Thursday, March 28, 2024

Friday Face OFF I'm Running late.

 

 Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your faces or your face. Post any type of face from any medium. You can create it, or find it in nature, or even that face in the design of you woodwork in your house. 
Human, animal, alien, or monster. 
ANY KIND OF FACE!
 
Ohhh I'm running late. Just too many things on my plate right now. But I'm here and ready to show you some faces. 
 I have been drawing this week and trying to up my game with graphite and learning the Conte'. Hmmm on the Conte' LOL
 Here is the first face.
 
Second face. She is not happy because her hair looks so bad. sighhhh....
 
And this is what I did in conte' and prismas
 
 
This week the number generator picked

I will be linking up with Gillena 
This is my beautiful daughter, April Dawn and her husband Dax. If you could please send up a prayer for April Dawn. We accept all belief systems. Thank you.
 
Now it's time to show me your face.
 
Nicole

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Weird Art Wednesday

 Hi Everyone!

I'm sorry there is no 

Weird Art Wednesday. 

I had to take Mr. M.  

to the hospital.


 Have a great day today.

Nicole

Monday, March 25, 2024

T Stands for not a lot going on.

 Hi Everyone!
Well, it's been a pretty uneventful weekend.
The rain is pouring and it is quite gloomy out. I did take a ride north out of town to a fabulous Nursery Called  Laurel Bay Gardens. I have to tell you it is a place I have avoided in the past because the staff was so rude. However, I needed seed potatoes so I broke down and phoned them. I got a very nice, helpful and generally pleasant woman on the phone. She put two sacks of potatoes back for me and I drove over the next day. They have new owners. What a beautiful store and nursery. Plus soil, rocks and anything else you would need. Her name is Robin.
Today I had my annual MRI. I was so glad to get my usual guy. As we were talking he told me his wife works at Laurel Bay. I ask her name and it is Robin. It just seemed perfect. I got the seed potatoes and a few other items. I will have to stay out of that store. ha ha ha
I also have a second group of seeds germinating.
 Squashes, Cucs and more peas.

Mr. M. and I watched movies most of the weekend. He has not been feeling well and today we found out he is in stage 2 kidney failure. This is something that was not in our radar at all. There are some things the doctor wants him to do and then retest tomorrow afternoon. If things haven't calmed down I will take him to the ER for more testing. I told Mr. M. the other day that he is loosing weight. I hope that is not part of all of this. 
OK..... before this I made muffins. I had some coconut and coconut milk. Hmmmm the milk has hardly any taste at all. Mr. M. doesn't like coconut so I made him chocolate chip muffins.

Like I said it is all about the water in this house. I'm joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth
 
Old ladies drinking wine | Funny old people, Red hat ladies, Red hats
 
 
OK, so it isn't water, it is, however, what I wish I was drinking minus the strippers. 😁 
 
Nicole

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Friday Face OFF 3/22/24

 Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your faces or your face. Post any type of face from any medium. You can create it, or find it in nature, or even that face in the design of you woodwork in your house. Human, animal, alien, or monster. 
ANY KIND OF FACE!

I'm happy with this piece. A few things still need to be tweak but I do like it.  


 I have been working on several faces this week but none are finished. It's AI for now.
My description was Japanese woman face in cement. Then I went back and added full of color. 


 

 



 

 


 


 


 


 


 I know a lot of people don't want anything to do with AI. However, it is here to stay. Yes, there will be people using it for horrible things, there are people who will use it for good and beauty. If you would like to try it. I use  Image creator by Bing
 
Mia is our featured artist today picked by the number generator.

 
I will be linking up with Gillena
 
Now it's your turn to show me your face.
 Nicole

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Weird Art Wednesday

 Welcome to Weird Art Wednesday (WAW)

This is the place where I introduce you to artists that are as demented as I am. 💀
Seriously, artists that create their way. 
No boundaries.
As an artists I see art everywhere. That included furniture, and home decor. Today I have just that. I hope you like them. I love looking at this first picture but I don't know if I could have all that blue in my house.
 A bathroom to live for

I could do this bedroom too. 


