The Gypsy on Adventure

Creative Souls

Well Creative Souls made on the front page of Ning:

http://blog.ning.com/2008/06/release-your-artistic-impulses-at-creative-souls.html

I am so happy to have been invited by Izabella!

Energy

It is just really nice to have some energy after work to do some art! Little bits at a time. Thinking about one piece at a time. There is movement and I am joyful! I have been working on the rolladex pages and I was so silly! I used the CLEAR gesso instead of the white with the stencil! So it doesn't really show up!

I couldn't walk again today, it is way too smoky outside and I couldn't handle the tightening in my lungs. So I had a salad for dinner with some tri-tip on it! YUM

AND SQUEEL with delight! I got the wearable art from Amanda!!!!! YUMMY A mini jacket and a skirt! The childs jacket it going up on my wall!

Sentiment and Back to Inspiration

Happy 103 Birthday Grandma!
If she had lived she would be 103...and I have missed her every day that she has been gone. I think of her every day...This weekend I will go to her grave and make sure it is cleaned up and new flowers put down...and I shall dance on her grave and show her how much weight I have lost and she will smile and giggle, loving that I am still strong enough to be silly in my own skin! This was taken in Mountain View, 1976 at her Eagles Club on Castro Street. I have her hands and feet, and apparently the never grow up attitude. I always felt she was like a child. I am sure that is why her other kids just didn't get her.

I got home from a grueling day back to work and even had energy to go to the grocery store, picked up fresh fruit, veggies and organic/non-antibiotic meats. Some healthy snacks for work...got back cooked dinner and cleaned up too! What is up with me? LOL  Then I sat to do art! I must be sick! Well when I got back to work the scaffolding was gone, but the skylight that crashed down all over my desk was covered in card board and SEVERAL times today it freaked me out by raining glass on the card board! It is a freaky sound when you are sitting under it!! I was glad I was gone last week when they were messing with it and it came crashing down with my other co-workers THERE!  I think I would have been hurt had I been sitting there!

Deep breathe of fresh ART air! I have inspiration in my bones! I have started to work on some art again! It feels good!   I started the Roladex project today, and little steps, one thing at a time. The most important thing to me is that I am sitting my butt in the chair! AND I have a clean space to work in! YEAH

This weeks scope...

Now that the Sun and Venus are in your sign, Gypsy, you feel more empowered. Your sense of yourself is coming back to you, and your ability to nurture yourself and those around you is at a peak. Your natural sensitivity to others and to their vibrations is more noticeable. Your confidence in your appearance will be more pronounced, and this will spill over into your daily activities, helping you to make them more of a success. Mars is still in your personal financial zone, where it has been encouraging you to get your act together in this area. By now, you have probably gotten a few issues sorted out and spent a fair amount of money, too. This transit tends to bring with it a few unexpected bills, but it also gives you added determination to earn more by making the best use of your skills and resources. The Sun sextiles Saturn on Wednesday, which brings the opportunity to get started on a new idea. It may require hard work, but by knuckling down, you will create a strong foundation for future growth. Meanwhile, Mercury has turned direct and is helping you to connect to your inner feelings more easily.

Hum...kinda what I have been feeling already...interesting...I hope I do get my financial stuff in order! LOL

Last Day of Vacation!

Oooosh! I slept in until 8:30, got up took a shower, pushed the button on the coffee maker and had a fab cup of the WGB coffee! I missed that when I was gone!  I love his coffee!  I must tell you I feel REALLY good today! I can even see I have a waist in this photo of today! SO happy to have movement!

I spent most of the day doing laundry and cleaning one of my art tables!

I decided I can't really do art if there is CRAP all over the tables! So now I am ready to do art! It feels good...it is not all done but there is enough room to do art now! I am excited!

Good night funny man...

George did you hear us when we said the 7  words you can't say on TV at your passing? you were my Lenny Bruce and I will miss you...

Stand-up comedian George Carlin, who became famous for his biting anti-establishment brand of humor, has died in Los Angeles, his publicist confirmed Monday. He was 71. Carlin, who had a history of heart problems and had survived three previous heart attacks, died at the Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday at about 6:00 pm (0100 GMT) after being admitted with chest pains.

The New York-born comic was best remembered for his famous routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." The routine triggered a landmark Supreme Court lawsuit that shaped decency rules for US television and radio.

Carlin, who recently marked 50 years in show business and was performing in Las Vegas, made 22 albums and won four Grammy Awards. He authored several books, performed on dozens of television shows and appeared in numerous movies.

