tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69018636707503561682024-03-13T05:45:59.332-07:00Mary Quite Contrarymary quite contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901863670750356168.post-15544287973608271532009-12-22T11:11:00.000-08:002009-12-23T00:29:16.862-08:00My Great Adventure last SummerMy plan was set to go to Symbiosis.... well, it turned into the whole late summer and fall on the road.<br />
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The antique 80's Airstream was finally ready for the road after much stress, part replacement and repair and off Johnny and I went. After a sidestep in San Antonio get the generator fixed, we were completely off the grid. We have holding tanks for water, gas for the kitchen and heat, and had packed up everything we own. Everything was DIY from that point on....fab!<br />
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Every night we pressed on, finding the next campground or wallyworld to rest at, hotel parkinglots for wifi, and rest stops to stretch. After many harrowing electrical problems that are common in older Rvs such as having the dash and running lights go out in the middle of the night and blowing random fuses and breakers by just flipping a switch, we got rather good and expecting the next days' delay We were both crawling around underneath inspecting wiring and fixing things with paperclips and rubber bands, literally! Thankfully there was only one major disaster that left us on the side of the road for a few hours until Good Sam could help us, but fortunately it just came down to reattaching a lead to the gas pump that had wiggled off one of the batteries. I was kicking myself that i didn't diagnose it myself. We drove over 4000 miles with only one harrowing "side of the road moment"...that's pretty good i think. I'm so proud that by this point I know that 454 engine inside and out.<br />
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Of course life in a 30 foot aluminum tube can be very weary, there was always something to do of pressing urgency every day to keep us going, as well as keeping the tanked filled @ only 10 mpg. I'm surprised, as many who know us, that Johnny and I didn't kill each other. I would still say to anyone given the opportunity to jump into an old clunker and drive! The Airstream directed our path for us. She told us when to stop and rest and when to press thru the scorching desert in the dead of the night. She told me to drive 10mph down the really steep grades and when to downshift and pray we would make it up the other side without overheating. She basically guided the whole experience and never let us down. Yes, we were just along for the ride<br />
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Basically we traveled west and up to Yosemite for Symbiosis (that was quite a grand experience!) and on to San Francisco for some work. Then on a whim, we found ourselves with 2 weeks to spare to get into LA for more work Johnny had lined up. The SF shopping killed me, of course too much oogling was done @ 5&Diamond and other shops, & we left with big bags of goodies. I had always wanted to drive the whole coastline of Hwy 1, but wondered if this old airstream would make it thru the steep mountains and hairpin curves. But after a few days on the beach in Santa Cruz we just had to try it... It was nothing a little more break fluid couldn't fix!<br />
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But we did it! We found amazing little alcoves high on a cliff to stay the night at...some very special places, we met beautiful people and pacific seals, had picnics @ Big Sur, & went to the Hurst Mansion due to my obsession with the 1920's. We emerged out of the high mountains to awake to dolphins playing with the surfers, as we had camped right on the beach. It was so hard to drag me away from there. I think it was called Rincon beach and we happened upon it by accident. Honestly that secret hideyhole is the reason i wanted an rv in the first place....completely magical.<br />
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After farting around in LA i just had to go to Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village..She is my fairey godmother you know. We almost jumped the gate to see inside, as her compound had been fenced off and crumbling due to earthquakes but resided to make her something pretty of flowers, candles and some of my own bottles to leave her... and pray for artistic perseverance & blessings. Check out an amazing documentary about her on the equally amazing <a href="http://www.folkstreams.net/film,102" target="_blank">Folkstream</a><br />
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Again another mechanical delay happened outside LA and we stayed at the most white trash ie. cheap RV park to fix it. What an experience, the master cylinder of the brakes was leaking due to all the mountain climbing, and after 2 or 3 tries and about a week or so, we had it fixed. Johnny and I were covered in brake fluid everyday and had forgotten all about Halloween. The Enchanted Forest in Austin was gearing up for their exciting halloween event and i wished i could have been with my family there, but we ended up @ the trailer park bar and somehow won 2nd place in a costume contest...it was a blast.<br />
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The cold weather was calling and we needed to get settled into our future in Santa Fe before the snow, so we headed back east. I have always wanted to live in Santa Fe, so our trip was ending...at least until the spring. All along we were never in a hurry and stopped at so many interesting places every day, the lifestyle was just kicking in. And after so many repairs the airstream was running at her very best. But it's so nice to be warm and cuddly in an adobe casita with my own bathroom, room to stretch and sprawl, but most importantly the bubblebaths. While snowed in, i'm dreaming again to get on the road and the beautiful springtime.<br />
