Robot Party.

I just re-read J. D. Salinger's "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters":

"Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

You can tell it's going to be a great day when, at 7:30 am, you learn there's a "robot party" going on in a gated community.

I had a very successful day selling work at the Barnsdall Arts Market. It was a lovely cold-for-California day, and I was glad to spend it outside. The crowd was pretty consistant throughout the event, and there seemed to be more people attending this time around. I saw a few people I know, made a couple of gift purchases.... Really my only complaint is that I forgot a chair and spent the day on my feet.

Sold lots of felt brooches, shrinky-dinks, and works on paper. Explained what "shrinky-dinks" are ten-thousand times. (gladly!)

here are some of the brooches:


I somehow managed to come home with a new-old blue-and-white typewriter. I was speaking with a couple of people about typewriters, and my preference for the blue variety, and a fellow mentioned he had a blue one that he never uses. This evolved into a trade. If people regularly offered me typewriters in exchange for art, I would be in trouble.


Some of the letters stick, and it smells a tad smoky, but isn't it pretty?

Best Barnsdall Arts Market EVER!

GOCCO!

On Thursday and Friday I was in Downey, Ca...my hometown. I went to the Downey Assistance League's "Second Tyme Around" thrift store, and found this pretty-much-new PRINT GOCCO set for $3.00. When I saw it I literally exclaimed, "Holy Cow!"

All I want to do is dive in and start playing with it, but I have held restraint and continued tending to business, primarilly preparing for tommorrow's Barnsdall Art Market.

Here are some shrinky-dinks, fresh out of the oven:

Pencils Everywhere

Yesterday was the final meeting of my class, and the conclusion to a good semester. I need to enter grades before I make my getaway, but other than that, I'm done.

Oh, but I have plenty of other things to do before the getaway. Sunday is the Barnsdall Art Market at Barnsdall Park, and I am trying to finish lots of new things before then. Presently working on a batch of shrinky-dinks. Prismacolor colored pencils everywhere!

I'm squeezing in a trip to visit family before I leave town, which further complicates my to-do list. But I'm optimistic that "it'll all work out."