When Baby Girl and her brother spent the night Friday, Creative Genius was watching her perpetual motion and - noticing how she stills bumps off of one piece of furniture and into another - said we should call her 'Pinball'.
We settled on Ping, but we haven't told her parents yet (shhhh).
Today, I feel a little Ping-ish myself.
Aside from my usual hundred-different-projects-going-at-once, my mind is everywhere too; bouncing off the mental furniture of a thousand different thoughts.
Sitting on the shelf over my computer desk is a pencil drawing I did in class years ago.
I had to cut a small picture from a photography magazine and draw an upscaled version.
When I sat down to write this morning, I looked at this sketch and wondered for the umpteenth time...
Who puts a model in a pose like this?
Who on earth would ever strike this pose naturally?
Try it.
It's ridiculous.
And it bothers me every time I look at it.
-------
I was thinking about my left-turn-bay pennies this morning.
I don't know how it started, but I have a growing collection now.
Yes, of course this collection is completely different and separate from my Rescued Coin Collection. Of course.
Next time you are stuck at a red light in a left turn bay on a busy city thoroughfare, open your door and see if there is a penny laying in the street.
If there is, pick it up.
Wahlah!
You're on your way.
------
Speaking of Ping's sleepover last Friday, she wasn't very happy to wake up to no Daddy...
...but she was still beautiful.
Her brother arrived carrying this suitcase:
I think he told me it was his mommy's when she was a little girl.
But, I know he told me that it says, "I'm going to Pretty's".
These parents nowadays! They lie to their children! I love it.
He was a lot happier to be here in the morning.
I wish they lived down the street, so they could come over and play for an hour when I take my lunch break.
This swing and its shadow...
...look so forlorn.
------
Speaking of shadows...
This morning I was enjoying the shadow of our one-of-only-two-blooming-tulips, almost as much as I was the tulip itself.
Perhaps it's because I'm drawn to silhouettes.
And perhaps I'm drawn to silhouettes because I like to make papercuts.
I'd like to do a papercut of this March Hare before the month is out:
And I'd like to do a few roosters...
...in case my Chicken-Raising-Seester might like to have one.
I guess the silhouette-cutting falls in line with my recent fascination with drawing blind contours; there is something nice about working with just the shapes of things.
Unless, of course, the thing is me.
------
The rain we've had recently has put the herb garden in fine shape.
(Or was it the work Miss Helping Hands and I did cleaning out the flower and herb beds this weekend?)
The rosemary is already wonderfully aromatic...
...and makes me dream of warm loaves of rosemary bread.
And butter.
The Greek oregano...
...which usually monopolizes the little bed it lives in, has been downsized by the prolific thyme plant next door.
I love the texture of the plant's leaves, but I can't really use this much thyme.
Unless, of course, you Dear Readers have some fab recipes to share with me.
And the recipes call for butter.
------
I've been working on new shelving for my studio; customizing the dimensions for the supplies I actually have and use.
I found a couple of bare-naked shutters at the thrift store awhile back and bought them because I-had-no-idea-what-I-would-do-with-them-but-I-felt-like-I-needed-to-buy-them.
They are becoming doors for two of the shelving units.
I've got the pieces all built and painted, and they've been sitting in this corner 'curing' for a few days.
Yesterday, I added a striped background to the open shelf I made (no door).
I didn't want to paint on the wall, so I decided to glue paper to the backside of the shelf.
I was going to use nice art paper, but when I discovered that the poster board was sturdier, almost the same color, and would only cost $1.50, well, I signed up.
(Recognize the color scheme? Kids shouldn't get all the good stuff!)
Today I am adding the catches and hinges...
...and hoping to get these units actually hung on the wall.
Gotta get out the stud-finder.
Though, I know the stud I really want is at work in a tall building downtown.