Tuesday Technique'N: Go on An Artists' Date - The Real Thing

The Plan:

The Place:  Grand Lux Cafe, Scottsdale, AZ

The Time:  3 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon

The Artists:  eb bunsen and yours truly

The Purpose:  our first personal meeting, tea, and journaling

eb's choice.

I selected Egyptian Chamomile tea.

I also ordered the creme brulee duo,

inspired by a light fixture

directly overhead.

eb's idea of 'helping me'

with the dessert

was to take

One Single Forkful

out of each.

Harrumpph.

Our poor waitress,

Tereshia,

had to come back several times

to actually obtain our order.

eb was teaching me

how to do a photo transfer,

dontcha know.

Priorities!

The wooden spoon?

A critical technique tool.

The lemons?

Picturesque, of course!

We both whipped out our cameras

at the same time,

then collapsed in laughter!

eb said, 'You are SO a woman after my own heart!'

I said, 'Get your shadow outta my picture!'

(no, I didn't really!)

We asked when we came in

if we could take photos.

Yes.

But when we did,

on our way out,

the General Manager

hurried over to say,

'Not allowed, actually!'

[What is UP with that, anyway?]

I'm thinking of creating a

piece of mail art & sending it to him,

so he can see how harmless

we journaling nuts really are

with our photos --

we're not stealing ideas for our own cafe,

really, we're not. 

We just want commemorative

& GORGEOUS

photos for our journal pages,

Dude.

The Result:

*  Discovery of a like-minded soul friend

(one who actually thought me 'mellow',

not to mention 'in my late 30s' - woot! -

I had to say,

"No, Dearest,

I'm hip to the hot flash syndrome myself!")

* A Creme Brulee sugar rush that carried

me through to bedtime!

(Yes, I finished them both, okayuh?!)

* photo transfers that finally transfer

(except now my printer stopped working!!)

*  The realization of how lonely I've been,

working in solitude as I do,

& how incredible it is

to emerge,

to connect,

to 'talk journal'

(& specifically:  JOURNAL)

with someone else who entirely 'gets it',

to put the journal, finally, aside

because the dialogue is so

dimensional,

hilarious,

intelligent,

opening,

to See,

& Be Seen!

Our Advice:

Make it,

at minimum,

an Annual Event!!

We are.