Partly Paper

First and foremost on my agenda for the day is to finish hand washing my ribbons to remove the dog slobber's that Chaos so lovingly placed upon them. I picked the box full up this morning to take a closer look at them and yuck! the slime has now dried!!! Hence, the hand washing and drying. Hell, I'm hopeful that I won't have to iron them, too. LOL!

I'm still in shock, okay, disbelief that he would do such a thing but mainly that he come to me and bark, kind of the "see what I did" thing. What the hell was he thinking? Anyways, I suppose in some ways, I had this coming as who in their right mind would leave that box laying on the couch with a rambunctious 10 month old labador retriever around? I must admit I've been a bit neglectful as I've been pre-occupied with the studio organization. Chaos can be so well-behaved one minute and mischievous the next, so I should have been better prepared.

Anyways, today I answered a post on a message board where the original poster asked about acrylic glazes and gel mediums. I thought the information that I replied with was worth repeating so I'll post it in my next thread in a category all of it's own. My main point here is to simply say that I really miss painting! God, I need to get the studio organization completed just so I can have the time to play! I get all giddy and excited just thinking about my paints, inks, and rubberstamps.

I've one project going that I really need to work on and that is the journal that I started months ago with journaling for Alexxis. I created it to add pictures of my studio, my artwork, and to provide some samples of the papers and the techniques that I used. As I was organizing the ribbons yesterday.... twirling them around and around in my hands, I looked around my studio and wonder if she'd one day discover a gold mine of adventure within these same four walls. Would she be like me? Have a passsion for paper? paint? and love creating with her hands? Would she look at my supplies as I looked upon my grandmother's treasures of button filled jars and marbles? And would she treasure my artwork as I treasured my grandmother's seashell room? I don't have the answer to those questions now, but hopefully one day, I'll get to see if she does. I can almost imagine her sitting there with me asking me questions such as "Grammie, where did you get all these buttons?" "What are you going to do with all of them?" "Isn't this one beautiful? It's my favorite!" I long for those conversations with my granddaughter; to hear her squeal with delight and laughter. But for now, I'm simply enjoying watching her grow.

Last night, Don & I went to visit with my girls {and my guy, Chris}. Alexxis was fighting sleep when I arrived, then shortly left me a present in her diaper. (Do I have good timing, or what?) After changing her, getting her settled in my arms once again, I had her to sleep in a matter of 10 minutes. Amber looks at me like "how the hell do you do that?" LOL! and Chris replies, "Grandma Highland has the magic touch!" Well, I don't know much about magic but I do know I enjoy holding Alexxis, gently rocking her to sleep, just about as much as she enjoys being held and rocked. We just clicked.