Do you love to cook or hate it? Sometimes I love to cook...other times I hate the thought of going in the kitchen! My husband jokes about me starving him for a whole week, then one day he will come home to a huge cooked meal and his belly hurts from all the food! I feel like I have two personalities...one is creative, stays up all night, keeps a messy house, eats junk food and basically doesn't take care of herself. The other one gets up early in the morning with her husband, cooks breakfast & makes him lunch, cleans house, exercises and even makes dinner at night! (Maybe my alter ego is June Cleaver!!) If I get up early, I can't be creative. So....this week I don't feel so creative and I am enjoying cooking. I'm just wondering how many of you feel the same way? One day a lady came in my shop (back when I had a shop!) and after looking around a while she said, "I'll bet you have a messy house." I wasn't sure if I should be offended...or if I should wonder how she knew what my house looks like?? Then she said she had always heard that creative people were messy. So I guess that was meant as a compliment.....I took it as one! I would LOVE to hear some of your thoughts on this....are you more creative at night? Is YOUR house messy too? Come on, admit it!! Make me feel better about my mess!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Shows, Sick Cats, Birthdays......
Well....sorry its been so long since my last post. So much has been going on! I went the Cottontails Village in Birmingham last week....or was that 2 weeks ago? I don't really know...it wasn't too long ago! I spent a lot of time getting stuff made for it. Snapped some pics of my booth.... This is my first inside show so I didn't have my display all ready. I wasn't even sure how it would be set up.....but I will know next time! Its hard to tell from pics, but I 
thought it looked pretty good!
I painted a couple of windows--something I hadn't done in a while and they both got gone pretty quickly. Now all my windows are gone and I want more to paint on! Guess I will have to start going scavenging on Sunday night again to see what people have put out in their trash!!! (That used to be a fun past time for me & my husband until someone called the POLICE after we picked up something on the side of the road. It was obviously trash, but he must have changed his mind after he saw someone wanted it....so we had to return it to the side of the road!!
I took my jewelry and worked on my display....I usually don't have any way to display so people usually don't even notice it! I worked on this display throught the day so I came up with some things and it started looking pretty good by the end of the first day.......I still have some work to do on it. I will be working more on my jewelry and other wearable art during the spring & summer too. And I have an exciting announcement that I will post here SOON! Keep checking back to find out what it is!!
Now, right before my show, I had some sick kitties! Bilbo had a lump between his shoulder blades. The vet didn't want to wait to see if it went away, so he had surgery to have it removed. He had 14 staples down his back (poor guy--he had already had surgery to remove one front leg, we think his injury was from a trap). He actually got around pretty well although he wasn't to happy about it! The lump wasn't anything serious and he doesn't have to have any more treatment and he is all healed up now. Now we just wait for his hair to grow back there!! Then Elvis comes along with a sore leg. We couldn't ever see what was wrong with it, then the day I took him to the vet, we felt a big swollen spot. To make a long story short (not sure if I can do that!!) she sent him home with antibiotics and the next day it opened up and had a pretty big hole there. I took him back and she thinks he was shot with a BB gun! My poor Elvis....I can't believe anyone would be mean to such a sweet kitty! He is all well too, besides a bald spot where he was shot. But I was taking care of those guys while trying to get ready for the show. I came home to two more outside cats with abscesses and had to give them antibiotics, but they are well now too. Thank goodness....they're hard on my pocketbook!
And we had FOUR birthdays this month! My father-in-law and my brother have birthdays on March 9. My nephew's is March 10 and my brother-in-law's is this month too! So we had one party and an Alabama/Roll Tide cake for everyone! Its always fun for us all to get together. We played 80's Trivial Pursuit and found out we aren't as smart as we thought we were! My niece wanted to be on my team.....I thought it was because she thinks I'm smart. Then I found out its because I'm the oldest, she thinks I would know more about the 80's!! :(
Before I go, I wanted to share a picture of one of my favorite new pieces...He's made of paperclay, hand-painted, then put inside a shadow box. Around the edges of the shadow box I printed a piece from a poem by Carl Sandburg.