December colors

I believe in doing this exercise every three to six months or so. More often doesn't tell you anything.

This is from December.

I happened to be in Home Depot today and of course looking at paint chips is a lot more fun than trying to find what I came for (can you tell I'm not a plumber?). Felt tempted to repeat the exercise but decided to be patient and wait a while longer.

I've often been cutting edge with color. Although I'm not a fashionista, I wore purple in the mid-60s as soon as it was available. In the 70s I started a craze (or a blight?) in our neighorhood for orange drapes and an orange ceiling. And from 1998 I've been involved with hot green.

However, now it is everywhere, and then some, and I think I'm getting tired of it. I never liked avocado green, to me it is icky-looking and drab. I like eating avocado though. I have hot green towels and bath rugs and several tops. In fact some have been well-worn and cycled through to the charity collecting bag.

Logic suggests a smokey blue will be the next color, but maybe it will be orange again. I have a fluorescent orange gel pen that cheers me up. Today at Home Depot I realised people were giving me looks -- then realized it is probably the orange/brick red t-shirt I was wearing that implied I might know where they keep the grommets!

Again, the frustration that I haven't yet figured out how to flip the picture around to make it right way up!

This was the picture I thought I would never see. My mum started making this in 1976, by hand, using English paper piecing and cutting out hundreds of hexagons. She died in 1980 before it was finished and another lady took it over but as her note on the back of the photo above shows, it took a team of quilters to finish it.

I knew the story and that a photo existed but never saw it (or the quilt) until last year when turning out my father's things. So this is extraordinarily important to me!

We are SO lucky to have machines and rotary cutters and strip piecing!

Landscape with hands

This is a sunprint using a paper cut out of hands

Amazing how just three colors and salt give these effects!

Sun Print

This makes me think of outer space.

I used Pebeo Setacolor transparent paint and blocked it with different sizes of mostly round objects that were moved and removed at different times.

Words 2 Live by ...

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Basically I guess it's wanting stuff but not wanting to pay the price.
Like thinking it would be nice to have a llama as a pet but not wanting to deal with cleaning up after it and feeding it.

If you let other people's whims define your life your troubles are even bigger than not having a llama-sitter when you want to pop off to Antarctica for the weekend!

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