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Timeout for Art – No Rehearsals

17 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by Playamart - Zeebra Designs in Hand-Painted Floors, PAINTINGS: ACRYLIC, PAINTINGS: CUSTOM DESIGNS & FLOORS, TIMEOUT FOR ART - Quotes, TRAVEL: LATIN AMERICA

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Picture perfect afternoon!

Picture perfect afternoon! Surely the skies will be clear for days?

Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless. When you find something at which you are talented, you do it – whatever it is – until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. (Stephen King)

As if to compensate for the most-recent 2-day power outage,  a burst of energy kept me working at full throttle for the past several days.  After painting touch ups on the wooden balcony floor, I protected it with two coats of a transparent sealer.   Between coats, I painted the inside panels of the balcony white, then rolled a medium to light blue and then a lighter blue over that.

The little built-in bench looked quite anemic beneath the colorful moon window, so i painted the back a pastel orange and the seat area in light blue/green colors.    As the afternoon progressed, I added more depth and movement with strokes of color. Continue reading →

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Rabbit Rabbit & May Day!

01 Wednesday May 2013

Posted by Playamart - Zeebra Designs in Bodega "Magic Carpet" Project, Hand-Painted Floors, PAINTINGS: ACRYLIC

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concrete floors, good luck traditions, hand-painted floors, may day, rabbit rabbit, rabbits, the magic carpet, the morris dance

Rabbit Rabbit!  Happy May Day!

Rabbit Rabbit! Happy May Day!

Painting late into the night and into the wee hours of the morning, I realized that a new month sneaked up on me! The good luck first words of the day, Rabbit Rabbit, ran through my head!   How many of you practice that tradition on the first day of each month?

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This cute black and white rabbit roams the grounds of Hacienda Guachala in Cayambe Ecuador.  It hip hops along the GPS point of latitude zero – how magical is that?!

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Rabbit rabbit, have you ever heard of the Morris dance?

Today is also May Day, and many schools will hold activities in celebration of the outdoors.  I will never forget when I worked in a design studio for a UK company, and one of our very-reserved supervisors broke out in an impromptu Morris dance!  I will forever treasure that memory! Continue reading →

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Hummingbird’s Postcard!

22 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by Playamart - Zeebra Designs in Bodega "Magic Carpet" Project, Ecuador, Hand-Painted Floors, PAINTINGS: ACRYLIC, PAINTINGS: CUSTOM DESIGNS & FLOORS, PEOPLE, TRAVEL: LATIN AMERICA

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Barbara Seibel, Bodega Floor Magic Carpet, concrete floors, Guayaquil Malecon, hand-painted floors, Travel Ecuador, What to do in Jama Ecuador, where to eat in jama ecuador

Barb at Punta Prieta, just up the coast from the town of Jama

Barb at Punta Prieta, just up the coast from the town of Jama

My trail is about to take me out of town for a few days, so enjoy this final postcard from Barb!  See you when I’m back on Wednesday!   Z

(From Barb)

Dear fans of “Zeebra’s Designs and Destination.”

WOW!!!!! I must say I am not only amazed but also totally overwhelmed with the response that Lisa has received on her WordPress Blog concerning the Zeebra’s Flying Carpet’s Post Cards.

Thank you everyone for the encouraging comments and well wishes through all of our journey on the “Carpet”. What fun we had. Lisa has such a great spirit, (as you all have seen) energy and love that it’s easy to catch it from her…..and that I did.

I left Ecuador with a lot of fond memories and a little sadness at having to leave Lisa and “The Riverhouse.”   However I will cherish all of those memories, new friends, not only from the towns we visited, but Lisa’s Blog as well. Continue reading →

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Hindsight: WordPress Daily Prompt

03 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Playamart - Zeebra Designs in PAINTINGS: ACRYLIC, PAINTINGS: CUSTOM DESIGNS & FLOORS, PHOTO CHALLENGES

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zeebra mirror AUDREY Y BILL'S HOUSE la jabilla

“That Zeebra Lady has so much to learn!”

WordPress asks us to rewrite our first post.  I enjoyed this challenge, pulled up my first post about custom floors and interiors, hit ‘edit’ and reworked it by changing the title.

After revising it, I searched for the publish button, and woe is me!  It remained under the original’s format as an update.

Alas, the best way to point you to the revised post is by this method!

https://playamart.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/custom-floors/

Thanks for following the dots to the revised post, and I hope that other bloggers learn from my mistake!

Z

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