If it's a severed head, I'll be very upset.

my joints are shot already…after only a year of serious running. My knees, shins, ankles…they all ache all the time! LAME-O!! i even went to Marathon Sports and they did a great job recommending the perfect running shoe for me. I think 30 miles a week is just too much for my body to take! – Sagel Friendsmith

Somerville Open Studios went really well! We had a steady stream of visitors…more on Sunday than Saturday, most likely because it was sunnier. I got to see a lot of people I don’t get to see very often, which was nice. And now I can proudly say Sagel Friendsmith is a sold artist! When all was said and done, I sold 7 paintings….5 on the spot and then my great aunt Janet commissioned me to make 2 more – the seahorse and the little gecko (the gecko is gonna be larger). It’s cool to think that my original artwork is going to be hanging in other people’s houses! I went into the weekend with 12 paintings completed (I technically had 13 but I only showed 12 because the last one was a stupid daisy and it ended up coming out kind of cheesy), and I returned home with only 3. I traded my mom 4 paintings (3 flowers and the gecko) for her amazing “Dogwood” wall hanging. It’s a lovely piece of weathered wood embellished with rusty, lacy-looking flat pieces of metal and beautiful pink dogwood flowers. I immediately came home and hung it on my living room wall. I hung two of my remaining paintings on the bathroom wall and one in the kitchen.

It’s fun to hang lots of original art on my apartment walls. I have lots and lots of original art in my apartment – several small assembleages and dioramas my mom made, 4 original photos my mom took in Bolivia, my mom’s beautiful Dogwood piece, 3 of my own little paintings, 2 decoupaged chairs my mom made, and 3 great black and white photos my mom took on her hippie travels in the 70s. As I get older, I appreciate original artwork more and more. I think I’m going to start taking art classes at either MassArt or UMass Boston in either the summer or this fall. I can’t wait to learn all sorts of tricks of the trade! So far, anything I know about painting I’ve pretty much taught myself.

That’s it for now.

I’m participating in an art show next weekend! I’ll be showing my charming little paintings that I’ve made. My mom, sister, and 3 of my aunts are also showing their art! I feel so blessed to come from such a wonderfully creative family. Call me Sagel Picasso!

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