{"id":5100,"date":"2013-02-03T11:11:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T17:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2013-02-03T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T17:11:57","slug":"week-4-of-making-something-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=5100","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 of Making Something Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 22: Glued felt to the back of the coasters. Started yellow page in art journal. Don’t know what it will be yet.<\/strong>
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\nDay 23: A place to make a list of all the good things in my life. <\/strong>
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\nDay 24: Few finishing touches & I’ve started my list of good things around the frame. I’ll keep adding to it all year.<\/strong>
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\nLove me some van Gogh. Never more so than after the Doctor Who episode “Vincent and the Doctor.” Amy and The Doctor are talking and she says, “We didn’t make a difference at all.” And The Doctor responds, “I wouldn’t say that. The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.” So this page is about my pile of good things.<\/p>\n

Day 25: ATC. “Keep thinking about it.”<\/strong>
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\nI think this is one of the best ATCs I’ve done to date. Love the purple to peach color combo. Don’t know how I managed that, it was completely unplanned.<\/p>\n

Day 26: Ganesha art shrine started inside a Japanese candy box. <\/strong>
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\nDay 27: Om art shine done. Remember to breathe today.<\/strong>
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\nI think art shrines are so fun. I first saw one while we lived in North Carolina at this crazy greeting card shop in a mall in Chapel Hill. In the very back of the store was a tiny room that had been given over to local artists and it was full of art shrines. In fact the whole room was a shrine full of tinier shrines. There’s something about taking a mundane element, like a used candy container, and making it into something better, different, interesting.<\/p>\n

When I was in high school, we’d take our lunch trash every day and build an art object which we called “Lunch Deceased #___”. (If I were doing that in today’s internet world, I’d probably have a Tumblr blog dedicated to it.) As I was building this shrine this week, I kept thinking about “Lunch Deceased” and the giggles we got out if it. And yes, I ran with a very nerdy crowd in high school, why do you ask?<\/p>\n

Day 28: Sick dog & stopped up sink = no art today. \ud83d\ude41<\/strong>
\nYeah, Saturday started out well but by late afternoon when the kitchen sink was backed up and the dog was barfing every 30 minutes I knew that art just wasn’t in the cards for the day. I broke my streak at the month mark. It was kinda a sad moment and then I went back to cleaning the carpet.<\/p>\n

I’m back on the job today though!<\/p>\n

Thoughts after the fourth week:<\/strong>
\nLearning to hang in there and work on things a bit every day. Some days I get excited and want to spend way more time and I have to remind myself to leave a bit of something to do the next day. Having fun exploring my supplies and tools. Trying to resist the urge to buy new stuff and just use what I have on hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 22: Glued felt to the back of the coasters. Started yellow page in art journal. Don’t know what it will be yet. Day 23: A place to make a list of all the good things in my life. Day 24: Few finishing touches & I’ve started my list of good things around the frame. … Continue reading Week 4 of Making Something Every Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t