howdy campers, what a fabulous day it is!...and by the way, how are your'e goals going?......well if you are struggling remember, today is a new day!!!....you can do it!!!!......and my goals?......well, this whole streamline thing is working but taking alot of time....so it's like i try to streamline something, which in turn makes something else not so streamlined, so now i have to redo that thing too, which means the first thing i did that worked is now obsolete, go back to square one and fix that and now anything i've done since then is all off kilter, and then i don't know where i am............and that took all day...ha ha................i guess this is where having a secretary comes in handy...................so i plug on.....
hey remember that comic strip...the pluggers...or i think that's what it was called......kinda of a comic approach to blue collar life.......which i guess if you are living the blue collar life....count me in.......maybe it's not so funny......but really if you don't laugh at yourself you'll go crazy......or in some cases both things are happening at the same time....once again count me in...ha ha..............see, that was a "laughing at myself crazy laugh".......and to add to my streamlining, i put on my website that i would have prices and payment info ready to go by april1???? .....could this be an april fools day joke?, but no it's not......i can do it.............or it might have to become an april fools joke.........i love april fools jokes..... so years ago i called my husband (this is on april fools day) and he was in a meeting, nothing he couldn't step outside for a minute...right?...so i told him that somebody named mr. lyon had called and wanted him to call him back, gary's like.."i'm in a meeting can it wait?"...i said.."i don't know the guy sounded kind of mad, but call whenever"....so gary sighs "sigh"...and says "ok, let me call him now"...i give him the number and i hang up.....the number was to the zoo....ha ha ha.......it was hilarious.....the guys in the meeting were laughing, gary not so much, and the zoo probably got alot of those calls that day......i can hear the zoo now.."no, mr lion is busy eating mr deer, would you rather talk to mr bear?"...ha ha ha....by the way the zoo now has an automated answering machine.......... another one was when i was with the grands and we made "brownies"......no, not those brownies, i was with the grands.....these were "brown- E's"......e's that they painted brown....ha ha.....we put them on a plate and they took them to school....so funny.....ha ha ha another really good one that keeps on getting people is "i have a leak"....well it's really "i have a leek"...ya know the veggie.......i put it in a sink and had a teacher call the custodian telling them, "there's a leak in the sink"....priceless....your neighbors car....."hey you've got a leak under your car"....ha ha....the fun goes on and on............i have found that with the leek you have to leave the tag on it that says it's a leek,... alot of people don't know what they look like.... so back to streamlining .......one thing at a time...right...and hopefully that thing isn't connected to another thing that's connected to another thing, etc.........just plugging along.......be groovy!
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.......good morning campers!!!!....have you ever had a word that just describes what you are about?......well this word just jumped out at me and said" hey, let me be your word for the next 7 months"....the word said this in a really high pitched voice, and was really insistent that i use her....i'm guessing the word is a she, cause of the high voice...but could be a boy and it's going through puberty.......do words go through puberty?....well anyway, my word is ..."streamline".....very groovy....makes you think of a fast train, or a supersonic jet, or of course, a chaotic artist............didn't know i even needed a word, but my word decided i did........so we are in this together for the next 7 months.....i gave myself 7 months to get through some goals since the last 7 months worked pretty well....no major tantrums on my part...and 7 is a good number
so, do yall have a favorite number also?....7 wasn't really my favorite number.....my favorite number was 6........you see i used to be a spy.....i can tell you that now, cause i'm retired......went by the code name of "b6"....i could of been a vitamin...ha ha....that rhymes .....ha ha.................anyway, i was probably around 10.......i kept a spy notebook, that yes, i still have....very interesting info in there by the way....good stuff on what the evil older sister was doing...............so i would wear my spy clothes, red turtle neck sweater and jeans....and walk up and down the block spying on people........oh i was a favorite with the neighbors.......can't imagine all the calls my mom got..... cause back then most moms stayed home.....so how lovely to have a kid peering in windows everyday......well from the sidewalk......so my spy obsession took off after reading, yep you guessed it , harriet the spy.........sometimes my friend audrey, who was "a6"....not the shoe asics, but a6..ha ha, would spy with me, but mostly it was me........i wasn't the most adventurous kid.....but i had an adventurous imagination, i basically stayed on my side of the sidewalk and walked our block, back and forth.......i was obviously an amazing spy cause no one ever confronted me about spying...... but you wonder, well i wonder , when did we lose the whole, "my favorite number" thing.....ya know when your'e a kid you have a fav number, color, animal, etc, all kids knew everyone's favs........it says so much about who you are ...but as we get older somehow we ask...."what do you do for a living, whats your job"...blah blah blah.....it's becomes more about what you do that who you are...........i think everyone oughta ask the next person they meet what their favorite number and color are...maybe even be so bold as to ask their fav word.....what?!....just see what response you get..................could be a strait-jacket might become involved......but anyway.... so streamline it is for me...and yeah 6 is probably still my fav number (me and my hubby and our 4 kids)....course could be 9 for grands....i guess that one changes...ha ha .....or it's doing a cartwheel...........and blue and confetti are my fav colours!....and speaking of goals....well i wasn't really but now i am.....have you been working toward your first goal???.....you can do it!!!!......have part of it done by next tuesday....i could sic my bg on you if that would help!.....................take care and be groovy! well hey there all you fabulous people!.....time marches on...well it basically runs on.....and at a way faster pace then i have ever gone.........well that's not saying alot.......so...it's been over half a year since i started this blog and i'm still at it!!??...what??!!..........i know, amazing for me....the excitement of things die out quickly......i have the attention span of a gnat....so...am i progressing?....hmmm...... let's just do the 7 month recap......................
