Ghost Girl in her new frame Lately I've been very busy trying to frame some of my pictures. I like to use what I call "reclaimed frames". This means I get them at garage sales and flea markets. I find it interesting that these frames are often much better quality than many of the frames you can buy in the stores. They're solid wood and the glass doesn't break as easily. The images I take out of these lovely frames are often from calendars or even magazines. Who puts these cheap images in these expensive frames? I guess it's all done in the name of "decorating". If I didn't do watercolor I definitely wouldn't do alot of framing. I tend to get bored, especially when I'm cutting mats. Then my mind wanders and I make mistakes and then there is a lot of swearing and gnashing of teeth. In the end it's all worth it though. Just remember to take a picture before you put the picture behind glass! I've made that mistake too many times!
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Going grocery shopping without my glasses is part detective work and part guess work. Sherlock Holmes would probably do better. This week I bought yogurt with only 35 calories in a tub. The trouble is, I'm not on a diet and after I have it for breakfast I'm still starving!
The weather has been beautiful here lately and I've been so busy with various projects that I've barely noticed. It's a good thing my dog, Basel, gives me the sad puppy eyes when we haven't gone to the park. Yesterday I grabbed my old waterbrush, a little travel pack of watercolours and a 4 by 6 pad of paper and we sat by the river. I did this little painting. The composition's not very good because I was trying to remember how the waterbrush worked but it was fun to sit in the sunshine and look at the new buds and hear the water flowing. Now that I'm back at the computer, does anyone in blogland know what is wrong with paypal these days? |
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