It’s a well-known fact that I have some pretty incredible friends. If you are reading this blog, I count you among that group, unless you are in fact a mean internet troll, in which case you should just get back under your bridge. Back! Back, I tell you! No one likes mean people!
I feel better now that I’ve gotten that out of the way. *breathesdeeply*
Where were we?
Oh, yes, friends. I HAVE THEM. Which is a source of constant amazement and gushy feelings but I already went on one tangent so I am NOT going to go there even though this tanget topic is obviously infinitely nicer than the previous one.
One of said friends once asked me to make her a piece of artwork.
I was so astonished and so flattered. It just so happens that this friend is one of the coolest people I know (she LONGBOARDS). And that astonished feeling was quickly replaced by some inadequacy feelings (yes, she is that cool). So I let several months go by before I acted.
But then the thrift store spurred me into action, as it often does. What would I do without other people’s cast offs? (Don’t contemplate that question for too long, husband. NOT going to happen.)
I found a sweet piece of cheap/fake vintage artwork…really just a piece of cardboard that happened to be colorful.
And then I took a picture of it with a jar of paint and a sponge and a scissors on top of it.
I know, I know. You can’t really see the fake cardboard design. I’m the worst. But you can see that it had one issue there on the right side…the design was not centered and there was a nice off-white LINE on the side. I pondered what to do to cover it (since I knew I wouldn’t be able to cut it off nicely) and then I did this.
Sponge painting/minty green triangles to the rescue! It didn’t completely cover the weird line but it definitely made it less noticeable.
Next I harnessed my shaky hands by sheer willpower and went to town with a quote.
I really have pretty bad penmanship, so the fact that this turned out this well is a small miracle. I found it easier to heap gobs of paint on my paintbrush, and that helped.
Then, I let it dry.
And I loved it.
And of course I wanted to keep it.
But if you’ve been to our apartment recently, you’ll see that there’s no more room in it for anything at all (except chocolate–always room for that), so my selfishness was squelched once again.
Karen, this is headed your way in 7-14 days. Congrats on the new (well, a few month’s ago) apartment. Also–I did not come up with the quote myself, which means you can interpret it how you’d like. But don’t forget that you have two adorable kittens at home. They might be sad if you do not come home for days at a time, so perhaps I should have written “take the medium-but-not-very-long way home” for you, but I was afraid that would not fit on the artwork.
And I’m rambling again.
So. Enjoy.
Planting Sequoias 