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</a><br /></div>mary quite contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901863670750356168.post-10532372626626507452009-06-01T23:11:00.000-07:002009-12-09T17:12:27.924-08:00kiss them for me.....for I may be delayed. words go here...i'm off on my adventure west....this is what i'm leaving behind ...here's some of the stuff i made @ the Forest, and other things as well<br />
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</div>mary quite contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901863670750356168.post-60393428780012056742009-05-30T23:11:00.000-07:002009-12-09T16:32:40.416-08:00Stevielets just say, "I still dont wanna talk about it"....someday i'll replace these words with....whatever.<br />
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</div>mary quite contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901863670750356168.post-6997330652714298952009-05-05T23:11:00.001-07:002009-12-09T16:33:40.085-08:00Birthday SwanningI had the most wonderful 30 something birthday ever! On the 4th, Shelly, Brandon, Emaree, Yuvall and Johnny and I went and rented swan boats on town lake with a picnic....it was magical. Plastic cups of wine and pastries went to my head and the most perfect calm came over me. I felt sure of myself and the past obstacles of the last few years melted away with the warm spring day. They say people born in the springtime suffer more, but on this day it all went away. I had my new lappy, and more importunately a new independence in an recent acquisition of an Airstream motorhome....so much to look forward to.<br />
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Well anyway, we had a blast. Brandon rode his pettycab loaded with goodies down Lamar blocking traffic all the way as we followed. The swans themselves were rather clunky, but lots of swimming ensued! We came back to the Forest for roasty feast and buzzed hanging on my hoop upside down in my tattered red circus dress.<br />
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On my actual birthday, the 5th was very quiet. Stevie called me and asked if i wanted to go to Barton Springs...of course. He had no idea it was my birthday, i had no intention of reminding him. We had easy conversation and sat silently all afternoon on the rocks on the "doggy side" of the springs. That would be the last time i would ever see him.<br />
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I am a blessed girl, i have everything i needed...even a fresh new tattoo on my elbow from Stevie. The assurance of new experience ahead, good friends, my work had payed off. Gratitude was making me cry.<br />
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But that means nothing when you feel another's suicidal pain, especially when another previous brother's death looms over your head like a snow storm in spring.<br />
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</div>mary quite contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901863670750356168.post-37926579361886769572009-05-01T23:11:00.001-07:002009-12-09T15:48:46.005-08:00Mayday! Seelonce Feenee!yes, i had a chicken photoshoot...<br />
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Johnny and I stayed up all night posing the chickens of the Enchanted Forest...they were worse than supermodels, they wouldn't stay still... but it was a blast. I acquired this lovely flock as fresh hatched chicks last May and as of Sept 2009 unfortunately all of them have met their end...overheating, raccoons, a fox, loose dogs and even a hatchet to the Pea rooster for being too bold.<br />
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Mr. Papr and i loved them dearly and found our chicken time quite therapeutic. Each had a very distinct personality and was raised to be very sociable with everyone. Miss Orangina was a superstar with the Yard Dogs Roadshow, she was soo audacious and even with her little mutilated beak, would hold full in-depth conversations with me.<br />
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Pecking order dominant Miss Marble broke her leg when very young but mended stronger than ever. I'd see Papr in the early morning outside his airstream with little chicks perched all over him. We both have huge collections of feathers.<br />
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One of the original older ones went blind and i hand fed her very hungry beak for over a month till Brandon the buddha bravely put her down early one morning. I'm pretty sure she ended up in one of Alberts shepards pies. Miss Buttercup stayed in the freezer till all but forgotten one feasty day, I dont eat chicken.<br />
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But in the end their tameness and bravery prolly did them in. They spent their very happy days cleaning up the outside kitchen lounging on the couch, depositing eggs in the strangest places, roaming the 3 acres for grubs, geckos, roaches...whatever, and chatting constantly to everyone and everything that passed. They followed me around incessantly, climbing on my art table spilling everything and sometimes leaving a gift of a green egg. The forest was so silent after they were gone. I keep telling Albert he needs a petting zoo...monkeys, goats, miniature horses named "Lightning", peacocks, all forms of animals for his Ark...but i think it has something to do with aliens<br />
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ohh yeah, the kitty who adopted me too.. Miss Smokey...i miss her.<br />
