photo scavenger hunt

I did want to take part in this weeks P.S.H. but forgot yesterday, so here you go...

This weeks subject is ..... Name three of your hobbies and post a picture of the last.

1. Reading everything I can get my hands on.

2.Singing

3.Making jewelry

This is what my desk looks like right now with all the holiday fun happening!

Warning: this is a post about random things

I've been driving for about 2 years now and just thought about the price of gas. When I first started driving gas was $1.84, approximately. I am now paying $1.57 most of the time and can fill my tank from empty for about $16. Yes, gas did get almost up to $4 but now I am paying less then when I first got my permit.


Today Mum,Maliea and I went to Salvation Army for some fun and I found this set of luggage:


No I'm not going anywhere soon but I fell in love with them and their price,$2.00. Another cool thing about it is there was still info about the previous owner in it; Antonetta Ranft lived in Glendale and is(or was) in her 70's in 2001, or so says the doctors note in the luggage. Also there was a to-do list in it reminding her to take some clothes to the cleaners and call Sue up at the cabin. Fun or what? or at least it is to me.

Which brings me to my other fun thing. It's a saying from the movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium," I'm practicing the euphonium, I thought I would give a concert in the psyche ward tomorrow." Mr. Magorium says this as he is sitting in a hospital bed with nothing wrong with him, this is because Mahony doesn't want him to depart from this world. If you haven't watch the movie then you really should look it up, it's on my top ten. It's one of the best movies for kids and adults. Have fun thinking I'm off to fix a Christmas tree that fell down.

photo scavenger hunt

This weeks subject was Something cold. I am always cold and so are my feet!

photo scavenger hunt

This weeks subject was self-portrait. I like to tinker a bit with my photos so I had a bit of fun with the second photo! Couldn't get the first to do what I wanted it to do though. My eyes are that color by the way.

Dadaism

When we were done with all the weddings this weekend we went to this amazing art exhibit about recycled art. No it isn't art recycled into more art, it's ANYTHING that would be trash that is made to be art. Look carefully at the picture and guess what it might be. Not plastic old toy butterflies like I thought at first... it's aluminum cans cut in the shape and size of butterflies. Look at the bigger shape of it too. It was a really inspiring exhibit!

After we got home later that evening I picked up a art/toy magazine and flipped through it. The only thing that I really looked at was this really funny looking doll, it was entitled Dada. Well not knowing what it meant I went to the encyclopedia to find out. It is really cool if you're me. It was an art form developed in the middle of world war I (1916) that artists all over Europe fled to Switzerland (a neutral country) so that they could continue with their art. In the words of The New Book Of Knowledge," They created work that was anti-war, anti-modern life, and indeed, anti-art. this group called their art dada because the word had nothing to do with anything-it was pure nonsense."

Anyone that knows me knows that I am all about modern and abstract art. I have always been enthralled and overjoyed by anything art and always will be. Ever wonder who first put lip and chin hair on the Mona Lisa? It wasn't some high school kid trying to make his art project more interesting it was Marcel Duchamp from the Dada movement. There is just so much to learn and a whole life time to learn it in!