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On with the Motley
Posted in ART, HOME, POETRY, WORDS AND COMMUNICATIONS, WRITING AND BLOGGING with tags blog, blogging, POETRY, writing on February 25, 2010 by echostainsI’ve been very busy at the moment doing all sorts of things. Some of it involves getting my house straightened, which is boring, boring, coconut flooring. Still blogging on Bookstains (not as much as here) and have written quite a few poems lately (my Arachne rising seems to have arisen again after all these years!). It may be fun (for me) to get some very early work out and look back on the airy fairy stuff I did in my teens (here’s a post about an early influence) and contrast them with some not very pretty punk lyrics…er ‘The Life of Charlotte Bronte’ springs to mind and would not win me many Bronte fans lol! another one was ‘I Trouble’ and ‘Voodoo dancing’. I wonder what happened to them? I might actually come across them in the sort out. If I do, I’ll put them on Bookstains for a bit of fun . I’m experimenting with different types poems at the moment and enjoying it – which is the whole point of my blogging!
My 180th Post: A Labour of Love? or a Love of Wittering on?
Posted in ALTERED ART, ART, BOOKS! DEAR READER I READ IT, BRONTE BITES, DESIGN, FAVORITE ART: Art I LOVE, MY ALTERED ART BOOK PAGES, TEAPOTS - A HOMAGE TO UNUSUAL TEAPOTS, TRANSCRIPTION, WATCHED, WHAT HAPPENED IN VEGAS STAYS HERE!, YORK BREAK with tags 180th post, altered book, ART, blog, books, DESIGN on May 29, 2009 by echostains
Well its my 180th post! I have only missed 4 days since I started at the end of November last year. What do I find to write about every day? Well, not a lot sometimes I admit, but I still manage a paragraph or two. What do I expect to gain from doing it? I don’t really know. Just like doing it. Sometimes it does seem that I am wittering away to myself, but why break the habit of a lifetime eh!
Well its my 180th post! I have only missed 4 days since I started at the end of November last year. What do I find to write about every day? Well, not a lot sometimes I admit, but I still manage a paragraph or two. What do I expect to gain from doing it? I don’t really know. Just like doing it. Sometimes it does seem that I am wittering away to myself, but why break the habit of a lifetime eh!
I started my blog with just a few categories, now I have 14! They are mostly about Art, (which encompasses design too) but there’s other stuff, like places, holidays, books I’ve read and am reading (Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt’ by Anne Rice, which I shall be reviewing when I’ve finished it) and what I’ve watched. There’s always something to write about, even if it’s only to have a good old moan or rant (I hope that there’s not too many of those…). My altered art book has not even reached the end of its first chapter yet (I’m just putting the finishing touches to page 24 of the 26 pages in this chapter).
Lots of things have changed since I first started writing my blog (me for a start, I was a lot slimmer lol!) and that’s not because I’m sat here blogging all day…it’s down to me STILL not smoking…which I will be celebrating with a seperate post later! Our daughter is now married (see ‘What Happened in Vegas Stays here’). And I’m still probably doing stuff wrong on WordPress…and sometimes the writing STILL goes massive. You’d have thought that I would have got the hang of it by now wouldn’t you?
Time and Tide and all that waits for who and what?
Posted in ART, ART HISTORY with tags ART, blog, corinthian maid on April 24, 2009 by echostainsSo much to do in this blog and not enough time to do it: at least not in the way I want to. Some of the stuff I mention, I want to write more deeply about, but time being at a premium, I find myself skimming the surfaces and using links. It’s not that I can’t be bothered, it just that I havn’t got the time, (the incentive yes,but not the time).
I need to get on with my altered art book. I need to scan more transcription. It seems quite a while since I did that. Also, sufaces need resurfacing. There’s also more art I need to put on etc, etc.
Coming soon: Bigger and Better……
Spring cleaning this blog (well, thinking about it anyway)
Posted in ART, ART HISTORY, TRANSCRIPTION, WORDS AND COMMUNICATIONS, WRITING AND BLOGGING with tags ART, blog, francis bacon, spring clean, Transcription on April 5, 2009 by echostains
A quick one today, as I have to go to work soon (whilst I still have a job to go to!). I have quite a lot of stuff to be getting on with regarding this blog: it could do with a Spring clean! I might change the format also because I have been having trouble with the size of the script, which can be very erratic at times. Firstly, I must do some more Altered art book pages. Also more transcription (that is two journals stuck together, so there’s a lot of stuff in there). I never did get round to writing about The Francis Bacon retrospective we went to before Christmas. And I have managed to do some new work which needs to go on here. I started this blog the end of November last year and I havn’t missed many days. When I went to Las Vegas the other week, I did my blogs just before I went, then scheduled them to come on each day. But I must have under estimated the time difference because one day is missed out lol!
100th post on my birthday
Posted in ART, ART HISTORY, WORDS AND COMMUNICATIONS, WRITING AND BLOGGING with tags 100th post, addictive postings, birthday, blog on March 10, 2009 by echostainsWell it’s my birthday today, well actually it was yesterday 8th March, but I was working so I had to celebrate it today (well, tonight actually) so I’m not going to rant on, just post a birthday pic of me to mark the time passing. It’s also my 100th post. Sometimes Iask myself why I am keeping up with this…the answer is that it’s addictive of course!