dun duh dah....drum roll please...... so i learned how to..... 1) start....and continue (that's the big part for me) a blog...in general...or lieutenant..maybe sergeant....anyway.....maybe not every tues, but close....well for me 2) upload pics to blog 3) put text and pics where i want them on the blog.....alot of frustration from chasing around images on the computer 4) make a copyright symbol 5) worked through some grief....as charlie brown says "good grief" 6) figured out price by sq in for artwork 7) not pass out from trying to do math 8) met with an author!!....nita sweeny...yeah she's my friend...just name dropping 9) get and work with a business guru or bg....katelyn johnson of capital cakes ....i sometimes ignore the constant texting 10) create a link for other people to my blog....like the above 11) have self discipline.....ok still working on that 12) create an instagram account.....alright so the bg got most of that up 13) create a google business account......ok same thing and yeah i don't really have that one going.......well it's created just haven't used it 14) work out alot and i mean alot of issues with instagram.......still working out issues 15) do that google photo thing 16) keep a schedule....ha ha skee-doo-lee 17) take closeup pics of my artwork with a macro lens......still working on figuring out the part about taking multiple pics and putting them back together 18) oh yeah and big one....create artwork on a semi regular basis......well better than my semi basis....which is kinda worse than non regular basis...which would really mean no basis at all........does "basis" look weird to you too?........... not so bad huh?!......i actually accomplished some stuff.......maybe for the next half of the year i oughta make some goals.....what??!!................this way maybe i'm not so random....who me?...be random?.......i also just want to thank yall for liking, reading, sharing.....all the "ings" you do....ha ha that sounded like "things"! i really appreciate it! yall are the best!!!! hey, maybe yall could join me!!!....yall could have 18 things to accomplish in the next 7 months too.....we could be an online self help group for the self helpers.......but if your'e a self helper aren't you really helping yourself?....which kinda negates the whole self help helping group thing cause you've already been helped .....what?....maybe it could be a helping others group.........get your 18 things together....lets do this!!! woohoo!.................... have a super groovy day! good morning campers....well i have kind of learned how to photograph my paintings.......kind of because i haven't quite grasped the concept of how to take multiple shots of different areas of my paintings and then put them back together....that involves photoshop or something like it i guess....so the reason for photographing my artwork is to cut my costs a little..... i don't have to pay someone to photograph and print....just print.....
so my husband comes home to my inventive photo studio in the livingroom....i needed good natural light.........he says it seems that my art studio, (which used to be a bedroom, but became my studio) has regurgitated itself into the hall and livingroom.....well he actually said thrown-up, but anyway...i believe the problem happens at night .....you see my stuff is in one area one day...and the next day my stuff is somewhere else.......interesting......it couldn't possibly be me doing it?!....maybe i'm like a magnet and things attach to me and then get dropped off in different areas.... and speaking of things attaching to me....when i made my dinosaur living sculptures for the monument 10 k....i made them out of foam.....lots and lots of foam.....foam attaches to you and doesn't let go by the way......little pieces of foam.......so much foam that it was throughout the whole house and in the front yard and backyard......not really sure how it got out there........this was 3 solid months of making patterns, carving foam, gluing foam, going to buy more foam, carving more foam, gluing more foam, painting foam....you get the picture....foam was my life.......before this i had never made something like this with foam...i did have the help of stan winstons school of charactor arts....i took a class online from ted haines....mind you they are amazing and this was my first try at making stuff out of foam.....chicken wire yes, but not foam.......but hey foam is light , right??....easy to run in??!!....well foam is also very hot!!!....well to wear and run or walk a 10 k in a complete foam costume..........yeah, i made 3 dinosaurs ...we started with 3 people...and crossing the line were 5 people.....me in a complete costume, 2 people in bottom halves, and 2 people in top halves.......i almost gave people a heat stroke with the costumes.......... but in the middle of making these....my husband would come home and just wade through the foam to find a seat in the livingroom or outside....hey that's how it got outside....gary took it there.....see it wasn't me after all.........we would be eating and he would flick off foam every now and then......sitting down on the couch would create a flying foam frenzy with small bits of foam and dinosaur parts strewn on the couch and coffee table....no problem, he would just scoot them aside......walking through the house, little pieces of foam would accumulate on his legs......he really was a good sport about the whole thing.....i didn't really see all this going on with him because i was in a mad dash to get these finished before the race....and was neck deep in foam.......by the way electric carving knives are the best things to cut foam with.....they work like a charm....good thing i'm a veggie, no need to carve that turkey anymore...... so gary's passing comment about my art studio i guess is really founded on the whole possibility of my stuff taking over the house again....what's wrong with that?.... who wouldn't want to live with an artist?....never knowing what will have been painted, glued, carved, created........so exciting everyday!...so my photo studio is not that big of a deal i'm thinking......ya know to really empahsize the whole throwing up part i could make the doorway to my studio into a large mouth....maybe a monster ...a cuddly monster with his eyes looking down from the ceiling........i haven't worked with fiberglass yet....how messy could that be?.............................be groovy |
bobbi plentovichim bobbi from bobbis murals...muralist, artist, creative mess. writing a blog about the journey of a muralist/ artist and her quest for a place in the confetti coloured art world Archives
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