Seasonal Balls

Nothing says Christmas like seasonal balls I always say. And since I just had my annual holiday studio event, I thought it appropriate to offer up this cheery set of colourful rotundities.
It was a lovely affair in the studio, with many paintings finding homes and almost all of the snacks also finding corporeal domiciles.

The remaining new works have been posted to my website. Go here for small works, and there for the larger ones.

Too Little Too Late

According to Carlotta C. Greer, author of Your Home and You, a 730 page homeconomics tome published in 1955, "A quart (of cow's milk) a day, either as a drink or in foods, may help send a girl on the road to popularity". p. 52

This news comes tragically late for me, a recently committed vegetarian with strong vegan leanings. I can only hope that all my years of drinking milk will stand me in good stead in the popularity department, as I soldier on in the social trenches without benefit of bovine assisted esteem.

Camels File Class Action Libel Suit

This is from a 1947 book on women's posture called Your Carriage Madam (John Wiley and Sons, New York).

"If you've been sitting in a very low seat or on the floor, don't get up like a camel, hind end first. It's hard work and it's unbecoming - even to the camel."

Really.