Busy Saturday

It was busy on the main street of our town this morning.

I spent four hours at the shop until Adoring Husband came to help me pack up.

At home I did some washing, some art ...

... watched a doc/movie on Feminism, some football, cooked dinner and we are currently watching The Dilemma.

I can hear my bed calling my name.

Nite all.

Not Quite as Planned

I wanted to try another challenge pic (with those blue and orange colours) today.

The first thing I did was a really pretty swipe with different shades of blue. I loved it and placed it carefully on some paper towel which I laid out on the drying table.

After that I sat outside in the pool area for a while, writing in my journal. It was uncomfortably windy, in fact the gale force conditions were buffeting the lounge and the umbrella over the pool was rocking too.

It became too uncomfortable, so I headed inside ready to make my second attempt at the challenge colours, but I discovered that the wind through the studio window had blown the paper towel onto my blue painting! 😭

After my initial groan of disappointment, instead of making a song and dance about it, I decided to cover the mess with a goldfish. This way it would match the challenge colours and it could be my second entry.

I knew that this would be tricky, given the thickness of the paint already on the canvas, so I was very tentative and very careful, but alas my efforts were not successful.

This made me laugh and I knew that I would keep it so that when I create the result that I imagined in my head at the beginning of this project, I will have something to measure my success by.

I posted it on Facebook as an example of my failures and have been surprised by the positive feedback that it has received, however the photo makes it look better than it is.

Dinner was an easy nosh up of wild salmon with onion, avocado and micro greens wrapped in a GF tortilla for me. AH had chicken ribs - his usual Friday night fare.

We’ve been watching the footy tonight and we were happy to see Manly get thrashed by Parramatta, and by enough points to help them leap frog Manly on the ladder.

It was a very successful day in the shop today and I’ll be working tomorrow so I hope I can continue the success into the weekend.

Next week will be the beginning of our Monday closures. Our opening hours will be changing too so we won’t be opening until 10am. Generally, nobody walks through our doors before 10am, so it’s pointless being there.

So it’s bed time for me.

Nite all.

Words to be had.

i will have words with that newsagent.

I was supposed to have the winning ticket in Powerball tonight.

I did not.

I will try again next week for the $100million.

I tried to paint my first beach today. It’s not bad. It’s not great. I’m happy with my first attempt and will try again in the future.

I also attempted to create a piece for one of the acrylic paint pouring Facebook page challenges. We have to use these colours and any method that we like ...

This is what I’ve done so far and I have another idea that I’ll try tomorrow.

I made Tuscan Chicken for dinner tonight, which was quite nice. It was a new recipe that I hadn’t tried before and it was easy, so I’ll probably use it again.

Now it’s bed time for me.

Nite all.

Whirlwind Wednesday

Breakfast by the water was lovely this morning.

I was hoping that I could purchase something lovely from Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves today, but I only liked one item on their racks and my size was not there.

We did some grocery shopping from Go Natural.

We drove to Stocklands where I bought the winning ticket in the $80million Powerball draw, a few
more art supplies, a DVD (Bohemian Rhapsody), a better quality chef’s blowtorch and a Boost Juice.

We stopped at our local butcher on the way home to pick up our chicken order and I visited The Motivator so that I could use the shop loo.

There was some unpacking to do at home and I put the slow cooker on with chicken feet and veg for a delicious chicken broth. I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to purchase chicken feet for five years so I was excited to see them in the freezer at Go Natural!

I got to spend some time in the studio for a quick paint pour ...

... then it was time to get ready for trivia night where we came 8th (I think) but it was a good night.

I’ve watched The Bachelor and now it’s time for bed. I’m exhausted!

Nite all.

Space Clearing

So I figured that my mojo might have been lost in the mess of my workspace.

3 buckets full of water and soaking numerous stirrers, cups and tools. Bags of timber corner pieces from the canvases. Many ‘almost empty’ cups of paint. Boxes of empty squirter bottles waiting to be filled with paint. Half empty paint tubes waiting to go back into the tool box. The list goes on.

So I spent two hours clearing the workspace and filling more squirter bottles with paint and pouring medium. It’s quite a physically taxing job shaking fifteen bottles until the contents are thoroughly mixed!

Now the area, along with my head, are clean, clear and ready for some fresh inspiration.

Beauty was the only one to attend coffee morning at the shop today, so it was a short and quieter than usual morning.

A quick catch up with The Motivator before I came home to attend to the studio.

Oh, and I picked these up from the post office ...

... so I’m excited to try them tomorrow.

The final class of the hooping course was this afternoon and we had a lot of fun. We now form the intermediate group which begin classes on 24th September. I think I need to practice between now and then!

Psychotic dog Colli attended a grooming appointment this morning and looks stunning!

We had wild salmon and salad for dinner.

I’m exhausted - after Adoring Husband had a mishap with his phone at 3.15am and then snored loudly for about 45 minutes after he fell back to sleep, I had a very broken sleep and need to catch up tonight.

Nite all.

Lost Mojo

These are today’s efforts ...

Not happy Jan.

I need to clear my head before I paint, so I think that tomorrow, I’ll meditate first and see how that changes my mindset.

I wasn’t feeling the best this afternoon so I came to bed (where I still am) and watched a couple of Netflix movies, then a couple of health documentaries, I took some notes on information that I’ll include in my health challenge/workshop and made some firm decisions about my own health, diet and lifestyle.

Adoring Husband and I are on the same page so we’re going to work together and get our health back on track.

As you could probably tell, after seven weeks, I gave up on the plant based diet. While it took away that horrible lump, pain and discomfort in my stomach, I had trouble sleeping, had my old joint pain return in my knees, hips, back and even sciatica which I haven’t had since 2013.

Of all the types of eating I’ve tried over the years, Paleo (when sticking to it strictly), has had the most profound effect on my body, joints, digestion, weight, clarity of thought, energy, sleep and motivation.

I want all of that back again.

Now that Spring is here, I want the spring back in my step!

That’s my Monday. Disappointments and epiphanies!

Nite all.

Scrape Scrape Scrape

Just couldn’t feel the love today.

I made this ...

And scraped all the paint off the canvas into the bin.

Then I made this ...

And scraped most of the paint into the bin.

Then I made this ...

And scraped all the paint off the canvas into the bin.

I made this ...

And kept it but I’m not happy with it.

So many art fails in one day!

Tomorrow is another day 😎🖼

Nite all.