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</div>mary quite contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901863670750356168.post-47092414279538397592009-03-08T23:11:00.000-07:002009-12-09T13:16:13.531-08:00loungeThe decking is pretty much sacred. Tyler's feet are still spray painted on the floor, it's always messy with art supplies and tools, and all kinds of people are drawn there like a magnet. Many a beautiful night, parties or otherwise, has been spent wearing away those floorboards. Some of my most memorable meals have been prepared there, the kind that feed your mind and soul. And as the weather warms, my new little office space is over by the giant disco ball, which is presently stored there.<br /><br />Between the overflowing recycle bins, all my coffee and tea cups, alters, and animals of all sorts, lies the heart of the Enchanted Forest. Robert, Brandon and I replaced the tent and btw, we are still perfecting it. It is nestled high and delicately in the trees with lacing and carabiners. And now the lounge is almost twice as big as it was.<br /><br />It's more than a living room, more than a kitchen, this plot is always full of creativity, music and vibrant energy. The leaves are bursting from the trees due to the unusually warm winter we have had. I'm glad to be working outside late into the evenings. I recently said goodbye to an old friend Mr. Eyeballs, my old bubble imac, and have fallen madly in love with my new laptop. Und yes that is an 8-track under the 'puter....I love my airstream. I gifted Mr. Eyeball to my dad who is still using dial up... He discovered Craigslist the other day, I was so proud...<3<br /><br />Johnny and I are enthralled in the building of the new and improved Mandorla structure. The whole structure can be put up or taken down in less than an hour due to it now being assembled with pins and hinges. It's now 30'x30' round and 16' tall. 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But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” - D. H. Lawrence<br /><br />I awoke to these guys waiting outside the office the other day. I thought it was a mirage, so I quickly went about seducing them with food and promises of the most beautiful chickens ever...My silly hens were scared and Pea the Rooster was quite offended. Only Orangina, my favourite, showed wide eyed wonder and clucked shyly about how handsome they are.<br /><br />They slept high in the trees for a coupla nights and continued on their way to where ever busy peacocks go.<br /><br />For the inauguration The Pink Revolution stopped by. We had such a wonderful time with Miss Suzi Chang and company & hope to see them again soon. The van they originally rode up in got a stencil attack but soon broke down somewhere on the way to D.C. 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The skys have opened @ the Forest, a new wind is blowing. I just wish there were more hours of the day & right now time is passing just too quickly. I have committed 3 days to helping Brandon and Robert give a facelift to the big circus tents over the E. Forest lounge...and it looks amazing, but I know my work really starts when I move in all the art, decorations, lights and hangy stuff... I cant wait. We have been climbing in the trees, drinking way too much coffee, peeling raw cedar trunks, shit-talking, untieing tangles, getting muddy, getting flustered, getting machete blisters, and running out of rope ...again. Its a blast. I gasp when I see them monkey around way up on the rickety old ladders or shimmy up 20 feet on a small cracking tree. I think it's even more amusing that it hasn't rained here in months...untill we decide to pull down all the old tents and tarps exposing all the couches and kitchen stuff, and tomorrow possibly freezing rain#$@! We will be out there early morning anyway.. it's great working with them. Big new plans are brewing @ the Forest. And trust me Brandon, hanging odd shaped circus tents in this forest is "quite" an art, it's so beautiful. pictures to come.<br /><br />oh yeah, I finally got to go dancing. Ana Sia played @ the Parish and it was deliciously perfect, and a wonderfully warm night. The chickas were getting down... way down....and it seemed the guys were having problems keeping up with the crispy glitchy goo. I was boggled...whoa. Familia and I raided the stage and held our own, it was to say the least, very, very tasty, Did I mention i am soo thirsty for new music? 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We had a great time getting out of texass for a bit, and I miss NOLA so much, the good and the bad. There are so many memories for me tied to those streets of some past life I lived for 3 or so years. They are still so much a part of me. We stayed at a gorgeous hotel on St. Charles right in front of City Hall and ate at some of my favourite old haunts. It was really quiet in the city and the cold front kept us inside much of the time.<br /><br />We drove the beautiful I-90 between Nola and Biloxi along the beach. Hurricane Ike literally destroyed all the old mansions on the shorefront ...wiped them clean. It's rather tragic. I picked up some broken shells and played in the sand, put my feet in the cold Atlantic very quickly and left.<br /><br />This whole trip I was busy hand wireing all the antique bottles. I estimate that there will be 200+ tiny hanging bottles on my new improved Mandorla Aureola installation. They need some new Lightning inside. 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contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901863670750356168.post-76514460952588009152009-01-11T23:11:00.000-08:002009-12-09T13:12:52.338-08:00flying frying pansYesterday was spent feeding my fire to keep warm, complete with Brandon's yummy potato and leek soup. I had a lovely day outside, cleaning my studio and burning all the fallen leaves. Miss Baru came over and we all sat around my fire with wine and brownies ...a perfect day.<br /><br />btw...here's 3 flying frying pans ...I love them, they make me laugh. 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I really enjoyed making them, and they keep asking about them.