been a long time coming

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around. ~Will Rogers

M & M s

This is such a depressing story. Locked in solitary confinement, in a windowless box for your whole life. Very sadistic. He's in a bad-ass prison why wouldn't he be able to have contact with the others or at least a mother fucking window or art supplies for that matter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/us/21artist.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogi&oref=slogin

OZ

I feel like I'm in the tornado in the Wizard of Oz my whole life whirling up up up in the vortex and when I come down I won't know where I am. Everything will be strange and different. I'll be someplace where I have no idea where it is, searching to go back to someplace that I know.

Complaining

My camera is driving me crazy. How can it take such awful photographs? The light and color is different on each photo even though I take a bunch of photos at once. aaagggghhh.

And while I'm in the mood for complaining...Why is it that I can't get an image to transfer even though it seems like I'm doing everything correctly. They just come off with the paper.

Finally an update after all that's happened

Copper, sterling silver, crystal, tiger's eye pendant

I love how clear and beautiful the photographs are on Dooce.com. She has a Nikon D70 (I think) Very expensive camera but beautiful pictures.How could my camera take such crappy pictures? I thought that I had found the book for it but it turned out to have only a couple of pages of how to set it up and no other info just a thick book in many lanquages.I've slowly been working on my art journal and techniques for backgrounds and transfering images-no luck what so ever with inljet transfers - but I'm still trying. Can't wait until that Claudine Hellmuth's Collage book gets here. Amazon had it ready to ship last Thursday and the post office picked it up today -SIX DAYS! Then usually it gets lost in Warren-something-or-other Pennsylvania for DAYS! not unlike the Bermuda triangle and finally it will arrive at my house. I should just pay the freaking postage for faster shipping.

I hope You are having a good day

Another project completed!

I had this plain white little cabinet that had been a present with bath soap stuff in it. I decided that I would paint it to match my bedroom and hang it on a wall space that just needed that little something. And Voila! There are many layers of paint colors and textures on this cabinet that my photographs just don't show.

The week from hell

My daughter and I had birthdays this week. My parents will be gone on Sunday. The only good thing about them moving is that I've been at the BEST rummage sale I could ever imagine all week. And everthing was free. I have been on an emotional roller coaster. Good thing my one brother was here. "Just let it go, Linda" was what he said to me a million times.
I would have choked my other brother if he had a neck.
So if his name was Lard Head or Lard Ass, then people could just call him Lard for short. "Lard. Hey Lard..."
I got a present. Ciao Italia. I've wanted this cookbook for ages. It looks great and explains about alot of things, like ingredients, etc.

More photoshopping

So my plan is to learn a new Photshop trick (most) every day. (I say most to be realistic). Here is one that uses another masking technique to make it look all fuzzy. Just like the original Star Trek shows did when the camera was on any women in the show. If you don't believe me check for yourself. By the way we are at a little town right on the Mediterranean on the beach really and that is my bathing suit. I'm not just wearing any old thing that low cut.

Sicily - My Italian sisters - Francesca, Me, and Rosella

Bee gripes

So my boss just told me that he had someone else do the poster to advertise the bee class. Isn't that my job? What am I here for?
Does it seem insulting or am I being "overly sensitive"?

Another "model" photo and more

Here is a link to an outrageous 1960's motel and supper club-"The Gobbler".
"It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be covered in deep-pile pink and purple carpet. But wait - here's the best part. It will look like an abstract sculpture of a giant turkey. We'll bill it as a romantic getaway - and call it The Gobbler!"

Photoshopping

I've been learning and trying some new techniques in Photoshop. One I read about here. It's supposed to make a picture look like it's a model. I don't think that this one looks like that without people but I do think that it looks really lovely. Later I will try to find some people to put in it. I took this photo of a coutyard in Rome. I love the colors.

The hat - minus the mullet

Not so good of a pic but the best for now. The "mullet" flap in the back HAD to be ripped out. I just couldn't deal with how that looked AND the ears. For those of you who need to see some guys with "mullets" you can go here. I was surprised, but there are people who don't know what I'm talking about when I make comments about "mullets".

My Special Valentine

Items that might be of interest to others besides me

Here is a nostalgic web site: Food Timeline-- history notes: popular American foods by decade(1920-1980). Verry Inkterestting! It's amazing what people ate changed so much each decade especially in the 50's onward. Check out the 1960's SIGNATURE DISHES & POPULAR TRENDS.
Lots of fascinating explanations about the origins of recipes: examples: devil's food cake, chicken wings, Tang, and on and on. Just keep searching you'll find it.

At the 1964 World's Fair I am wondering what the designer for the food pavilion was thinking when he named it the "Festival of Gas" ?

Rhinestone Room Inspiration

An old man spent all his time decorating every spot of his house. This has been salvaged from the house when it was condemned/torn down and is now in a museum. And dang if I can't remember where I saw it. Maybe I came across it when I was trying to find N.C. Wyeth illustrations?