In His Absence

Adoring Husband is doing the first aid course this weekend, which means he is out of the house between 8am and 2.30pm.

At 9.30am I got out of bed and made myself pancakes with banana and maple syrup, which I then took back to bed with me, along with a cup of tea.

That’s where I stayed, trying to figure out what sort of art to create, by watching YouTube videos.

Yesterday, I had posted the photo of my rescued art in an acrylic art Facebook page and as we speak, it has had 459 views and 108 very positive comments! Quite a surprise to get so much positive feedback so I was inspired to get back into my studio today.

Neither of my attempts turned out the way I expected, but one has been sold already. That’s four sales in less than four months!

Imagine what I can do when I get really good at this!?

Anyway, now it’s time for bed. I just realised that I forgot to eat dinner 😳 AH went out for dinner with the first aid trainers tonight so I wasn’t required in our kitchen unless I wanted to eat. Ah well, looks like it’ll be another big brekky for me in the morning!

Nite all.

Triple Fail

I attempted a Dutch Pour this afternoon.

A ‘Dutch Pour’ is a method of fluid art. Watch Here for what I was trying to accomplish.

All I succeeded in doing was blowing paint all over the wall behind the table (much to Adoring Husband’s dismay) so I thought I could save it by swiping.

‘Swiping’ is another method of fluid art. It should have looked something like this ...

This too failed because there wasn’t enough colourful paint remaining on the canvas for it to be effective.

I thought that some balloon kissing on the canvas might save the day. It should have looked like this ...

Due to the fact that there were not enough cells OR enough paint, this was my third fail.

In my desperation to save this painting and not have to scrape all the paint off to start again, I decided to add some ‘chain pull’ stems to the circular blobs that I had created and then draw some swirls, squiggles, spikes and dots to create some sorta, kinda but not really flowery type things.

It looks a little Winter Wonderland-ish and even though it’s not amazing or fabulous, it’s passable and I’m happy that I don’t have to trash it!

The finished product ...

I think I’m ready for some sleep now. I have thoroughly enjoyed my day off and I think my creativity will improve even more tomorrow 👩‍🎨 🖼🎨

Nite all

Catch Up

It was a quiet day in the shop which worked out well for The Motivator and I because we had a LOT to catch up on!

We spent the day talking, opening birthday presents, talking, checking out the new clothes steamer, talking, ordering stock, talking, viewing all the art in the training room, talking, talking and more talking.

We left the shop right on closing time and while I considered doing some art, my body, knowing there is no work for a few days, is slowly shutting down and I lost the energy and the motivation to do anything except cook dinner.

It is just after 7pm and I’m ready for bed. I’m going to watch The Bachelor in bed and then fall into a coma until whatever time tomorrow morning.

That’s all I have say for today ... except ... it’s good to have The Motivator back. The Happy Abode is whole again 🤗

Nite all.

Emotionally Charged

Today was my last opportunity to spend quality time with my friend and work colleague, The Gypsy, before she ends her time as our resident Natural Therapist. She only has three more days of work before she finishes on 28th Aug.

This is great for her future plans of focussing on all of her groups and classes and reducing her work hours, but very sad for me, because even though she will still be running our meditation classes and the hooping, our quality time will be minimal and I will miss our deep, meaningful, philosophical and spiritual discussions.

Still, I feel like we share a special connection and I doubt that we will completely disappear from each other’s lives.

We made the most of today and shared an emotional farewell 😢

It was a steady day of sales and a couple of our artistic ladies dropped in to pick up their artwork.

At 3pm Adoring Husband arrived to help me close the shop and we headed into The Bay. We picked up our FROG box on the way to Tinkerbell’s where I had this beautiful pink and green tourmaline ring that I’d asked them to hold for me during my last visit.

I placed the ring in a silver soup spoon so that it would sit right for the photo.

I really must stop looking in their display cabinets because I instantly fell in love with this gorgeous sterling silver, clear quartz and blue kyanite pendant. I wore it out of the shop.

Spotlight had a sale on their canvases and some paints, so we popped in there to add to my art stocks.

After a couple more stops, we chose the perfect time to drive directly into the afternoon sun to get home! Luckily a big solid cloud placed itself in the perfect position to ease our discomfort.

We had to stop at The Happy Abode on the way home to turn off some display lights that I forgot to switch off before we left.

The Motivator is now home safe n sound so we’ll be working together tomorrow before I take a well earned break.

I cant believe that it’s already 9.30pm. Time for bed.

Nite all.

To Not Do

I had a ‘to do’ list that didn’t get touched today.

That’s how busy the shop was.

I missed most of our coffee morning because I was serving and I got to sit down at about 1.30pm for all of 20 minutes.

At about 3.10pm I left Adoring Husband to close the shop so that I could get to hooping class in plenty of time.

It was an intense class and my body was just about done in by the time I finished! I think I push myself a bit too hard ... I think we all do really ... because we are so eager to learn the next trick!

Now that I have my own hoop I’ll get to practice every day and hone my newly learned skills. One day I’ll take a video of my tricks so you can see me in action! Ha!

There was nothing easy to prepare for dinner so we had toast. I had last night’s leftover mash with tomato on mine. AH had ham and tomato. Minimal effort for these tired muscles.

It’s 7.30pm and I am ready to greet my cosy bed because it’s an early morning of meditation tomorrow.

I believe that The Motivator returns from Sydney tomorrow and should be back in the shop on Thursday. It’ll be nice to have a few days break, catch up on some cleaning, shopping, art, study and work on my health course.

Right now, my yawning is out of control, so I bid you farewell.

Nite all.

Hippified

I dressed quite hippy-ish today and felt very comfortable in doing so!

Between hers and my customers, I had some nice chats with The Gypsy, but there were a lot of people in the shop and they all spent small amounts of money as well as being in for a chat.

We have visitors from Yamba, Coffs Harbour, Mt Gambier, Brisbane and Gympie at the moment.

The Gypsy presented me with my newly made hula hoop!

I had a little practice and successfully showed AH one of my tricks. 

While I wanted to create some art this afternoon, all my drying space is taken with varnished paintings drying! So I had to show some self control and watch more YouTube videos of art instead. I’m building a long bucket list of methods that I want to try.

I cooked a mash of potato, sweet potato and cauliflower with chopped shallots added. Cabbage and leeks cooked in butter and all of last night’s leftover veggies added to that. Adoring Husband had leftover chicken and gravy with his veggies.

It was all quite tasty.

Now I’m ready for bed.

Nite all.

Short Sunday

My Sunday felt very brief.

I watched some YouTube paint pouring videos.

I did some study.

I ordered some art supplies online.

I purchased an intense treatment plan for building a strong, disease fighting immune system.

I made breakfast and took it back to bed.

I had a short nap.

I varnished three more paintings.

I created this ...

I baked a big tray of vegetables for dinner - potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, carrots, onion, brussels sprouts, cherry tomatoes, red capsicum, garlic, fresh rosemary, him salt, cracked pepper and a drizzle of honey.

I served it with Hainan chicken for Adoring Husband.

I served fresh berries with coconut ice cream for dessert.

I am now off to bed so that can start a fresh new week feeling fresh and energised!

Nite all.