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6/52 for the group 2019 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: F is for Fifties
As I had nothing from the 50s, I had to think of a different way of interpreting the theme. Other people had done 50s memorabilia, £50 notes and 50p pieces, so what was left?
I had actually given up and decided to use an off-topic shot (which of course I don't post to the group, but I do add to my album), then I spotted these in the Co-op on Saturday evening while shopping for something for dinner.
Photograph by James W. Bailey
Image captured at South Lakes Shopping Center in Reston, Virginia.
Good God. Obviously, some of these right wing nutjob teabaggers have way too much free time on there hands.
The Dulles Corridor Tea Baggers must feel exceptionally confident that they've destroyed the Public Option...since they're now targeting the destruction of Metro rail to Dulles.
I only have one comment about the above fat pink pig mascot.:
In my homestate of Mississippi it's not at all uncommon to see Billy Bob Dumbass riding around in a shit can clunker of a broken down car that's sporting chrome rims that are worth eight times what his damn bondo superglued together trashed out ride is worth.
I can't help but notice that the rims and trailer supporting the above teabagging swine flu work of modern art sculpture are worth at least eight times what the paper mache Miss Piggy piece of bacon is worth.
And, by the way, who made this damn pig?!
A three-year-old home-schooled Republican rugrat?
Oh. I see. It was made by a progressive postmodern D.C. area artist for the public art project DC Party Animals.
Remember THAT disaster? www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63481-2004May28.html
Like, why am I having to review this ugly pig in the first place? Where's the Washington Post's Chief Art Critic Blake Gopnik when you need him?
Week43 of Peter Forsgård's 52weekchallenge had the subject "Shadows". I tried to reproduce a photo which was credited to Viktoria German and published on a website which I discovered when searching for inspiration on the internet.
First problem was to find a tea bag with a string - not easy - but once found I played around with the position of a single light to produce shadows to suggest, "Is it there or is it not?". Eliminating everything but the shadows and tea cup proved very difficult as I wanted to get things right in camera and didn't want to crop anything or edit the photo other than apply the basic B&W conversion which Lightroom calls "Warm and Moody". The only crop was to get things level. An interesting assigment which I will go back to - I'm sure this picture can be improved upon.
The detachable zippered "tea tag" pouch is 4-1/2 x 5". It is quilted and embellished with gingham ribbon, embroidered letters, and a metal teapot button. The pouch attaches onto the bag with a hand-carved twig.
This is the finished "tea tag" pouch. I think next time it should have a zipper instead of a flap... I think it would look more like a tag that way.
teabags, parts from old German hymn books, yarn, tea and coffee. blogged: ines-seidel.de/2014/05/teebeutel-gesangbuch/?lang=en
Teebeutel-Gesangbuch.
Teebeutel, Teile von alten deutschen Gesangbüchern, Nähgarn, Tee und Kaffee. Im Blog: ines-seidel.de/2014/05/teebeutel-gesangbuch/
"There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea."
– Gary Snyder
Blog update about henna, yes I have dyed my hair red now, finally! No more blonde! It's more like ORANGE.. but yeah, it's definitely not blonde anymore ;D
I liked this shot, used it for a blog update about my henna routine! You can read about it hereeeeee
:)
Teabags with stamping and drawing, dipped in beeswax and handstitched. Other random stitching at the top along with a small button.
I like this fabric with little teapots which is from the same range as the fabric used on the outside.
The back is hand-tied with several shades of green floss and unbleached string. The bag closure is a wood bead and buttonhole. The back of the pouch is quilted with a flower design.
There are lots of great buttons and wood beads on the front of the bag representing bits of tea (the back is tied with several shades of green floss). The rest of the bag is hand-tied with unbleached string.
power of the monkey pound....
mind i have a feeling thats my card there the cheeky monkey............
OK crafty friends... I am stumped on this one. My friend suggested that I make a bag that looks like a teabag. I am having a bit of trouble finishing it off. See the other photos for its actual present state. I guess i want it to look something like this when it's done but I am not sure how to get the top corners to "fold in". I may also make the string handles longer. Do you think this looks like a teabag? Would it be strange to attach the handles in the position shown and have the pouch detachable? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Diptych: two things that have a recognizable relationship
Texture thanks to Kim Klassen's Beyond Layers: plastersquared
I'm working on something secret- I'll be posting pictures and no explanations as a result :)
Details later, AFTER it is no longer a secret LOL
I wondered if my W & N brown was waterproof. It started to storm as I drew this and it was hard to see my work (especially since it knocked the power out for 10 minutes- the duration of the storm and the time I was trying to do the shadows!!)
I made a mug of tea in my usual way:
teabag in a mug, pour on boiling water, stir and wait. The difference today was that I used the spoon I use to get the marmalade out of the jar – it's sterling silver and silver is an excellent conductor of heat … ouch!
I live alone so, when I make I mug of tea, I throw the teabag in the bin. When my wife was alive I used one tea bag for two mugs.
"Surely we can afford to use two tea bags," she said to me one day.
"It makes no difference to you," I replied, I always give you the first mug.
To conserve supplies in this period of self-isolation, I have kept the tea bag I used for my last mug of tea ready for the next one 😀
Teabags were used because tea is a drink, common to people across the globe - classless and multicultural. It is used to draw people together at times of joy or sorrow, in groups, or alone and in need of a comforting lift. When you are hot it cools you and when you are cold it warms you up. The teabag is a worthless object, committed to landfill or the compost bin but with care, love and light it can be transformed into a beautiful piece of art.
Angels too are classless and multicultural. They are celebrated in the secular world and are integral to the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The teabags used to construct the Angel were given by parishioners from the churches in Bridge of Allan and Dunblane, Stirling Islands Centre and the University of Stirling Chaplaincy. They were collected from people's homes, Abbey Field retirement home and Cornton Vale Prison. Each bag was dried, emptied and ironed before being used for the construction.
Built by Suzanne Horne to raise funds for Syrian people.
Currently on display at Gloucester Cathedral until Saturday 31 December 2016.