and if this wallpaper doesn't say, "Fun!" I don't know what does...

I'm not sure whether it says 'fun' or 'fu� . . . 'funned up'.

It's certainly eye-catching!

Thanks, girl.

think I've finally gotten used to it... especially since I found a text color combo that works with it!

Wer, tell me if I have to change it, okay? Because I don't want to bugger anyone's eyes up - I will really not be offended.

no one has typed in screaming, yet...I say keep it for awhile, I like the character it gives the place...

Okay then. I think Wolf will be the ultimate judge - she sees colours better than us - so I'll wait till she comes back, and see what she says.

AT first I was taken back, then I thought, what the hell . . .

And 'what the hell' means you will tolerate it? Even though you don't really like it?

nope, in his context, it meant "why not?"

I see. But really, I don't mind changing if it doesn't really appeal. I . . . I can take rejection . . no, really, I can . . . �gulp�. HA-HA!!!! No, it'll stay then, until I get a definite no from somewhere.

wer is right. I meant go for it.

OH. Okay then, and thank you, Terry. But tell me if your eyes really start to hurt, okay?

Oh, sure.

It's not too hard on the eyes, because for the most part, the text doesn't straddle any of the color lines.

Good.

Riette's first sketch for the Spring... To see it in it's full scale glory, go to http://www.spring.net/~spew/art/rspring1.jpg

Thank you, Wer. Sorry it's so scruffy, people, but it IS a bed sketch after all!!! ha-ha!

the colors are groooooooooovy baby! (so, riette, tell me, did you do the drawing on someone's back ala Dangerous Liasons?) it's neat, like how the trees link with each other....

Hi, Wolf!!! Long time no read! No, I don't do that Dangerous Liasons thing - but I did it lying on MY back! So how was your conference?

hard work......

Sorry to hear that. Have you taken a holiday yet? Or don't wolves do that?

can't have a holiday until after Oct. (due to the end of the 98 fiscal year)

Oh, you poor thing. Well, when you do, just make it LONG. Today I reached what is like a milestone for me. I did my first truly beautiful painting in oil. It is of two lovers, and I finally managed to find a technique that suits me, and which works with my style of painting. For the first time I feel truly satisfied, as it opens a whole new dimension for my art, and gives it a kind of versatility I never expected to find - not at this early point in my practicing life anyway. I am always so afraid that all my work will end up looking the same, however colour ul it may be (like that of artists like Hundertwasser), and now I have found a way to overcome that problem. I must be the luckiest person in the world to do what I do.

congratulations! (you gonna display it here?)

Thanks, Wolfie! Sure I'll display it - I'll take a photo once the paint has dried. It is a very simple painting, but the colours came out great and well balanced, and that was what I was trying to achieve. And when are you going to post some of your art? I am really looking forward to seeing it.

oh, you mean my pencil drawings of stick people? still haven't set up the scanner (lazy me!)

Your breakthrough is heartwarming and I'm very happy for you, Riette.

Thank you, Terry, that's very kind. Wolf, get that scanner set up, and send me your stick men!!!!! Not that I want to pressure you, of course . . . . . ha-ha!!

Oh, Terry, do you think those two people are going to start coming? The two you mailed me about. Who exactly are they, and what do they do? Are they going to post me their art?

It's a maybe. Just trying to pump up art. I noticed that they had posted in an art topic in the austin conference on Electric Minds. So, nothing to lose in inviting them, right?

Absolutely!!! How very nice of you. I do hope they come. Who else can we pester? Do you think we should go invite the droolers and modjaners? There are so many of them, there are BOUND to be art fans there. And Stacey - she said she'd post pictures of her school kids. Come on, babe, you're her relation, so go ask her nicely. You know what, I'll pester the gallery boss whose giving me my exhibition - he is awfully nice, and know a hell of a lot. I'm writing him tomorrow about something, and will i vite him then.

Great, I love it. You sound downright evangelical!

ha-ha!!! My daddy would have been so pleased to see me become a missionary!

Think it's time I post a sketch of myself on the loo?

Yeah go ahead!

haha!!!

I don't know, do you do anything, like, really cool on the loo?

Oh sure! Like pricking the spots on my bum! You?

Untangling hair balls just like everyone else... well, that and reading catalogs...

ha-ha! Must say, I've never done the first. I like reading history books on the loo though; good place for quiet concentration.

I don't believe I've heard of anyone doing that before.

Well, PT, that's what we're all here for... enlightenment and broadening of our horizons...

What catalogues do you read on the loo, Wer?

whichever ones be at my feet... I depend upon the kindness of others...

i can always count on plenty of loo reading material--as my hubby regularly leaves newspapers and ads there. oh, we weren't talking about his loo habits wre we? oh he'll just die to find i've been revealing his secrets! i like to take care of my business and get the heck outta there. but us wolves are usually that way. and now i'm done talking about those habits. what's that smell?

chicken

i think you're right, ree-head! who cut the big one?

Not me!

me either!

must have been the chicken...

ha-ha! Yeah! And we all know who is most likely to be in the company of such an animal around here, don't we?

The fox. Right?

Cool...I wasn't blamed...

It was you?

that would normally get blamed for being in the company of chickens, yes...but fortunately, you suggested the fox and I cannot remember ever being accused of being a fox or being compared to a fox...

(have been accused of being a chicken, however...)

I just figured that foxes had a great fondness for chicken.

as well they do, it just let me off the hook...

Oh, wer, you little vixen you! ;-)

Never thought I'd live to see that! wer, little, and vixen all in the same sentence...

Voxy Wer!

Get it? Foxy vixen combined?

I mean, foxen, fixen and fuxen might give people the wrong idea...

lol!!

This is the kind of joke that usually makes Chris go, 'huh?'.

Just tell him, "That's okay, dear." And pat him on the head.

It kind of reminds me of a joke that developers like to play. In most large communities in this country, there is a subdivision called Camelot or Camelot Forest or something like that. In each of these there is a street called "Launcelot", and another street called "Guinevere". The two streets always intersect. So, you have a location: The intersection of Launcelot and Guinevere, in Camelot Forest.

Hmmm...there's a Camelot nearby that a friend lives in--I'll have to ask him about those street names.

How weird! I hated that movie with Richard Gere - 'First Knight'.

I never saw it. What didn't you like about it?

Richard Gere. He's such a charisma bypass.

That would make him an ill fit for the role of Arthur or just about anyone of those stories. Have you read Sir Thomas Mallory's "Le Mort D'Arthur"?