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Also In Yesterday's Mail..
I also got an issue of Craft Magazine in the mail yesterday. This is a Japan Style "Super Cute" issue.. so if you like those little kitties on the cover and similar make-it-yourself style cutness this is your magazine. Make magazine also has lots of cool stuff to make, but projects often tend to be more on the techie-geeky side.. which is okay... but they don't give enough explanations with the projects for those people who are not too familiar with electronics for example. Both magazines are cool, and even if I don't make anything from the Craft magazine it always inspires me to start drawing and planning projects. There is an article in Craft about scanning art from existing t-shirts and then tweaking it to make your own. The shirts are called C shirts.. and while the URL I am trying to link to isn't working one can go there by pasting this: http://cshirt.sargasso.jp/
The page loads in Japanese, but there is some English there as well.. I haven't gotten a chance to check it out yet. I think it's a good idea to get one's art out there.
If you like Blythe dolls there is an article in Craft about them dollies also.. So there ya go.
If you make anything from either Craft or Make magazine send me a link -I'd like to see what you made.
In Yesterday's Mail
Here are some t-shirts I just got from Palmer Cash. I thought I'd get these while I can still wear them since I'm not that old yet. Besides..
I like Day of The Dead art.
and...
Skulls sticking out their tongues seems to have gone out of vogue.. I'm here to bring it back.
and...
Because everyone is a comedian, and that includes me. 
and lastly...
"milk health for joy".. oh those kooky Japanese. Too bad it is printed on cheap cotton -I could win a wet t-shirt contest in this one without it even being wet. Sigh.
Meeting Aristoitle
This afternoon I took my friend from work over to meet my horse. She had told me that she has never been close to a horse before. I could tell that she wanted to pet him but was nervous about it, so after seeing my horse up close and feeling safe on the other side of the fence from him she offered to touch his neck. He patiently stood there and let her stroke his soft, still winter-furred neck. After a few minutes of being around him she fed him a few apple slices and then helped me brush him. Her look says it all. :-)
Not much going on lately.. been sick with some lung junk that came complete with a fever and a fantastic wheeze/bark sounding cough. Since I've been spending so much time laying around in bed, or sitting on the couch I decided to take my sketch book out and start drawing.
Orthodox Easter falls on the same day as "American Easter" as I used to call it when I was a kid. I'm looking forward to going to church Saturday night for the long Easter liturgy. This evening is the reading of the 12 Gospels.. the service starts at 7:00 PM and I'm still sitting here in my pajamas. I need to get going or just stay home one more night.. I don't want this bronchitis to worsen.. but then again I'd be sad to miss this evening also. Another reason I'm dragging my feet about going is that I know I'll be standing outside for awhile till the crowds thin out.. and it has gotten cold and windy again... I just can't take a chance on getting sicker and missing more work.
This is an old photograph of the church I grew up in Los Angeles. The front part of the church was a set for the movie The Cossacks. After filming had ended the Russians in the community raised funds to buy the building and the land. Subsequently the building was consecrated and years later a larger addition was built.
This is a view towards the altar. This particular iconostasis is fairly new- having been installed about ten years ago. In this photograph the iconostasis is decorated for Easter. My mother and a handful of people work long hours getting the flower arrangements made for all the icons on the iconostasis as well as the main icons in other parts of the church.
Mom goes to the flower market around 4 or 5 AM... it is a surreal sight... all of downtown L.A. is asleep but the flower market is alive with action. As always my mom and her friend have their game plan mapped out and they split up and get all the supplies they need. Me, I just follow along bleary eyed, sleep deprived from a different time zone. I take photographs here and there. I come in handy when it comes time to load and unload the cars, and I drive my mom around. It's too bad I can't be out there with mom this year.
Nice View
The view from the top is pretty sweet this afternoon.
The saddle is very comfortable for me, and I know Aristoitle is comfortable because he offered to canter! Initially I think he anticipated discomfort since his other saddle is too narrow and doesn't allow for him to move comfortably. We walked around the arena several times, then trotted, played the sideways game, bending games, and backed up. While we played the games his head was up and he was bracey but the more I walked around and asked him to bend the more he began to relax.
