Tuesday, February 9, 2016

All Hearts and Flowers

If you know me, you know I'm not quite the girlie-girl kind of woman. Sure, I like my share of bling and baubles, glitter and glitz. I just much prefer jeans to dressy dresses and stuff.

So it shocked more than a few people when I broke out a LBD complete with high heels and hosiery to wear to a concert with Gilbert, Jesse Cook at the Del Webb Center in Wickenburg Saturday night. I also had some jeweler friends, Linda Bortone and elizabeth Hake (little "e"),  make sure I was properly accessorized. [NB: You can meet them at the Celebration of Fine Art through March 27].
I guess I can clean up good, as one friend put so eloquently. And it was an important event as the music is the soundtrack for our love affair, this our valentine to each other.
We're also quite amused that a Canadian born in Paris plays Spanish flamenco, right, eh?
And if you think it's boring, try this out. (yes, you can hear the pots and pans--they really do play with them!)

It should be no surprise, then, that I wear Birkies for slippers. Most of the year it's pretty warm here (Finally, it's going to be 80 today! Woohoo!), so fuzzy slippers don't quite do it for me. Although I keep trying to make a pair just because I've kept the instructions for forever.
Birkenstocks in "Titanium"
Wearing them right this minute!

That's French for
Slippers
So that takes care of the inchie challenge for the day, though I really thought I'd try to draw Cinderella's slippers as I felt like a princess on Saturday night. Then there's our household joke, "someday my prints will come." See, we're photographers in real life. Prince, prints...get it?
Yeah. Right.
That mutilation of the English language (and I guess the fuzzy slippers) segues to "sweater," the twinchie this week.
Composed of elements for clothing in a crochet magazine (with apologies to Huey Lewis):

Square
A little bit off of center, yes? No real surprise, if you know me!
I also like my Zentangle on the non-representational side (that's the idea, right?) rather than all the hearts that are popping up this week.
Not that there's anything wrong with that! (With apologies to Seinfeld).
So, for the Diva's heart-focused challenge this week, you'll find a heart as string buried underneath all the patterns.
Somewhere. Really.
Heart in Flowers
Nymph, Cadent, Bales, Lanie, Flux, Tipple
I finally posted a bunch of stuff on my Flickr feed. I should keep up with that more; you'd have the perfect excuse to burn some time and to see more of just about everything!
And, yes, I can do hearts! Have a whole week full of love, heart and emotion! Do the tangle tango! Or a rousing rumba!



17 comments:

  1. Love your story and your work. 80, crumbs that's hot. It's cold and very rainy here.

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    1. Thank you , Wendy! Last week it was 29 F and snowing. 80 is divine considering we'll see 115 this summer! Thanks for stopping by and your kindnesses! c

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  2. Lol, great non representational heart, I can sort of see it.

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    1. I know, it's in there, kind of, sort of. Glad you like my attempts! c

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  3. 80 degrees or not, I live in my fuzz lined Crocs! The first thing I did when I retired was to box up anything that remotely looked professional or dressed up. Jeans and a tee shirt forever more! I like your hidden heart tangle. I can mess with pretty as long as it doesn't have to be me :)

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    1. I get it Professional is getting hard to find around this house. Gave that up awhile ago. And I just don't find the occasions for "real" clothes any more. The last funeral I went to, we all wore flannel plaid shirts out of my brother's closet--it's what he would have wanted. Weddings? Anything goes, right? More and more it's "whatever." But it felt nice to get all gussied up. Thanks for stopping by, Jean! c

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  4. love your birkkies - I'd wear them too but I find them hard to find - probably should look on line. Nice fuzzy red slippers too

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    1. One word: AMAZON! I've had the same style of Birkies for years, but three pair now. I probably should buy them from an independent. LOVE them. Thanks, Kia. One of these days I might break down and make those slippers! c

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  5. Wow, so much work this week, love them all! I won a pair of Birkies about years ago, I loved them!

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    1. Thank you, Free, for being my cheerleader! You are awesome. Glad you liked what you saw. I've been enjoying a bit of creativity. c

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  6. I like your heart in flower! When my physiotherapist 'forced' me to buy Birckenstock slippers, I hated the look of it (even not being a 'girly girl') but .... LOVE walking on/in them :-)

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  7. Your heart-tile is wonderful - great combination of patterns :-)

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  8. Great story....and I would live in my shearling flip flop slippers all year if I could so I can relate to Birkenstock - your red slippers reminded me of some blue ones my aunt knitted for me more moons ago than I care to remember (I was very early teens I think & I turn 60 in July!)

    Sally

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  9. What a wonderful word thefrench have for slippers. Love your inchie and the other art projects

    Chrissie xx

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  10. I'd never heard of Jesse Cook, so thanks for sharing the video. I could see that as a nice soundtrack for a tangling session. I definitely see your heart string----now that you mentioned it. I'm not sure it would have leapt out at me without your hint, but it's definitely there. Nice.

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