Word of the Day

Esquivalience.

Es, qui, vale - ience. It's beautiful. It's imaginary.
And it means, get this: "the willful avoidance of one's official responsibilities."

A fabulous concept in itself, now with its own concise descriptor.

Read more here,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquivalience
about how it came to be.

This Guy

A small shaggy monster of indeterminate form peers out uncertainly from a bile-covered landscape. He looks familiar, though. I think he used to live under the bed.  Spring cleaning always makes me sentimental cuz little guys like him get swept up and flung out into the cold rainy world...Won't you take him in and give him a home?

(This painting is for sale. acrylic, 8x10, ORIGINAL and ONE OF A KIND, NOT ANOTHER ONE LIKE IT IN THE WORLD.

a unique creation of an artful soul for the ungodly low price of $25. or make an offer, i'm willing to trade)

There i Fixed it!

When In Doubt....

...try to cover all the bases.

Fear the Wrath of My Mighty SWORD

Fear it. It may be tiny, but beware. Seriously, i sliced 2 fingers in the making of this.

To make your own: For the blade you will need an old wooden garage door, removed from the garage and taken apart into sections. You only need the part with the windows in it so just lean the other pieces against the side of the house, as i have done; they decay nicely as the years pass. Okay so lay the window part of the garage door flat in the yard and slice it up with your circular saw. What you're aiming for is the wooden part between two windows because in the middle of this there's an aluminum nail about seven inches long which you'll need to slice pretty muchly in half. I did this by accident cuz i was having a stroke of brilliance that day (and the sparks it made were lovely) but if you try really hard to do it on purpose i'm sure you'll manage. Save the windows btw, you'll use them later on when building your house.

Anyway, the aluminum nail cut in half lengthwise makes a very good mini-sword blade. A handle can be improvised from a fountain pen nib which i'm sure you all have in mass quantities (if not, tell me and i'll send you one, my dad left me heaps) Make a blade guard out of a paperclip ( you can't see it but around the back it makes a loop so it stays on my finger) Wrap the whole thing with wire (gold colored) and buttonhole thread ( i used black but then coated it w red nailpolish to keep it from sliding, and also to hide the bloodstains)

TA DAAA

Well this looks promising

and i like the colors. especially the ones that i see in my head.
Acrylic on canvas covered board, 16x20

Snowmelt Venture

"Quilts should be washed in melted snow to ensure their deceased makers rest peacefully in the hereafter"

Later in the day i added some ice sculptures. i feel like the Titanic!

My Birthmother

She is beautiful, even though we don't look very similar. I havent been able to text her since Christmas as i have a crappy new prepaid phone and it won't allow it, she doubtless thinks i am mad at her: ( (Michelle Maria McClintock, find this, and find your way to me)

O look. there's another one

jeweled orb christmas ornament thingy.

The Roof is Clad in Dragon Scales

& glitter FTW

omg double rainbow

This is not an accurate representation of today's weather. and The Kid is home from school. yay.