scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
It seems like I’ve spent all week at the dentist’s office. I lost a filling (wasn’t it just the other day an old crown fell off?) and I had to get that tooth and an adjacent one worked on. I got a temporary crown installed yesterday and last night the dang thing fell off so […]
I appreciate everybody stopping by for Studio Friday. I’ll be returning the favor soon, just can’t get it together this morning.
I don’t know why I’m so flighty today. It’s Monday and I can’t decide what I need to do first, so I’m following Brian Clark’s advice to just
write
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thanks to Hanna for the link!
I’m obsessing about […]
This week’s topic on Studio Friday was a fun one for me, and it has a double meaning, as I’m “beginning” to get back to my blogging routine, which includes these Friday sessions.
I dug out an old notebook I saved from high school and realized a couple of things about my art.
First, I […]
It’s nice to have friends in high places…or friends who attend the annual ACL Music Festival. The giveaways there are fabulous. I got a Paste magazine containing a free CD sampler of 21 songs and 20 free songs to download from i-Tunes, and of course the giant SweetLeaf cup for savoring double doses of their […]
…at least it’s new to me. Before yesterday I’d only heard bits of Modest Mouse’s 2005 album Good News for People Who Hate Bad News.Now I’m groovin’ on this CD from 1997. The music just grabbed me. Am I behind the times! I didn’t even know they’d been around for so long. Here’s a song […]
Baseball scoreboard at the Princeton community park and old water tower that is all that’s left of a World War II POW camp that housed German prisoners. Princeton is about 6 miles east of McKinney on Highway 380. A woman I met at my art class on Saturday told me there was a junk yard […]
Yesterday I took a day off from all chores to just drive around and explore Collin County. I’ve been here for almost ten months and haven’t really got to know the county that well. Seems like I have too much to do or it’s pouring down rain or the thermometer’s sweating at a hundred degrees […]
Saturday I attended a workshop at Ten Seconds Studio given by assemblage artist Michael deMeng, and this is the transformed cigar box I brought home with me. (When I visited his web site today I was shocked to see that my piece vaguely resembled his….I didn’t plan it that way.) It’s the first art class […]
Another reason to hate commuting….
I had to buy a new set of tires for my car this week. Oh, the joy of sacrificing $500 to the gods of goodyear and attending services at Discount Tires for an hour waiting for four worn (forlorn) black rubber donuts to be removed from my car and to […]
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