New Paint

Today we went out, since it was so hot and sticky and boring sitting around the house all day, and looked for a couple of letterboxes. We found the first in a pretty park overlooking the Mississippi river and Buffalo Bill Cody's childhood home site. It would have been a very nice place for a picnic; cross that out, it is a good place for a picnic, just not on a hot, sticky, buggish day like this was. Then we looked for another one at a welcome center, but it was no-where to be found. The instructions said that it was "under the porch behind the lattice on the south-west corner of the porch. The instructions lied.
Afterwards I tried to convince Mom to take us to the courthouse in the county I was born in (wouldn't you love to know where it is!) so we could get my birth certificate so that next time we're in C______ I can take the test and get my permit. She didn't want to go there, so who knows when I'll actually get my driver's permit! Instead, we went to an office products store and I got fiver new colors of paint. The store is more of an art supply place than an office supplier, but that's what they call it. Anywho, I got Winsor & Newton's Cotman Water Colours in Burnt Umber (my last tube has some sort of mold or something in it and leaves little black flecks in the paint), Lamp Black, Cobalt Blue (my tube of that is also diseased), Prussian Blue, and Permanent Rose. At least four, if not all five, of those colors are to be used in my butterfly project. I'll leave y'all to figure out which ones. Mom was quite shocked at the expense of paint. Just those five little .27 ounce tubes cost just over $18! No wonder you hear about 'starving artists'! It's not because they can't sell their art, it's because they have to spend so much of the proceeds on buying more paint! And that also explains why good paintings are soooo expensive.
Actually, after I finish my butterflies, I might fix up some Christmas card ideas I have and find a way to sell cards. Last year I designed and painted our family Christmas card.
Today we went to Hobby Lobby so Mom could look at pictures to possibly put in the kitchen. I browsed through some of the posters they have, and have designed a room around them. It's to have a sand colored floor (or maybe actual sand poured on there, although that would be really hard on the wood) and a beach-themed mural (painted by Yours Truly, Moi) on one wall. The other three will be light brown, or better yet, bamboo painted on! The windows will have light, billowy white curtains and shades that, when pulled down, show water and sky and possibly another of those huts that you see in commercials for the Bahamas. And last, but not least, the bamboo walls will have the pictures hung on them. Pictures of beaches and beach chairs and surfers. Paintings of palm trees and sailboats. *long sigh* Once I get a chance to use my oil paints I'll try a palm tree or two.
Sorry for the long fantasy, it just looks so nice in my mind. It would be really cool if I could actually do that.
"Anything else?" She asks Herself.
"Not that I can think of. Can you think of anything else?" Herself asks She.
She replies with "Nope!"
"Then we're done here. See y'all later!" Herself finishes.
I'll write again later, after I've gotten at least one of the three butterflies finished. See ya later!
~Kiwifruit