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Crush

Obviously my week got a little off track – a broken heart will do that to a girl.  Before I move on from last week’s unofficial fine arts theme, I wanted to tell you about my trip to see Kate’s (my sister-in-law) exhibition while I was in North Carolina.  Before we cruised to the gallery, [...]

Portrait Project

I’ve got a terrible hankering to start a new painting.  I think I’ll encourage this desire as it’s slightly healthier than my other current hankering – to make a pan of fudgy brownies and eat the entire pan in one sitting.  They’re both pretty damn messy and time intensive, but I think I’d rather have the [...]

Oktoberbest

I’m in love with a sailor.  He’s got an adorable heart tattooed on his bicep.  I know this because he never, ever wears a shirt.  The curl of his upper lip is only surpassed by the twist of his narrow mustache.  I swoon as I relish the rakish tilt of his hat which accentuates his haunting [...]

Tattoos

Always, in the back recesses of my mind, I’m contemplating another tattoo.  (Dad, go help Mom off the floor, k?)  I find them to be such beautiful forms of art and self expression.  They’re also a wee bit addictive.

I like to think I’m going to age gracefully and embrace my wrinkles.  (I also like to think [...]

Waste Not

Projects 90

I recently visited the MoMA on one of their free Friday thingamawhatsits.  I’m all about supporting the arts in theory.  I just don’t seem to put my money where my mouth is.  It’s a recession, people.  The concrete ‘shroom biz isn’t exactly booming.

Focus, Elly.  Try again.

So I was recently at the MoMA and was [...]

Flooded festival

Crowded Hoboken Stage

Twice a year, Hoboken hosts a fantastic street fair, the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival.  I look forward to these things all year!  There’s a vast array of artists and their work, fun jewelry, ridiculous Jersey paraphernalia and all the food on a stick you could possibly want.

Despite the rain, the town decided not [...]

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