If you are interested

I obviously don't have a life, because I have started writing another two blogs.....


One is specifically written about my Dad who -you may have read -has Alzheimers and Parkinsons...  I am his full time carer.


The other is to help preserve his (and therefore our) story.  Past, present and future.


To personalize this post a bit, here's a photo of him in his movie-star-good-looks days.  I thought I'd make a BIG photo so you can see the charisma oozing out of him!!!

The blurb on the Blog by-line says it all.   Have a look if you have the interest...


Also- comments are very welcome!

Painting at last

Well- I'm making  a start of it anyway...


It's bloody hot here, and my studio is not air conditioned so it wasn't a great choice to start painting today.


But- out I went to the back yard, knitter's thumb strapped, supervised by the ever vigilant Larry, and I started anyway....


Here's my boy, keeping an eye on me as always...


NOT...

It's been at least 4 years since I last started a painting, so I must admit I was a bit tense...   The blank canvas is a scary thing.


But- I solved that problem by starting on a pretty big canvas I picked up from the local church op shop for the bargain price of $2.  Gotta love church op shops!  You can see the original painting of a rose in a vivid magenta colour....  I only thought to take a photo of it after I had already started playing around on it....

I then started the layering process, and here's some sections that appealed to me as they appeared:

I only had an hour or so to spend on it, and the painting will evolve over time, but it's a start... So the end of the session saw the canvas looking like this....

 I sure had a great time, even though it was 37 degrees Celcius!






And Larry???

The excitement was just too much for him.....

Out of not so good comes something else

Or a door closes and a window opens....  You know all those old sayings....


The stimulus for these ponderings is that, unfortunately, I dislocated my thumb.  It keeps popping out of joint and I have to strap it up.  An injury from recent overly vigorous knitting.


Now stop laughing.....

Anyways, sadly, I have a basket of unfinished, nearly finished and waiting-to-be-sewn-up offerings to the knitting gods.

However, because of this threatening injury, I have taken up other exploits while the healing occurs.

Firstly: progress on my quilting piece I posted about recently....  I have kept decorating and adding pieces, and I think it is coming along rather nicely!

And I have finally got back into the studio and started a bit of painting.


I'm doing a separate post showing the progress there...