Cleaning update

click to enlarge if you want to see my junk !
Here's Jerry helping with the clean up

because husband Michael is so not into helping me clean up my mess .

Today [ Monday ] I will make my fourth trip to the dump !

I will not stop ! Actually I made June 1 st my date to stop cleaning .

A lot of my old frames got wrecked in the basement ....I still have a ton of good frames though .

Maybe tomorrow I'll take photos of the basement [ it's still such a mess !!! ]. I can't believe I let this happen .

It's okay , it's okay .... I will not hate myself for letting this happen .

Why haven't I lost any weight ?

up and down the stairs , my body aches and I'm still fat ! ha ha

okay > see ya tomorrow !

paintings at Real Art for Kids

If you have a moment .... visit realartforkids blog . Beverly Kaye posted three of my paintings and wrote some lovely things about ME ME ME ME !!!!!!!

Click Her blog heading [ title ]...where it says curiouser and curiouser ... and this will take you to The Beverly Kaye Gallery

Thank you Beverly ... Love you !

This made me very happy because all I am doing now is cleaning the basement !!!! so .... her post made me feel like an artist again !

I'm still here

I'm still cleaning , I should have taken photos of all the junk and rotted broken down frames that were in my driveway .... I made two trips to the dump on Monday .... about ten more trips .... I'm thinking .

but it rained yesterday , and today was rainy too ... so I made a pillow today.

My basement still looks awful , WHEN did I bring all this junk home ?

anyway > thank you for visiting , and always for your comments

this pillow is in my shop

tomorrow > I'll be cleaning again !

annoyed

I'm a little annoyed , frustrated that I can't seem to get my house clean .

There's still piles everywhere and I'm really mad at myself

so

I took a break and went to You Tube

Listening and watching >

Fleet Foxes - - - White Winter Hymnal

and then

did you ever watch the black cab sessions ?

look up

Black Cab sessions Fleet Foxes

Their version of Crayon Angels is so good

sung in the back seat of a cab in England

wish I knew how to post videos

fabric tapestry wall hanging

Her name is ' BitterSweet '

in my shop

Homely and Lonely.... or how to wreck a really pretty plate

I used to do mosaic work .... so ... you know I have 150 plates in my basement .

You also know I am supposed to be cleaning and getting rid of all this stuff !

but as I was putting the plates in a box for Good Will .... I felt like painting on one .

That is the story of Homely and Lonely .

This was actually a lot of fun to do

I just primed the area I was painting , used acrylics and then put on 5 coats of polyurethane .

obviously it is a decorative plate , wall art or here it is on a little easel

no dish washer please

dust with a cloth

in my shop

art doll .... Gordon

I took a a break from making my wood cut outs . It has been quite a while since I used the sewing machine and it's like I FORGOT how to SEW !

oh ..... this took me a long time to make .

I love to go back and forth [ drawing , painting , sewing ] but it takes some thought and effort to get back into a medium that I haven't done in a while !

well

Gordon is done and he's pretty cute I think

I used to have two wonderful cats named > Peter and Gordon

another clue to how old I am ... ha ha

Gordon is in my shop

Happy Tuesday

OH > I think I gave up on my vintage Tuesdays

I can never stick to ONE thing !