Archive for September, 2010
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I’ve got the mat fever again. Kind of comes before the frame fever but I will likely not indulge in that again. Can get time consuming and expensive. But matting is easy! Sort of. These look much more better now, I think. They are 2.5″x3.5″ paintings matted to fit an 8×10 frame. Will be doing more of this I can tell.
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Tonight is the 3 year anniversary of my husband’s heart attack. You can read about it here. This year it apparently almost passed without notice. I asked him at dinner if he knew when the anniversary was and it occurred to us that it was right now. Wow. Three years since probably the most traumatic event of either of our lives. Happy to report things are going well for Danny. We both eat better and excercise more. He’s had not heart trouble since. Click the picture above to go to my heart-a-versary Etsy treasury. Cool stuff.
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Around and Down – 2.5″x3.5″ watercolor
On our big vacation this year we went to the ocean at Jones Beach in New York. It took hours to get there (huge underestimation of the traffic time) and by the time we were there, although I was impressed by the hugeness of the water and beach, I really didn’t give a damn. I was hot, miserable, stressed about how we would ever navigate the 18 or more highway connections back to our hotel, and of course it was lunch time so my kid is hungry and I was just plain cranky. Eventually, I got in the water. The waves were big to say the least. But I was feeling brave and invincible. I turned my back to the waves and then was hit by a truck. I couldn’t tell if I was upside down or rightside up. I panicked for a second and then was able to find a way to the air. My sunglasses were gone and for a brief moment my swimsuit managed to malfunction. Not sure anyone noticed (There isn’t much to notice). For whatever reason, the feeling of my brain being knocked around inside my skull has not left me since. Not that I walk around feeling injured or anything – but my world has been rocked a lot this last year and recovering from it has been a lot like getting up from that wave. I am not sure I want to get back in the ocean. But I guess I have to.
