Colour Your World!

This is a fun one from the booking of faces that I came across this morning. You should do your own and leave a comment here. Will keep a running tab of links to everyone that participates! I love colour!

The questions are:

1. What's the first color you see in the morning?
2. What color are your eyes?
3. What color do you wear the most?
4. What color do you never wear?
5. What color do you wear when you want to feel sexy?
6. What color gets you the most compliments?
7. What color is your lipstick?
8. What color was your living room when you were growing up?
9. What color was your bedroom when you were growing up?
10. What color are your sheets?
11. What color was/were your favorite crayon(s) as a child?
12. What color is your car?
13. What color was your prom dress/tux?
14. What's your favorite gemstone?
15. What is your favorite flower?
16. What color makes you happiest?
17. What color depresses you?
18. What color calms you?
19. What color makes you grind your teeth?
20. What color would you like to try, but are scared to?

And my answers are:

Rabbity Rewind

I am pretty sure this is a repost, I just can't find where I posted it prior.  Thought I would dust it off and let it dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight, especially in light of the passing of yet another 'decade more.'

Another Chapter

thorn crowned

bearing truths and pasts

weighty aspirations

of dreamers

fallen short

a decade more

secure in their blankets

freeing; fleeing

remaining

barbed, branded and broken

escape inevitable

but never coming

phoenix flames

slowly burning to ash

awaiting only

another chapter

© 2010 | M. Coelho Chadwick

"And now for something completely different..."

You have a certain Brit of Bewildermint and his post on Snickers to thank for this one!

My gosh - talk about a blast from the past.

This one REALLY takes me back.

Fanks and Things

Just wanted to officially say "hello" and "welcome" to all the new Followers that have joined us in the last few days.  I went from losing folks to gaining a whole mess of new people - which is super cool.

Also wanted to say many, many, many thank yous to everyone who participated in my 'favourites' project.  I was really suprised at some of the entries that were chosen.  Totally NOT what I expected.  I have the top ten of your favourites compiled and will be posting all of those on a separate site as well as a copy of my play "Queen of the Fuckin' Universe."  and my Ursula kid's book(s).  The first four of the top ten are up already - you can view them by clicking here. The remaining posts and stuff should be up within the next few days (okay, weeks, probably, but I am working on it!!!).

And - if you want to see my latest busy-work as a side project for Missy at Loving my Child's Gifts, have a gander here (test blog project).

Thanks again to all of y'all for making Redhead Dancing™ the success that it is.  I am more grateful that you realize.  You mean the world to me - and my blogs.

I bring nothing to the table lately...

...but this commercial cracks me up!

Irate Wife: You son of a biscuit-eating bulldog!
Husband: What the French, Toast?
Irate Wife: Did you think I wouldn't find out about your little doo-doo head cootie queen?
Mistress: Who are you calling a cootie queen? You lint-licker!
Irate Wife: Pickle you, Kumquat!
Husband: You're overreacting.
Irate Wife: No, Bill...  Overreacting was when I put your convertible into a wood chipper, Stinky McStinkface!
Mistress: You Hoboken.

Gets me every time I see it.  Almost as good as the Bing commercial with the pregnant gall singing Oklahoma!  I think I just woke up the roommate with my laughing!

A Couple More

I did these two for my mom (KaLynn) back in '08.  These were an ADVENTURE - lemme tell ya.  Was meant to be an Xmas gift and I had worked and worked and worked on them - and HATED them.  The night before I was to leave to go to her house I got pissed and emptied ALL the black paint all over the canvases.  Blopped the whole mess out.  Canvases were soggy (and very black) - I had no idea what I was going to do.  I took the jacked up canvases and my art stuff with me and this is what I came up with while babysitting for my sister.  They ended up pretty cool - you can flip flop them several different ways and get a different image (totally unintentional) - plus my nephew Gabriel helped which makes it even cooler.  (Sorry for the crappy quality of the photos.)

These were inspired by the trees in her backyard a month or so prior to the holidays.

Free and Easy

"I am sending you
postcards from a place
where I am not.

We’re not tourists, we’re travelers

A tourist is someone
who thinks about going home
the moment they arrive

whereas a traveler
might not come
back at all."

~ Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

to be a traveler again,

Once upon a time...

Was going through some old files cleaning house and came across some photos of some of my old artwork.  Ironically, I have none of the originals.  My brother - at one point - had the painting - but who knows if he got mad at me and either destroyed or got rid of it.  He's good for that.  I really have no idea where it is now - or what's happened to it.  Heartbreaking, really, because it was one of my all time favourite pieces that I have done.  The other two were simple sketches on some old newsprint - they ended up getting stolen when my house got busted into - so I am sure they are long gone by now.  But anyway...

This one is (was?) called "Childhood."  It came flying at me out of nowhere.  It's hard to see in the photo but all that red is handprints.  Scared my poor roommate to death when I created that one.  She came home to that canvas in the bathtub and red paint EVERYwhere.  It looked like a murder scene.

I must have been listening to Tori when I did these.  The first one says "I've been raisin' up my hands.  Drive another nail in.  Just what God needs:  One more victim."

And the other reads "I've got something to say but nothing comes.  Yes, I know what you think of me.  You never shut up.  Years go by will I still be waiting?  Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here; silent all these years.  My scream got lost in a paper cup."

I really need to start being creative again.  It's been ages since I last actually made something.  A year, maybe...  I think it's time.

Six Words Saturday: Fire it Up!

My nose is still on fire!

Say what?  Go read This Post.

Then go play 6WS at Cate's Show My Face!

Commentery Tit Workage

Getting Blogger to cooperate sometimes is the bane of my existence.  I THINK I finally have the comment problem worked out on this dadgum thing.  Got the icons to finally show up next to the commenter's name (grrr...) and the comments themselves now should be embedded below the actual post instead of that danged pop up window. 

I know here a while back some of you were having problems commenting with the embeds enabled.  If you have any problems with it now/still, give me a shout and let me know.