i’m thinking maybe every so often (every day? every week? whenever i think of it?) i’ll put a different ninja on sale… i’m picking “in battle alone” today – 30% off! :) this could be fun….
so today is the day we have to be out of the old space for good. no more old suite 100 gallery. i am glad we had a month overlap, otherwise i’d probably be a lot sadder… (i don’t always adapt to change very well/quickly!) so it’s been fun to have some time at the new space, as that’s starting to feel like home.
There may be some more big changes in store for the gallery! it’s fun to plan more shows and events and figure out which direction we want to go with things…. i wonder what this year will be like!
(you can find “in battle alone” here)
new music sheet ninja i did last night, while watching Friends in bed… good ol laptop. friends at night reminds me of living in CA with bethie and our room upstairs… our mattresses on the floor. pushed together… until we discovered that if we left a small nook in between them, it made a great holding area for snacks. (before this it was just an inadvertent crack, which led to one of the memorable quotes of the year, which, i think, actually is a good metaphor for living, “Don’t eat the crack cheeto.”)
anyway – the music ninja is available in my etsy shop.
something i started yesterday… not sure where it’s going….
i was reading the dedication page of The Little Prince and the line "from whom this grown-up grew" caught my eye…… my sis and i had matching halter tops with 2s on them when we were like 5 and 7. i don’t know why……
i was reminded again how big wall painting is much more tiring than little canvas painting! my wrists get really tired. i’m weak. put a couple coats of white in the room upstairs at the new gallery space. We don’t have any lights up there yet, so it was just by the light from the skylight, which isn’t a lot when it’s cloudy out and the sun goes down so fast in the winter. was kinda funny to see what it looked like the next day! maybe i should ask if i could paint a big ninja on one of the walls. or all of them. hm. that might be more fun!
finally finished the second 10×10 piece for the “10×10″ show at suite 100 gallery. I should have 4 done by the time it opens, knock on wood :)
Prints are available in my etsy shop.
the sun was out today!
(and i saw hapag lloyd pull into port…)
i got 2 of these little boxes at a garage sale somewhere in alameda last year… i love the craftsmanship of them! i had intended to paint on them, but never got a round to it and when i moved up to seattle i used them to store bits of ocean glass i picked up on the east bay… somewhere around coyote hill i think?
anyway i decided to draw on one the other night. ninja and bunny. bunny hasn’t been around in seattle much… she was kind of a security thing when i was away from turtle. but sometimes i still need her. the box is available in my etsy shop.
funny how i still have these overly-romantic ideas of things and times… what with all the inauguration festivities and ceremony yesterday i start thinking about this country and it’s history… and want to believe that everything was better “before.” Like maybe ww2-era. People were more patriotic, more selfless, more caring. more loyal, more trustworthy…? In reality I suppose there has always been corruption, greed and hatred.
well isn’t this cheery??
i don’t mean it to be negative… i guess i suppose it is more that wherever you look you can always find instances of both sides of the coin: indifference and compassion, envy and gratitude, greed and generosity. I should be less cynical about the here and now.
the over-romanticizing reminds me of how i used to think it would be so cool to live in medieval times… in a castle…. with wall sconces and flowing dresses…
not realizing that in reality i wouldn’t be said noble-woman, i’d inevitably be the rag wearing, blind-as-a-bat servant girl, raking poop and eating rotten potato stew
a couple nights ago we had another “aquaversity” at the aquarium… continuing education seminars for volunteers. This one was “pipes and pumps” and we got to learn all about the inner workings and behind-the-scenes of what it takes to exhibit the animals.
pictured here are day-old seahorses! an unexpected treat for the evening!
every time i go there i am amazed at how much fun i have.
and every time it’s almost time for me to go there (or pert-near anywhere, for that matter) i forget how much i enjoy these times and lazy lethargy sets in and i don’t want to go anywhere. (does that make sense?)
it plays itself out sorta like this:
“awwwww maaaan… i don’t wanna go today…..”
(time lapse. about 5 hours)
“wow! that was so fun! i love going there!”
and pretty much any activity can be inserted into this little equation.
it’s like bart. with the eels. in the witness relocation episode… when side show bob is after them… and he runs to the one end of the boat and there are electric eels. so he runs to the other end of the boat – and in the water below are crocodiles. so he runs back to the first end of the boat, and, upon seeing the electric eels still swimming below says, remembering, ‘oh, yeaaaah…”
i am realizing taknig picutres of my shoes is kinda fun! more fun than the rest of me… cuz, in the words of Ross, “I’m still carrying a little holiday weight…” ok maybe that’s not funny. owel.
anyway – i realized i do have a pair of shoes that do not have holes in the bottom! these greenies i picked up at a thrift store in LA last year… (i bet it’s sunny there now)… so yeah. dry piggies. less whining. good.
and a first! polka dot socks! i’ve always been a stripedy socked girl, but i got these for christmas and they are pushing me WAY outside the box!
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