Hi Everyone,
Lilly, sorry for my confusion about your avvies!
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I saw your first avvie of yourself back up there again briefly a day or two ago, and I looked at it more closely this time and could then see that indeed, those two photos (both lovely photos, I thought!
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) were indeed of the same person!
As for the art gallery dynamics, the guy who stormed out of the meeting earlier has now ended up withdrawing from the gallery
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. Since he was among the angriest (and a ringleader in causing all the dissention and shouting at the last meeting
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), it is frankly probably just as well for the group dynamics that he left!
I agree with
PP, we'd love to see some of your artwork,
Lilly, if/when you should happen to feel like posting it!
PP is right, I am shy
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, and it took me a couple of decades, as well as the strong urging of others, to get to the point of even making art again, not to mention showing others my artwork. The safe, supportive, nurturing atmosphere that we've all created together on these boards is what encouraged me to show it here!
When I read the recent ListOp transmission from Machiventa, where he said, among other things,
“Exchange information, assist where you can, so that the pool of gifted workers grows and grows, and sweetens that pool with knowledge and caring, extending it more and more, so that on your part, your human part, this Correcting Time effort will be sped along, and Light and Life will come sooner, rather than later," (The boldface is my addition) I immediately thought of this thread -- it is one of the major places on these boards where we are all definitely "sweetening the pool with knowledge and caring!"
PP, I agree, we could use more colors that are readable (like you said, yellow and cyan are both too hard to see. I do often still use orange, though, since to me, it's kind of in that borderline category!)
Thanks so much for all your positive comments on the owl hoop!
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I look forward to seeing a picture of it after you add the feathers to it that you were gifted with from your various bird allies!
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And I look forward to hearing how Allan likes it! Congratulations, by the way, on 25 years of marriage!
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Great to hear, also, that you have reconnected with your friend (I agree that true friendships never truly end), and that you're getting your space all set up and moving in all the cool new equipment for Tranquility Base! It sounds like lots of things are coming together at once!
As you've requested,
here is the link again to my artwork -- I've updated it to add the newest items.
PP, I hope you don't mind, I went ahead and added the owl I made for you (of course without your feathers on it yet
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-- I've gotten into the habit of taking a photo of everything I make), in the section with other items I've been commissioned to do and made as gifts.
Here's a funny story about the "Cafe" hoop, one of the silk hoops shown on the page. It shows a cup of coffee and a plate of cookies on a table inside a cafe, looking out the cafe window. The letters "CAFE" are on the window, but they are backwards, since the point of view is from the inside of the cafe looking out, and someone standing outside looking in would see them facing the right way.
When I first hung up this hoop in the Gallery, each time I came back, it turned out that someone else had flipped the hoop over and hung it up backwards, which made the CAFE sign face the right way relative to the viewer, but not to the context of the painting! (Since silk is transparent, you can still see the image [just backwards] if you turn it over). Apparently they thought it was hung up backwards!
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Each time it happened, I came along and flipped the hoop back over again, but then when I returned the next time, it would inevitably be flipped around the other way again.
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This went on the whole time it was hanging on that wall, and I was wondering why noone, especially other artists, "got" it about that image.
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Eventually, to make room for the newest stuff we were bringing in, we packaged some of our older hoops into see-through plastic sleeves and put them in the bins with the prints.
Then at the most recent opening night, Ron and I had the good fortune to end up standing right behind a couple who was looking through the bins at our silk hoops. They picked up the Cafe hoop and were looking at it, and they had a whole conversation about it, where one of them pointed out, "Oh, I see, the CAFE letters on the window are backwards because you're inside the cafe looking out! Hey, that's really cool!"
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We stood quietly in the background and I whispered to Ron, "Hurray, somebody actually gets it!"
Oh, I just refreshed my screen,
PP, and I see your latest post -- with the wonderful, colorful story of your journey, from your vagabond "itchy feet" days, to living overseas, to "getting grounded" where you currently live!
Laura,
Lilly,
Gypsie, and
every single one of you, I agree! We are all kindred spirits here and it is such a blessing to all of us -- Triple Ditto (or Quadruple Ditto? I'm losing track of the Ditto count!); it's been my great pleasure knowing each and every one of you as well!
Mmm, lobster, with butter sauce!
Gypsie, I think you're thinking of the Red Lobster restaurant chain here in the U.S., which I do recall us discussing earlier on this thread. And speaking of cornbread, recently I tried a recipe for spicy cornbread muffins (to go with Mexican food, which we love, and which is very popular here, at least in the western U.S.) which had corn kernels, red bell peppers, salsa, and fresh cilantro in it, and they were really good! Mmmm!
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I do hope you end up being able to find some corn meal (or polenta might work too, as I think
Sandy [hi dearest sweet
Sandy!
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] mentioned once long ago) at a specialty store over there selling international foods, if it's not in regular grocery stores, and that you get a chance to make yourself some corn bread to try (there's usually a corn-bread recipe on the back of the package)!
Gotta run now -- we're rushing around making a home video, and I just finished a silk power shield, for the birthday of a friend of ours out in Colorado -- it's late enough now that we're probably going to have to send it via express-mail once everything's done and packaged up and ready to go!
Lots of Love to All
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,
Aqua Deb