Off to Brazil Postcard challenge 2012

Several weeks have passed and he thought he would not hear from her again. No card, no calls.  Danny had a gig that evening and was remiss to wait any longer. ” I’m out” he said to no one in general.  Waiting at the front door of the small apartment was his dog, Friend. “Ah’ MAN!  Not you TOO?”  The dog cocked his shaggy head to one side as if to say, “hey, don’t ask me, I was ready hours ago”.  Danny grabbed the leash, coupled up the giant dustmop and started for the foyer.  Just then, the phone rang.  Urgently and steadily it blared until he counted to four and the machine picked up.  He continued out of the door to take Friend for a quick walk before it was time to get his equipment together. Banging down the brick steps, Danny launched into a quick trot anxious to get Friend off of the blazing concrete and on to a grassy patch on which to handle his business.  Danny began to make a mental list of songs and mixes.   Songs to get the crowd on its feet and mixes to make them sweat.  As Friend moved anxiously around the grassy area, Danny let his mind wander back to his flat…to the ringing phone he ignored.  Why did he avoid it?

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50,000 Visitors Can’t be wrong! GiveAWAY!

(Either that, or they came here looking for the product from the movie Coming to America, lol!  Either way, I’m flattered, pleased, happy and surprised so that means a GIVEAWAY!!!  No, not Jason Momoa but he will be drawing the winning number on on January 17th 2010!  ( ok, I’m so lying, but god, isn’t he hot!? *fans self*)  Leave a comment, that’s it…no begging, no pleading no forwarding your great uncles passport or monocle.   You will have your choice of original art or an art goodie! either way, its free, right? A’aIGHT!?

Post card challenge 2001

The fun has begun and we are making our characters and cards for the first destination :AUSTRIA.

Darcy @ Art and Sole is helping us to put together our own sagas of two people who correspond via postcard and or letter.  They may or may have not met previously. They may or may not be known to each other…that is the fun of it!  It is based on the works of   Nick Bantock, author of the Griffin and Sabine series.  We create our own characters and pretty much run the same course.  There is lots of support from the other members of the group and the artwork is fabulous to say the least.  Since I cannot draw, I am pretty much relying on the collage aspects of doing my cards.  Please stop by Darcy’s and or any of the other participants.  It is such a fun experience! Here is my first card, tribute to Austria:  My main man, Freud, music,Germanic language and a map..I had to throw the Alps in.

 

I’m a bit over committed with courses this year, but idle hands and all that…

Time to make time

Well, the excess of the holidays are a thing of the past.  I enjoyed a quiet New Years day learning to create zentangles and wishing there was something already prepared in the freezer.  I have given up Facecrack games and although I am still experiencing withdrawal  symptoms of sorts from not “taking anyone out”, waiting for stamina or leveling up. Mafia’s farms and sororities will do just fine without me.   I realized how much time I was spending there before Christmas and decided it was not what I wanted to do this year.   While staring at the ceiling I thought to myself “what do I want to accomplish and how will I do it ?”   One of my goals is to find a full time job.  While my language skills are mediocre at best, surely there must be SOMETHING in this country I am qualified to do… (*inserts small pleading voice here: please, not sales..I hate sales *

I am joining the rousing chorus of Using it Up over at Fran’s.  I have so much stuff, if someone offered me the postage I would gladly unload.  If I was able to make something with a piece of paper and a black pen, why do I keep “needing” more supplies?  Even making lists of the stuff I have gets misplaced and I end up with more duplicate stuff..I want to lose the weight of the stuff, and the weight of the stuff that weighs me down.. I started implementing changes in my life before the holidays…not waiting for a new week, or day. Don’t get me wrong, I love art supplies.  I love trying to make something and get such a rush when it comes to fruition.  Especially when I don’t have to buy anything else to get to that place.  There will always be another paper line, scrapbook or art journal I want to try.  I just really, really want to have it become SOMETHING tangible.

Just a do over.