A Spendthrift Weekend

It is Sunday night and I am in a reflective mood, having spent an incredibly thrifty weekend. No money has been (frivolously) spent, because the Ladybug is held by dad in the luxury if the Rents' garage for observation. Dad is trying to figure out the reason for Ladybugs finicky ways. As such, I was delivered back to Fancytown by mom on Saturday morning, and after a stop at WholeFoods. No Ladybug=no going anywhere to spend money or worse. Once home, I saw All Good Things (excellent movie) and then tried to find my missing shows on other channels. (failed. Thanks, Oprah)
Today, was quite creative:
First, I made up a new vegan dish for lunch and LUV it!
A thai tomato & tempeh salad. Delish! The tempeh needs to be sautéed with any oil other than veg, bc the EVOO made the fire alarm go off. Here is the result, complete stuffiness under 500cKal:


The tempeh is from vegan section at WholeFoods.

Then, I made a nice fire in the living room and went through spring fashion mags for tomorrows meeting. I ended up spending all day here, and, inspired by some of the photography, I started messing around in the sketchbook, trying to come up with some compos for paintings. This was a warm-up from looking at some new Donna Karan ads:



Next, obsessed by all the mascara ads, I practiced some eyes and lips. I got so involved with the features that I ended up with a long horse face, lol!


And then, finally, eventually, she came to me. That's the one. This will be the next painting:



Not having the Ladybug around is great for my wallet...
I finished all my reading about Parrot Babies and have come to the conclusion that this is not the year for a fine feathered friend to enter my life :(
But now I know what I'd like to be when I grow up: a rich, eccentric painter (very skinny), running around the studio splashing paints with abandon while my parrot screams at me!

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