New old discoveries

Ach! Today is only Tuesday!! I'm way behind, just too many exciting things going on.

I'm in the middle of a new series of one of a kind, watercolor, focal pieces. It's almost painful to tear myself away from them for these few minutes... I'll have to wait for the resin to cure, so no eye candy until the end of the week at the earliest.

I went to the LIBRARY yesterday, you wouldn't think a girl that achieved a 3.8 in her last semester of college (I was studying neuroscience) would forget about the wonders of the local library, but I did. A totally free playground of knowledge!!! and all for the borrowing. I'm a little rusty at the Dewey Decimal system, but luckily the reference sheets were posted in accessible areas. My favorite area at the moment, starts around 740's That's the arts and crafts section. I picked up 5 books and boy, did that bring back memories... Macrame, needlepoint, jewelry design, giftwrap, Christmas ornaments and a few shelves over, watercolor techniques, painting and drawing. I definitely love the internet, but, sometimes you just want to sit in a cozy chair and peruse the pages of a good book. Not to mention, the ridiculous photos from the 60's and 70's. I'm a child of the 80's so some of the styles and fashions from back then just amaze me, it's hard to think, wow, people actually wore those things... and thought they looked good!! Not that the 80's was any better with fluorescent everything, but the books from 50-70 all have photos in black and white... so I'm not even commenting on some of those atrocious colors that were everywhere like mustard and avocado.

Which reminds me... The conclusion to the daily portrait is coming, there are just too many things to include, condense and cut down. It's coming along, we'll see if it can be fit in.