 

 I hope it's comfy

 The rugs you can get at Amazon.

 

 


 How about an M.C. Escher rug and pillow?

 

 I think both of these are by Michelle Manning.


 


 


 I would really like this bedroom.
By Artfasad

 

 
So.... would you or do you have furniture like this in you home?
 
Have a weird and wonderful day. 
Nicole

Monday, March 18, 2024

T Stands for Sunny days

 

 Hi Everyone!

I'm joining the T-Party with
I will tell you what I am doing with these seeds further down the post.
 

I had to drive south to Reedsport. Half way there is a very small town called Gardiner. As most of the Oregon coast the towns for decades have been dying. Gardiner is an unoccupied community with about 284 people. There is a post office and a fire department, but you can't even buy a loaf of bread there. You have to drive either to Florence or Reedsport. The town wasn't always this way. 
Gardiner is named for a Boston merchant whose ship, the Bostonian, shipwrecked at the mouth of the Umpqua on October 1, 1850. Gardiner was seeking to trade along the river, and most of his goods were saved from the ship and moved to the location that came to be the town of Gardiner. In 1851, the site became the headquarters of the Umpqua customs district, and a post office named "Gardiners City" was established the same year. The name of the post office changed to "Gardiner City" and eventually to its current name. 

The Gardiner Historic District, which encompasses nearly all of Gardiner,has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1994. Several steamboats were constructed at Gardiner for trade up the Umpqua River Outside the remnants of the International Paper mill in Gardiner, Oregon.A plywood plant opened in Gardiner in 1954, joining the lumber mill (or sawmill) that had been in the town for many years. Gardiner was formerly the site of the first International Paper mill on the West Coast. The paper mill operated from 1963 until 1999, and was one of the largest employers on the southern Oregon Coast. The mill buildings were demolished in 2006.A railroad, the Longview, Portland & Northern (LP&N), served the IP mill until it closed. The railroad runs from East Gardiner Junction to the old plant site. The old railroad. Yes, that would be my car.

 
Hwy 101 runs through the town and then the Umpqua River. The tide was out when I stopped so it is pretty icky. The dock has been broken for many years.

 


 



 

 


 


 


 

 

Now what the heck am I doing with those seeds? They are carrot seeds. As with most of you who garden,every year is a new learning curve due to the weather changes. Anyway it is for me. I also am always looking for a better way to grow food. I have harvested some good carrot crops over the years but carrots seem difficult to grow. I hate weeding out the carrots. So, I watched a YT that showed me this.

Take any kind of container (no drainage holes) Place 2 layers of toilet tissue down.
 

 Next place a cloth on top of the tissue. I used cheese cloth and doubled it.

 
 Now poor water over it until soaked.

 

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 Take the carrot seeds and sprinkle them over the cloth.

 

 Cover with plastic wrap and poke small holes in it. Then place in a dark warm place.

 

 I started to use plastic wrap from a roll and then remembered I got these from the $ tree a few years ago.



 They come in 3 sizes and are quite funny looking
 Then pull it open. They aren't very sturdy but it worked perfect for this.
  To see how to finish this, since my seeds are not that far along here is the video. Click here
We have had summer like weather here for the last 4 days. Yes, I have been out in the garden. Last year, because of my foot surgery, I was unable to winterize my garden area. That's what I 've been doing. I amended enough soil to fill 1 25gal grow bag and 10 5gal buckets. I thought I would be sore but it has been the best work out and I have accomplished so much. I have 1 more day of nice weather and then at least 17 days of rain. This is good soil.

Hmmmm Lemon or Molasses cookies? I'll take one of each.  Made by Franz.

I've been drinking ginger tea to help with lupus. I am really enjoying it.
That's it for now.
See ya at the party.
 
Nicole