Sometimes It Just All Goes Terribly Wrong. Until You Work Through It.

Well, that’s a bit of an overstatement about my irritations today, but I’m still in a twit over it and needing to just get over myself.  Nothing’s so irritating as knowing just enough about computers and blogs and social media sites and online shops and digital photos and scans ET AL….to just irritate yourself silly.

I was tweaking my blog you see, and sorta crashed my PC.  I still have my MacBook which needs a new OS (since it is going on 8 years old) so I’m plugging away on it right now.  I do love it, bless its tiny screen, but I also love my BIG monitor PC.  OK.

Poking around in my photo files, I found some pics that illustrated what I thought were Projects Gone Terribly Wrong.  I’m wondering if I can rescue a couple of them because in retrospect, they don’t appear as horrid to me know as they did back then.  I can crop and digitally correct some scans, and I can paint all around and over the oil.  Unless I just decide to start on Something Else Entirely.

I LOVED this tree in the neighbor’s yard. Then she let it DIE.

Obsessed with PINK couches; tried to paint one + adding collage

I used part of a page of Mom’s poetry for the lampshade

Then I stopped working on it because I thought it sucked.

Stuff going wrong all around the house.

A big doodle became a group of people in need of a “Pink Cloud”

The weird pink couch obsession, again.

But Oh Boy! Here’s some Things I REALLY Like; pics from friends, the neighborhood, famous artists, and my own scribbles as well:

When my Dutch friends in The Hague remodeled their home, they sent me this enchanted pic

Yes, it does snow in Dallas. My backyard

When visiting my cousin in Alexandria, VA – the coolest bookshop in Old Towne

A favorite artist, Pierre Lesieur

As I imagined Rumi

I’m really getting in the mood to make some simple cloth dolls.  I had forgotten about this little drawing, and maybe she has surfaced at just the right time.  Yes, most definitely.

Feelin’ better already.  Funny how that works.