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Thanks to everyone who voted for me over at the Indie Fixx craft-off. I won second place, which couldn't be more perfect, because I didn't have the 2nd prize book, Lacy Crochet, whereas I do already own the first prize book, Lotta Prints.
As well as the book, just look at all the goodies that came in the mail. I love the Crafty Chica bobblehead!
AND I received a subscription to Craft Magazine and a crochet pattern from NexStitch. Woo-hoo! Thanks Jen.
How flippin' cute is my husband circa 1974?
I saw the season 4 finale of The L Word a few months ago. (I think I'm a season behind because I Netflix it.) In the show, the lovely Bette (Jennifer Beals) dismantles an old sign on the roof of a condemned building and transports it to her sculptor girlfriend on the back of a tractor in order to win her love. This is the sign:
I loved it, but I thought it was just a cool prop on a TV show. When Lauren and Derek of The Curiosity Shoppe invited me to do a show based around 49 of my 49 Mile Drive paintings, I thought it was a great idea, and I suggested the title "49 Reasons Why," thinking of The L Word.
It wasn't until later that I found out the sign on the show was a smaller scale replica of a sign with San Francisco roots. The original Depression-era sign was on top on the Thrift Town building at 17th and Mission - just a few blocks from The Curiosity Shoppe. The "Why" fell off or was removed at some point, but the sign remained until 2002, when it was replaced overnight by a BMW billboard, to the dismay of the neighborhood. (A local film archivist rescued the sign and it's in pieces in his warehouse.) I must have seen it plenty of times in the Mission over the years, but it clearly never registered.
Is it lame that I named my show after a Los Angeles-based TV show and it ends up being named for a piece of San Francisco history?
These two paintings were commissioned for a wee girl and boy. I am happy with them. I should make time to pursue more opportunities for doing kids' art, because it's a lot of fun.
Doesn't the kid in the new Mazda commercial remind you of Mary Stewart Masterson in Some Kind of Wonderful?
Another treat from my 1984 sketchbook. This one is called "The Alien." Ooh, deep.
I love how one of the creatures is smoking with one of her mouths. How do I know it's a girl when there are absolutely no bodily features to distinguish gender on this planet? Her hairstyle of course.
My 8-year old nephew Jordan gave me this poem the day I was leaving Ireland in May. I just love it
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs O dinosaurs
O how I love you
I studied you for many years
And here is what I knew
Brachiosaurus had the longest neck
He could do many things
From reaching up to the tops of trees
To making the ground shake
But how did the dinosaurs die?
Were they flooded by a tsunami
or just a big volcano? Nobody knows for sure
I hope they come again.
Eric and I had the best time in the Gold Country on over Labor Day weekend. We go to Russian River so much and I realized recently that I had never seen the country east of Sacramento. The little towns are so cute, lots of old storefronts with balconies perfect for bullet-riddled cowboys to topple off.
My 156-year old employer has a large historical presence out in the Wild West, and it was fun to see old Wells Fargo express stops that are now coffee shops. We spotted two that were marked with brass plaques outside.
But this was a new one for the old stagecoach:
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