I find my painting year never seems to go along with my life year...example...in a big snow storm mid January , I can be found in my studio painting Santa....when clearly the time for the little guy is so over....Christmas and Halloween seem to go all year round in needlepoint...they are the two most popular holidays....painting a custom Christmas stocking or ornament in mid July always makes me laugh...you wonder, if as you age and some of your cheese slips off the cracker, will you get confused as to what month it is while painting Easter eggs at Halloween......
for the moment I am able to keep the seasons straight, but time is a ticking as they say.....I do hope someone tells me , when I do go seriously loopy...or more loopy......I guess in an artist it is a fine line...just enough loopy to make you interesting...not enough to call the men in white......
but I find that anytime is flip flop time....they always cheer me up and I love painting them anytime and with any design...face it they are funny...even though my toes are getting too old or too sensitive to wear them...I can still remember what a thrill I got as a child wearing the cheap rubber ones all summer... making that ff noise....that is the best...makes you feel like you have the power!!!!....somehow the ff mode of foot wear has taken on a more formal venue.....even needlepoint ff...the kind you wear...I still like the cheap rubber ones that broke after a certain amount of wear in the summer .... you would be treated to a brand new pair,at the 5 and dime...after all they were considered disposable...I never remember having a pair make it to the next summer.......
so this little custom ff was a joy to paint for a little girl......I even added some little green glass leaf beads to the mix...fun all the way around......now back to Santa...ugh!
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