advent calendar day 6
Thanks to sockich and starmack for the Christmas cookies. :) They look very tasty! Luckily they are virtual, because I am trying to be off the sugar again.
Today I give you three songs from Ella Fitzgerald's classic Christmas album, "Ella Fitzgerald Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas". There's one non-traditional song, one traditional, and one New Year's song. Something for everyone!
Good Morning Blues
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
I am still behind on pretty much everything, you guys. The lateness of this post will likely attest to that. We are making progress on the sewing project, though, and my new machine is a dream. I'm calling it The Wiz. (It's an Emerald 118. Get it?) I will tell you the story of the velvet jacket when there are pictures, but for now I will just do that meme and get it over with.
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
This is actually a tough one for me. My mom's an artist, see, and I spent the majority of my childhood being carted through every museum she could find. Every city we ever visited, we went to art museums and galleries. I had been to New York City several times before I graduated from high school, but until I took myself there as an adult, all I ever saw was The Met, MOMA, and the Gugenheim that one time they had a Warhol retrospective. Well, and Chinatown for the food, but we never did any shopping or tourist stuff. It was always about the art. I have seen all the great museums in Paris (and some of the not so great ones), I have even been to art museums in South Dakota. So to say that I have looked at a lot of art is not an understatement.
Picking just one piece to talk about is hard, is what I'm saying. There's Maxfield Parrish, who marries Realism and whimsy in such a wonderful way. There's Frederic Leighton, who painted beautiful portraits of beautiful women (one of which is hanging over my mantle). There's Chagall, who touches me in ways words can't convey, and Warhol, who I had such a relationship with as an angst-ridden teenager. There are so many artists to love, but my parents just brought me a print of a painting that belonged to my late grandmother, so in honor of her, I choose "The Storm" by Pierre August Cot:
It's been a fixture in my life...well, for my entire life, and now it is hanging over my vanity where I will see it every morning while I put on my makeup, and every night when I brush my teeth. I think it would make my grandmother happy to know that it is being enjoyed by someone who loves it as much as she did.
Day 01 → Your favourite song
Day 02 → Your favourite movie
Day 03 → Your favourite television program
Day 04 → Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fiction book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Today I give you three songs from Ella Fitzgerald's classic Christmas album, "Ella Fitzgerald Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas". There's one non-traditional song, one traditional, and one New Year's song. Something for everyone!
Good Morning Blues
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
I am still behind on pretty much everything, you guys. The lateness of this post will likely attest to that. We are making progress on the sewing project, though, and my new machine is a dream. I'm calling it The Wiz. (It's an Emerald 118. Get it?) I will tell you the story of the velvet jacket when there are pictures, but for now I will just do that meme and get it over with.
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
This is actually a tough one for me. My mom's an artist, see, and I spent the majority of my childhood being carted through every museum she could find. Every city we ever visited, we went to art museums and galleries. I had been to New York City several times before I graduated from high school, but until I took myself there as an adult, all I ever saw was The Met, MOMA, and the Gugenheim that one time they had a Warhol retrospective. Well, and Chinatown for the food, but we never did any shopping or tourist stuff. It was always about the art. I have seen all the great museums in Paris (and some of the not so great ones), I have even been to art museums in South Dakota. So to say that I have looked at a lot of art is not an understatement.
Picking just one piece to talk about is hard, is what I'm saying. There's Maxfield Parrish, who marries Realism and whimsy in such a wonderful way. There's Frederic Leighton, who painted beautiful portraits of beautiful women (one of which is hanging over my mantle). There's Chagall, who touches me in ways words can't convey, and Warhol, who I had such a relationship with as an angst-ridden teenager. There are so many artists to love, but my parents just brought me a print of a painting that belonged to my late grandmother, so in honor of her, I choose "The Storm" by Pierre August Cot:
It's been a fixture in my life...well, for my entire life, and now it is hanging over my vanity where I will see it every morning while I put on my makeup, and every night when I brush my teeth. I think it would make my grandmother happy to know that it is being enjoyed by someone who loves it as much as she did.
Day 01 → Your favourite song
Day 02 → Your favourite movie
Day 03 → Your favourite television program
Day 04 → Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fiction book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy