We are hosting our neice this week. She's a rambunctious, delightful, cheerful, creative, happy to talk, art-making, smarty-pants, silly goof of a wonderful seven year old. She was a big part of the reason we moved back up north and we are simply having too much fun for me to slow down and sit at a computer to blog.

That said I will tell you that Sorry is a good game, crayola magic markers are fun to draw with (fine tips are fine tips), and elbow tag is excercise.

Have fun!
Rachael

Oh and to make this even more fun: we're getting close in the househunt, dear Deb and Julius and baby Sophia were recently in the neighborhood, and it is fruit salad season.

Hope Hilton has a lovely cooperative project she's just placed online. Look a lot, think a little, look a little and think a lot. She comes up with some dang good ideas and I'm too sleepy to share more but I do share this link to salvation.

If I get saved while I'm sleeping, will I have to go to work tomorrow? Can I get a longer lunch break? Will my salvation center my pots if my fingers can't?

Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. Goodnight!

Rachael

We worked all day, we sniffed out a house that wasn't right, and while I want to call old friends I simply don't have the energy.When it rains I will pull out my paints and paint the spilling water from the sky in the true colors I see. Deep blues and cold greys and greens. everything is moving slightly; branches, bunches of green, and shadows.

There is a part of making art which is (and this was sung like a mantra when I was in art school, mind you) trusting the process. Simply accepting that the end result is sometimes unknowable, that there is a reason for every set back and a point at which sometimes the motion of making is more meaningful that the carefully planned result. It's a lesson I am still learning and getting wet is not a bad thing to help teach.

Damn cat is eating my zinnia though so time to teach her a lesson...

Deb's lead to Kumi Korf's lovely book is a true treat.

take good care kids,
Rachael

See what the art school kids are doing and support support support! Go ACA100 !

Rachael

Three simple joys on a day off.

My catalog found me. It's sexy but I can't afford much right now. Not a problem really, clay is cheap. I've got my pinching and my slabbing and my wobbly wheeling to keep me busy.

And Zinnias potted and pretty were $1 each at the public market. Color, resilience

Tommorrow it'll be reading, drawing and hunting houses.

Take care,
Rachael