THE CAT AND I

Just took this on my front porch

for another window picture as

I am collecting them with my camera.

I liked the layers here . There's the cat

dummy board I painted long ago that

has become the Watch Cat for my house

and then there's me in the reflection

and across the street the old barn that

is for sale with the house of an old friend..

I love a mystery and here is one in a window.

You just have to use your imagination

here and cook up a plot.

Tees for You

Making a neck piece with old t shirts was a fun

thing to do--I saw the directions in

Martha Stewert's Whole Living... and HAD to try it

Here I have combined two sets of colors

with a vintage pin I KNEW someday, I'd

use in a "project" of some kind. The sky is

the limit in making these.

Perhaps, you can get the easy directions

on her site.

www.wholeliving.com/article/t-shirt-necklace

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Here One Day... Gone the Next

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One day last week coming home from the post office in the Hollow I drove by this house about a mile from mine---then turned around to go back and take some photos--both sides of the lawn had the flamingos all over the place, there was something hanging on one's neck

by the sign and also a smaller sign with writing which I was not about to

go up in the yard and read...
It made me laugh to think of the people responsible for the display

and how much giggling must have gone on. I believe the next day

it was all gone. like it never happened. It is good to have

your camera with you !

Side Track Find

As often happens, I got sidetracked this am

going up to the old bigger studio where the

classes were held hundreds of years ago

it seems. After sewing on a patchy

pink thingy I hung up the coffee cup I

had brought up to hang back on the class

cup board which brought memories back

of a missed student, It was then I saw the

Vincent Starry Night Guy cup I had for

gotten about---well, that HAD to come down

to the little computer/art room at least for

awhile--so now it was photo it and

write this and be thankful I did get

sidetracked---the sunflowers on

the cup are uplifting to me...

Odd Dream From Long Ago #239

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This is an Every Day Matters group Challenge #239
with the theme of "Something that scared me."
In the dream I was at a deli counter
trying to buy some pearls when a policeman
stood by me with his gun holstered, looming large.
I was terrified he would shoot me mistakenly--
- thinking I was robbing them of the
pearls.....pretty nutty situation, but
a dream I never forgot. Now that I look
back I can recall a traumatic situation
where I was wrongly accused by an authority
figure--which crushed me to pieces
Maybe that's a rather late
dream interpretation....

you may notice I have a bandage

on my thumb--not in the dream--just

for the photo I took of my

hands to help me draw them

right--I recently stabbed it

opening a package--with a really heavy

duty sheet rock knife.

Guess What

I sent this out to some people I thought

would "get" the answer to "what's this

I am doing?"---

well one of them has tried with three

guesses---I finally gave a clue out...

it's really not hard.

An Art Journal Page Process

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to see them larger)

"Juicy Fruit" began with a photo I had taken

of a handcarved crow that I stuck a strawberry on...

see it emerging below on a page in my small Moleskini

Sketch book...I've have drawn it in pencil and

then inked it in with a black Pitt pen

Now you see it spreading over to the left page and becoming a

'spread"----here you the the first sketchy look


Then that side is inked with the pen and it is now ready to add color
with watercolor pencils, waterbrushes and
some acrylic paints
,...Mellencamp has a good beat...

Here I used Black acrylic (in the bottle) paint for
the solid rich background I happen to
frequently use..
it's now ready for color...

I just hope the colors sing and bring the delight I felt.
You'll notice the fairly new winnaname logo I have designed
which goes on some works. It surely amazed me
how this glass container in the fridge keeps the berries
just like fresh ones

Book Altering Progression

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This book belongs to Donna Sledzik, with the

theme of Halloween--

in the Inspiration Station group, books

are passed around each month so many will alter pages in

several books. I love Halloween images and looked

forward to doing Donna's .

The photos are all ones I took in Maine.

in Durham with the really scary

scarecrow where Steven King lived

in his teen years, to the center spread taken in

the window of Orphan Annie's in Auburn, Maine

where each year authentic vintage displays

look super and then there's the

what looks like a perfect crypt door for a

horror movie---but it's in Auburn, too.

Here's the book to be altered

The pages were covered and then folded

for unusual look


It DOES warn you not to look


in her eyes....





