A welcome 24 hour vacation in the middle of the week! And it’s a cloudy day that feels like autumn. Let me just go build a roaring fire in the stone hearth and I’ll be right back…
Okay, now I’ll explain the class name change. There was a trademark issue with the other name. Which, by the way, was cheerfully resolved with nary a bloodied nose or hurt feelings on either side.
I’ve had great fun finishing up the prototype today. Ideas ricocheting off each other. Zip Boom Zwap there goes another one! This is the prototype but not the exact same one you’ll see me build in class. If you’re attracted to working quickly & intuitively and aren’t currently in a love affair with perfection I think you’re in for a treat. I’m just sayin.
Supplies will be minimal: scraps, tape, scissors, glue stick, sewing machine, more scraps, bits of fabric, photos, security envelopes, thread, and a good inky pen.
Absolutely no heavy duty lifting or thinking. No painting. Think of this as a weekly or monthly diary on steroids. It’s a perfect travel journal format or a shabby book you toss in your bag (along with your camera) as you head out the door to record the conversations of complete strangers on the bus. Or…you know…you’re own smooth thoughts. Save your bus ticket, it’s going in here too, along with more paper scraps & photos than you can shake a stick at.
Someone’s going to see Leonard Cohen in concert on Friday!!! Plug your ears. I’m picking up my bullhorn and I’m getting ready to sashay up the street singing “Joan of Arc.” I think my neighbors may be confused by some of the lyrics, but I don’t think I’m wrong in assuming they will appreciate my impressive falsetto singing voice.
Yes! I signed up! (paypal: Ofir A)
Really looking forward to this class!!
It’s Friday evening here in France and I’m imagining you getting ready, or on the way, or AT your LC concert. Having a WONDERFUL TIME I hope. No doubt we’ll be hearing about it.
Since my ‘studio’ is the size of a cupboard, with a sloping ceiling to boot, I’m thrilled to hear about the new class.
Good Morning to our favorite Muchacha…………I NEEDED MY FIX FROM DISPATCH FROM LA
WE LOVE YOUR PAGE MARY ANN…………..LUCIOUS MAXIMUS AND TEREI / BYE THE WAY THANK YOU MUCHOOOOOOOOOOOO
FOR THAT KIND EMAILLLLLLLLLLL AND ITS CONTENTS…………XXXXXXOOOOOOO FROM BOTH OF US .
Oh, this makes my mouth water! All of those scraps I have been saving are begging to live in a place as beautiful as that! You are such a paper hero Mary Ann. 😉
Ooooo, the McCabe and Mrs. Miller soundtrack is amazing!
Looks like mondo fun!! Sign me up
OMG! You lucky duck! Oh. that Leonard Cohen, his music has been part of my daily life since discovering him so many years ago. A single day does not go by without some LC in this household. Oh, I wonder if Perla Batalla will guest with him..her voice doing his songs brings me to my knees. She performs in L.A. Mary Ann..have you ever gone to see her? Note to Elizabeth…my other love is Van( with whom I share the same birthday date)and I have seen him live in concert, but not Leonard.
No matter the name of the class…a rose by any other name, etc.
a class that wont require spray cans and outdoor space??? i’m in!!!
Hmmm can’t wait to sign up… btw I would bet on you in that fight… I’m just sayin’….
Reading Elizabeth’s comments make me feel OLD. I first “found” LC in 1971 (b4 she was born) watching McCabe and Mrs Miller… you are lucky to go see him. As for the journal… it is FABULOUS. Can not wait to sign up!
You are sooooo very lucky! I love his song Hallelujah, sung by him, or by KD Lang, or by kurt Nilsen, or by Jeff Buckley… all on youtube!
I like the new title even better that the first one – jumping up and down, can’t wait to see more…
Whatever the name, I’m anxiously waiting.
Mary Ann, I saw Leonard Cohen in concert in Asheville, NC a week ago, and it was one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. You’ll love it!
witty witty girl! clever clever name
P.S. I’m also very jealous, have never seen LC live, or Van Morrison, my other love!
I just knew you were a LC fan!!!! You had to be, you are too lyrical not to be. I must share with you my Leonard discovery moment. I’m 22 (1975), just broken up with my first real love. I’m in a horrible angst and major purple funk depression. “Life is never going to be the same, I will never find another….etc, ad infinitum!” Right? This glorious person befriended me around that time and we used to regularly sit in his living room, imbibing of the fruit or the plant..ahem and he had this amazing record collection and a great twisted pessimistic optimism. So we would revel in our youthful angst and rale against the inhumanity of man, on and on. One night, I do believe the world shifted on its axis, he puts a scratchy, well loved, oft played Leonard Cohen vinyl on the 33 and a 1/3. I was done for, DONE FOR!!
As an aside, LC is always better listened to with scratches…I’m just sayin’.
Have a great time!!!