cheese ball cheeks

©bobbi plentovich lewis "yellow chair series my grands" 2019 acrylic, pen and ink and marker on paper 8 1/2" x 11'

     good morning all you fabulous campers.....so i haven't been posting for the last 2 weeks..........i get real involved with the grands and seem to have a very hard time scheduling time for my work.....and... sleep has eluded me.....what a great word eluded.......seems like a spy word......so getting up shortly after going to sleep and being wide awake.........really frustrating......i really like my sleep.........so woke up last night, tossed and turned, ya know the drill...... sleep on right side, sleep on left, sleep on back, sleep on front....great for the neck by the way.....sit up and try to untangle shirt that is now 3 times wrapped around my body, sleep sitting up, sleep pippi style (feet on pillow)...i love pippi longstocking....one of those amazing books that's at the top of my amazing book collection, i mean who wouldn't want to be able to pick up a horse and have a pirate captain for a dad?!, ......repeat whole sequence a couple times, finally decided to just get up ......couldn't do yoga, every room was occupied with a person or dog....multiple grands and one daughter was here along with her 2 large dogs.......so...didn't want to get the dogs started barking.......so i make my way to my  small art room ...too much stuff in it to do yoga....or it's the new yoga..."paint can yoga"....and sit.....and lay down....and sit again.....and do some praying.....like "help me get to sleep please"......reading.......isn't it funny how when we are kids we will do anything not to sleep and now as adults it's what we are after.....anyway after all the above numerous times i decide to paint,..... in the dark,...... with my fingers.....i just felt like i needed to have paint on my hands and be creating something........it's like you have this creating thing inside you and it needs to come out, eating at you, trying to devour you until you get it out.........so i paint....in the dark, well with the help of the moon ........just squirted paint on my fingers and painted on a canvas......pretty interesting......very fun, very relaxing.....a new therapeutic sleep technique......as my author friend nita says...."it's my meditation"......so true......after i have put layers of paint on this canvas i said, hey let's check out this nighttime masterpiece.........yeah, not so much.....but it did relax me, then after a couple of sketches in the light.....of course when you are tired your eyes don't really focus so well, which was why the dark painting with fingers worked so well....., but hey, they were just sketches......once again not my best work, but the goal wasn't getting things "right"....or "left"....ha ha ...it was to relax......worked like a charm and i was finally able to go back to sleep.....
      i believe i will have to try this more often, maybe i'll get good enough that these paintings might look like something.......or not......but anyway, i'm writing this while trying to give one of my grands some things to do.....so if i seem more distracted than usual.....well let's just say it's normal for me.......so for the grapes.....sorry......she's looking for grapes......so for the next couple weeks i will be moving my youngest from one apartment to the next, watching some of my grands, going to the beach, surfing!!!...or more like falling.....i'm really good at falling off the board.....amazing as a matter of fact....if there was a competition for falrfing (falling off a surf board),  i would win hands down......or basically nose down cause that's alot of my problems.....also that balance thing too.........then driving from south carolina to north carolina and back to virginia  and back to north carolina, etc,  and eating lots of cheese balls, cause that's what my grand is doing right now, jumping back and forth saying "i have cheese ball cheeks".......and probably not putting anything up on this blog post...........so.....hope yall have a very meditative  week with lots of nighttime painting....remember to  practice your falrfing and hopefully sleep will not elude you too!...........be groovy

©bobbi plentovich lewis "tangled cat" 2014 fabric paint on t-shirt