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Name: Andee
Gender: Female
Interests: wild art dolls, art quilting, beading, embellishment, altered objects, art journaling, alt constructed house building, painting with acrylics, painted furniture, herbal medicine, cooking, multimedia art, medicinal herbs, mosaics, purse making, sewing, textile manipulation and embellishment, textile and fiber art, sculpture, recycled art,spirit dolls, wearable art.
Expertise: If I told you, I'd have to kill you....
Occupation: Hospice care giver and artist
Industry: medical,- doing what I have to
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
ICQ:  dejablu2u
Member Since:
8/8/2007
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| ...is NOT fun. That's what I woke to on friday. I woke at 530am, got a drink and remembered they were finally coming to get our garbage (it had not been picked up since the first Thursday in Dec due to our snow and ice storm). I ran out to drag the cans and extra bags from the carport to the curb. As I stepped off the porch step in the dark, I discovered my feet submerged in water. Immediately a voice in my head said...Um, what the hell? Back up the stairs to flip on the porch light.... this was when I discovered I suddenly had river front property!
 
This is what happens when you get 5.2 inches of rain in under 4 hours.... it has gone down, but more rain is coming. We are moving what we care about to higher ground before it hits.
This has been one exciting winter for Portland.... I am ready for spring.... this is not longer amusing.
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| My daughter Ramie posted some pics of Universal Studios on her web site:
Pic from before the fire:
http://www.delusionalangel.com/gallery2/d/3356-1/universal.jpg
Pic taken after the fire:
http://www.delusionalangel.com/gallery2/d/3534-1/UniversalStudiosFire04.jpg
A gallery of pics if you are interested:
http://www.delusionalangel.com/gallery2/v/california/universalstudios/
I survived another birthday, in my loot was a $50 gift card from Amazon from my brother, which I promptly spent this morning, so new books are in route, yay! I got some really great bargains by buying used.... I tried posting them here but ran into problems so if you are interested, they are pictured and listed with links to them over on my live journal: http://dejablu503.livejournal.com/556026.html
Vi ( my 84 year old Alzheimer's client) and I took a ride yesterday, in route home we were driving down Powell and passed an "exotic dancer" place, the sign out front said "free prime rib dinner" and that caught Vi's eye. Vi was questioning how they could give away prime rib dinners, so I suggested maybe the cover charge included the cost of it. She started laughing, uncontrollably... and without blinking she said, "oh Andee, that is just silly why would anyone going into a place like that want anything covered?" We laughed all the way to her house... she amuses me no end. The things she comes up with just slay me....
I pulled a great one on my 7 year old grandson Keegan on my birthday... he was bugging me to go shopping, I am battling with a low B12 level and was too tired but he would not let up so I held a small flashlight to his ear and he asked me what I was doing.... I said "Look at that! The light goes right through your head and out the other side, obviously your head is empty and that is why you will not listen to me". He called me a liar, grabbed the flashlight and held it to his own ear, but tilted his head to see if the light indeed came out the other side and showed up on his little cookstove his uncle Pat bought him to play chef on... when he saw no light he proclaimed me a naughty grandmother. Straight faced I told him his head was not tilted enough for him to see the light coming through but I had seen it.... ( I figure any time I can get him to act dumb twice in a row is more fun for me so I stuck to my story). Of course he tried it again but this time a car was going by outside at just the right time, and the headlights reflected on his stove as he was doing it... his eyes got REALLY big and he ran to his mom crying because his brain was missing...... I am a MEAN GRANDMA. Karina lectured me accordingly... I gotta say it was my best gift of the day though.
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| For mother's day Ramie and Brian sent me this Genius MousePen Drawing pad. I finally got around to getting it out of the box and looking it over last night... see, I told you all I was too tired to do even things I wanted to do!
I have not played with it much yet, I just dabbled with it last night a bit ( and I liked what it did ) but I am taking it and my laptop to Vi's house this weekend for some extensive playtime since I am staying there Fri-Mon while her live-in goes camping.... so it gets a MAJOR test run this weekend. Looks like the reviewers on Amazon like it well enough, one even said for the money it was as good or better than their Wacom drawing pad. I can hardly wait to really play with it.
After MUCH trial and error ( and some creative cursing) I was doing okay drawing with my wireless mouse until it died, but I have to say as much as I used it, the darn thing was killing off a ton of batteries. One thing for sure, this drawing pad is going to simply the process and give me much more control if last night's trial and error was any indicator. The learning curse is fairly short, and in my book $45 is a whole lot more justifiable if you are an artist on a budget than ripping almost $200 from the budget is if you have a use for a drawing pad.
There will be an update on how the weekend playtime goes on Tuesday.
In case anyone is interested I did come up with my own design for a wire quilt:
Okay so there are sun faces in it, I confess, no big surprise there eh?
The small circles are beads, to add glitter. Still working out the fine
details and need to make a few more blocks for it.... for the most part
I am happy with it, now I need to find some wire to make it out of....
I think I even know where my soldering iron is from my stained glass
experiments. I have not yet gone to Home Depot to find the wire to make it from but I am doing that today and I hope to get started on one this weekend. I'll crosspost the results from my main blog over on livejournal at http://dejablu503.livejournal.com
I am off to inhale some coffee, and then I'll do a web surf and treasure find post before I start in on my day.
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