laundry

some food we've eaten lately - we're hooked on sprouts & pea shoots 

asparagus / tuna devil eggs / sprout salad / toasted tomato & cuke sandwich on the best white bread / cheesy somethin' or other with sprout salad / Salmon loaf, vegetable mix & oven roasted fries 

Duvet covers, a necessary evil. & getting the duvet cover on the duvet, isn't that another activity that just sends me. Why is it so hard to do ?? Tips ? Tricks ? Anyone ? Unfortunately we have a pile of great down (summer weight & winter weight) duvets so it's damn duvet covers for me & what's up with my fitted sheets. Went to my linen closet this morning & found a billion flat sheets where are their flat sheet mates ??? I've been to the market & the garden/annual/baby perennial market, have a load of laundry (including a duvet cover) waiting to be hung on the line (there is nothing I love better than crisp newly laundered sheets smelling of sunshine, blue sky & fresh air -LOVE) & then a dog walking adventure & into the garden I go to get lost with my plantin & a weedin" ;-) Happy Victoria's Birthday (long weekend in Canada) to all !! it's the beginning of summer here in cottage country.

subtle maniac

 No.1 You Rock My World - 8x10 mixed media collage (vintage papers, ink & gouache) - Susan Black 

 

Remember the collage above ? Can't remember if I posted it here at 29 Black Street or only over here at my portfolio blog. The idea to make a You Rock My World  piece came from an Etsy customer who had purchased one of my Love Makes the World Go Round prints & was hoping to have another globe icon print to go with it.

I made the collage above but was never really thrilled about it, a common occurrence with me this lack of thrilldom with practically everything I do, which thankfully is a feeling I'm gradually getting used & I think (& hope) it might be an indication that the process of making things (trying things, tackling an idea regardless of whether or not it turns out) is becoming what gives me the biggest kick. So in my dissatisfaction with the first version I made a few thumbnails in my morning journal & in my subtle finicky, lets try this & then lets try that maniac ways - I did a few more versions - ya feel like voting ? My feelings won't be hurt. Sometimes you need to try the new idea to end up knowing that the first idea was the strongest. I'm not sure in this case. I've let the customer pick her favourite & I'll chalk this 2 day project up to practice, process & a potential portfolio piece - Hey M. Universe ! I would love to illustrate a children's book and/or do a series of inspirational art posters for kids.

Thanks for voting ! In the end these are my favourites & I think I like the original best also but sometimes ya just have to get the other ideas out of your head & onto paper - you just never know ?!? You Rock My World - 8x10 mixed media collage (vintage papers, ink & gouache) - Susan Black 

hey i.t !

sometimes bad photos become good - a gorgeous bouquet of les lilacs from last year's village lilac thievery

Hey ! where's my IT guy when I need him - my mac guy, camera, printer ... anything technical at all guy. My iphoto & canon G12 are not getting along & I'm unable to upload any new photos into my iphoto or onto my computer GASP !!! I know let's all gasp again & turn the air blue with a whole lotta cursin'. Stuff like this just drives me, sends me. I now I have to stop what I'm working on to fret & stew & try to figure it all out myself - ergggghhh *!@***/?/ Bare with me as I post photos from les massive & much loved iphoto archives.

I'm listening (as usual) to my fav CBC morning show Q with Gian Ghomeshi he just played this fabulous Men at Work song - oh my takes me back ;-) we'll send this one out to Miss Winnie Dixon's & my dear Australian blog friend Pam