Happy Memorial Day

Weather:  Crappy

Dinner:  Prime rib, roasted potatoes, green salad, peas and carrots

Art:  see above

watching:  60 minutes

Listening:  Book on tape in car

Bought:  Tulip Paint Pens at Michael's      fabulous   

Goal:  To get some real art done

Flower Power

I was doodling again at the hospital, I have not had time to make any art, so this is it for now.  It rained all day today, and now it is snowing, you gotta love Canada weather systems.  Just finished BBQ and now watching the hockey game, well the hubby is , I am on the laptop writing this blog.  What are you doing tonight. 

Where has my life gone

This used to say 2009 but I recycled this little dittie to say 2010.  Because where has my life gone.  It seems to be flying by.  I thought when I quit work I would be a lady of leisure and be able to work in the studio all day or whenever I want.  But who was going to clean the house, wash the clothes, and make the dinner.  So in order to facilitate more time for me....I hired a cleaning lady.  Now I have had many cleaning ladies in my life when I was working.  So there was a wee bit of  guilt associated with this hiring as I am not working but hubby was okay with it because I have no me time lately, with my mother being ill and in the hospital and me going every day, things that I used to do got left behind.  So I have her here working today, what a hard worker, she is doing stuff that needs to be done and I have not got to.  So I am only going to get her once a month, because I can keep up with the daily stuff, but the big stuff that I like to be done will be done by her.  Today I am home, but I don't need to be, My mother in law has her as a cleaner and she is honest and hard working.  So hubby has been away a couple of days this week out of town on business, so I have been watching TV the finals of a bunch of shows.  I watched American Idol, finale and I liked Lee so I am glad he won.  I watched the finale of Two and A half men, I get a laugh out that show, even if I don't like Charlie Sheen.  Well enough of this dribble drabble what have you been doing with your life.

Dreaming about travel

I went to Arizona last year with my friends.  One my friends has a house there.l  Lucky to have such a good friend.  Anyway I decided to take a travel journal with me.  I went to the dollar store

and bought a little book.  Took some pencils and some markers and water crayons, glue,

and she had scissors there.  Before I left I glued a few things in and stamped a few images.

So every morning we sat around in our PJ's outside and gabbed and had coffee, and breakfast and planned the day, and enjoyed the sun, after all it was October back home and I can tell

you in October where we live you don't sit around in your PJ's outside.  And anyway back

to the story that is when I would work in my journal.  My friends do not do art of any kind, but put up with me, buy they would look through magazines and cut stuff out they think would look nice in the travel journal.  So I had a fun time creating this journal, and just about filled it all up.

So next time you go away don't stress about what to put in your travel journal, I have pictures I have created, I have magazines cutouts, tickets,menus, etc.

The secrets out........

Well drum roll please:::::today's announcement is Janet http://jkbees.blogspot.com/ and I are hosting our very first  6x6 collage exchange.  I hope you are excited about this as I am.  Janet and I exchange art work regularly, atcs, postcards.  But we thought we would mix it up a bit a do a 6x6 collage.  Then we decided to take it one step further lets see if anyone else wants to play.  I hope you want to play.  The rules are there are no rules, it has to be 6x6 on something sturdy, can be anything but be sturdy.  We decided on two collages per person. The end date for signing up is June 7. If you want to sign up, just go to my profile, where my email address is and email me your address.  On June 8, we will email you your swap partners address.  It has to be done and in your partners hands by June 30.  I have included some links for you to have a look if your not sure how to create a collage, dont worry if you are beginner your all welcome here. Now sign up dont miss out.  We  are not going as big as http://www.ihanna.nu/blog/ postcard exchange because we dont know how she did it , and she did it so well... So come one come all, lets have some fun, what do your Say?
Here are some great links with great collages

1. http://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/
2. http://acollageaday.blogspot.com/
3. http://collageclearinghouse.blogspot.com/
4. http://roseannc.blogspot.com/
5. http://www.notpaper.net/
6. http://en.wordpress.com/tag/collage/
7. http://blog.twenty2wo.com/tag/collage
8. http://kollaj.typepad.com/kollaj/
9. http://daisyyellow.squarespace.com/vividlife/category/collage
10. http://www.flickr.com/groups/6x6/
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAlixoyJCzk&feature=player_embedded
12. http://malettigianfranco.blogspot.com/
13. http://gracialouise.typepad.com/elsewhere/

Mish Mash

This is what I do when I sit and visit with my Mum.  You don't have to really think about it, and you can still carry on a conversation.

