Helpful Hint

Today's Helpful Hint
is brought to you by Binky

and the helpful real people at 

Green Geeks!

www.darlenegraeser.com

If you can't see Darlene's New Website

Clear Your Cache

Clear My WHAT?

Clear your Cache!

While looking at the page, hold down the shift key and hit the refresh button for your browser

The new improved art website will magically appear!

It's magically delicious!

Any suggestions?

Any typos?

I'm eager to know!!!

Also - do you like the new look of my blog?
Send me the adjective you think best describes this look!
sleek
black
sexy
fabulous
ugly
go-back to the template you were using before
(ok that last one is not an adjective, but it definitely tells me what you think!)

I'll post the best adjectives sent to me on tomorrow's blog!

Remember - Gemini Girls are on sale this week

If you have a particular poster you want to go on sale next week, send me an email and I will make it happen!  Check out our poster page - find your fave and email me!

A Joint Effort of the 

Gemini Girls!

Today we launched the new

Darlene Graeser

Art Website
www.darlenegraeser.com

This site differs from www.unconsciousoncanvas.com

It displays all the artwork of Darlene Graeser,
not just items for sale.  

Visit her canvas paintings page to view all of her original canvas artwork
All artwork is arranged by themes

Visit her page mosaics page,
See the abundance of places and items Darlene has tiled

Visit her home design, furniture and jewelry pages
See the plethora of artwork that can only be described as uniquely Darlene

Darlene and I are both Gemini

In honor of the rolling out of this new, updated, and very much improved format for the artwork that is Darlene Graeser, I'm putting the Gemini giclee on sale all week.

I truly would love comments, feedback, and notification of any typos on that website please!

Thank you!!!

Enjoy!

Toodles,
Binky!

It's My BIRTHDAY!

I love this poster

I love to quilt

I am the brunette.

I quilt with a blond friend of mine.

This poster was created well before I knew Darlene

She just knew someday I would be in her life

Celebrate My Birthday!!!!

Buy this limited edition poster!

And leave a comment for me - even if it is just to wish me a 

Happy Birthday

Toodles,

Binky

Dear Body

If I were to write a letter to my body there are parts I would definitely mention.

My body, any body, actually, is amazing - all those parts working together on the micro- and macro level - as a biochemist, I truly appreciate the complex inner workings of the body.

 

even if there are parts of mine that I am not particularly fond of.

Today, someone complimented me on my calves.

My calves?  Really?

Of all the parts I like and don't like - calves don't ever make the list

Never thought about them.

They definitely do a good job at whatever it is they are supposed to do.

I'm not a great runner, actually, I'm not a runner at all.

Oh, I go on the treadmill at the ungodly hour of 5am four days a week

And my calves are with me on that treadmill,

doing what they do

But they are neither pretty nor ugly.

 

They just are.

Now, if I received a compliment on my hair, or my stomach, or my hips, or my fingernails, or any other body part I actually have an opinion about, that would make sense.

But my calves???

OK Calves - Today is your lucky day - someone noticed you!

Enjoy!

 

and check out the Dear Body T-Shirt On Sale Today at Unconscious on Canvas

Toodles,

Binky

SAFE!

Do you feel safe?

Sometimes I feel more safe than others

Last Monday when my gardener knocked at my door, I was talking on the phone with my mom

I felt pretty safe...

until I saw what was dangling at the end of the gardener's rake

A RATTLESNAKE!

He proceeded to inform me he had just killed it by my front door.

Did I mention it was MY FRONT DOOR??

A RATTLESNAKE!

Calm down, don't let my mom know.  

My mother hates snakes, even the rubbery ones from in the toy section

Too late!

I forgot I was on the phone with my mom when I answered the door.

Sigh.

But LOVE should always feel safe

Too many people do not know that

Or choose to ignore that

Or abuse that

Feel Safe
and check out today's Deal of the Day, Darlene's SAFE poster!

Comments, as always, more than welcome!

Toodles,

Binky

Evening Prayer

One of my very best friends gave me a fabulous visual

to think about

When someone is being verbally mean

especially if they are doing so in a very passive-aggressive way

it feels like they are shooting arrows straight at you

But, you do not have to catch those arrows

You can watch those arrows drop to your feet

You do not have to pick them up

And G-d is by your side

watching the arrows fall

Congratulating you on not picking them up

And feeling sorry for the person shooting them

What do you think of that?

How do you handle the verbal barbs of passive aggressive people?

As always, comments (but not passive aggressive ones) are welcome.

Toodles,

Binky

Happy Birthday

Napman

Binky wishes Napman a glorious 70th Birthday!

May all your days be like the best nap ever!

Napman Sleeps

Napman Dreams

Napman's Teeth

Are Always Clean

Napman likes

To take a snooze

Napman's naps

He'll never lose

Napman sleeps

Napman snores

Napman's naps

 Can now be yours

Check out Napman

on his bed

Check out Napman

on the web

Cinderella's Challenge

 

Tirelessly working

 

Grateful to feel needed and wanted

 

But, when was the last time you didn't feel at least a little bit tired?

 

Just a quick musing today - must get back to work

 

 

Binky

 

I Really Hate Balloons!

 

I love science.  

I have a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

I REALLY love science!

The other day was the Science Fair at my son's Elementary School

It was all fun and games until someone popped a balloon.

I no longer wanted to be there.

 

It's not even the actual POP as much as the ANTICIPATION of the POP!

 

I agonize over that sound.

 

I really agonize over the rubbery, squeaky, fingertip jittery scraping 

caused by those little fat kid fingers skipping themselves over the blown-up balloon, 

thinking nothing is going to happen

But something does happen.

It always happens.

It POPS!

 

Some Science Fair experiment involved blowing up balloons 

with the sublimation gas produced by dry ice at room temperature.

Kids ran amok with these dry-ice gas blown up balloons.

Over the course of 30 minutes, 3 balloons popped.

My son's experiment involved milk.

I don't like milk either, but at least it was silent.

Enjoy Accessorize - it's On Sale For Two Days!

 

 

 

The Guest

Fine Art Giclee Print

by Darlene M. Graeser

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after 3 days",
Benjamin Franklin

Do you know someone who smells like a fish the minute they walk in your door?

I'd love to hear your favorite "fishy guest" stories!

Here's my favorite fishy-guest story:

I've had guests over who have broken items in my house without apologizing.

I've had guests come to my house and yell and me.

I've even had guests who were over an hour late to dinner, 

but sent a subset of their younger kids on time who innocently informed us that their parents and other siblings were going to be late because they did not want to come and were trying to figure out a way to get out of coming!

 

All True Stories! 

Tell Me Yours!!!