I’m up early again. Another eye exam. I failed the field vision test in one eye. I told the doc it was because the spinning cabbage was in the way. So I’m up an hour early on a Monday…a MONDAY…before school to go in and fail again. Fun times.
Busy weekend…but good in general. Still had to do some work, but not as much as usual. I think. Who knows at this stage?
Art opening in Liberty Station on Friday night, in pure exhaustion mode…
Ah. Just realized the show is up for a while.
Moya Devine and I shared words, made pieces, and then made pieces in response to those pieces.
The drawing at the top left and the quilt are mine. Moya couldn’t make it to the opening. She is in San Francisco. Part of the reason we paired up is because she lives far away and I didn’t have time to meet with anyone locally. I love all the people who did, and hopefully I can post some stuff from the show later this week, when I’m not totally rushed.
We had dinner out afterward. And I drew.
I drew Saturday night too, but IDK what happened with that one. Oh yeah. Great food, nice servers, shitty ambience caused by uncontrolled screaming children, and then when we moved outside to escape that noise and kids careening into our chairs, then we had cigar smokers. Multiples. Surrounded. Not going there again.
Anyway. I had quilt guild in the morning, an interesting lecture on Aurifil threads…
My official stitch for guild meetings.
Also took a ceramics workshop this weekend with Sarah Anderson to learn sgraffito.
It was really fun to do. And it came with dogs.
I will always come for the dogs.
I did two tiles…
But I also had a planter…it just wasn’t quite hard enough yet.
I started carving it in class and realized I’d never finish. Plus it wasn’t hard enough. So it’s on my shelf hardening now. It’ll be fine. I’ll get it done. Although I have no carving tools. It’ll be fine!
It’s a fun way to turn my drawings into a physical thing though.
If that’s a goal of mine. Yeah, I made it into the official video (everyone did…it’s OK).
I did a bunch of tracing too.
Almost two hours Saturday night (to make up for none on Friday…too exhausted).
Almost an hour last night. In the mid-800s…finally halfway.
Tetris washing up in science prep room on Friday.
Doing the dishes. Things they never told you about in school.
Anyway. I did relax a bit this weekend. Well, I say that and I’m still grinding my teeth. Ah well.
OK. Eye doc, start of state testing review, long staff meeting, hopefully followed by some clay stuff and tracing. We’ll see. That’s my goal anyway. I won’t be done tracing this week, I think…maybe next week. My clay pieces won’t be done this week either. I have to make some glaze decisions though. Scary stuff. OK. Gotta go. Oh wait! So I haven’t heard the baby owl for a few nights…again. I hate this. I think like two or three have died so far. There was a parent around last night, some squawking. Thought this was dad…maybe mom was in there laying another egg and that’s why baby was quiet? I don’t remember any quiet the last two years though.
Who knows?
Hope everything is OK in there. Hope everything is OK everywhere.
Kathy Nida 