<br /><br />They went well with my recently destroyed mirror ball ponys...Some teenage kids raided the Forest, ripped down and played kickball with a 50-60lb. mirror covered plastic pony. They also got to my Temple. Untill the Forest reopens I may not be putting stuff down there for awhile...or at least till I can take a picture first;)<br /><br />I'm currently reading <em>Art & Fear Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking</em>. The title really caught my eye. I've never really before run into an artistic blockage, I'm always tinkering with something...I cant help it. But last year, after Art Outside, really threw some amazing roadblocks and in my way. It's not the destruction or having no audience for what I make, (although I'm feeling a little artistically isolated). I'm constantly producing, good or bad ....whatever. But "That Art Feeling" was gone after too many heavy hitting failures. My Muse had gone on vacation to California or something, leaving me at home. My only relief was staying busy... constantly. busy. always. Yet it wasn't helping my sanity.<br /><br />here's a quote from<em> Art & Fear</em>...<br /><br />"For most artists, hitting a dry spell in their artmaking would be a serious blow; for a few it would amount to annihilation. Some artists identify so closely with their own work that were they to cease producing, they fear they would be nothing--that they would cease existing...<br /><br />"Some avoid this self-imposed abyss by becoming stupendously productive, churning out work in quantities that surprise even close friends...<br /><br />"Still, there must be many fates worse than the inability to stop producing art ...Annihilation is an existential fear: the common--but sharply overdrawn--fear that some part of you dies when you stop making art. And it's true. Non-artists may not understand that, but artists themselves (especially those who are stuck) understand it all too well. The depth of your need to make things establishes the level of risk in not making them."<br /><br />I really need somthin good this year...and God, I'm really looking forward to<a href="http://lightninginabottle.org/2008/"> Lightning in a Bottle</a>...<br /><br />But for now, I had a tin can breakthrough, and some rock wireing inspiration due to Miss Shelly's "Craft Night Upstairs" last night... 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I searched and called it's name...it was trying to find me. Then the beloved froggy snuck out of my pocket, and I desperately was searching for both of them. It was getting dark and i couldn't see anymore as i felt my way through the trees and down the hill trying to get home<br /><br />I remember trying to interact with all the Forest family with a deep anxiety of trying to keep it all together. I wanted to run away and find my precious mouse and frog, almost in tears. I figured they were ok<br /><br />I have recently breezed thru <em>The War of Art</em> by Steven Pressfield. It's a juicy little book, a quick read. Here's a quote within his book by a Scottish mountain climber that stuck with me concerning the above dream and beginning this blog.<br /><br />"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would not not otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."<br /><br />I have been riding the wave of productivity these past six days, nonstop with no Resistance and am feeling a difference. Maybe cause I lost my frog and mouse.<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-72" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-1-09-1-214x300.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="300" width="214" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-72" href="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/?attachment_id=72"></a><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-73" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-16-214x300.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="300" width="214" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-74" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-17-214x300.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="300" width="214" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-75" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-18-214x300.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="300" width="214" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org">MaryQuiteContrary.org</a><br /> <a href="http://marycontrary.org">MaryContrary.org</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/marycontrary">Twitter</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/misscontrarymary">Myspace</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/missmaryquitecontrary">Facebook</a> <a href="http://people.tribe.net/maryquitecontrary">Tribe</a> <a href="http://maryqcontrary.deviantart.com/">DeviantArt</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maryqcontrary/">Flickr</a> <a href="http://mary-contrary.stumbleupon.com">Stumble</a> <a href="http://quitemarycontrary.blogspot.com/">Blog</a> <a href="http://misspoizen.livejournal.com/">LiveJournal</a> <a href="http://quitemarycontrary.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> <a href="http://maryquitecontrary.wetpaint.com/">Wetpaint</a> <a href="http://maryquitecontrary.typepad.com/blog/">Typepad</a> <a href="http://cargocollective.com/maryquitecontrary">Cargo</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/quitemarycontrary">YouTube<br /></a></p>mary quite contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901863670750356168.post-20897501088297553392009-01-04T23:11:00.000-08:002009-12-09T13:09:57.231-08:003 days...Well after rounding all my corners for 3 days I've finally gone live. I'm still riding the waves of productivity but am really itching to get out of the office and make something new, but today was cold so I only felt a little guilty for waking up so late.<br /><br />Short and sweet, here's 3 more.....