Left-overs--so many reasons to love them

A formal frame requires a regal pose

I liked the ornamentation on this box. I was reminded of those "days gone by" photographs in gilded frames and I had to fill this one in accordingly(sort of). I'm telling you these to-go boxes beg for illustration. Next time you take left-overs home, remember to perform your own artistic public service and draw on those cartons:)

Goofing off

From this week's sketching

I'm sketching more than posting. As we've been eating at restaurants with out of town guests and getting "to go boxes", I've done plenty of doodling. I'll share one or two on another post. These sketches are sort of random squiggles done as I sat relaxing one afternoon.

Another Brekkie Challenge

"That's some to-go"

These to-go cartons are simply waaay too tempting for somebody who likes to doodle. The server who brought the boxes noticed the sketches as well. She seemed to like them and maybe they cheered her a bit. Carton cartoons....maybe they'd let me draw on other people's boxes in exchange for brekkie? (or coffee).

"I'll deal with you later...."

Time Warp Tuesday-Puppy Faces

Zoe and Greta with the bartster in 1998

   Fifteen years ago next week these little doxies were born and came to live with us about five weeks later. Greta went "to the rainbow bridge" this spring. I hadn't heard of that concept until we received a card. What a beautiful thought.
   Zoe, our little red dog is still pretty spry, despite cataracts and arthritis. Today's retrospective carries with it some wistfulness mixed with gratitude for some really fun times with these two.

Here's a little story....we referred to our dogs as "the girls". Once when we were new to a community someone asked where our girls were at the moment, "Oh at home in their crates", we replied. The person looked aghast and it was then we learned that the lady assumed our girls were human.

Zoe and Greta playing fetch in their new Canadian backyard--2011

Serendipity

The blog is having a little vacation. I am as well. The sinus infection is NOT on vacation, so I'm trying to relax and heal up. Anyway, my lovely spouse was laundering our dog's "woobies" and one caught our attention. She had cut a larger blanket into sections and here's the serendipitous part...the cuts perfectly preserve and frame Mickey's face! Being we do a lot with cartoon faces on the blog, I thought I'd share.

I'll be posting now and again during the vacation and will try to get onto a consistent schedule after that (well maybe August).

July Challenge--This piece began as a page from our wall calendar.

We put our breakfast dishes around the calendar page and they served as the outlines. I wasn't sure what to do next so I connected the shapes with some kind of ganglion looking thingees. Then I went with faces (my fall back position). Once that was done, the spaces between intrigued me enough to find scissors and an exacto knife. So there you are.
My fancy pants artistic statement: "Uh I dunno...just seemed like fun at the time....". Call Southeby's.

Inopportune Moment for Temporary Amnesia # 17

Forgetting all but the first word when performing the National Anthem*
*ie., Canada and U.S. 

Happy Canada Day and Happy "Fourth" to our friends and family down south.