The Woman Who Counts

Eliza Doolittle Day
Weights and Measures Day
Anniversary - Charles Lindberg Solo Flight
Birthday - Cher (singer/actress)
Birthday - Dolly Madison (First Lady)
Birthday - Jimmy Stewart (actor)
Neighbor Day (Rhode Island)
Independence Day (East Timor)

 

I spent the last two days doing inventory for the Bookstore.  Hours of counting things. I now have an opinion on what is more fun to count, art supplies or cards.* Numbers. *twitch*

 

For me, the presence of art supplies presents a problem. I see all these magnificent colors, these nifty tools and spiffy textures, and start wanting to make things. But I’m unschooled, and I have no skills to use markers, pastels, watercolors, colored pencils, any of that arty stuff. Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.

 

I love the names people give color things, like paint, art supplies, or even things like towels.  Who needs a thesaurus when you’ve got “Holiday Blue,” “Nile Green,” “Prawn,” and others?  (I like the Copic markers, because they have a bit of Engrish in the mix—some of them were clearly labeled “Fragstone Blue,” “Bareley Beige,” and a few terms that would never make it past Crayola (“Africano,” “Orientale”).  They’re funny, and often evocative. It made the counting fun.

 

So I came home and mixed up some Sculpey and made little mugs for my dolls, just to let myself play with colors.

 

Hell, I’m going to be dreaming colors for days. I had to do something.

 

 

*Art supplies, hands down.