Creative Tuesdays - Polka Dots

For Creative Tuesdays' Polka Dot theme, I've done a tall ship greeting card in acrylic on cardstock (8.5" x 5.5").  I had fun choosing the colours for this one, and decorating it with polka dots!

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Richard Burton

The Toronto Star recently featured this article on Richard Burton's just released diary and
I thought you would enjoy this quote about Elizabeth Taylor  (don't you just love romantic stuff like this, although it seems he was far from a saint):

Burton wrote of his wife (you’re forgiven for swooning):
"I have been inordinately lucky all my life but the greatest luck of all has been Elizabeth. She has turned me into a model man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool. She is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and wilful, she is clement and loving. She is Sunday's child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her and she loves me. She is the prospectus that can never be entirely catalogued, an almanac for poor Richard. And I shall love her forever."

On a change of topic, here are some sweet potato leaves that have been growing all summer in the city.  One year I planted some and when it was time to dig the pots up, I discovered wonderful purple sweet potatoes in the ground.  I actually cooked them up in some soup and they were fresh and delicious, kind of like growing one's own vegetables!  I lived to tell the tale!

Sunday Sketches - Tall Ship

Welcome to Sunday Sketches! This is a tall ship in acrylic on 8.5" x 5.5" cardstock. It's a greeting card. I seem to be doing a lot of these boats lately, I love their shape and structure.  It's fun colouring them in.

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8MM video tapes to DVD

L asked me to convert all of our old 8mm video camcorder tapes to DVD format.  She wants to preserve our memories and have an easier way to watch and share them, besides the fact that these tapes are degrading with time.

We found out that Costco has a service to do this.  It's $27.99 per 2 hour tape.  We have a bunch of tapes made over the years, but I think it will be a worthwhile investment. 

In other tech news, M and I think our next phones will be something like the Samsung Galaxy running Google's Android system.  A lot of our friends seem to be getting these as they are apparently a lot cheaper than Iphones and they have or will soon have just as many apps or more.

Paint Party Friday - The Best Things

The weather's been so beautiful lately, yesterday was a perfect sunny day, with a hint of fall in the air.

Hello and welcome to another Paint Party Friday. This is an acrylic on 8.5" x 5.5 " cardstock. Isn't the quote just so true?  I thought it would go well against a sunrise.

Please stop by the other talented participants! And thanks to Kristin and Eva for hosting.

Sensible Saving

L told me her friend at university is very careful with her money, as a student should be. In fact, she never goes to McDonald's for a meal without first printing out a coupon. You see, she saves her McDonald's receipts, and on the back of them, there is usually an opportunity to participate in their survey of your recent visit. Upon completion, you will be able to print out a coupon for a free medium fries or side salad and a medium soft drink with the purchase of a large sandwich! How neat is that? Of course, I tried it with my receipt as I'm a regular customer anyway. Guess what K got for dinner that night!  We were just having leftovers, so that came in handy for him.  You know, I don't normally check the back of my receipts, do you?

Pickles

My friend S gave me these homemade bread and butter pickles.  Well, her sister makes them. They are more sweet and sour in taste and I love them enough to eat them plain.  Are you a pickle lover?

S and I  went for a chat and a coffee on the weekend.  She summed it up really well when she said her 20 year old daughter is 'there but not really there' when she is at home.  It must be normal as they get busy with their own lives, especially now that L has a steady boyfriend.  Even my 17 year old son plans his own activities now.  My friend has been having a busy summer to the point where her shoulder was aching that day.  She decided to stop by a sports massage clinic on the way home.  She had been having a ladies weekend at a friend's cottage and suspects the friend has anorexia nervosa.  It doesn't seem that she is getting or wants help with it, such is life.

We've been having a lot of rain, perfect for weeding!  I swear weeding is therapeutic, very satisfying when the ground is soft and the weather is overcast and cooler.  For some strange reason, my bones/back have not been aching in that arthritis way for well over a week.  It's great to feel young again!  (Wonder if all the weeding is making me more limber?  Lol)