Christmastime and Stretchy Rainbows
- kleenwhale
- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min read
Did you think I had given up on my blog to no one? Of course I didn't! Craft fairs and making have just really been a priority, and I know my adoring fan doesn't mind if I don't post for a bit.
I have no history with these records, but they were early in our record collection which began several years ago. I knew little of the Carpenters except for the tragic death of Karen Carpenter from anorexia - so awful. Robert Goulet was only a comic reference from the movie Scrooged. However, these two records are the ones I have to listen to when I am decorating the tree. It's almost a curse. This year I put the lights in the tree - three strings of 1000 lights, and realized one was a different colour temperature despite having the same UPC. I had to start all over, and with Karen and Robert by my side, I was able to successfully illuminate and garland the tree to its full potential of loveliness.
Now, the record that is my childhood favourite is the Anne Murray Christmas Wishes album. I KNOW we have it, but I can't find it and I am very disappointed. WTactualF! It doesn't appear in my Discogs collection. How is this possible?? I'll be at Chilliwax at opening, I am pretty sure I saw it there.
My family was not an Anne Murray listening type of family and I don't know how we came to love this record so much. I don't remember any other Christmas record - I am sure there were others, but not in my mind. To this day, all versions of the songs on that album I hear in Anne's voice and phrasing, and often I am irritated when other artists sing them "wrong". Anyway, I am enjoying it on bluetooth in the meantime to inspire me while I compose. I haven't listened to it in a few years I guess, and it is giving me chills. So silly.
Alas the specific Robert Goulet album is not on Spotify.
I love making, creating new things, imagining new things to acrylic pour on and how to make them special with naming them etc. I sell my art because I'm proud of it, and it isn't made to sell, it is made because I want to make it, and I love it. I guess that isn't entirely true, I do make ornaments specifically to sell, but they are fun, I don't make anything I don't enjoy making. It's also a necessity because I don't have room for storing all these things, and I would much rather they are with someone who connects with them. If you see one of my canvasses that you connect with, please let me know - with a very few exceptions I will give it to you (but you will have to pick it up or pay for shipping. I can drop off in Surrey at my parent's place - or Langley at L&M (assuming they allow me) or Abbotsford at Drumeo (also assuming Kyle is able to do that.) I would rather give a painting away if it connects with someone than undervalue what I feel is my artistic worth by discounting it as an incentive to get rid of it and someone only buying it because it is cheap. I hope that makes sense. All the canvasses I have sold have really meant something to the person buying it. I want that. I want someone to love it.
I will try and make sure my available canvases are online and you can contact me thought the website/laurara@telus.net. Any that I have left over I will paint over in the spring.
I had a really good sale at the Chilliwack Christmas Gift Expo last year, but this year was pretty disappointing. The highlights were the two pieces I sold because the person really loved them and bought them as a gift for themselves - one was a kid - she has bought all her Christmas gifts and had a little money left over and she wanted to buy a box that she loved. She loved it inside and out and appreciated the name and saw how it went with the piece.
Wynne (Wind) was lined with the cool textured wrapping paper I received with a gift from my sister.
The other was a woman who saw my painting Wild Rose. I told her, not knowing she was interested that I really didn't care if it sold or not, because it hangs in my bedroom and I look at it every morning and love it. She apologized and said that she had to have it. Each of her family member is associated with a flower, and she is the hibiscus rose. I know she will enjoy it and appreciate the details like the gold chips and tiny iridescent yellow and pink glitter and colour changing paint.
We have purchase a new inexpensive floor to protect the original hardwood in the dining room, as my temporary "pad and protect" is looking pretty rough - mostly from the dog scratching at it, and it is pretty ugly being in the main living area. We have also purchased a lot of new shelving for both our records and my craft stuff to make it look more organized and functional. This means the room will have to be gutted. So what am it doing? Blogging, yes, but there was this project (see picture below). Really? As if it isn't bad enough that I am colour sorting elastic bands from the dollar store in the chaotic disaster of my craft room, this was following sorting out the autumn parts I took out of the wreaths and wheel barrows. I don't have time for any of this, and yet ...
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