We walked this morning. Gene really needs to get back to walking after his eye surgery. With Parkinson's the muscles forget how to function. I was going to try my new Sharpie gel pen but forgot the sketchbook. We sat and I sketched on my iPhone. I was hoping it would fit in the Scavenger Hunt from Life. In a stretch it can fit.
For Scavenger Hunt from Life 31
https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-31-july-9-july-17.4187/
#6 neat - it is a pretty neat view, sketched on my iPhone with the app Brushes.
I forgot to take a photo from that spot which was a little to our right behind this spot.
View on our walk back toward our house. Our house is on the left behind the trees.
Our printer adventure:
I spent several hours looking for a printer over a couple of days. I was so excited to find one. Every one I found under $800 was out of stock. Even on the dreaded Amazon. There are several Office Depot stores in Austin and I had to look at the inventory of each store. Any inventory at a store was not available for shipping. At about the third store I found a laser printer/scanner/fax for $399. I hit buy and went to tell Gene we could pick it up next morning. The minute I said that to him I realized I had failed to see if it would work on my computer. Most would work on Gene's. Back to my order. It did show that it would work on Gene's. Whew.
Then, the next day, we went to pick up the new Brother printer in Austin. We met Joanna for lunch at the Chinese Family, it was very good. We left and arrived at Office Depot a few minutes away. I got out and went to get my purse in the back seat and .... no purse! Looked in the back and everywhere. Back to the restaurant which was closed from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and it was now about 3:00 p.m. as we had overstayed our time. All dark inside. Knocked and a gentleman and tiny girl answered. He spoke no English but let me look. No purse.
Back to pick up the printer and would come back to the restaurant at 4:30 p.m. to see if the waitress had put it someplace. No problem at Office Depot, a young man loaded the printer in the back. It weighs about 50 pounds, double the old inkjet printer. So what to do. Jerry's Artarama is just across the street. Gene could sit inside and I could shop, we had about an hour to wait. Of course I found something to buy. Spent about $75 on "stuff".
Some pastel paper, new travel size sketchbook, a pink and yellow watercolor paint and the above mentioned gel pen. I wanted a new Canson Mix Media sketchbook but they didn't have any, will try this one. Paper feels nice but may not take any heavy watercolor.
I've been wanting to get a new "pink" watercolor. I found this Opera Rose, Winsor Newton, we shall see. The other brands that had a good selection were so expensive and I'm not a watercolorist to spend a lot on that. I was also out of a light yellow. There was a brand called Turner which was reasonable so got that.
We left Jerry's about 4:15 p.m. As I got in the drivers seat what do I see? My purse was on the floor. The light was just right to see the black purse on the black floor. I don't usually put my purse there because it could slip under the brake or something and cause me to have a wreck. But .... there it was. I never even considered looking there!!
We got home and I set up the printer/scanner yesterday. A bit of a learning curve for the scanner but it works with my old computer! Yay! It is very fast. Special printings will be one page at a time but... I was so afraid I wouldn't find a printer that would work with my old iMac.
All is well in my art studio world!
6 comments:
Glad you found a printer that will work and your purse too! I lost my charge card last week. Used it to charge dinner on the 4th of July evening and the next day it wasn't in my wallet. Called the restaurant...no luck. Searched everywhere...no luck. Checked to make sure no charges were made against it and kept searching and called the restaurant a few more times. Had to replace it! I hate that. Now I have to contact everything that does automatic charges to my card.
Thanks, Joan. That is so aggravating to have to get a new card. We had it happen 2 or 3 times last year. We didn't lose it but had fraudulent charges made. I don't know how they do that.
I want a laser printer since it would save time on having to ink stuff for markers, even a black and white one would work. just dont have the space. glad you found your purse in the end 😀
Jennifer Rose, Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. The Brother printer doesn't seem to be any larger on the table top space, just taller. The scanner part is actually a bit smaller than my old Canson. It is very nice for printing. Still getting used to the software on the scanner. Old dogs, etc.
I hate buying printers. I have yet to get my new little laptop to work with our printer. Ugh! Losing my purse always gives me that awful feeing deep in my belly. Glad you found yours! You have a Jerry's in Austin!? Cool! I ordered some new pastels from Dakota. When I told Toby how much I spent, he looked horrified. Made me feel bad, but it was my art money. And I do think I need them. He felt bad for making me feel bad - said it was really okay.
bag blog, printers are crazy. They use so much ink. Joanna tells me I won't have to add toner for a very long time. I am excited about that. Every time I used the inkjet printer I had to put in a cartridge of something. It wouldn't print, even in black, if it didn't have all the colors. So far so good on this one. Maybe I will try printing a color card over the weekend to compare.
New pastels...nice. I got the Schminkes. Toby is like Gene, moans and groans and then says to get what I want. Great supporters of our art. They both need hugs and thanks for being so good about all of it.
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