KEEPER SHELF: March 2010

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - 1925

Thanks, Emmy.

Resolutions, Cut & Paste AND Create

2 in 1 - an extension of the color folder, I'm working on a chipboard book (that's the previously unused supply) of black and white images with some pops of color.

Paper Ephermera Collection Scans

So Excited for Friday!

Not only is there a kick ass show at 709 - there's also a crazy auction out in Davidsville. If they don't allow cameras I will cry real tears...

Trying to get better at a few new tricks...

So pumped, got this one consistantly last night - but only while wearing jeans - or no pants at all! Ha, guess I'm wearing jeans all summer! Knees up to Waist

This one takes up more space than I usually
have to practice in, but I was doing pretty well in L-Cat's backyard. The Helicopter

"Some Girls Do" - Leanne Banks - 2003

“Some Girls Do” is not a terrible book, it just wasn’t great. I have to agree with the All About Romance reviewer, Sandy Coleman – it’s too “old-fashioned” in theme. It nearly felt like the LaVyrle Spencer contemporaries I’ve read (and disliked) that were written in the 80’s, not a good era for romance in my opinion. Also, Banks hit on one of my pet peeves - the repetitive use of the same word. For example, Connie Brockway is a favorite author of mine, but she uses the word insouciance a lot, and it kills me. Leanne Banks, uses the term “French Kiss” too much, because once is too much.
What reader needs to be told when a kiss is a “French Kiss?” In addition to the writing irking me, I didn’t really care for the hero, he felt too much like a cardboard cutout of a tough guy who cares. The heroine was nice enough but acted very stupid sometimes especially during some intimate CONDOMLESS times. See what I mean about dated, Oh, they were just overwhelmed, oh, I hope I’m not pregnant, after all I’ve only known you a week…blah, blah, and so on.
On the plus side, “Some Girls Do” does have a nice secondary romance, which was actually more fun to read than the leads. This is the first novel in a "Sisters Trilogy" (the heroine's two long-separated younger siblings) but I can't see myself hunting down the other two...

Resolutions, Do...

...something out of my comfort zone.

I walked into a gallery opening alone.

Last Saturday evening Satori Gallery celebrated a two-year anniversary with a group show on the theme of "Satori." One meaning of the word (according to the wikipedia entry I read) is "Awakening." I don't have an image, but my piece started as a 4x6 Black & White photo of foggy pines taken at the Que at 5 am, blown up into a 11x14 xerox to which I added fine line ink drawings, emphasising the image and the faults of the copy. Turned out pretty well, despite some last minute panic.