We Placed . . . Third
Well, my hopes were dashed but everyone in our court agreed we should've placed at least second in the Road Kill Chairs competition. The term "Road Kill Chair" is meant to imply that the artist take a cast-off chair, such as one found in a garage sale, and turn it ...
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October 18, 2009
Road Kill Chairs
My friend Susan and I are nearly finished with our Art League Road Kill Chairs contest entry. We're making a dragon chair, and I'll be posting photos after the contest is over on the ... 12th? I think. I'll post work-in-progress photos as well as shots of the competition. I ...
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October 8, 2009
Painting Project Photos
My brother recruited me about a month ago to paint some furniture for him. He lucked into some furniture by some elite artist for his resale shop, and decided I'd be handy to paint some up for sale. I checked out the website, which I can't find now. I can't ...
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June 19, 2009
Things Are Definitely Moving
You know how it goes when you're trying to, for example, clean out a closet or garage or other area that's very disorganized – you make a much bigger mess before you actually create anything like order from the chaos. Yeah. That's my life for the last two months, and ...
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April 28, 2009
Is This Entire Year Going to Fly By?
Man, I gotta tell you – time has just flown by since the first of the year. If this whole year is going to go this way, I've got to get organized – stat! I haven't been particularly scattered, but the time still just disappears. It's the 11th. How the ...
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January 11, 2009
Juuuuust A Bit Outside*
*Bob Uecker in Major League It's bloody cold outside already. I knew it was going to be an early winter, and I suspect we'll have snow again this year. Three years ago we had a white Christmas... first one ever, I think. We rarely even get flurries, and that Christmas Eve ...
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October 29, 2008
An Open Letter to All Concerned
I'm crossposting this to relevant places (and email) to reduce my catch-up time. I bet some of you are wondering where I disappeared to for so long. I live on Trinity Bay just east of Houston, about a mile from the mouth of the Houston Ship Channel. Hurricane Ike forced ...
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October 1, 2008
There’s A Storm Comin’ and We’d All Best Be Ready When She Does
The tropical storm known as Edouard (that's not a typo) is hovering off the coast of Texas/Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico and is due to hit here tomorrow. And when I say, "here," I do mean here. Observe: That star is the location of my house. Though Edouard (I guess ...
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August 4, 2008
Recent Sheta News
As per usual, my energy is scattered due to severe disorganization. I actually tend to be an organized person by nature, but I organize in spurts which are followed by a steadily gathering layer of chaos. My chaos has reached such a level that it's interfering with my ability to ...
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July 21, 2008









































