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Sunday, January 01, 2006

Here's my new calendar-book for this coming year. I never can find the cheapy-deapy 99-cent ones when I need them.
It's still somewhat naked because I haven't done any embellishing yet, just the basics. And May is the last month I put in. I used a frozen pizza box (I liked the colors) for the cover, and composition-book paper for the pages. But I found out I don't like this kind of paper. It's so thin! The inks and dyes and felt pens show right through
to the other side. This paper is fine if the pages are prepped with paint or gesso beforehand, and let dry, but trying to erase a pencil entry on prepped paper is useless.

So, this is just the bare-bones effect for now. I'll go back later and add beads and drawings when boredom is threatening.

Oh, wow, the wind is gusting like crazy. Sounds like being next to the ocean on a high-surf day. I can hear all the windchimes in the neighborhood having a party. No rain, yet, but it's supposed to come in.

Whoa, the sound is constant now. I think the windchimes got blown away, can't hear them anymore.

So, did you have a good New Year's Eve? At midnight we toasted each other, downed some champagne, then I did what I always do and opened the door and went outside so I could breathe in the brand-new air of the new year.

Then we all went out and shot off our poppers and watched the people on the next block do their illegal fireworks up into the sky, and listened to the idiots more distant from us shoot off their GUNS.

I can just hear some red-neck, "Damn, forgot to get me some poppers! Hey, BrendaSue, go on an' fetch me my twelve-shooter--I wanna make me some noise, too!"

This gun-fun was followed very quickly by lots and lots of sirens. Guess the police had a busy night.

Uh-oh. Something really BIG just went over, down the street. This wind happens every year, and every year someone ends up with a tree in their house. Our neighborhood has really big, really old trees, and every year I hope OURS isn't the house that ends up with a tree through the roof.

These gales can be really exciting-- guess it's all the positive ions blowing around. But it can be kinda scary, too.

Probably I should get this posted. Our lights keep flickering, and probably I should turn off the computer and stay away from electrical things. The wires outside are bouncing up and down and back and forth. Think I'll go out and cozy up on the porch with a book and some hot Chai and watch the weather.

1 Comments:

Blogger Val said...

This is a really GREAT idea and so simple yet effective. Why haven't I thought of doing this? Fantastic!

2:37 AM  

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