WASTE NOT...WANT NOT

I painted the back of this metal weaving - which is on a piece of thin wood - black.

I thought maybe I'd list it on Etsy but can't get good pictures of it.

The color is off in many of them

and I can't even concentrate enough to try again.

We're leaving for the States next week to buy a house

and then it'll be quite the challenge to sell

or even give away - 58 years worth of belongings.

It's all staying in Colombia...I think.

Got my brain going in circles thinking about it. 

We've decided to give up the apartment in May...instead of keeping it another year.

The challenge is that we don't speak Spanish well enough to answer the phone...

if we were to list items for sale in the paper, etc.

Can't have a yard sale where we're at.

I'm thinking it'll all just go to whoever wants to carry it away.

And what do I do?

I paint the back of my woven piece.

And then, because I can't stand to see a bit of leftover paint go down the drain...

I use every little smidge of it to stencil or apply to previously surface designed pieces...

until there is no more paint on the pallet or the brush and the water you see in this picture is all that went down the drain. 

This might tell you how much I have to get rid of.

I'm confessing. I'm a hoarder. A collector. A recycler.

OMGoodness. What have I created?

Create Your Life,

annie!