Monthly Archives: April 2009

An Artis­tic Legerdemain

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Work continues on the Ann Head but progress is slow. This sore throat/fever/aches and pain - stuffy and I can't rest syndrome is for the birds. My sedentary days make the dogs nutzo bazooms because I won't take them for a walk until the sun goes down and the air is cooler. My little household fills quickly with internal squalor as my health declines. Rob [my muse] remained home last night as The Assemblagist ventured out into the public domain to seek inspiration and comfort amongst friends and family. While the opening act proved sufficient to reduce my ill-gotten cold symptoms, by the second hour my throat began to its quick descent into complete oblivion as my tonsils and adenoids became visions of past infections. ... read more

Right brain or left brain dominant?

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Well, the test results are finally here. I'm neither. During some of my spare times, I took the high school student quiz on About.com to find out if I was left- or right-brain dominant. Turns out I'm Middle Brained. More to come on this but gotta' go to Firefox because this new Safari install won't let me add anything from the pop-up menu which doesn't mean anything to anyone but me suffice it to say, such an occurrence caused me to lose my train of thought and then the train, which had already left the station, derailed. ... read more

Aerie, one of my “words” in the Can­vas Project

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While researching aerie, one of my project words, and trying to find more than "nest of a bird on a cliff or mountain top", I came across Coven of the Mother Mountain Aerie. Now I wonder if there's any way to include such a group as my encyclopedia entry for aerie. Probably not, since the COMMA folk, while being quite interesting, may not provide the type of definition of my word necessary for the Project. At the exact time I performed the Mother Mountain Aerie research online, the story of Arthur, past King of all lovely tales of knighthood and Right Over Might, came on the History Channel. Excellent timing. ... read more

Art House Coop — Can­vas Project Vol­ume 2

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Registered for new projects at Art House on Thursday. (click on the link to learn about the Canvas Project) The 5 - 3"x3" canvases arrived today. Thanks be to the coop for allowing me to participate in 4, count 'em four, projects. Will post my progress thus far on tomorrow's entry feature. My words for the Canvas Project Volume 2 include: punchline, aerie, blustery and two more I'll reveal eventually. "Punchline" will be a spiral of words - punchlines of old jokes such as "to get to the other side", "I thought you said 'goat'", and "It's not the chocolate cake..." "I don't know his name but his face sure rings a bell" "Elvis Parsley" and the ever popular "So I bit him." which will be written in tiny script over a miniature stage complete with velvet curtains, wooden stage, smallest ever microphone and a teeny barstool. Unless -- I can't make the 3" square 3D. If it has to be painted, so be it. Odds are I'll cover the whole thing with beeswax, natural color. ... read more

Match­book Cov­ers as Art

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The last Woodside Antiques auction we attended must have been in, what... January? That's when we acquired the Victorian scrapbook and the sewing basket filled with dozens of spools of vintage thread. And the Victorian handmade lace, the 1920s dresses... great bunches of "stuff" at some very low prices. Yes, I'm talking to myself. Didn't I end up with a huge box filled with matchbooks? It was the time I bid without knowing I'd done so? Yeah, it's all coming back to me now. Well, seems the $5.00 purchase price may not have been so ignorant after all. Turns out, matchbooks are collectible. Who knew? You did, right? Why didn't you tell me? ... read more