Part 3a: If you had $10.00 to plan your ideal day, what would you spend it on?

Welcome to my Ideal $10 Day. I hope you enjoy your time :o)
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The only purchased items:

1 - 16x20in canvas = $7
5 - 3x3in canvases = $2.70

Total: 6 canvases = $9.70

(What? I'm $0.30 short? Not to worry, the extra is a part of my spontaneous-road-trip-fund!)

The day:

8:00am - Wake up. Put some hot water on the stove. Get out white chai tea.

8:05am - Enjoy freshly brewed white chai tea, with just a bit of french vanilla creamer.

8:10am - Get settled on the back porch, in an outdoor recliner. With a copy of Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman.

8:10-10:40am - Travel through the glorious ruins of Peru, witness a traditional Balinese funeral ceremony. Cook a meal with a group of Thai women in a village --- all done by turning page after page.

11:00am - Venture inside to the fridge for some pita and Mediterranean hummus. Replace white chai mug with glass of water. Blast Snow Patrol's Crack the Shutters and dance around in the kitchen.


SP - Crack the Shutters from L Dubbs on Vimeo.

11:15am - Send out a mass-text-message to friends inviting everyone out to Pinkerton Park for a potluck paint-and-picnic. Reinforce the fact that NO ONE is allowed to purchase anything. Food and art supplies must be already laying around in the house. (We're on a $10 budget, remember, and I've already spent most of it on canvases?)

11:20am-12:00pm - Scour the house for all acrylic paint, oil paint, chalk pastel, oil pastel, 64-pack of Crayola crayons, marker, pen, bottle of Elmer's, jar of rubber cement, magazine, pair of scissors or anything else that could be placed on a canvas.



12:05pm - Pack up art things, camera, canvases, left over pita and hummus into my Volvo.

12:05pm-12:20pm - Drive to the park with the windows down and "Drive down memory lane" play-list blasting.


12:25pm - Meet up with Kennie, Liana, Olivia, Amberly and Dace. Unload the cars and pick out a clear area of the field by a tree, but in the sunlight.

12:30pm - Distribute blank mini-canvases, but keep the big one for myself.

12:30-3:00pm - Take turns choosing music on the portable iPod dock, paint, laugh, toss a frisbee, eat.



3:00pm - Pack up art, say goodbye to friends and head home - just before a...

3:10-3:25pm - ....SPRING RAIN STORM.

3:30pm - Pull into the drive-way and park. Kick off flip-flops and run over to the pink dogwood that stands, regal, in the side yard-- camera in-hand.

3:32-4:00pm - Take pictures. Capture the dew drops and sun flares. Feel the wet ground under my bare feet.


4:03-5:00pm - Edit, edit, edit those pictures.

5:00-5:30pm - Catch up with a dear friend on the phone.

5:40-6:30pm - Swing home, grab a granola bar from the pantry, watch beginning of a documentary on jazz via Instant Netflix.

6:40-7:00pm - Catch sunset with my friend Maddie from the top parking lot at school, and finish painting started with friends earlier in the day.

7:05-8:40pm - Go back home, finish documentary.

9:00pm-12:00am - Watch dear friends play Celtic music at local Irish Pub & Eatery, McCreary's.

12:10am-8:00am - Drift into the land of dreams, and then wake to find myself practically living one.