Born in 1937, Carlin dropped out of school as a 14-year-old and later joined the US Air Force. He got his first taste of standup in the late 1950s and made his television debut on "The Merv Griffin Show" in 1965.
He performed on seminal US network shows such as the "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Tonight Show," where he regularly stood in for Johnny Carson. But it was the edgier humor of the early 1970s and his "Dirty Words" skit that he will be best remembered for.

The routine saw him arrested for obscenity in 1972 at a comedy festival in Milwaukee and when the Pacifia radio station broadcast a version of it in 1973, the station was sued by the Federal Communications Commission. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled narrowly in favor of the FCC, a court order that established indecency regulation in US broadcasting.

Where the article came from.

 

Ack...it was a heck of a day!

Woke up normal time, got through the shower and had my coffee. Then Michael and I took the pouty teenager out with us because she has been cooped up in the house, she wasn't really pouty! I teased her.  We went to FOUR different Verizons to get my old phone contacts UP loaded to the new phone...no go...infact the last idiot wiped clean the 10 I put in! Sigh... they don't really talk to me...Michael said some thing to me about it and I said loud in the last store that is because "I HAVE BOOBS!" I was so mad!  The guy kept looking at my tattoo instead of talking to me...and didn't do any thing I needed! Sigh

Then off to Frys where it ONLY got worse to put my camera back in to get fixed...we walked out an hour later...I swear I could have blown a few brain cells from how much they hurt my head! Can you say IDIOTS? I swear...

It was consistent...we got to the pet store...they don't have peanuts or Crackers favorite treats anymore...do you think the people could help us?? AND we bought 2  months of cat flea stuff and the lady looks at us and says we don't have that big of package today...so Michael said can you give us TWO of the smaller packages? DUH...it equals the same!!! Rolling eyes!

Then off to lunch! I was so exhausted from the day and the people I was encountering and the bad mood I was in and stay on my couch watching Troy and Alexander the Great and knitting! I gave up on the day!

The really good thing that happened? Crackers came out and stayed on the couch with me watching TV and giving me kisses!

Ch-Cha-Cha-Changes!

I really wanted to fix my hair BEFORE I had to go back to work next Tues! I was lucky and got into my hair stylist at 9:00 am (but I slept until 8:40 and quick took a shower and ran out of the door! She died my hair dark blk (should have been brown) to cover the red...and boy does it look different! I was glad to have started early whew it is HOT HOT HOT again today!

I mainly just worked on my necklace some more and knit, and journaled...hung out on the couch watching movies...the DeVinci Code, The Fortune Cookie, and one other movie from Netflicks...it was a lazy day...

So good to be home and REALLY sleep!

I don't sleep well when I am not home...it was a relief to have my own bed with my honey next to me. I appreciate him always but I sure do after I have been gone a few days!  I was lazy today, worked on my necklace when I could, did a bit of knitting but it was SO HOT I mainly melted! Snort!

Gypsy Junk Necklace I made on the trip. Well we had about 6 or 7 different necklaces, silver and gold, that we could use the wire cutters on to cut enough for the 4 of us. Then we made jump rings with head pins (I recommend using jump rings that have that closure that you have to split so they don't fall off! we had issues with that and I am now fixing mine!) Then we added charms we had made, beads, St. Christophers, lockets, old buttons and earrings....bits and pieces all put together. I added frames for photos that I still have to put on. You just JUNK IT UP...and then I made mine double stranded and put a closure on the back to take it on and off with...LOVING it! Easy we had them done in a couple of hours and wore them to dinner that night! Giggle

We were going to go to dinner and movie but the heat has exhausted both of us...so we just hung out dripping! I watched a lot of catch up TV and am going to bed now, my bedroom is the coolest in the house since I had the windows open and fan going so it won't be so bad when I go in.

Great Fun!

We left Santa Nella at 10 am and got to Santa Clarita for a thrift shop at 2:30! Not a bad run at all! We found MANY treasures on our trip...and the best time was had a Zinnia's in downtown Pacedena! Joe who works there was fantastic and was the most memorable and fun time I had the entire trip!  A shout out to him! We talked long about the Day of the Dead and myths and the church. So refreshing to meet some one who gets me about this!

We all had great meals and great finds on the trip! We made our Junk Gypsy Necklaces and wore them to dinner where all of us lost some of our hanging things but we will fix them all when we get home! AND you can even see the photo where I hit my head on the ceiling jumping on the bed! Ha! When we got to Gilroy it was 105 degrees! Yikes Welcome Summer! I am so glad I lost that 11 pounds to be able to wear shorts and my jean skirt!

It was sure nice to get home to see the WGB ... I so missed him!

Here are some pics!