Books with "Bee" in the Title That Heather Has Selected for Bookclub

1. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
2. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
3. Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan

Things I'm Left with After a Raucous Bookclub

1. bb-riddled cans in my yard
2. a pair of sunglasses
3. a camera
4. a Saturn

Possible Names for My BB Gun Inspired by Some of My Favorite Female Characters

1. Eliza (Pride and Prejudice)
2. Anya (Roman Holiday)
3. Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird)
4. Amelie (Amelie)
5. Brenda Lee Johnson (The Closer)
6. Sally Albright (When Harry Met Sally)
7. Prudence (Dear Prudence)
8. Madame Michel (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
   

New Artist's Statement - In List Form!

Artist’s Statement:
5 Words That Describe My Artwork
1. Bold
2. Painterly
3. Purposeful
4. Pretty
5. Bittersweet

5 Subjects I Might Paint
1. People I know, from photographs, cropped so that you don’t know that you don’t know them
2. People I don’t know, also from photographs, also cropped so that I don’t know that I don’t know them
3. Places I’ve been
4. People or places that other people ask me to paint, also known as Commissions
5. Food

5 Reasons Why I Paint These Subjects
1. To show relationships through body language, because our heart can convey a feeling through body language that our head might not even be aware of
2. To show places that might spark a feeling of familiarity
3. To show places that might spark a feeling of foreignness
4. Because people ask me to
5. Because food can be pretty, and can spark memories and feelings associated with past events or future longings

What I Carry for Sketching

Clockwise from top left:

• Winsor & Newton travel watercolor kit
• pencil sharpener
• water in an old saline nasal spray bottle
• kneaded eraser
• 4B pencils
• water brushes (I love these)
• pens/markers

This is what I carry now, but I'm thinking about adding a watercolor graphite pencil, or replacing the markers with colored pencils, or getting different pens or something. It's a work in progress.

Things I Will Do When the Weather Cools

1. turn on my oven and bake things
2. wear my lovely trench coat
3. wear my awesome cowboy boots from Spain
4. sweat less
5. shoot my bb gun more

Thoughts on 'Julie &Julia'

1. Could they not have just cut Amy Adams's hair? Hollywood wig technology is not far enough along to rely on a wig through a whole movie.
2. I'm impressed that Meryl Streep acted herself tall.
3. Does a blog really have to be about something? Um, don't answer that.
4. The way the movie handles the fact that Julia Child has no children almost offends me. It was not really an issue in her book (My Life in France). It is as though, because this is a mainstream Hollywood movie, they HAD to address the fact that a 37-year-old woman doesn't have children. Because apparently that's not normal.
5. I promise I don't spend that much time talking about how many people do or don't read my blog. I know you're both out there.
6. They should've either made Julie Powell more lovable or gotten someone else to play her. It felt like it was a struggle for Amy Adams to play someone not lovable.
7. They should've just made a movie of My Life in France.