DON'T FORGET TO TUNE IN TOMORROW

FOR  WHAT JANET AND i ARE UP TO

YOU WILL WANT TO KNOW

iN THE MEANTIME HAVE A GREAT SUNDAY AND I WILL SEE YOU HERE BRIGHT AND EARLY.  I HAVE THE POST ALL READY TO SEND AT 7:00 AM

LEE

Some say Tomato some say Tamato

This was created agees ago I think for Inspiration Thursday.  This ala Andy Warhol.  I drew the can, then I think I used watercolours on it.  When you look back on your old work, you always see something that you could have done better.  Take the lettering, I could have done that better, brighter colour.  Now some news for MONDAY, May 24/2010 dont miss my post, its top secret and I cant tell you till Monday.  But Janet http://jkbees.blogspot.com/ are cooking up something together and its going to be fun.  So be here on Monday or at Janets site.

A doodle here a doodle there

Did you know that I am taking a doodle class online from http://www.treicdesigns.com/

I happen to love the class, full of great ideas, amazing art and a great talented bunch

of students.  My friend http://jkbees.blogspot.com/ who is in the class has done

amazing work, hop over to her blog to have a look.  I have not had much time to

do anything, so I have to be content for now to work in my visual journal. Tommorw

is show and tell over here at Defining Me..

lee

lee

Ah Wednesday.....

Done on cardboard from a box of microwavable popcorn.  Background was done with dab on colours that I got at Michael's.  I was experimenting .  Hand drawn with sharpie and whiteout pen.  I think I moved on from birds and am now doing giraffes.....

Last night Snippets

Weather:  perfect

TV:  Glee,

Art:  the Giraffe project (lol)

dinner:  homemade potato salad (compliments of my mother in law) delicious

crab and rye bread

spending:  none can you believe it

music:  the Dixie Chicks

Are you Free...

Are you free, free of debt, free of work obligations, free of bad relationships.

Just last week a young man won 45 million dollars in the Canadian Lottery.  It

got me thinking.  What would I do with all that money, of course the usual

things, charity, family etc.  But you would still have a whack of money

left.  It would change your life, but would it change you.  Would you

still do the things that you love to do?  Would you still have a

purpose to get up every day? Life is all about purpose?  I really

don't know, would I still make art?  What would you do?

Questions to Ponder

Life in an emergency ward

1.  why does every man think that since they are in a hospital that every woman there would like to see what god gave them a shortage of
2. Why does the parking cost more than a good dinner out.  Don't they want people to visit the patients .
3. Why do nurses automatically assume since your there you are nurse material, and you can do some of the icky jobs they don't like to do.
4. Why do random drug addicts wander the wards in their dirty underwear searching for the bathrooms unescorted.
5. Why do they have to gown up and put a mask and gloves on to keep themselves from infection but let the visitors go in without them.
6. Why do you go into a hospital which is suppose to a super clean environment and come up hurrying home to take a shower

Questions to ponder on a Sunday

lee

Friday Night Highlights and lowlights

Last night had to take my Mother to emergency, they

are admitting her (thats a whole other story)

While waiting, and waiting, and waiting, I decided I

needed to draw something, or get up and slap the drunk

that was annoying the hell out of everyone.  So I thought

sketching would be safest.  The only thing my

muddled brain could think of  sketching was a half eaten

apple that was sitting on the table that somebody\

had not thrown away.  So thats it for art today I am

off to the hospital again.  Talk to you soon.

Show and Tell Friday

A handmade vase with my flower arrangement in it.  I am no flower arranger

Devil Dog takeing 5

Shells from the Phillipines beaches, courtesy of the Shopper

Visual Journal page in progress

Mail art courstey of Janet http://jkbees.blogspot.com/

Beautiful  art and postcards    ( I scratched out my address to keep fan mail down to a minimum lol)

Thanks again Janet I really love these

My love of purses does not match the shoppers but I just had to have this one, which

I bought yesterday as a treat.

Now show and tell  us something radnom, in your life in your house

The Kat is Back....

Another Silly Creature from http://carlasonheim.wordpress.com/ Silly Class.  This

time she showed a regular picture of a cat, and you were to draw it with

one line.  So that is what mine turned out like.  I then added some

Washable oil pastels, and words and sharpies and I made

mine a postcard.   Other than that I received some

great mail yesterday and will be showing on

Fridays Show and Tell blog entry.