The next time we trotted his head and neck came down and his trot was relaxed and comfortable. I continued to do trot, walk, halt, back transitions keeping things light but maintaining his concentration on the games. We also played "put your nose on it" :) he put his nose on the mounting block in the arena, and then on the carrot stick which was standing upright inside a traffic cone.
If a horse could turn into a relaxed noodle Aristoitle was well on his way to that state of mind; he was yawning, blowing his nose, and yawning again. I asked him to canter on our last lap around the arena, and he took off on the correct lead even though he was a little rushed. I'm not worried about the canter, he'll get it, he is getting it already.
Ta-Da!!
My Christmas present arrived yesterday. To write that I'm happy would be a huge understatement. :-D
A grocery-story
It was another kooky weekend at the store as usual. To spice things up a little bit our system went offline for awhile disabling the debit payment function. Everyone coming through my line took the glitch in stride and was cheerful in spite of the general slowdown the problem caused with our registers.
The parade of diverse personalities in the store is always amusing to me. I never thought about things like this when I was a shopper, but now that I work in a store I notice all the different ways people go about finding their groceries. For example, we have the High Maintenance shopper: this particular woman invariably comes in at 8:30 P.M. (after we have been wiped out by earlier crowds) and then whines to us that we don't have such and such cheese.. "every time I come here you are always out." Yesterday she needed organic broccoli florets "you don't have any in your frozen section." After spending 5 minutes in our freezer sans jacket, I found the case of broccoli and handed her a few bags. She excitedly pumped her fist in the air saying, "yes!"
She was happy. I was cold.
... And there were 3 bags of organic broccoli florets in the freezer section when I got there to restock.
Next come the File Cabinet shoppers, labeled for the way they like to rifle through the bread and bagged salads, as though they are looking for last year's income tax statement. File Cabinet shoppers often leave the products helter-skelter as though a tornado passed through the area. Fun!
My [ blank ]Sent Me With a List shoppers are often distinguished from other shoppers by the way they walk around as though lost in a corn maze, looking at their grocery list as if it were a compass, and frequently bumping into things/people because they are lost and looking at their list while walking. Approach MBSMWL's with care -they often startle easily but follow calmly when being led to the product they are looking for.
The Regulars are great shoppers. They know where everything is, they know the staff, they can help the My [blank] Sent Me With a List shoppers. They go in, get what they want, don't get upset if we are out of stock on an item (this goes along with being a regular) they say hi to us, and get out. Yippee!
Undecided shoppers cause snarls at the check out line as they ask you to check the price on certain items, then ponder whether or not they will be buying the product. Many Undecided shoppers push the envelope when it comes down to commitment to a purchase. All items will have been rung up and totaled, then they decide they DON'T want the item. Managers need to be summoned and voids are made. "Tick tock, tick, tock Clarice" ... I keep a fast pace here and you are throwing a wrench in my game.
Tell Me How To Bag It Yeah c'mon let's go -tell me where to put your eggs! I have fun with these people and tell them that I get my kicks putting their chips, berries, eggs and other crushables at the bottom of the bag. This usually causes them to stop back seat bagging and smile. Phew!
After 3 or 4 hours at the register I can't wait to get on the floor, away from the numbers and organize a section where the High Maintenance, File Cabinet shoppers who have bumped into the MBSMWL's and Undecided/Tell Me How To Bag It (bad combo.) have shopped. Really!
Interesting Sculpture
I got an email from a friend last night who included some photographs of artist Jennefer Maestre's work. Her sculptures have great lines, texture, and I think you will agree that they are very imaginative.
Thursday
Exhibit A:
The tailless, purring, drooling, leg kneading orange kitty by the name of Cinnamon, a.k.a. Curry Cat, or, Not My Cat, enjoying a visit in the cab of my truck this afternoon.
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