Day 4852: 2 Shred & a Holiday Fix: & Cilantro

                                     

"Holiday Shopping", Bessie:  Postage stamp & collage journal page (j.long)

  

Want music?

    Click: Redbone, Come and Get Your Love.

2GN2S

 

Friday started with me bundling up like a mummy to work in my garage. I sorted papers from 2 out of 3 tall, 4 drawer filed cabinets. Sorting to trash and what needs to be shredded. Besides being an admitted procrastinator, to make things worse, I am a keeper! I had tax returns from the 60's! So, two file cabinets are now empty! What a concept?  I have loads of papers to be recycled here, and an appointment to shred Saturday between 9 and 12. The last file cabinet has art & karate files, most needs to be purged, but  I did take a break.

After, I thought of the perfect meal to take home, only I got a single.

And while I was in line, I looked and saw

 

so many people had the same idea. Then I noticed the holiday decorations at our mall, on this coolish 70 degree So-Cal day.
 

A holiday fix and home to eat. The last file cabinet has art & karate files, most of which must also be purged, another day. TMI?

 

  

 

A 4 minute video, Meerkat, here

 

  

 

Just because ...

Buff Laced Polish

 

Saturday's Smiles ... 

 

        Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.

  

 

Day 4851: Another Step-by-step card & Rime Ice Tree.

                    

"Suspicious": junk collage, ink brush & digital.

The above was a current digital overall of an old drawing/collage. 

8x10" journal page.

  

Want music?

    Click: Smokey Robinson, Just to See Her.

 

2GN2S

Another Step-by-step card.

To Austria with Love.

Dear friend of many years, Elenor is a retired teacher and artist in Austria. Although we have never met in person, we chat almost daily through the blog. I feel like I know her favorites, and will try to work on a Christmas card for her, she enjoys a step by step.

1.

I started with a 5x7" Kraft card and envelope.

2.

I got this far before I realized it was upside down! ;op

3.

I turned it right side up and continued. Not really happy with it so far.

4.

Somehow the strip of script gave me hope.

5. (scraps)

I thought I'd share what my scraps are looking like about now? Every snippet is still in contention. It's funny how often the perfect scrap turns up. I save everything in progress.

6.

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This is my final. Elenor, having taught physics and math seems to like structure, and minimalism. This didn't quite make it. I'd give it a B, but I think she might like it. This took about 2 hours, and I am tempted to try another now (10:36 pm) to see if I can do better?

This surreal frozen formation looks almost otherworldly — yet it’s entirely real. Brooks Range, Northern Alaska

You’re seeing a wind-sculpted rime-ice tree, formed when freezing fog and relentless Arctic winds layer ice in one direction over many hours. These incredible shapes only appear in some of the coldest, most extreme environments on Earth.

A natural ice sculpture carved solely by the Alaskan winter.

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, Go Blue, Go!, here

 

  

 

Just because ...

Royal Flycatcher

 

Friday's Smiles ... 

 

 

        Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.