However, I took a moment over the weekend to finally get my sand collection together, which sounds like a weird euphemism, but is, in fact, about an actual sand collection:
Lighting in here is terrible, sorry for the picture quality. There's not much to decorate in the master bathroom's Poop Cave, but there was enough wall space for a couple of favorite Impressionists (Monet's Impression Sunrise; Van Gogh's Seascape near les Saintes Maries de la Mer; as well as a small oil painting of a lighthouse on a cliff painted by none other than my roommate, back when she was in high school).
The plants hanging up there are a Senecio ("String of Bananas") and some sort of weird fern I found at Blowe's with no label. Both puny-looking and in desperate need of more water and less cold (like me in the winter).
I don't know why I collect sand, that's just the way it is. Initially I collected it every-sandy-where I went, to fill my incense burners; but somewhere along the way I developed a love of just collecting sand in general. Sort of an, "I buried my feet in this stuff, remember?" (except for the sand people bring to me. I'm that friend who answers, "I'm going to Tahiti, want any souvenirs?" with BRING ME SAND!!!)
Left to right:
1. Hawaii, brought to me by a friend from her vacation.
2. Costa Rica, also friend/vacation
3. Cannon Beach, Oregon, from my trip there last August.
4. Black sand from Hawaii, which is illegal to collect but is sold in these tiny bottles there. Friend/ vacation.
5. Cozumel, Mexico, from my Caribbean cruise in 2012.
# 1 and 5 need better jars, but, I like having them all displayed, finally. There are two more around here somewhere, I think, I just don't know where.
It's not much, but it pleases me.
Bonus stuff: I made an art!
I like to draw and paint, as you may have noticed in my last post when I made a little laptop table to draw on. I mostly just diddle around with coloring or sketching flowers and things, but I also like to copy some of my favorite paintings for practice and to explore translating images from one medium to another.
This is a colored pencil version I did of Van Gogh's The Olive Trees It was SO much fun.
I measured completely wrong and had to tack on an extra page to get the paper sized right - it was either that or erase a LOT of work, which I wasn't willing to do, hehe. Fun times.
When next we meet, I hope to have some actual progress on the craft room to show you. Let's see if I actually do.
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