It's Saturday morning as I type this and once again, I am doing what I want, because since I still work a full time job, although from home, I still have to work specific hours which means I don't get many mornings I can get up and not have to do things at a certain time. I do selfishly take advantage of it I admit. This moment I am sipping my coffee as I create this post.
Used to, when I was younger and still cared about all of that, Saturday mornings in general was cleanup time. Kitchen was spiffed up, bathrooms cleaned, every room dusted and floors at least swept or vacuumed. When finished, the whole house was neat and tidy... and smelled really nice. Sometimes that included sweeping porches as well.
These days, that doesn't happen, not all at one time that is and never on Saturday morning as it is my only real morning where there is no push. Sure I still spiff up the kitchen as needed through the week and the bathroom gets cleaned once a week, but not on a certain day. Dusting happens haphazardly and on a whim and floors get a quick swipe with the vacuum or broom when I can see something on them. LOL !!! I LOVE a neat and tidy place, but I no longer like to do what it takes to make it so.... well.... not all at one time that is. I do it, but it is never all completely done at one time anymore. I need a house cleaner!
I messaged my sister yesterday evening and asked her if she would send her maid to clean my kitchen because it needed to be done and I wasn't feeling it. Later she responded that she let the cleaner go because that woman had the audacity to tell her "naahhh... I'm just not feeling it" .....LOL ! Of course you probably already get that she doesn't have a maid, she is her own maid too. I replied to her how you just couldn't find good help these days and she responded in agreement and added.... "nor bad help for that matter" ha ha......
I used to tell myself that I should have someone, anyone.. or a crowd over once a month for a meal, as that would cause me to clean EVERYTHIING... including the top of the refrigerator all at one time. 🤣 ...yes, my not caring about such things is only when it is only about me.
This is a piece of art I have been playing with the last several nights. I sit at my art table, with youtube playing across the room on my TV through my firestick, with different art videos going.... mostly, sometimes I watch other things... but..... When I started this piece, I thought I was just going to do a painting with no collage. I didn't work on it too long the first evening, just starting an under layer.....but
(8x8 canvas panel)
....just like always, when there is paint involved in anything, there is always a cast off sheet of paper or several sheets sometimes, where brushes or scrapers are cleaned off or extra paint is swashed on, so that none of it is wasted and because it makes lots of fun, random collage papers. This was the one from the first night and as you could see above, by the second night, this below paper was torn up and some pieces were added to my painting. Uh Oh! Now it's mixed media and not only paint. Oh well, it was a good thought while it lasted. LOL Anyway, but last night, some other paper pieces were added onto it and.... well.... you saw where I am with it above. I am not sure I am done with it, but I might be. One more thing to be wishy washy about... right ?
Last night when I had played with the bigger piece all I wanted to, I decided to make a couple of quick tiny collages. Bits of paper were all over the place already, so it just seemed the thing to do. I simply wasn't done having fun yet.
The next two are small, about the size of a regular playing card. All of the papers on here are ones I painted or colored or printed on the jell press. Sometimes the next morning I think "hmmmmm I swear this looked better than this at 3 am this morning" LOL.... you know, in the delirium hours.
Other times I still really like them. You just never know what a morning will bring.
This was my little ode to most neutrals, not my norm as you know. The piece of corrugated cardboard, brown paper in the center with the black swish and the piece of twine with the knot in it, came from the packaging of the fun handmade brushes I bought and showed you a few posts ago. Everything the seller sent with them, the brush wrappings and the such, were totally usable for collaging, so I used a little bit of it in the creating of this mini little collage.
What a contrast. Once I quickly had these together, my creative desire was appeased for the night. That was good too, because I was finally feeling tired.
I have a few things lined up and waiting in the living room to take for my Good Will run today. I haven't had as much to take the last few weeks as one of my knees has been annoying me and we've had too much rain, which my body doesn't like, so I haven't spent as much time cleaning out and gathering things to go. Still....I plan on taking what I have ready so I will still feel like I am making progress. I've been enjoying this slow deep clean out journey I have been on. I love every time I pick up or dig out something and decide it doesn't belong here anymore. It's also fun because I am donating it to a mostly helpful organization that will help someone else who needs help AND someone else is going to get a great deal on it if they want or need it in the store. I love the idea of the trail it all is taking.
I'll do other things today, but I don't know what they are or at what time of day I will do them. I love days like this.
I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend, however you are choosing to spend it.
