When I went out to the garage to do laundry I saw the spraypaint. When I saw the spraypaint I started rooting around for the stencils. One stencil in particular. While I was doing my squirrel-looking-for-a-buried-nut routine I noticed the "dustcover" was full of portrait experiments I haven't seen in a few months. Wait! I need scissors. 20 rememberings and forgettings later...
I completed the very last page in my journal. Wahhh. I listened to BLUE by Cat Power 49 times in a row. That is NOT on my playlist, but GREATEST is. And you can hear it if you click play. It's great! I'm throwing away every cd I own and I am just going to listen to CAT POWER from now on. I'm not doing laundry.
Mama Moss turned 82! See that little bottle in her hand? That is her holy water. Here she is performing her dousing ritual on my sisters. She probably did their car too. Mama Moss loves to bless things with holy water. She hasn't figured out yet why the water hisses when it hits me, but she's going to get to the bottom of it by her 90th birthday. Can you imagine, 3 daughters and not a grandchild for M.M. in the bunch? All she got is a pack of wildcats who like to play tricks on her. (and each other)
p.s. dottie: mom told me about the hiding under the blanket in the backseat trick and then reaching up and tapping her after carol started driving. please try and remember there is a fine line between surprise and heart attack.
I'm getting another PURE EXPERIMENTATION online class ready for a December 1st launch. This time it won't have 14 different start dates and 29 different stop dates and 2 different price points. It's going to be available for 10 months. 1 start date. 1 end date. Available to anyone. 1 price. A crap load of videos. A big fat juicy PDF document. And of course, ME. Pardon the blatant self-promotion. It's vaguely embarrassing, but someone's gotta do it. Maybe Mama Moss will do an infomercial for me.
saturday diptych
For those of you monitoring our weather in LOS ANGELES...94 degrees today. Off to the swimming hole! See you tomorrow!
What will the new class consist of? What fun fun for you to create and bigger fun for us to join in.
I got as far as the pages prep on Stitched & Stenciled , then school started. The pages lie there on top of my work table giving me the baleful eye when I see them. But there is lounging around to be done and TV to watch (on the computer). I 'spect that one moment I will burst into activity on them again.
I am refraining from saying the word "cute" in reference to MM. Too often we describe old people with that term. I think it diminshes them to less than adult. That is some twinkle she's got though!
Posted by: susan w | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 06:03 AM
Your Mama Moss is just adorable.. Yes, cute too, even though I roll my eyes when someone calls my 95 year old father "cute". I guess people have a hard time describing old folks. My own Mom is 86 and she is just a laugh riot. I live far away and only get to see her a few times a year, but get daily reports of her antics from sister.
AAH, my Stitched & Stenciled pages still await finishing too. If the rain ever stops here, I intend to dig into my outdoor stencil cabinet again. Who knows what is lurking there, hopefully nothing more dangerous than mushrooms.
Posted by: barbara | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 07:30 AM
A very Happy Birthday to Mama Moss! My own mama just turned 83 on Oct. 15 and in spite of her years and the slowing down of her mortal form, in my mind she is always the dynamo of my youth. Bless our mothers -- long may they reign!
Posted by: JeriAnn | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Happy Birthday Mama Moss!!
Here's to a COOLER week in La La Land!
Posted by: kelly | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Happy Birthday Mama Moss - just a couple months younger than my dear Dad, also still going strong, thank God. My favourite quote from him: "I still do everything I want to, I just do it more slowly" - that's deeper than it sounds!
Posted by: Stephen du Toit | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Was it THAT HOT? I just brought my cats inside cause today it's so windy. And the westside is already covered in mist.
Very cute post about Mama Moss. Happy B'day to her!
Congratulations on completing the final page of the journal. Don't you hate it - I mean LOVE it when you get sidetracked by an art attack? I don't let that happen enough. But you inspire me.
Posted by: mlle paradis | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 03:08 PM
She is tooooo cute! A big happy Birthday to her. I used to make ceramic holy water holders, mostly for my mother who gave them to her friends. They were cute, but didn't do me any good!
94? that's a bit much, I would say.
Posted by: anna maria | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 07:10 PM
That's a SuperMama if ever I saw one.
Many happy returns, Mama Moss!
Posted by: Chrissy | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM
i'm very happy.
Posted by: Chris | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 04:14 PM
i love your blog, love the picture of mama moss...why doesn't one of you step up and give her some grandchild for pete's sake...now to the real question - if we took the first course, would this new one be good or build on that or would be a bit of a repeat?
Posted by: ocean lotus | Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 07:07 PM
descriptions for both classes are in the sidebar there to the right..upper right
STENCILRY is the same class you already took and debuted in April 2009
Stitched Stenciled is the follow-up and debuted in August 2009
Posted by: Mary Ann Moss | Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 07:22 PM