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The third Leftover print and its creator arrived on my doorstep this morning.  Yay! A gorgeous linocut by Lisa Flowers Ross.   And, did I mention the mezzotint, yes, you read it right mezzotint by Cassandra Schiffler that I received Monday night.  You're all gonna so wish you had made 77 prints instead of thirteen.  Oh, yes, that did say 77!   We had another request from a Leftover Lover to participate just yesterday and I couldn't (and wouldn't) turn it down.

I'm beginning to think I should start scanning the prints so I could post them on the blog.  But that would be a lotta lotta work, huh?   Plus that would be spilling the leftover beans, wouldn't it? Darn, what a predicament!  And speaking of predicaments, I google-imaged (is that really a verb, google-imaged?) the word predicament, and just look what I found!  I have a feeling there would be no leftovers here:

Now that, my friends, is a predicament! The image, by the way,  is from a t-shirt company called threadless.

I'm getting ready

Yup, I'm setting the table!

Thought I better check out the etiquette for proper table service.  You see, I'm expecting 75 courses of leftovers pretty soon.   Only 19 more days!  Can you believe it?

A La Soupee

Wingtip Press tries (tries is the operative word) to host a monthly Soup Supper for local printmakers and  last night we celebrated our Blue print exchange  created to acknowledge our favorite downtown art store, Boise Blue.   The idea for the soup suppers came from a play on words of the printmaking term "a la poupee."  So, I make the soup, guests bring a box of broth, a bag of pasta, a can of beans, etc for the next soupee and we slurp soup and talk about everything under the sun.  We did a good job on the soup and there are leftovers, but here's a shot of the leftover cookies.   They look better than leftover soup and of course they're blue, for Boise Blue!

Spare Change!

Well, I haven't been successful at all with living off $150 cash for three weeks, but I did have one small success with my spare change.   I've been keeping little dish since Christmas when I gave my grandson, Anthony, a little paint-it-yourself froggy bank  along with a Share Bear savings account at my credit union.   So Ant and I went to the bank with a baggyful of change and he put all the coins in the counting machine.   And WOW! That leftover change amounted to $13.82.

What does the sound of a sigh look like?

If you were writing a novel and you wanted  one of the main characters to take a long, slow luxurious deep breath, then stiffly squeeze up her shoulders and then just push the hell out of that breath from the back of her throat, what kind of a sound would that make?   Would it look like "uuuuuuuuhgnktchhuh" or "hahhhhhkuhhhhchcch"?  Because  I don't know how to write that sound.   The sound that really says, "I'm DONE and what would I do without my two pals that were here tonight to help me organize and collate and package the Solar print exchange portfolio that was due on the winter solstice - December 21, 2009?"  Well, that's the sound I want you to hear before I thank your two Leftover comrades, Katherine Jones and  Linda Schrock who made that happen for me tonight.   


Thank you SO much Katherine and Linda!
(applause in the background)

Nope, couldn't do it!

But I regret it!

T'was almost three weeks ago when I made a commitment to put 150 bucks in my wallet and live on it for three weeks.  No debit card at the gas station, no quickpulloutthecreditcard for that have-to-have book at Barnes and Noble, no last minute stop at the grocery store with the debit card for a jar of capers, a bag of spinach and, what the heck, a little treat near the check out.  Nope!  Couldn't do it!  Just couldn't do it.   And after all, there was Saturday at BSU and I had to park in the Admin lot for the day and I needed my debit to do it.   And how else was I gonna order some ink from Dan Smith?  Send a money order?? I don't think so.  Oh, yeah, and I forgot that I needed to buy a bunch of stamps and the machine at the USPS doesn't take cash and I really didn't want to stand in line and on and on and on and on and on.

So, I'm gonna try it again.  It's just a little over three weeks until Leftovers is due and it would be great to have to not do this alone.   And maybe having just one other person to challenge me to make it would make the difference.  Anyone game?

Wise Words from World War I