Vintage or Crap? How does one tell the difference? And a handmade card with a watercolor dragonfly

Handmade watercolor dragonfly card – elegant writer & watercolor on Arches 140# coldpress

It’s been one week and two days living in a our new house.  We got all of our worldly possessions a few days ago.   Much sooner than we expected and now it looks like a tractor trailer from goodwill exploded in our living room.  I’m sure we have some “vintage” items but mostly it’s “crap”.  Every time I open a box I think “we moved this?”  And for some reason I have a lot of cleaning products.  A lot. You would think we lived in an operating theater.  We don’t.

Rhonda had an excellent idea.  Put all the boxes in a closet and if they are still there in a year, just get rid of them. Good advice Rhonda.

I was reading an article about living a “curated” life.  What does that even mean? One collects special crap?  I don’t know.  Maybe the people that live a curated life, also buy artisanal, premium, handcrafted firewood.

I missed the super blood moon.   It was raining and cloudy here so there was nothing to see. Instead I watched this “literal” video of “total eclipse of the heart. It is hilarious.

The above card was done using the elegant writer pen.  I sketched the dragonfly out in pencil.  Then I outlined most of it using the elegant writer calligraphy pen. I used a lighter touch when I went back with clean water per Leslie White’s instructions.   Leslie is one of the queens of using the elegant writer with watercolors.  I’m not sure if this painting counts for inktober.  If not, I’ll have to do something just in ink.   Maybe a drawing of boxes and boxes stacked on top of one another.