One more day.....(but check the bottom of the post!)

......of mediocrity and then I will be posting normally again.

Out on the road again this morning, with no idea when I will be back. A ton of trying to catch up on all while trying to keep up. The studio is so torn up at the moment I don't have a space to set a cup of coffee so that is the major offensive when I get a second breath!

I desperately need the sewing area cleaned off and so need a few more items to get junk out of the way, and then there's just the OTHER junk that needs to GO!

I think I'll run away to a tropical island, or New Orleans, or someplace where I can have a single, whole day to relax. A stay in a sanitarium is beginning to look really, really good!

In the meantime, I want Leslie to know her artwork is DONE, I am looking for boxes to ship pieces to her, and Tristan and Jean! Hopefully by the end of the week, my mailing committments will be completed!

And to the rest of you, I bid you a good day of studio work and lots and lots of hopping ideas! Speaking of which; you need to visit Gypsylulu Delights and sign up for a delightful blog give away! Yes, photo below! Click it to go to the post.

And to all of you.......

Pax.

A small PEEP!

I've been having connectivity issues with my broadband server, so I highly anticipate some downtime with the blog.
I am sure that saddens my gentle readers, but do not despair! The tech guys are great, and believe me, I can't function without the computer....not good. So IF posts are not of the usual frequency, I'm in "non-connection-land" grieving my heart out. (and probably driving DH nuts.....)
Cross your fingers for me! Him too for that matter.
And as a P.S.---the basement is almost DONE; I anticipate one more day of labor and it will be in order to work and have mixed media classes (though small) later in the year. Art Time!!!!WHOOOOOOO---HOOOOOOO!!!!!! Even hubby liked the wild print sheer curtains.
There really IS hope for the new year! ;)

PROGRESS!!!

Things are going fairly well. If you read "D-Day" then you should recognize the following photo as the wall-of-doom, uncluttered. The chair still needs the seat and arms upholstered, but that is for Spring. Just close your eyes and pretend that it is done in a lovely fake leopard print......yeeeeaaaaahhhhh!!!! (because that's what I have for it!) I bought some sheer curtains to hang over the shelving area--really neat . A white b.g. with these intense bright circles on them! FUN! It should help to keep the stuff on the shelves clean. (yeah, right, Anne. you bought them because you loved them and that was the only place to put them....)

While we're at it, I am including the cleaned out bathroom, which is excessively small, so the angle of the photos are wonky. Yes, I did the tile floor. That was not a pleasant job for someone with long legs......I could barely walk, plus it ended up costing me a fortune. Every piece, hand set........

I sponged and wiped the walls with a bronze paint, then stenciled silver Fleur-De-Lys. I painted the baseboards fancy too; don't know if they show up here.

So finally, since 2001 when this studio was constructed, I will have it all in order.

Which means the top half will fall apart any minute!

This is the back of the basement, which is overflow storage and has turned into an efficient area. Before it was just junk piles on a little plastic table (useless!!!!) and then on the floor. Now it is stuff actually worth keeping and up and in something of a state of order.

I did the small quilt on the right wall when I was working in a fabric store years ago. Uh huh, like having an alcoholic work in the liquor store.

I quit for my bank account's sake.

And I still wanted to have a place to live...... ;)

Now, the sad part of all this is I have DH home all next week,so I suppose my progress will be bits and pieces as time allows. I do a lot better with whole days to slave away!

Okay, enough.

Wow.

You got to see my latrine.

Have to go water the parakeet before he pulls his bowl off the side of the cage.....

How to torture yourself......

Well, the basement rehab is going well. I'm pitching, giving, sorting and I am happy even if not able to move. Lugging heavy boxes up and out of the cellar is really hard on an old fart. Harder yet was getting the old plastic shelves out in one piece without wrecking something---namely, me.

So to further humiliate myself, I find, in the rooting process, a photo of myself from YEARS AGO. I mean, young and thin and with a waist and legs up to THERE! It was taken when I was painting nose art on a B-17 at Grissom Air Force Base that was in the restoration process. I think I was 24 and still single and just full of myself! (ah! youth!)

Anyway, here it is for a laugh. Vintage cheesecake!

Where did that body go???? It must be buried in the cellar somewhere.....I need to keep rooting. Or maybe I was abducted by aliens and left in this plump, sagging specimen I loosely refer to as *me*. I'm crossing my fingers that I find THIS girl down there!!! And if I do, I'm abducting her and we're off to the plastic surgeon..........

In the meantime, back to the work at hand.

Ick.

D-Day

....I guess I should call it "B-Day" because I will be in the basement all day working on trying to get mountains of JUNK moved so I can get new shelving up and the old stuff out and dispose of things that I have collected for heaven only knows what reason. (because my alter-ego is "PACK RAT WOMAN---SAVER OF EVERYTHING!!!!) Sadly, that is true and something I have been working to correct. So believe me, this is major trauma doing the basement. But, I need the space more than the junk and hopefully it will look nice and be usable when finished.

Here is where I work now:

Here is what I am up against:

(click the photos if you would like to see anything close up, though why, I don't know.....)

I think I would just like to run screaming naked through the yard and get arrested and then maybe the Basement Fairy would have pity on me and come clean up my mess. Do I hear someone say "Fat chance"???

Dang.

I thought so.

If I don't re-emerge to post in a couple of days, please send Law Enforcement to look for me.