Hey Monday. Be nice.
So I was productive this weekend; always feels better than when I’m not. I got all three of the big plants I bought planted, although the first one was such a challenge that I thought the next two would be horrendous too, but they were easy peasy. Nice that. Don’t give up! It might be easy the next time. Am I done planting and weeding and trimming? Never. I met this guy…I left his weed standing so he could continue to shelter sort of under it.
It’s OK. There’s lots of weeds out there. I left a bunch. My protea is gonna bloom nicely this spring…
I have two volunteer tomatoes…one is inside (it’ll have to move) and one is tiny…
They’re both compost tomatoes. Best kind. I let the mice eat them really, they’re so tiny. Must have been cherry tomatoes.
So artwise, I got this one out of the kiln and now have to decide on glaze…
She’s from February and is meant to have a tiny quilt hanging inside her.
Then I got this one together and onto a shelf.
Hopefully she holds up. I changed her a little, moved the mug. Now I get to start something new…although I should figure out glaze first on that other one. Two drying, one bisqued.
Then I worked on the big crone drawing…
Added a barn owl and some bombers…and a cat.
Then sketched out what’s next down below…
Hopefully I’ll draw that tonight. And I did more up top…
Oh, I forgot, I framed this for a FIG show that will open next Friday at Liberty Station at the Dance Place hallway gallery.
My co-artist used this for a digital piece she made that I haven’t seen finished yet, and then I made that smaller quilt from another digital collage she did. So we’ll have four pieces hanging together in the show.
We also went on a hike Saturday…lots of flowers…
And one big coyote that kept traveling toward us until it found its way up the hill.
So one of the thing that has needed to be fixed for about 6 months is my stained-glass side window in the entryway. The supports had come loose and it would wiggle and make noise if the door was closed too hard. It’s been there since before we moved in, so probably from the 80s. The previous owner made it. The wood around it has been an issue too, so with the repairs related to the January flooding, I had asked for the wood to be replaced. It took a while to find a glass expert…
But he had a plan for it…enclosing the art glass in layers of tempered glass to protect it and weatherproof it and stabilize it. Sounds good.
So they leveraged it out of there on plywood…and now we have this lovely view for 4-6 weeks.
It has a tiny gecko door in the bottom left. The cats are excited. The entryway is also very dark now.
Saturday night’s dinner drawing…
They forgot about us so I got more of the drawing done. It’s been hard to finish one lately (and this one isn’t finished); they bring the food out so fast.
OK. So drawing tonight, clay this afternoon, staff meeting with homework (ugh). Teaching today is an assessment of what we did for most of last week. We’ll see how that goes. The previous assessment was eh. So many kids didn’t turn it in that it made it easier to grade. I did that this weekend, all but one class. So hopefully I can get through that class today as they’re doing the next assessment. Getting closer to the end…one more short unit, then test review, egg drop, sex ed, and I’m out! OK. That’s a lot. This week is a lot. Getting there.
Kathy Nida 