yes
its still insanely cold
yes
i know its winter
knowing its winter
does not
in anyway
relieve
the cold
that makes
my nose run
my eyes tear
my ears ache
i hate hats
actually
i love hats
on
other people
other people
or
in shops
i love the concept of a hat
i buy hats
rarely do i wear them
this week
i wore a hat
every
day
hat hair
hat head
was
the result
flattened
was the look
was the look
somewhere
i have ear muffs
somewhere
now i am hearing
'there's a place for us ... '
sigh
when i was last in Cincinnati
my friends
Mary, Phil and i
had a lovely lunch
this photo was taken in October 2011
with
the divine Ms Alice Balterman and her daughter, Meg
Alice is 92 and going strong
an incredible artist
i am lucky enough to own several of her pieces
she made this one especially for me
at the time
i also got another of her decoupage mirrors
after weeks
of forgetting
to bring it to the framer
last weekend
i finally brought it in
its a simple thing
they put
two screws and a wire
across the mirror side
i hang them on the wall like this
framer asked
can you come back in half an hour?
no, but i will come by tomorrow
of course
Sunday
i forgot
Monday
they called
long story short
they made a 'mistake'
they put the screws and wire
on
the
front
i was so upset
i was so upset
but
i only dropped the f-bomb once
i said
i cannot fucking believe this
no
i did
not
apologize
we agreed they would try to fix it
i would come by on Saturday
to see what it looked like
when i got there
a full almost week later
they had removed only
the screws
the holes
remained
not
only
did they put
the holes and wire
over
across
the
art
they did it
vertically
a good thing!
a good thing?
yes
it was supposed
to be
horizontal
like
the center mirror
in that photo up there
so
while
there are two large holes
they do not actually affect the art
the framer said
they can fill in the holes
they have an art restorer
who will match the paint
i am less insanely upset now
but
just slightly
GAH
What beautiful pieces of art!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the holes though.
As for hats - I can't survive without mine and have made peace with my winter hat hair.
Gah!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your crisp writing. . . . and you look great these days. Winter, yeah, Don't miss it this year - pictures on blogs are enough for me!
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I'm so with you on hats. I love them too and own quite a few but hate what they do to my hair! ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely art and what a bunch of boobs to
ReplyDeletemess it up... I would have let more than one
expletive 'slip'....
I wouldn't know about winter weather....
75° and in the 80's tomorrow.....
I love hats. I am the only guy in downtown Tulsa who wears a broad brimmed (not a cowboy) hat out and about at lunch. My family tends to skin cancer so its just a little extra shade. I left it somewhere and now have to go get another.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe they messed up the mirror! Go gettem.
WTH!! How could they do such a stupid thing? GAH is right!
ReplyDeleteI have decided that I will just live with hat head on chilly days. Since I wear a helmet when I ride my horse, I often end up with helmet hair and that is much worse.
Oh my! A piece of art with holes and wire on the art side??? The worker obviously didn't "get" the art. (Our youngest son did his own version of Picasso's "Old Guitarist" ....in pastels...while in high school. When we had it framed, the framer attached the wire on the back so the image was horizontal instead of vertical.)
ReplyDelete:-( on the holes. Hope they get them fixed for you.
ReplyDeleteI am not a fan of hats either, but like you, I wore one every day this week. I do know where my ear muffs are, but it was so cold that I needed more covered than just my ears.
Slightly better here today, and 50s by Wed., then back into the deep freeze, so they say.
terribly frustrating that the framer couldn't follow a few simple instructions!
ReplyDeleteI would have been upset too...hope they can repair the mirror . The box is so very special, just love the treatment.
Cold here too, I make hats and give them away but look ridiculous in one. I'm sure you are just beautiful in a hat!
I love this rambling post. You always look fabulous in pictures. Lucky you...I look goofy.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry about your messed up art. Those guys might be art framers, but they certainly don't have an artist's eye or they would have known they were making a huge mistake. Hopefully, you won't be able to see their mistake once the restorer is done.
Sounds to me like you've handled the weather and the workmen rather well. I too have hat, well raincoat hood, hair most of the winter here in Portland, Oregon. I cannot imagine where I left my earmuffs, but it rains so often that I just have to put that hood up and squash my hair. As I commented on my own photo on Facebook the other day, one that was taken by a stranger as I looked into the mirror in the women's restroom before a Portland Trail Blazers basketball game so that I could show off my new Twisted Car Club T-shirt front and back, "Thank goodness I don't sit behind me!"
ReplyDeleteDaryl, Oh my, what a pain in the keister that is! I feel a rant coming on. Breath deep Better. Anyway, seems like people have forgotten how to do a good proper job. Oops almost got away from me.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, hope your repairs come out fine.
I like hats too! But I hate ball caps. I hate people that wear them backwards, I hate people that don't have the manners to take them off indoors, especially a restaurant or something like that, and don't take them off when talking to other people, especially ladies! Ah Geez, it's getting away from me again.
Anyway, (I like that word today!) hope your Sunday was great and that you stayed warm.
My NYC friend here is traveling to a wedding in a week in the Big Apple. She said she knew it was going to be COLD. I was complaining about just-below-freezing here. I love those mirrors, and oh, the woes of wrong wiring. I gave one of my photos to be framed once, roses, and they put the hook on the wrong end. They thought that's the way the roses were...but they weren't.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you didn't hurt them. I was a little worried.
ReplyDeleteYou only dropped the "F" bomb ONCE??? I'm impressed! SERIOUSLY!???!! WTH! (and btw, the art is fanTAStic!!)
ReplyDeleteWhat a couple of babes!
ReplyDeleteyou are much less generous on the f-bombs than i would have been.
ReplyDeleteamazing art.
we are buddies on two counts:
i buy hats and don't wear them (unless i'm engaging-in-sport).
i am not completely well from a lingering cold-that-will-not-depart.
Those are beautiful mirrors!
ReplyDeleteWhy in the world are some things so hard to accomplish? Whenever something like this happens to me, I wonder what is going through the heads of people out there...are they not listening, not paying attention, can they read directions, can they think logically? And then I blame myself for not standing over them, directing their every move, so they get it right. Very frustrating! One of my goals....to learn more about framing, mat cutting. I want to know why these people are paid so much! And that is a fabulous photo of you and the artist!
i feel the same about hats. as for the mirror, i can fully understand why you dropped an f-bomb. gees, the height of stupid! so glad it's not as bad as originally thought and it can be fixed.
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely picture of you and your friend.
ReplyDeleteThey do look good hanging in this formation Daryl, maybe it was meant to be...minus the holes!! They are beautiful works of art indeed.
ReplyDeletei am a failed hat wearer myself.....i just can't do it :(
ReplyDeleteI think it is even harder to wear any kind of hat when you have short hair...I love hats but look like I'm undergoing chemo if I wear them...so I usually just wear those headband things to keep my ears warm. Still have hat hair though so how do I do that?
ReplyDeleteLove those mirrors! I never would have thought of hanging them up like that!
I can read this without weeping because I know it has a good ending.
ReplyDeleteI had to come back and see the original post (I miss so many these days! Just can't keep up!) I can't believe they screwed it up like that but I'm glad it's fixed and on your wall. They're beautiful, and even more so now that I see where they come from!
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