<br /><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://marycontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-30 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-4-214x300.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="300" width="214" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-31 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-5-214x300.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="300" width="214" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-32 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-6-214x300.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="300" width="214" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-36 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-10-300x214.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="214" width="300" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-34 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-8-300x214.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="214" width="300" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-33 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-7-300x214.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="214" width="300" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-35 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-9-300x214.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="214" width="300" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-37 aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" title="© mary quite contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1-2-09-11-214x300.jpg" alt="© mary quite contrary" height="300" width="214" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-38 aligncenter" 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In case ya dont know, I am artist and designer at the Enchanted Forest in Austin. And as for my first entry...here is a little thing I made last month...<br /><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-12 aligncenter" title="© Mary Quite Contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/1-2-09-2-214x300.jpg" alt="© Mary Quite Contrary" height="300" width="214" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7" title="Mary Quite Contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/1-2-09-11-300x214.jpg" alt="Mary Quite Contrary" height="214" width="300" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8" title="Mary Quite Contrary" src="http://marycontrary.org/mqc/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/1-2-09-3-300x214.jpg" alt="Mary Quite Contrary" height="214" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org/">MaryQuiteContrary.org</a><br /> <a href="http://marycontrary.org/">MaryContrary.org</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/marycontrary">Twitter</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/misscontrarymary">Myspace</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/missmaryquitecontrary">Facebook</a> <a href="http://people.tribe.net/maryquitecontrary">Tribe</a> <a href="http://maryqcontrary.deviantart.com/">DeviantArt</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maryqcontrary/">Flickr</a> <a href="http://mary-contrary.stumbleupon.com/">Stumble</a> <a href="http://quitemarycontrary.blogspot.com/">Blog</a> <a href="http://misspoizen.livejournal.com/">LiveJournal</a> <a href="http://quitemarycontrary.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> <a href="http://maryquitecontrary.wetpaint.com/">Wetpaint</a> <a href="http://maryquitecontrary.typepad.com/blog/">Typepad</a> <a href="http://cargocollective.com/maryquitecontrary">Cargo</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/quitemarycontrary">YouTube<br /></a></p>mary quite contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901863670750356168.post-62581071015342414332008-01-06T23:11:00.000-08:002009-12-09T12:49:04.315-08:00miss mary quite contrary<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.maryquitecontrary.org/"></a><a><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mY_6I97IMJQ/SUQGiigH6DI/AAAAAAAAABo/4GmU44qtipQ/s320/IMG_1881.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279351853631924274" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In an effort to expand my little Forested world…I’ve decided to start a blog of all the little snippets and tendrils that make up my day. I am currently an artist in residence at <a href="http://www.austinenchantedforest.com/" target="_blank">The Enchanted Forest</a><br />I also have a little website <a href="http://www.maryquitecontrary.org/">maryquitecontrary.org</a><br />so connect the dots and watch my garden grow...<br />and don't forget to feed my little fishies<br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://maryquitecontrary.org">MaryQuiteContrary.org</a><br /> <a href="http://marycontrary.org">MaryContrary.org</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/marycontrary">Twitter</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/misscontrarymary">Myspace</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/missmaryquitecontrary">Facebook</a> <a href="http://people.tribe.net/maryquitecontrary">Tribe</a> <a href="http://maryqcontrary.deviantart.com/">DeviantArt</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maryqcontrary/">Flickr</a> <a href="http://mary-contrary.stumbleupon.com">Stumble</a> <a href="http://quitemarycontrary.blogspot.com/">Blog</a> <a href="http://misspoizen.livejournal.com/">LiveJournal</a> <a href="http://quitemarycontrary.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> <a href="http://maryquitecontrary.wetpaint.com/">Wetpaint</a> <a href="http://maryquitecontrary.typepad.com/blog/">Typepad</a> <a href="http://cargocollective.com/maryquitecontrary">Cargo</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/quitemarycontrary">YouTube<br /></a></p>mary quite contraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455809857253242251noreply@blogger.com1