Yikes!
this would not be a good thing

Morning begins...

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This mornings' read is so packed with

visual and written delight I can only

look at two pages and I have to

go to my small studio and create something,,

this am, it's this post on my blog...

" the bookholder is set

with my first of day nest
of ideas that lie

in a creative sigh...."

e j mordasky

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Pesto Perfection for One

This is a breakfast

sensation as far as I'm concerned

somewhere I saw mention of putting

fresh mint in homemade pesto sauce---I

think on a gluten free site--can't recall.

I have loved Pesto and eaten it all over

the USA even talking with a few chefs

about it that came to my table--it seems in

some chef schools there is a friendly

contest on who makes the best pesto etc.

One mentioned to me that he preferred walnuts

instead of pine nuts and that had been

what I was doing and thinking it was really not

apropos. Basicially this is whole wheat round

bread duo toasted with pesto and a lovely

fried egg sprinkled with peprika--it needs

no seasoningas for the pesto has it all.

I make pesto for one in a Black and Decker

(manly made, I think :-) Handy Chopper..

toss in some basil, mint, and parley in equal amounts

then add some sea salt, minced garlic, oil and walnuts

.....press the chopper for a treat! Make it to

your tastes and invite me to breakfast :-).

I am crazy about this dish !!

"Front Porch Bench"

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An arrangement set on the porch bench (how I love how this

old church pew has aged in 50 years) for people to

see as they come to the door, be they dragons, dames,

delivery men or even doggies . Not many people

do stop by but this is an eye catcher

that starts light hearted conversations.

The pineapple I had last week and can't seem

to toss the tops

til they've adorned some spot for

awhile, the bottle is

part of a small green glass collection

upon top of a

filing cabinet and takes on

a new life out on

the porch.

The heart made of stone

surely might break if it falls

to pieces .....

I post such things hoping you too,

will find enjoyment of this sort

on your own front porch.

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Cat Of Cowries

One of a series I painted of cats in fanciful

outfits--I only finished this one and as no

one who looked at it said they liked it I figured

a series would go nowhere and I wanted it to

---so I let other's opinions cloud this series

efforts and no matter how much I know it

is not supposed to matter, it often

does and that's just me being

ultra sensitive, I believe. .....not

able to take the slings and arrows

tossed on my life stage.

But....

at the same time it presents me with

very deep feelings for all my senses

and this brings great joy...

A Moment of Eyecatchers Collected

In my kitchen just now with camera in hand

I wonder what I will see to photo--what will

catch my eye and here are three of them

moments like these are the seeds of future

works perhaps or may have been meant

to be this day's offering in my blogspot.

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This tea pot has been in some of my work and

this morning with its hat tipped and the

early morning light--- it screamed

"take me take me" to my camera.

Below is the round ball of elastics I bought for

a whole $ at Michaels as the really big ones

were what I was getting lately as I reached inside

the catchall draw for an elastic--good investment I say.

The pig is an indicator on top of my

Mr Coffee---his position tells me from across

the kitchen if I need to make coffee or

maybe it is brewing already. I bought

in in a hardware store by the cash

register as his full details amazed me

Liners, Flats. Rounds and Scrubs

I just finished a painting and in the end of the whole

creative process....

it's 'put away' time. This time I got off'

track (always some reason to)

with the brush containers,

when one fell over and scattered brushes

like leaves tossed in a whirlwind--they went

all over the place, including inside a

draw file,under a desk and hid in

dark places. So it became

time to choose new cups that won't tip as easily and

here you have the new group with the old brushes

from left to right, liners, flats, rounds and

then scrubs.....each painting demands

certain ones, that will be 'just right'. Each

cup has a story I can recall in a nano second.

They seem to be heavy setters and look good to me

as I glance up at that them--it's important to

feel a rightness in your creative enviroment--

as least that works for me.

CATCHER IN THE GARDEN

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Of course, this first Spring growth must've
been there last week, but just yesterday it caught
my breath to see it. The enhancement of the
photo was done in two different programs with
the goal being to show the moment of eye catch
delight I experienced.

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I love to find the hidden faces

in the photo !