Here’s a lil boingy-boing for your eyeballs today!
I hope you guys have a fun Friday, we’re going to be busy again today! I finished priming the Catfish early this morning and will start adding COLOR either tonight or tomorrow morning. I’ll turn the webcam on and update when I get started, so check back later today (like 7-8’ish) and I’ll let you know when I plan on getting started!
Ooh! This happened today, too! Well it started happening yesterday, hauling a bunch of dirt up front to make this sculptey mound thing, this morning while I ran a couple of errands I stopped and picked up a beautiful assortment of flowers and some mulch. I covered the mound, and added a couple to the front thing like I do every year, it’ll be neat to see how (IF) everything grows!
Yes, I worked on the Catfish today too, I am headed back there again to sand him. He’s still in the prep stage, since the Catfish I was given had a couple of defects that needed repair. So I did yardwork while I waited for my first coat of modeling paste to dry.
Busy as ever at our house, which means things are back to normal here, huh? 😉
Will someone please explain to Mr. Robin here that Mrs. Robin cannot be found by ramming his head into my studio windows? He seems to think that she waits for him in the dimension that is commonly referred to by humans as “glass”. (Boys will be boys.)
Yesterday was more productive than I thought it would be, and I’m actually kinda exhausted! That’s highly unusual!
Started out the day fetching fish, running to pick up Cocoa and bring her home (our Guinea Pig for those who don’t know who she is), photographing the fish, scraping sanding cleaning and prepping the fiberglass fish, and then landscaping! (How did that get in there?!)
Yes, Mark is home. He has missed our yard, and I’ve missed having a big strong man who can toss dirt into a wheelbarrow in 1/4 of the time I can do it. I picked up just a few new plants the other day while running errands, so I think he decided yesterday was a good day to get them in the ground! He was right. So I am crossing my fingers for 1 Clematis on my trellis (since absolutely nothing likes my trellis), 2 full size Gerber daisy plants, a night something Salvia (which I keep calling Saliva in my head for some reason, but it looks nothing like that!), and a “yellow bush, those are really cool”. I’d have to look at the tag to tell you what kind of bush that is. It blooms little yellow flowers in the spring and we saw it all over on the drive home, and decided we had to have some!
So yes, landscaping. We moved dirt and made an island that I need to cover with plants and mulch and stuff. I’ll do that in my spare time. 😆
I did stay up late and work on the Catfish too, but I’m still in the priming & prep stage so bah, no pics of that boring stuff, white white white.
Today, I will dress up my husband in fishing gear and cool things from his tackle box, and mash his face all up on the window. HEH. This will be fun!! I love making my family members do crazy things for my creative visions. Those poor people, I should feel fortunate they stick around!
See ya in a bit!
I did make it over to the fishery this morning too, where they were so kind to give me my model for the big guy I’ll start painting tomorrow. Ever seen a live catfish up close? Well if not, now you have!
I forgot to tell you the story of Jax Beach Dude! For shame!
Mark had taken the girls for a stroll along the beach as I was finishing up my goofy sand sculpture, so I grabbed my camera and headed down to catch up with them and take some pics. Me, in my modest one-piece suit, strolling along the beach with my camera. No big deal right? Well Beach Dude ran up behind me and asked me to take his picture in the ocean. Uh, okay. He says “You’re so beautiful, take my picture swimming in the ocean!” I said “Sure, but how will I get your picture to you??” He said “Oh you keep it, you are so lovely! You keep it!” So off he went, into the ocean. Feeling a little awkward, I pick up a shell and holler for Caitlin as he’s on his way into the water. So he’s out there, falling in, getting up, splashing and posing. And here he is for your enjoyment, Beach Dude.
When he came back to the shore, he asked Caitlin her name, told her she was beautiful too, and kissed her hand. I hope the sea salt washed away the cooties? LOL (kidding!) He was a nice guy. Coulda been my sugar daddy I guess, Mark asked why I didn’t run away with him. I said he had too much chest hair (it musta moved down there from his head).
heh!
I was going to recap our vacation in long form, but you guys don’t wanna hear all that do you? Oh man, yes you do.
Well, lemme see here. I have about 20 minutes to get ready to go, I have to drive 80 miles today to go get a live catfish so I have a model for this project. I’m going to get that done pronto so I can get pics of this slimy wierd lookin’ thing and show you – then I promise I will sit down and recap everything!
I took 1200 photos and just finished transferring them over to my hard drive a little while ago. I’ve still got to sort thru and pick more to share with ya, so I need a good couple of hours to write!
I will be back later today!
And we’re home!
I have a ton of piddly stuff to do to get things back to “normal” here, so I’ll be back later tonight or tomorrow morning to catch up with everyone!
My immediate artsy project is the Catfish, which I’ll start pacing around tomorrow, and probably priming. I’ll fill you in on all of that in a bit!
It’s nice to be home!
I just had to share these pics I just took before I go! WOAH! Both taken from about 30 feet at 12x zoom. Lil’ dude looks like he’s in heaven munchin’ on whatever that is!
