So if you follow my facebook page (a link is there on the sidebar) you know that I've been talking about some exciting news... I know everything is exciting to me, that's a good thing, right?? Check this out
So, I did it! I submitted my art to RAW Orange County. And there I am. I will be in their September showcase! I am excited, nervous, pleased, freaking out, happy, hopeful, tentative, well I'm all over the map really. This sounds like a great opportunity. I understand it's a really cool experience. Come check it out! Any my artist profile is here:
So, I'm about to seriously date myself here but I cannot help walking around singing this song:
and here's why. We have a guest. Her name is Lily and she is beautiful.
A beautiful young button quail who is being quail sat while our friends are on vacation.
I have always wanted a quail. It's been nice getting to care for one this past week.
Here she is walking around in one of my planter beds. She loves this spot my gardeners have been neglecting. A nice little weed patch to pick through and duck in and under the weeds and tall grass.
My gardeners
She's a very sweet, curious little button. I love to just sit there and watch her walk back and forth, take her dust baths and find tasty bugs to eat. I also have to keep watch for the hawk whose smorgasbord my backyard is.
The chickens and ducks don't seem to know what to make of her. The ducks seem suspicious, and I think she moves too quickly for their liking. They keep a watchful eye on her. The chickens, well who knows what they think, but they avoid her too.
Another guest til the end of the week when she'll go home. She also has quite the set of lungs on her. Here's a short video I took of her calling out. It's really quite loud, and she does this all night long, and most of the day too.
Hopefully I wont drive my husband crazy with my Lily song. I just can't help it. And it makes me laugh. Here I''ll leave you with a pic of my latest painting for sale on Etsy. It is my wish for all of you...
Ok it's now 6:33 pm. And I have to add a note. File this one under more excitement than I needed in a day!... Lily just flew the coop! Those wings really work! So we're sitting outside in the planter box dust bathing, eating bugs, etc when she decides to hop out. Frightened by a Chicken (most likely Morpheus) who was looking at her rather ominously with one eye and being flanked by the twins and I she flew off! Over the wall, over the neighbors whole house! Every neighbor around me for at least a few houses in each direction have dogs. PaNiC sets in!
Off we went knocking on neighbors doors with our very strange request (as if they didn't think we were strange enough) "Could you please go look in your backyard for a small brown quial?" It's a good thing neighhbors are neighborly. "How am I going to explain this one?" I ask the twins who accompanied me......
Two doors down-- in the backyard of a neighbor with not one but two big not so friendly acting german shepherds was Lily! We went in back, scooped her up and returned her to her cage indoors. Phew! Dodged that bullet, right?! Thank goodness my friend doesn't read my blog. She and her girls would be heartbroken if Lily was gone... Only one more day to go too.
It's been an especially busy summer here, and the studio has not seen much action lately. I have had some good feedback on the items in my Etsy shop and some possible interesting things for the future happening.
I wrote a little
This past weekend was the first ever mobile Geenies Lamp Studio. Well, kinda. I took some much needed time and camped overnight by myself for the first time. I did have this intention when I first decided to get a Vintage Trailer, that I could use her for my personal art studio at the beach, or wherever. However we've had so much fun family camping that I have not had the time or the guts I guess to get her out on my own. I finally did.
It was the first time I've ever willingly spent any time alone. I took some books, some art supplies (a lot of art supplies) and my meals and found some peace and quiet. Peace and quiet are generally unattainable at home, there are just too many little people and pets.
It was good to get out in the fresh air and just sit. I love to just sit and stare at trees and all the animals that come out when one is still. I did not move to get any pictures of them, though I wanted to. I was enjoying them so much I didn't want to frighten them off.
These shots were taken from the dinette in the Pearl. The view from my front window.
The campground was virtually empty, so it felt like I was truly alone. Of course anyone who walked by complimented the Pearl, but other than that I really didn't see anyone. And I preferred it that way. Just to sit in stillness, and quiet and enjoy the breeze. The scents and sounds of the woods. It was exactly what the doctor ordered. I am convinced that living here in a big city I am severely nature deprived.
Here is a short pictorial recap of all I did...
I burned candles
Drank coffee
Did a little walking around
In the morning I was able to cook my breakfast. A fresh egg, bacon and some coffee and sit and enjoy my lovely meal in peace in The Pearl with that gorgeous view out my front window.
I did get a bit of drawing and painting in, but didn't take any pics. It was a lovely time just being with myself and thinking about life.