So see you then.

Being Silly

I decided awhile ago I needed to lighten up, have fun in my art

so I joined a class by http://carlasonheim.wordpress.com/

it was all about being silly.  Just having fun in your art.

While I did this one awhile ago.  It was done on

one of my spray painted backgrounds.  It was

just line art.  But when I looked at it.  I did

not like the way it looked, kind of pale

and understated.  So I put it to the side.

I found it again yesterday and re-worked it.  Changed

all the background, add more definition to

my giraffe (but its suppose to be silly and be

whatever you want it to be)  and I now like the

way it turned out.  Only one problem, in this

class you are suppose to just draw it and leave it.

Do you suppose they is a class for an person who has keep

fiddling with their art.

Experimental Art

Spray painted background

hand drawn lady and hat with black sharpie

white out pen

This was going to be first of a postcard

then I decided I had overworked it

so now its just an experiment

started life as circles

morphed into the lady

I love the artist that draws long necked woman

(help me out here what is his name

I have been raking my brain)

so decided to give it a try

Do you believe

In the Power of Positive Thinking:

Well I am kind of an old school girl, I try my best to be young, hip

and with the new trends.  But really I can't get my mind wrapped

around all that new age crap.  I know to some of you it is

not crap, and I am sorry if I offend you.  I wish I had a muse

or a Wicca friend, or an aura that hangs around me and

gives me great ideas, but it just does not happen to me.

But I do believe in the power of positive thinking.  Okay

maybe it does not all come true, but I think you have

to have a positive outlook on life.  What do you think?  Do you have a muse,

or guru, tell me, honestly I want to know.

The Good bad and the ugly

Happy mothers day to you

Well lets do the Good first"

My mother finally after 6 weeks in the hospital got to go home today

and is finally on the mend, Just like her oldself almost.  A few

days at home and she just like new.

The BAD:

The hubby decided today was the day to do the windows.  As

I was going out the door, I said stay off the ladder and wait

until I come home from the hospital (picking up my

mom to bring her home) and then I will help you.

This was at 10:30 am, well after all I had to

do today I did not get home till 4:30.  I did not even

phone him I was so busy.  So as I walk up the

driveway, I see a trail of blood,.open the garage door

and walk into the garage, blood up to the stairway.

I open the door Devil Dog comes to meet me, not

to happy.  I call out for the handyman.  Go upstairs

there he is his face all bloody, I think his nose is

broken, and he cant walk on his foot its sprained.

Apparently he fell of the ladder, the neighbours had to

call the ambulance.  They checked him over, applied

a few bandages and said he was good to go.  He

will be sore as hell for a few days.

Now the UGLY ME:
He fell off the same ladder two years ago. He is no handy man

I was going to hire someone to clean the windows.  But

know he has to almost kill himself to get the job done,

by the way which is not done.  Now I have two

patients to look after him and my mom.  My

neighbour who called the ambulance two years

ago suggested I hide the ladder.

Well I am glad he is okay, but when he is better he will never

live this down I promise you that.

What interesting things happened to you this weekend.

Taking time to smell the coffee beans or in my case diet coke

Today I took time for me I needed it.  I was basically feeling sorry for myself.  You know the usual, nobody loves me, all I do is for others and who does for me.  I am sure you all have had those days.  So I decide I need stop and have a cold drink and read my magazine.  So I go into second cup (a coffee place like Starbucks)but attached to this place is a bagel place as well.  So I go get a diet coke from the bagel place and decide I need a couple thousand calories and have a cookie from the second cup.  Well all the good seats are gone, you know the comfy ones, the armchairs.  So I sit down at a table, bring out my new Somerset Studio, drink my diet coke and eat the cookie.  Well I proceed to look around, and see this girl (young woman) sitting there having a drink of coffee smiling.  The whole time she sat there is smiled.  I thought to myself Lee what the hell, when was the last time you just sat and smiled.  The more I looked at her the better I felt.  Just then she got up from her comfy chair and asked the lady who was reading her book and drinking her coffee in the cheap seats if she wanted to sit by the window.  I almost got up and hugged her......things like that make my day.  And I felt myself smiling the rest of the day.

A little tour of my mess I mean my studio

Okay I got a new camera, and I was trying to get arty with it, they did not turn out so good, did not get all the shots I wanted. So you might see some more another day, But here it is, it needs a bit of a clean up.