it’s been lazy days around here this weekend. the sun has been shining and windows are open. the streets have become filled with more and more tourists. and my little plant babies are growing bigger.
it was a writing, drawing, editing morning until i made us bloody marys and sillyness overcame.
the voodoo king.
never fall in love with a voodoo king.
the first week charms with gasoline breath and mice skulls in your freezer. rope burn mornings. pins and needles up your spine.
eventually the vacant eyes are overbearing and the swamp follows you home.
broken fiddle strings and red roses cover the floor. the smell of mud creeps though the walls and you wake up with needles in your heart and your fingernails missing.
here is a little painting i did yesterday.
don’t cut down trees lest the bigfoot eat you.
being sick is maddening. i’m about to go collect some antioxidants and bring them back to inject straight into my bloodstream. or just eat/drink/eat them. while laying around on the floor feeling all sort of woozy.weary.weathered i took some pictures of things i put on my windowsills.
important tools
a birth
a wooden fan
some science
some kept time.
and firework giraffe.
potemkin was an alright photo assistant.
also! earlier this week before i was contaminated i made the skeleton a friend in teal.
as promised last week. here is my favorite stop motion project we have made. how to make an old fashioned!
i’m thinking about doing some more ‘recipe’ videos. i think they are pretty cute.
as the days get warmer i want to spend more time outside. much more. so saturday we went over to one of the parks in ‘de pijp’ neighborhood and had a little dutch picnic. kaas, brood, and genever. i finally finally got to use my travel bar!
this is my best antique find of all time. i found it in a new hampshire antique store. i thought it was a binocular case but when i opened it i was elated to find 2 travel decanters. one labeled bourbon, one labeled scotch.
sadly scotch is way expensive in the netherlands and bourbon is practically nonexistent. boo. so i filled it with the local liquor, genever.
we walked back towards the city center, stopped by the apartment to grab glasses and some bottles, and sat by a canal drinking bier until the sun went dim.
such a sunny day in amsterdam. we took the pup to the park so she could wrestle with dogs and bark at ducks.
i feel like i am working on a full library. i have a lot of illustrated book projects going on. i’m remaking a book i created back in 2006, “a sad day for kites: and other accounts”. a little update to a neat idea.
last night i was itching to do some craft like thing. so i cut up paper rectangles, folded them accordian style and then sewed a piece of string through the middle. voilà! instant paper garlands.
while painting and sketching today i had a nonstop stream of woody allen movies playing in the background. i could play his movies on and on for days. weeks. years. the mix of humor, stress, romance, intellect and art really resonates with me. i relate to any character woody allen plays and yes, i am a girl.
i can walk city streets for miles while obsessing over some small moment/look/conversation that happened the previous night.
sarahgoodreau 