what i have been doing this month
(besides applying for jobs, some manual labor for my sisters, driving my mama around to the doc's and out to lunch, trying to have a positive attitude and all kinds of etc)

i have been cleaning out a big box of paper ephemera and leftover photos and all kinds of strangeness that i could just not bear to put into the trash before i left kansas. i *did* put a LOT in the trash, but some, i couldn't. and i *still* couldn't, even here, cleaning up, still trying to release some of this artMess. so i used it in the most obsessive way. along with all my scraps of watercolor paper and card stock - some old paints and stickers. oil pastels. pretty much fun! the box is now half empty and i have over 50 completely reversible collages in various sizes, all smelling sweetly of beeswax.

ha. i guess i will get some waxed paper and store them away now. until i find a crusty old wall that i can hammer small rusty nails into and hang them all up at once. that would be nice.

what next, i wonder?