slowly she turned

I cannot believe it is Wednesday. Wow. My sense of time is so out of whack.

I guess it is official now that I really do plan to go to Art and Soul in Harrisburg, PA this July because I bought plane tickets yesterday. Actually, I used miles. My Chase United card sent an email that they are raising my fee next year, so I decided to use up my points and cancel it. I don’t particularly feel safe to fly anywhere right now and had planned to drive, but realized that driving over eight hours one way in an almost 20 year old car probably wasn’t the safest or cheapest way to go.

Anyway, I had registered months ago for one of Seth Apter’s two day classes because I knew it would fill quickly (it did) and then added a couple more along the way: a copper book class with Thomas Ashman, and a two day encaustics for beginners class with Lisa Bebi. I’ve been curious about encaustics for a long time.

I booked a room at a cheaper hotel about five minutes away, but I wonder now if it would be cheaper to find a roommate and stay at the venue than to walk or get a Lyft. I just hate to subject anyone to my snoring, which is usually not too bad according to those who have heard it, but right now with my allergies I’ve been waking myself up!

So that’s on my mind, as well as two retreats I plan to attend at Wildacres in Little Switzerland in the fall. I’ll go to the Tapestry Weavers South retreat and exhibit opening in Elkin in early June, but that’s only a little over an hour’s drive away. I’ll talk about those later.

Anticipation of these events makes me happy.

I spent some time in the studio yesterday and re-watched Tara Axford’s online class in Collage Maker’s Summit and made two collages from only discarded cardboard. I like the dimensional quality and the simplicity of these, and will do the rest of the lesson. Not sure if I will paint these or not.

What I really feel good about, though, is that I worked some more on this collage which I call “aneuch,” because it actually WASN’T “enough,” but I couldn’t figure it out. What did it need? Sometimes it is good to spend time away from a piece.

It was too clean and orderly before. I’m more of a grungy type. By the way, that wood scrap is a piece of the studio roof I found in the yard.

The window AC unit has already arrived and man, is it heavy! Sandy and I will wrestle it into that window somehow but I’m glad it is for a ground floor window. I figure that it will be good to have a back-up if our house central AC unit goes out again, because we had two very expensive repairs to it two years apart. Of course the second one came just after the warranty expired on the first repair. We could move this window unit to the house if necessary. It is refurbished but it looks brand new.

We lived without air conditioning for years until I hit peri-menopause and that was the end of that. I can’t stand the humid heat. But I do use our ceiling fans and other methods of cooling our space when I can. This is one reason I’d have to be desperate to move south of here.

Okay, hopefully my mood will stay stable enough to keep doing art and posting. Cheers.