Pretty Window: or, My Wife the Fantastic and Meticulous Artist

We are in the middle of an Art Project here. KR is in charge of making the artwork, while the kids and I are in charge of Staying Out Of Mommy's Way. We're also working on keeping the house in something less than total chaos without the mommy to help much.

She's working on a paper mosaic window.

Let me elaborate on that. It all begins at city hall. The city hall here is the former post office, one of those 3-story brick edifices from the early 20th century. Quite a handsome building, really. It leads a shadowy second life as an art gallery, at least in its hallways, under the auspices of town arts commission. The third floor was recently remodelled and instead of dumping all the old windows they sold them as a fundraiser for $40 each to anyone who wanted them.

Why buy an old window, I hear you asking? So you can turn it into an objet d'art and display it in the upcoming art show in the aforementioned art gallery in the current city hall and erstwhile post office.

KR has spent many the hour over the last month painstakingly cutting out bits of colored tissue paper and gluing them down to the window. It's been fun to watch. She made a cartoon first – you know what a cartoon is, don't you? – to lay under the glass, and has been consuming paper and X-acto knives at a terrific rate. There are also bits of colored thread and bitsy little glass beads for texture. The windows are due tomorrow, and the show opens Friday 26th. KR's piece is quite stunning. I'll get a picture up shortly.

Meanwhile our kitchen faucet has turned leaky in a pesky way. The cheap-a## faucet installed by the previous owners ("it's only a rental", garrrr) wasn't up to the mechanical strains of a portable dishwasher hookup, so now it leaks a bucketful each time we run the dishwasher. Saturday the kids and I did an expedition to Lewiston (The city without a nose) (How does it smell? Horrible!) and picked up a very nice new kitchen faucet from Home Depot, and also Stayed Out Of Mommy's Way.

This evening I sang with Mac & Janice, and the kidlings tagged along. We killed two birds with one stone there, since in addition to singing and playing we Stayed Out Of Mommy's Way. Trillium (Mac & Janice & I) should be doing a gig soon. I'll keep ya' posted.