So I finally saw Julie&Julia at the theatre. (If I weren't so happy being me, I'd want to be Meryl Streep.) The movie reminded me that cooking and blogging are fun. Over the last week, I've cooked up several feasts with family and loved every minute of it. Now I'm ready to blog again.
Realizing a brief lull in my reading and marking routine -- I teach three sections of Freshman composition -- I snatched a bit of time to work on this pint-sized chair. I felt like an artist for one whole evening! Oh the magic of bright blue, spring green and a wandering-leaf pattern!!
Monday I return to the classroom for two weeks before Christmas break. My plan for that vacation? Prepare for the next term. I only hope I can focus on teaching for winter and spring quarters. I miss my easy-breezy, time-to-paint-and-read-and-write, pre-professor life...If only art paid.
First I scraped off the polka dots and sanded the surface smooth.
Then I primed the top and sides.
Next came pink and magenta checks along the side.
After that I sliced up three old maps and fixed them in broad slashes across the table with decoupage.
Now to cure for a day or two before we return to dining as usual. Or not...
To celebrate the joy and abundance of my amazing family, I happily ate a series of amazing feasts over a week's time. I don't have a picture recording the effect of those toothsome meals. Suffice it to say that there is, on occasion, a price for extravagance...but once a year, it's well worth paying. 
Monday I return to the classroom for two weeks before Christmas break. My plan for that vacation? Prepare for the next term. I only hope I can focus on teaching for winter and spring quarters. I miss my easy-breezy, time-to-paint-and-read-and-write, pre-professor life...If only art paid.
