As you know, it is the Fourth Of July, Independence Day here in the US of A. Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie... and Cheverolet....LOL... that was from a Cheverolet commercial many years ago. Back in the day of the classics, Nova... Chevelle. All the rage back in my teens. My first husband courted me in a burgundy GTO (Pontiac).... the second in a gold Nova..... never really gave that much thought before and I'm done with it now too. LOLOLOL
This is a paid holiday at the company where I work and to me that is celebration enough! I won't be firing up a grill, just for myself in this heat, already 85 degrees here at 1 PM. It's expected we'll see 91 before the temperature tops out. There is a fast food place called CookOut and they have grilled burgers and hotdogs, amongst other things. Sometimes I have drove through and grabbed one as they do pretty much taste like you grilled them yourself. A small attempt to give a nod to tradition. That has crossed my mind a time or two, but my kitchen is stocked full of good food, so I will probably talk myself out of getting dressed and riding out in the heat for that. Time will tell.
Of course you know, I had to show a few things I've been working on. This first one is something new I started on a couple of nights ago, added a tiny piece or two last night and then drew on it with a marker just a little while ago. I think it is done....I think. I used multiple papers with busy designs. I wasn't sure I could pull anything off doing that from the moment I started, This is where it is now. Colorful!!
What ?? hee.... all of the papers on here are brown paper bag, like you bring your groceries home in from the market. I used to use them to cover the table I work on while I painted. Eventually the papers would get a lot of paint on them and I would change them out to a clean one. A few had neat paint combinations on them, so sometimes I would cut those parts out and keep them. I ended up with a little bag full of pieces and a couple of nights ago I came across the bag and decided to make something with some of them. I expected it to be quite wonky and I think those expectations were met. 🤣 I can't promise it's done, but this is where it is for now.
This one is a piece where I started creating it who knows how long ago. I have a stack of pieces that weren't quite done or somehow never quite worked out. Once in a while I will go through, pick one and try to make it go somewhere. This one had multiple other paper pieces that you can no longer see, but the whole thing was sad. I added the large black piece with the numbers on it (which covered a lot) and the black strip with holes across the bottom, plus that pink and black pointy piece underneath the black holey piece.... and called it done. Does it belong in the Strange & Weird category??? I believe it does, but there is something I strangely like about it now. One day when I'm famous, people will fight over this one.
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Here is a small animation of the flag on my Mother's front porch. I made it a couple of years ago and may have used it in another 4th post, I can't remember, but it never gets old.
I love America, what it's meant to be, what the vast majority of people still want it to be. I have hope we can get back to some of that and I believe we are working on it. I'm not sure though, but I can still hope. Most of my lifetime it's been a decent place to be and I feel lucky to have been born here. God help us! We're going to need it.
I have some red/white/blue windsocks, so I went out on the porch to hang a couple of them from existing hooks above the porch rails. The first one went on fine, but as I was hanging the second, right as I got the loop on the hook a big gust of wind caught it, pulled it back off the hook and it flew over the rail and landed in the side yard! I only had my grippy socks on and the grass is still damp from the rain the last couple of days, so I didn't go get it. Within a half hour, I looked out the front window and the second one was gone too. I found that it at least landed on the porch, so I went back out, snitched a better hook from another hanging art thing and hung it up again. So far, so good.
My goal today is to get my kitchen into extra good order. In general that doesn't sound like a lot, but there are things that need to be done, things that need to be re-organized and find new home-spaces. I am finding it hard to get in there and stick with it, so there may be starts and detours and... you know, but still, I hope when it comes time to go to the art table for the evening, that the kitchen will be looking and feeling fine.
