I need to get our meal together. :0)
I hope your Saturday is shaping up to be a good one.
Filed under Thoughts on a ________
Additional Tactic
This is probably not new, but it’s a new idea for me.
I’m going to stay busy (as usual, but more emphasis). Then, when I think I’m hungry, I’ll drink a bottle of water and wait a while. If I’m STILL starving, I’ll eat a careful snack. Fingers crossed.
Filed under DIET!
Felted Animals by Megan
Filed under Embroidery/Sewing Art, Felted Wool Art
I Want One!
Unattributed photos here provided by Inga Korolkovarte – BoredPanda.com
Filed under Amazing Animals
Animal Friends 5
Animal Friendships – Jonas Grinevicius and Mindaugas Balciauskas – BoredPanda.com
Filed under Amazing Animals, animal friendships
Thoughts on a Friday 8-20-2021
I love this giraffe.
YARD – My sanity may be waning. I’m really trying to tackle the waist-high grass and weeds that have taken over behind the shop and beside the garden. When it’s not raining and dry enough to work, the heat index is 100+. ARRGGHHHH!
Yesterday morning I did get a start on it. The first part of the project is trying to ‘free’ the 250 gallon propane tank out there. It’s almost buried with all the high grass around it.
The reason that I have this project is that, due to the guy wire making one corner of the garden fence border secure being in the way, my husband can’t mow this area. (actually, he DID do it once, being hard-headed in the extreme. He got the grass cut, but had tears and rips in his arms and on the side of his head from forcing his way through the small opening while on the mower – and then back out again – while I was occupied elsewhere. I ripped him a new one while cleaning up his wounds, making him promise not to try this again. I told him that I would use the weed whacker on the area.
Since I’m a lazy, procrastinating person, I’ve let it get totally out of hand. My husband noticed it the other day, so I’ve redoubled my efforts to get this area under control before he decides to ‘handle’ it again.
It rained overnight, so things are too wet right now. We will go to Lunch Bunch in about an hour and then I’m hoping to be able to do a session or two when we return, though the forecast is egg-frying-outside this afternoon. Fingers crossed.
SHOP – I should be able to spend some time out in the shop this afternoon. I got a bit more done on the Christmas presents I’m making, plus am now ready to start re-painting the dragonfly after making sure the glass is secure on his wings and gluing new eyes on.
I hope that you are having a good Friday, too.
Filed under Gardening, Lewis Art, Thoughts on a ________
Happy Art from Found Things
Filed under Art From Found Things
The Art of Paper Quilling
Quilling or paper filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. ~ Wikipedia
Here is a beautiful example –
But some people take a beautiful idea and just explode it, coming up with completely new ideas and techniques that blow you4r mind. Yulia Brodskaya is one of these artists. Let me show you.
Quilling – Yulia Brodskaya – WOoArts
Sculpture by Kirsty Armstrong
Filed under sculpture
Forklift
I’m doing exercises with weights 3 times a week. On M-W-F, I do one 3-minute session with Denise Austin online, and then two or three more short sessions during the day. I started out with 5-pound weights, then learned the obvious lesson that I should have started with lighter ones. I’m now using 3-lb weights. My arms tired VERY quickly, so my sessions are short, but I do multiple sessions, trying to making up for my pathetic-ness.
I’ve been doing this for 3 weeks now and am beginning to feel a difference. I’m beginning to have an easier time with the sessions. I am rebounding faster between sessions. I am now doing a session, then doing something else, then coming back and doing another doing exercises different than the ones online, over and over during the weight days. My arms are SO bad that it may never be that others notice any difference. I don’t care. I am feeling a bit stronger, so it feels as if my time is well spent.
Combined with my elliptical trainer on T-Th-S and my yoga stretches daily, I feel I’m doing a good thing for myself.
Filed under exercise
Driftwood Art
Filed under Driftwood Art, When Wood Comes Alive
More Corrugated Metal Art
Corrugated Iron Art – ArtBytheSea.co.nz
Filed under Corrugated Iron Art, metal art
Amazing Cats by Mitchell Grafton
Filed under ceramics, Mitchell Grafton
More Obvious (I HOPE!) Signs
Obvious Signs – Giedre’ Vaiciulaityte – BoredPanda.com
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor
Thoughts on a Wednesday 8-18-2021
I’m dressed in clothes that need washing. I didn’t wash my hair this morning. I was PLANNING to do some weed whacking in the waist-high grassy area behind the shop and beside my square foot garden, then shower, etc.
IT’S RAINING. Maybe it will stop and dry out so I can at least get started out there today, but I was primed for it this morning, and that doesn’t happen often.
I’ll regroup now, maybe work in the shop on my dragonfly refurbishment and my Christmas presents for friends.
I spent a some time yesterday enjoying Pinterest. I find it very interesting that they have built in some kind of algorithm that works as you look, clicking on things that interest you. You click on an image of a man with muscular arms, for example, and lo and behold, more show up as you scroll. :0) I don’t mind that a bit. Happily, I couldn’t care less what the site learns about me, unlike other sites, where I’m much more careful. Yesterday I spent a really nice amount of time enjoying the talents of people on the “Every Country Has Talent” shows. I’m a sucker for people unknown to the public at large, and maybe shy and un-star-like shocking everyone with a voice that knocks your sucks off, or another talent you didn’t expect. I’m also a sucker for emotional reunions, such as between wives or children and veterans returning. Just can’t get enough of that. :0)
Pinterest is also the source of art work that I think HAS to be shared. I’m delighted when I find images by someone who has taken an idea no one has thought of before, or honed a skill that all of us play at and bring it to an art form. The world is such a wondrous place, home to truly creative minds and hearts. I feel rich every time I find another.
I hope that you are healthy, somewhere safe, and will find joy in your day.
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Paper Art
Filed under paper art, paper mache
Celebrating Polar Bears
Filed under Amazing Animals, Awe-Inspiring Photography
Sand Sculptures by Andoni Bastarrika
Sand Sculpture – Andoni Bastarrika
Email sent to me by a dear friend.
Filed under sand sculpture, sculpture
More Iris Scott FingerPainting
Fingerpainting Art by Iris Scott –
Filed under Fun with Fingerpaint, Iris Scott
Dudley Siviour Corrugated Metal Art
Corrugated Iron Art – Dudley Siviour
Filed under Corrugated Iron Art, metal art
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