if you are like me, you like freshly ground black pepper straight from the grinder. in our household, we use our pepper cellar for red chili flakes because we use those with reckless abandon. it dawned on me that maybe you hadn’t thought of this ? it seems that a lot of people are buying just a SALT cellar and not a PEPPER cellar. but now you have a good reason to . . . come on, spice it up !
may 2003
san francisco, california
i am a firm believer in the flow. this is being so completely immersed in an activity that you are actually transcended into a state of rapture . . . losing complete awareness of time, people, distractions, and even basic bodily needs. being in the flow has been medically proven to result in basic happiness. i can attest to this. for me, playing the piano puts me in the flow like nothing else. i can play for hours and it will seem like minutes. i can play with the radio on and not even notice it. i can be starving, tired, full bladdered, etc . . . and it does not matter.
i start my day by getting into the flow, and i truly believe this is a direct link to my happiness. i THANK my mom for starting my piano lessons at age 4 and for “encouraging” me to keep up with it.
wilma and i are wishing everyone a prosperous year of the snake.
3 days ago, i felt like i fully entered the 21rst century . . . i finally got an iPhone AND i joined instagram all in the same day. for a self proclaimed Luddite, these were two pretty big moves. i was convinced by my jet setting friends that i would love both of these things, and they were so right. as much as i hate to admit it, the iPhone 5 is a pretty near perfect device and instagram, well, it’s just so satisfying. if you want to follow me and see what inspires me or what wilma and i are up to, go here (raedunnclay on instagram).
(i used these linen napkins at a luncheon i had at my studio today and just threw them over the back of a chair when i was cleaning up. later, the light was hitting them just so . . . sheer beauty.)
august 2012
mount holly, vermont
acrylic painting on wood.
8 x 8
i designed a new salt cellar and this one has a “spoon.” most people prefer to “pinch” their salt (i’m one of them), but there are some people who are squeamish about having a lot of fingers in the salt and, well, it is more ladylike to use a spoon. so now you have options. and you can still go old school by ditching the spoon !
get one here.
there were rusty staples in my studio door that had probably been there for 40 years. i had been meaning to pull them out since the day i moved in, but i never had the right tool handy. well, today was the day. i surgically removed each one with an official staple remover. it was the most satisfying thing i did all day.
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