A title decision and blowing my own horn

One of the most inexplicable things about creating pieces of art is how the pieces get their names.

Sometimes the title is pretty obvious from the start --- like Coneflower, or Back Yard Fence, but this year's Hoffman was not one of those.

For one thing, I was very deliberately trying to create a piece that looked like a still life painting, but the titles I had come up with left me flat.

Yesterday afternoon I was talking to my daughter and telling her that I'm thinking about using some of the left over roses from that piece to create a second "still life" --- one that would include a loaf of bread and one of the roses and something else (I'm not sure what yet) --- because I kept thinking about something my grandmother would say "if you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy flowers to feed your soul"

At that point in the conversation my daughter said "well there's your title" ---

Today I'll be creating the label with the title "...to feed your soul" --- as usual my daughter cuts through the fog and helps me find the obvious

if you've been reading here for more than a day or so, you probably know that I make (at try to sell) bead embroidered pieces.

 I'm part of a Bead Embroidery Guild on Etsy, and our "blog master" has been doing a feature of the group's members on a rotating basis.

This morning I got the email telling me it's my turn --- cool --- (weird) --- I'd forgotten what I'd written (oh DUH!) If you'd like to take a look you can find it here

It's supposed to be HOT here today, so as I write this at 9:30 am, I have already been out and mowed the front yard --- which means I will be spending most of the rest of the day indoors doing other things --- like rearranging the family room so we can have the little portable swampy cooler running --- but I hope to get a lot of work done in the studio too

time for some breakfast!