Random Studio....

It's a lazy Sunday afternoon as I put this together.

I have had the photos for a day or two,

waiting for the moments to crop and tweak.

Random shots from my 

Art Haven.

Enjoy!

New book, no time to really check it out thoroughly yet, but promising from eye-candy and journal aspect.

Brushes......usually making art. This time, they are art.

Animal claws? Maybe at some point, but for now, gleanings from the Tulip Poplar.

My love of old books.....I have many. These are NOT cutters.....

These ARE CUTTERS! Pretty good too....

A shelf of stamps. More elsewhere....love seeing them. All the possibilities.

Gleaned from personal collection and Goodwill, these are cutters, or scanned for text, image, etc. Collage inspiration!

Always room to learn more~~reading Julia, taking notes, soaking in each glorious day.

And my sense of humor....catching the *little ones* in a sweet hug! ♪ ♫ Milo has a girlfriend!♫ ♪

Back to work now.

Will be off blog tomorrow,

and will probably try and answer comments

on Tuesday.

Have an enchanted day;

find the extraordinary

right around you,

in your ordinary!

Pax....

A Little Inspiration Give Away.......

Well, I can't actually GIVE that to you, but I can give away two books that might be of help!

And WHY, you might ask, are *we* doing this?

Well, I wanted to do a give away at 700 posts and it slipped right by me. Poof. Gone. Into the ether.

Also, anyone who has stuck around while I have been extremely absent from the blog deserves a little perk....and these are little! LOL!

Both books are nearly new---as in, "Anne read them once and that was it"~~I am having to thin down stuff. Covers and spines are in excellent condition, no marks (that I recall....and if you find any money in them, please send it back) or junky sticky stuff. 

That I'm aware of. *wink*

Probably better than some of the stock on book store shelves.

Just leave a comment; I'll keep track of them really good, I promise.

One caveat~~I will ship to the U.S. or Canada. The last time I tried to send a package overseas from our local P.O. it was THREE TRIPS IN and no one knowing how to process it.....no joke. I was close to a nuclear meltdown on that one. I guess I live too far in the boondocks for International Mail.....

Both books to the winner; I will choose from the comments left up thru Oct. 3rd and announce on Oct. 4th.

Now get busy and leave me some words, people!

Pax....

Not up to par.......

Well, after a surprise trip to visit my Doctor yesterday, I have discovered I do indeed have a sinus infection, which could be part of the reason for my extreme lethargy and pains in the head. When I start dressing like the woman pictured above, I would recommend someone have me committed for observation! (actually, it is a pretty good depiction of how I feel....way out in left field, slightly off in another land, and yes, I'd like those ear covers to filter out any complaints/bad news!)

So I spent the day sleeping and reading, out from allergy meds and getting myself up enough to head to Wabash this afternoon for a show opening at Honeywell that I want to see, then back home and the same routine today. And the killer is it is a beautiful sunny day; I want to be outside working but I know better. There again, those ear-things the woman is wearing could come in handy as it is quite breezy.....

My book of choice yesterday, since I physically could not hold my Einstein tome and did not think I had enough active grey matter to grasp what I was reading, was the Sweet Potato Queens. You don't have to be Southern; just bawdy-sassy to enjoy it! I blitzed through half of it, dozing and laughing. Wild women on the loose.......what a hoot!

That's it for today kiddies; no art content, no intellectual content, I'm not even sure what I have written counts as content but the photo, ahhhhh, that should count for something! (Tristan, do you approve???)

Have a good weekend!