For the last 3 weeks or close to that, it has rained nearly every day. Not all day and some days not even that much, but still at some time or several times through the day, it has rained. I can't like it really as it affects my body and makes me feel sluggish, even when mentally I don't feel that way. I am also solar powered, so even if I am stuck inside working or the such, I need a lot of sunshine streaming in the windows to keep me going happily
Yesterday I was in my living room and I looked out across the pasture and there were the darkest black clouds gathering, while on my front yard, the sun was shining bright. I was on that edge it seems. So I went out and took a few photos of it. As much as I wasn't looking forward to more rain, my eyes were enjoying the immediate contrast.
Last night I spent time again at my art table. I spent more time straightening up, re-organizing and cutting out pieces from a book that I can use later than I did creating, but finally in the wee hours, I pulled a piece I had started on a couple of weeks ago and decided to see if I could find some direction for it to go. I had no real plan when I started it and last night I still didn't, but I started gluing a few pieces of collage paper on it. I randomly added some shapes and colors and that is exactly what it looked like, a little bit of random chaos. Part of the papers had been from books and some had writing on them. I also added pieces of a note that had been taped inside one of the books as the giver had shared their feelings with and about someone they were giving it too. Then I decided that I should try to write on some transparent paper and see if I could add it. I wrote and glued on two pieces. One says "you are loved" which you can see clearly. The other said......
....."let go of the thoughts that weigh you down"....but I made a mistake I didn't really notice till later on, about where I chose to put it. The area had the most white background exposed, however, there was already some other writing from a book page there and although I had deliberately used transparent paper for what I wrote, I somehow didn't expect the background to come through so strongly. That was a mistake and I had not thought it through well obviously, so some of it interfered with being able to read clearly at the top of my message. Live and learn... right ? That's what tests are for!
After I got the above one to a point that I was thinking it was as completed as it was going to be, I made this simple little collage from small pieces on my table. I don't know why it is so satisfying to make these small pieces as they are not big enough on their own for real valid decor and yet I still make them. I hold hope that one day I will figure out how to use them in some way, but I also admit that I haven't spent hardly any time trying to figure out what that will be.
I thought I'd also share this fun one I put together in the last few weeks. It is small and simple. You know I like putting windows and doors in odd places, so here is another. Actually, the flower and the bee were already on the same photo and I just added the door photo that shows the view of a short hall and another doorway into a room. Two pieces!.... fun outcome. I thought it looked like the bee was about to fly down the hall.
For a while now, this program has become jumpy. Sometimes I am typing and without me realizing it, I am all of the sudden typing somewhere else in the post than where I started. It is amazingly annoying. Sometimes I don't realize it till I am going back over what I have done so far and find the descriptions are now at another photo or tagged onto a previous paragraph. If I were guessing, I would guess it was happening when the program does an automatic save. I'm only guessing though, but like I said, it is amazingly annoying. It takes long enough for me to put one of these together and I definitely don't need to be sending extra time trying to straighten out the text razzle dazzle. Ugh.... but carrying on....
I put a pork roast in the crockpot last night and early this morning I lifted out the roast and poured a large can of green beans in, both of which I will be taking out to Mom's for lunch in a short while. Yum Yum ! It's going to be good!
Hope you have all been having a good weekend. Like always, mine is flying by too fast!
