Embracing Randomness

So I got this comment yesterday

or maybe the day before....

Its a good chuckle to read your blog, you come across fairly randomly at times! I do love your art though, it's always so fresh looking.

Now my immediate reaction was.... I'm not random

not even sometimes

I had a bit of a laugh and moved on

this lady has a great blog which I enjoy

and don't get me wrong

I wasn't offended or anything....

just kind of puzzled

especially as I thought I had played the post pretty straight

no talk of snarts or anything...

then while finishing off my painting for the 2012 Colour Challenge

and Paint Party Friday this morning

I started to stop and think about it a bit more

and started to assess some of the things that had popped into my head

in the last day 

So I have thought about the guy who hosts that show Dirty Jobs

is oddly attractive...

got to be the deep voice and laconic kind of charm....

even at 5.30 am 

which is relevant because it is usually on the TV 

when I stumble down the stairs on school days

stumble while muttering incoherently might be a more accurate description

but I start most school days with sound of his voice

describing some thing completely disgusting

very weird but he is rather compelling....

I had wondered what people who design buttons

have as topics at conferences

or do they have conferences????

and do they hate zipper people?????

Not quite sure where that one came from 

but kept my mind busy while putting on the washing

mind you came to no conclusions

button designers remain a mystery

Another was

Why don't people call their kids Gustav anymore

now I can understand not calling a girl Gustav

but kind of a cool name for a boy...

where that one came from is easy as Madame Bovary

is sitting on my desk as part of my painting...

It is a kinda cool name though isn't it....

Another thought was

Does Johnson's baby powder smell different in different countries

because Cadbury's chocolate from the UK tastes different 

from how it tastes here

or from South Africa

and yes I have tried them all...

so if they are the same product but different

does that mean baby powder smells different

so do babies smell different?

Now I used to live in Florida but for the life of me

I couldn't remember if baby powder smells different...

This one kept me thinking all through painting the teapot

So my conclusion from that scary little review of my brain is that

I am indeed fairly random at times

I did think I kept it mostly in my head,

but perhaps it leaks out

and seeing as my word for the year is 

embrace

I am going with it

and am now proudly sharing my randomness

Now you may have guessed that the colour for the colour challenge was

Orange, and no I didn't read the rules completely

and see you aren't supposed to use other colours outside of that spectrum

but I am going to pretend the paper had bits of blue and green 

embedded in it 

just where I wanted it...

I am such a rule breaker aren't I....

Luckily I haven't broken any rules

set by Kristin and Eva over at Paint Party Friday

at least I don't think I have

and I think I am pretty sure I am cool for 

Paint and Palette 

off to make a cup of tea

and consider why when we have so many products

from other countries

one of them isn't Bounce Drier sheets

love the smell of those things...