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Early Morning Tea ~ Contemporary Still Life by Laurie Justus Pace

8 x 10 Oil on Linen Panel

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Laurie


Brrr Cold outside it is. I am up and ready for a hard day in the studio. I was rather distracted yesterday between my haircut, shopping with Stacey and added adventures through out the day. This painting was finished this morning with last touches. Simple splashes of color combining with light to bring out an early morning cup of tea from last Thursday.

Shopping with Stacey. My daughter has become QUEEN of COUPONS. Don't know exactly when she contracted the illness but it has it grasp on her pretty tight. I am not one to scoff at coupons. I remember when in my early days I had a pouch of neatly clipped out coupons all organized into their cozy little slots waiting to be plucked out and turned in at the cash register. I believe I did this in and out over about a ten years period. I finally trashed the little coupon holder about 18 years ago. I haven't really looked backward. This week EVERY time she spoke to me on the phone she kept clamoring on about toilet paper. Not only does she have a CVS pharmacy card now but she uses an online grocery coupon site to tell her all the best deals to combine with the Sunday coupons. I groan inwardly just wishing I had time or energy to even contemplate such things. Well this week the best deal going was at CVS pharmacy for those of you who used Cottonelle Toilet Paper. We switched from 35 years of Charmin when I discovered Charmin was on the top list of WANTED by the plumbers society. They truly dislike Charmin homes. So with this move I stopped buying the bad guy and choose to try Cottenelle. It is pretty good as toilet papers go.

One of the joys of old age is not feeling pressured to back stock so much stuff. Would hate to have the kids cleaning out the house and discovering 1000 rolls of Paper Towels, 3000 rolls of Toilet Paper, 80 cases of kleenix etc. They could open their own store. So when she began babbling about BEST BUYS on Cottenelle TP, I tuned her out. Saturday at the hairdresser while I was captive in the chair and could not escape she started in again as to our first stop after the hairdresser was to CVS pharmacy for more TP. Mind you she has already purchased 12 cases of twenty rolls, each roll considered to be the jumbo roll equal to two. So in the old world this translates to 480 rolls of TP. That is more than one roll a day. Here she is ready to go buy more. Her story is "Do you know how much toilet paper my husband uses?" I didn't want her to answer that one. At CVS there is a limit of 4 of those Case like sizes. After stopping at several CVS pharamcies (Some did not even carry them) we found an end cap filled with the long sought after Toilet Paper. She drags around the corner managing two baskets and begins filling them. We have eight huge loaded paper cases of TP and as I wheel my cart precariously forward, adding 19 cents Christmas Wrapping paper to the top...I look back and can barely see the top of her head. She is only 5 ft tall. I crack up with the image.

Yes I came home with four of those cases. She has four more for her house. I gave one to Morgan who was here working in the studio. I chuckle because he thought he was getting a four pack or a six pack. We seat belted the twenty pack in the front seat of his truck. It might pass for a second passenger in the HOV lane. I offered to put a floppy hat on it.

I can't wait to see what she finds this week to focus on.

Shalom,
Laurie


"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." James 4:14

Comments

blh said…
I call this type of flower of the artist's "confetti flowers" and she makes some of her later flowers even more like very colorful confetti. These flowers remind me that we should celebrate each day, like people often celebrate by throwing confetti into the air, no matter what life brings to us, because we are alive. No matter what is going wrong in our lives in the present, good things are happening, too, and more good and even wonderful things may be destined for our futures, even if they include things as simple as a solitary, peaceful, and relaxing cup of tea.

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