Retirement: Online Art Workshops

First page in the new journal I'm working on:
Nothing on the outside cover yet.

Not much to say today. Have to go teach at Tristan's school at 1. Had a good time teaching my Reach For The Scissors class last night at Stampin' From The Heart in L.A. even though I still was in a lot of pain from my stupid fall the other day! (GRR) Took Alka Seltzer at around 1 last night and that knocked me out so that I couldn't even get up to take Tristan to school (That's why I never take it unless I don't have to..) so David took him.

Oh! Got the new Spare Parts from Anahata the other day. As usual, it's lovely. I totally agree with one of her comments- accept crap! LOL You have to make a lot of crap to get to the good stuff. It's basically what I always say-the more you PLAY in your books, the better off you will be. You do not have to make a masterpiece each and every time and you need to realize that. Just play. Keep a play book. Get it messy and dirty. See what "this" does and "that" does. See what happens if you place an image "here" instead of "There." I know too many people that are concerned about "absolute perfection" on their pages. They also want their pages to look "as good as" INSERT FAMOUS ARTIST X HERE. B.S.! Your work-you should ONLY want your work to look like YOU made it to look as good as YOU can get it to be. Process, baby, process! Don't forget the process. I don't worry about the outcome. It's how I feel as I work. I want my pages to look like I Made Them. So get out a PLAY journal. Call it your "F***** UP" Journal if you want! F it up! Mess it up! PLAY in it!!!! GO for it. No worries, k?

I'm off-gotta go shower before I go to T-Man's school!

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Didya know that Keri Smith has TWO books coming out this year. One of which is called Wreck This Journal due out in June.

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News for the day:
If this doesn't make you laugh, I don't know what else will:
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: If people can come into our country, for example, on a temporary basis to work, doing jobs Americans aren’t doing, they won’t have to sneak across the border. And, by the way, a system that encourages people to sneak across the border is a system that leads to human rights abuses. It’s a system that promotes coyotes and document forgers. It’s a system that allows for the exploitation of citizens who are trying to earn a living for their families.

Is he serious? Hmm.. what about NAFTA and all of the exploitations that it's done? What about what is going on to children in Guatemala just a few miles from where he was speaking?
More news on this on today's Democracy Now!

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Update on Kevin and his family.
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If you lie to them, have them pay thousands of dollars (that they don't have), exploit them, and offer them false promises, they will come.

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7:20 pm update. Sorry if anyone came here between 6 and NOW and found Lego Bionicle pictures on my blog. My monkey of a son uploaded them to MY blog instead of HIS blog.