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Wordless Wednesday 2023 Wk 17
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I’m taking a watercolor class and I’m terrible at it!
As part of the subsection of 2023 goals that informally includes "get your ass out of the house" I decided to take a watercolor class through my town's recreation program. It's a six-week class that meets for two hours on a weeknight and all it's doing is introducing us to the basics of watercolor. There are about 10 of us in attendance. Some have taken art classes before and some are like me and just want to get out of the house. And I'm terrible it. So very bad. My washes are too dry, my ...
Reclaiming my shelves
Back in 2006, when I was a single lady with 2 cats and a cozy, girly apartment, I was given this lovely piece. (from this post) Long story short, the apartment was all white and I decided to get a bunch of red accessories to make it pop. And it did and it looked amazing and I will always be proud of what I built there. And now it's 11 years later and I am a married lady with a husband and 75 pounds of spaniels. We have a home that came painted a very warm gray and my tastes have ...
Analysis Paralysis: Craft room color
As is my way, the craft room looks 100x worse now that I've started to "organize" it. The plan is to paint the walls yellow, move in some of the white cubby shelves that I've had since the original apartment, get some gray curtains, look at getting a counter-height table and GET CRAFTY! But I'm stuck on step one. I'm torn between 2 different yellows. Color 1 is called Surfboard Yellow. Color 2 is called Sunbeam. The window faces south, so no direct sunlight, if that even matters. And yes, ...
