Pabst approves

Front porch will be getting used a lot!

Pabst hates - Painter's Tape

I think he likes the yellow, despite his hate of the tape.

Kitchen looking into front room.

 Front room is kinda bright!  Wait til we get the furniture and what not settled.

Our dog, the photobomber

is always in the way when we are trying to shoot pics of progress on our new place so we decided instead to just go ahead and shoot pictures of him. This was my favorite

Yes he is missing a leg

Something lost, something else lost

Something lost and something else lost. The great view of the Sandia Mountains is one thing about our current apartment I will miss, but will be happy to see good riddance to the electrical wires.  Looking out kitchen window east.

View kinda southeast from kitchen

Looking east from the bedroom!

Just a show of our colors.

We got our colors figured out for the new place.  Front room and Laundry room will be the "Neon Light" yellow.  The Hallway, Bathroom, and Bedroom will remain white.  Kitchen and exterior trim will be the dark blue, "Isle of Capri."  The backsplash in the kitchen will be the yellow as an accent.  The Kitchen, Hallway, Front and Laundry room floors will be the lighter "Sapphireberry" blue.  The floor is a pretty close match to the kitchen countertop color.  I think we have figure out where most of our stuff is going.   I will have pics of the space soon.  Pictures might help some of this make sense.

Typical Sunday

Carolyn's burning some screens to print.

I'm making paper pretty with pencils and watercolors.

Pabst is holding the couch done!

Pabst hates #6 Balloons

This is a far to frequent event in our neighborhood.  Poor guy can't cope.

Pabst does not hate scrap paper

Pabst hates #4 Stuffed Squirrels

As you can see by the destruction, Pabst hates stuffed squirrels.

So I made a couple drawingeerings today

I'm preparing to build one of many paper sculptures this morning.

taken by Carolyn Curtis, early in the day.  Coffee in tow!

Just some basic tools needed.  Pencils, sharpeners, knife, straight edge or two, paper, and a stencil.  

I'm using a larger sheet of paper to layout the marching orders.

I've been using a stencil to repeat character forms.  Each one gets hand drawn a little differently.  The idea of the herd moving is more important than individual characters. 

Once they get drawn, it's time to cut!  The cutting is the hardest part, but the immediate reward is well worth it.  Tom Petty was wrong!

Now I fold each character into the upright position.  Nobody likes a lazy lil' guy.

The dog likes to play CEO during my stretches.

Stack up the paper and you have a completed paper stack herd.  

One more stack to finish tomorrow.  My hands need beer.  Also needed to show the carnage of pencils for  the three stacks above.

7 pencils, little bit of eraser, one sharpener, and 7 pencils turned into one almost full soup can of shavings.  I might be able to get a little more use out of a couple of them, but not much.  It's beer appreciation evening at Yucca Flats, so go get one, or two.  

Pabst asked me to take a memo.

I now have three desks. One for the computer, one for storage, and one for drawingeering. Pabst likes to dictate.