hand eye crafts

 Hello to June.  The year is half over --- sheesh.  I'm acutely aware of time all of a sudden, realizing that each day's passing means I'm one day closer to dying. I'm not sad or in denial or depressed about it.  It's just a fact.  If anything, I'm a little bit dispassionate about it.  It's plain arithmetic. I was, in third grade, given an aid to help me spell "arithmetic."  It's terribly racist, I now know.  Still, it goes through my mind any time I have to write the word: A Red Indian Thought  He Might Eat Turkey  In Church. Thanks to Mrs. Hearn for that.

 But I really like this one:

I have a Tiny Needle Tuesday thing! Kind of obvious what it is, huh?  I had a friend in middle/high school who drew horses all the time, and she always started with the big, round jaw.  Whether she was drawing the head or the whole body, she started with the jaw.  It's one of Nature's great shapes.

Behold a recently finished project: Title: "This is a Woman Holding a Chicken." Hey, art can be obvious.

I think the phrase "I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy" should be retired.  I think it's untrue.  If something bad happens to you, and you could shove it off to someone else, it seems to me your worst enemy would be high on your choice list.  C'mon. Also, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"?  Maybe.  Maybe not.

Today, I got the smoothie I had planned to get myself on Mother's Day: Mountain Man Crunch, if you enjoy details. Then, Michaels had to have known I was coming by.  Bags of feathers on clearance. Please notice that each bag weighs 2.12 ounces, and note the number next to that weight: "60."  That all reads out to my birthday: 2/12/60. Crazy, huh? Then, the library, for a quick visit with Briton, and to look through collage and painting books.  And to wonder if Mr. Dewey saw this coming when he came up with his decimal system: Vaginas and horses.  Oh - kay. . .

That's it.  That's the extent of my needlework today: finding the center of my fabric.  I am going to make progress, promise, as Fiddler's cloth is my favorite.   Stay tuned.