Red Pear (detail)
collage with acrylic and Neocolors II on 90b Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
I goofed and made the background of this one too dark. I tried adding highlights to the pear, to brighten it up, but hated how they looked and I took them back out. So it’s the dark, glowy pear of DQQM.
The maintenance guys have come and gone, and I not only have fancy, new locks but two shiny, new keys. Yay! It’s good to have a spare.
While they worked, the guys and I had a little chat about the Stompy Girls and their wake-and-bake activities. The smell in the hallway was so overpowering that while the locks were being changed, waves of stinkiness rolled into my apartment.
Golden Bosc Pear (detail)
collage with acrylic and Neocolors II on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
I did this one a little differently, by starting with an acrylic glaze as a background. The collage bit isn’t so much collage as just using an ad straight from a catalog. I grabbed an old Ethan Allen catalog, thinking it might have something in the right color palette to use as a background, but then I saw this dining room scene with a bowl of pears, and I couldn’t resist. I did do a little bit of stamping across the bottom, to tie the two pages together, but the book is a little too tall for my scanner, so it’s mostly cut off. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d scan both pages separately and stitch them together, but I am so lazy, so that ain’t gonna happen.
Uranium Ore, currently out of stock at Amazon.com.
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I got home this afternoon to find that:
1. My key was sticking in the small lock. I was able to get it to unlock, finally, but only after a good bit of fiddling.
2. The deadbolt, which my key has never worked in, was mysteriously locked. I can only lock that one from the inside, so how did it get engaged?[1]
Thankfully, I didn’t stop at Target on my way home to pick up laundry detergent, like I’d planned. I had just enough time to get to the leasing office before they closed, and they sent a maintenance guy over. He sprayed graphite in the deadbolt, and his master key worked fine. Mine still refused to budge.
They’re bringing a new set of locks over tomorrow. That means, yet another unplanned day off work and yet another make-up Friday. Hrmf! It’s probably good timing, though, because we’re supposed to have Weather tonight.
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1. I found out from the management folks that my key ought to work in both locks. Who knew?! It’s never worked in the deadbolt.
I also found out that they have no spare keys for my apartment. The lock problem may be a key problem. In fact, it’s likely to be a key problem, since it’s affecting both locks, but since they do not have any other keys for my locks, they’ll have to be replaced.
If you have any interest in kids’ books, or if you know any kids, go directly to your favorite book seller and pre-order a copy of The Big Tidy-Up RIGHT THIS MINUTE. I had a copy when I was a little, and it was one of my most favoritest books EVAR. It’s been out of print for years and years (last time I looked, original editions in good condition were going for about US$300), but it will be re-released this spring. I’m so excited that I’m literally bouncing up and down in my seat.
O frabjous day!
The Big Tidy-Up (A Golden Classic) by Norah Smaridge, Les Gray
Jennifer knew, as well as you
That everything has its place,
But she just didn’t care a whit, a bit
So her room was a real disgrace!Source: The Big Tidy-Up (A Golden Classic): Norah Smaridge, Les Gray: 9780375848216: Amazon.com: Books
I’ve been kind of meh about Library Thing since the beginning, partly, I think, because who the hell wants to go home and do more cataloging?! Anyway, one of the assignments for our Fake Blogging/Web 2.0 course is to create a Library Thing account. So I did.
The free account only allows you to add 200 books, which I think is kind of hilarious and adorable. I mostly added art history, art, and classics, along with a few books from the miscellaneous stack, but if I want to add anything else, I’m going to have to upgrade to a pay account. It’s only $25 for a lifetime membership, so it’s not like it’s expensive, but it’s not in the budget right now.
Red Pear (detail)
collage with Neocolors II and eraser stamp on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
I remember this making the rounds a year or so ago, but I never did anything with it. Howsomever, we had a Fake Blog assignment to use an image generator tool, so I thought it’d be fun to hunt it up and give it a try. Behold, Pear Journal has a catalog card.
That is all. As you were, comrades.
Pear Journal
90lb Stonehenge paper and recycled notebook covers, Coptic bound with waxed linen thread
9 1/2 x 6 inches, 9 signatures of 2 sheets (36 pages)
22 May 2007
I don’t think I ever took photos of this one when I bound it. I recycled the back covers from two old notebooks. The binding is basic one-needle Coptic stitch, with little decorative chicken feet added when I attached the covers.
red paper boat 