Week Word: Amuse
Woody Allen
This week’s word is AMUSE, chosen by June’s Blog, go and take a look at her sight and what other bloggers have to say about this word.
Amuse, this is a word obviously about being humored, having fun, perhaps chuckling to yourself. I think about amuse as almost a private word, hearing or seeing something that amuses you, but perhaps no one else. So here is my list of some art and people that amuse me. First of all, all of Woody Allen’s stand up comedy and films from his early period.
Saturday Night Live
SNL
Now there is the art that amuses me, here is a sampling. Modigliani’s women with long necks, now really, what was he thinking?
Modigliani
Some of Picasso’s portraits, hope his model had a sense of humor!
Picasso
And the surrealists, weird stuff, often amusing, to me anyway.
Surrealism
You have to wonder what some of these artists were thinking when they were painting in their studio that day!
What do you find amusing?
Read more at: Oh.
Week Word: Fugacious
I am the host for this week’s word and it is FUGACIOUS, meaning Lasting but a short time, fleeting. Please take a look at other bloggers who also have submitted a creative take on this word: John, Katy,June and Mary.
If you start to think about how many things in our short life are fleeting, lasting only a short time, it seems that it could almost be anything. Looking at one’s life in comparison to the vast cosmos of space and time, our life itself is fugacious. But taking a closer more timely look, two things come to mind, flowers(don’t I always think of them?) and children.
Spring flowers especially seem to come and go rather quickly. We spend so much time buying the bulbs, planting them in the fall, and then they pop up sometimes only for days, many times weeks.
spring has finally sprung
Then there is the fleeting aspect of childhood. Appreciate your children or grandchildren every second you are with them, because their childhood is fugacious.
Have a donut together!
donut time
Run around and play tag!
running
Or just hang out together…
so cute
Life can be fugacious, but stop be grateful and slow it down!
June has agreed to host next week’s word, so go to her Junebug Blog on Monday to check out the new word!
Read more at: Week Word.
Gray and Browns are the Color Way
Today is supposedly the start of spring, and it is gray, cold, and rainy out. Sniff, sniff, I want warm sun and tulips! I am not sure why, but I have spring fever bad this year!
March landscape
Perhaps it is because I have felt cold through and through since the end of October. Or maybe it is because I am sick of the earthly, dreary palette I see.
Early Spring
I need color, pastel, spring colors! I do love the 4 seasons. Each season has its’ special glow. At the end of one, we can’t wait until the next arrives!
How about you, do you have spring fever??
Read more at: Staying Free and Creative.
Hung my show and it looks cool
As you know from previous posts, I am opening a new Joyefulart boutique in March. Since I am running the boutique, I am the first artist of the month and today we hung my paintings in my gallery. Here are some of my paintings that are featured in my new gallery:
Bouquet
Chanticleer Forest
Breath of Spring
Azaleas
Sailing Home
Vermont Cows
I am so proud and happy! If you live in the Philly area, come and visit at 7900 High School Road in Elkins Park. My blogger friends are welcome anytime!
Read more at: Week Word.
Inspiration Thursday: My Stash
Everyone who works with any type of textiles, whether it be yarn, fabric, thread, or quilts know only too well about a stash. It is the textiles that we buy because we fall in love with it, have no use for it in the moment, but may use it in the future. Also, it can include cool unused left over fabric.
Velvet
Those of us who have a respectable stash, love to feel it, gaze at it, think about it, generate ideas using it, and so on. Those luscious fabrics have so much untapped potential!
Purple yarn
I am currently making lacy scarves using an amazing amount of my stash, and it is so fun!
free lace scarf
It is my free lace scarf, so cool!!
What do you do with your stash??
Read more at: Nourishing my Artistic Soul.
A Day in the Life: Being Green
So, now that I am back from my trip, I am working frantically and happily to get my new boutique ready! I want to be as green as I can in my new retail endeavor. One thing I have decided to do is make my own bags.
bag
When a customer buys something that requires a bag to carry it home, instead of me buying paper or plastic bags with my logo on it, I am making bags from my own stash of fabrics. When a returning customer comes in, if he or she brings their own bag, I will credit them. It is a small thing, and a lot of work for me, but I think I am making a statement.
What do you think of this idea??
Read more at: Add a bit of Black.
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