"As I ran this morning I started to see a pattern in my life. As much as I like order and organization, sometimes this inhibits me from making the important changes I need to make. Because you see, some changes require a mandatory period of messiness in order to get to clarity or cleanliness."
After my last post, a friend emailed me about this old time Popeye Coffee House cartoon. SOOO funny! It brought back great memories of watching Saturday morning cartoons at home with dad.
"Coffee gives you the time to dream it, then you're ready to do it."
For a school project, I am designing three different logos for an "old school" coffee shop
(imagine the sharp smell of roasting coffee, writers bent over their latest short story or poem, young college students engaged in philosophical discussions, bins of freshly roasted beans with coffee scoops and scales nearby, burlap sacks, wood floors, mismatched furniture....).
*happy sigh*
{dear cowboy} and Unit Four went to the movie. The house is quiet. I should be hard at work in Adobe Illustrator, but instead...
I am watching David Bowie and Kurt Vonnegut promote coffee on youtube.
I think I have officially raised procrastination to an art form.
Mike's blog is always a fun read. Great writer... Great sense of humor. And what can I say? Even if biking is not your first love *raising my hand*, these Titanium Cowboys are just plain eye candy.
We took a quick trip to the city today. Unit Four needed a large canvas for his oil painting class at school, and I was feeling the urge to wander a BIG UNIVERSITY art department.
In addition to my classes at the college, I've been taking Alisa Burke's "Sketchbook Delight" class online. She was very convincing when she said that I didn't need any new, fancy supplies for her class, but I was in the mood for a bit of art store retail therapy just the same.
Here's what was in my canvas travel bag on the way down:
Several water soluble black markers for Alisa's class.
New dustless chalk and a chalkboard eraser for the chalkboard that {dear cowboy} made me for Valentine's day.
A small Koi waterbrush... perfect for tucking in with my new watercolors.
I don't think I could live in the big city, but I do love visiting. I feel full to the tip-top with happiness, gratitude and inspiration here this evening. Life is good.
I just ordered new dyes from Sheepish Creations on Etsy, pulled pounds of snowy white merino roving from a box, and oiled up my spinning wheel. I love fall!!!