It's the day before THE WEEKEND! The weekend of my open studio tour. (North Shore Art Crawl, number 39 on the map, find more into here) I've been busy with my usual art, and, while the song birds never stick around for
Today I took a little jaunt to my favourite nursery Southlands for some inspiration. (sigh) I so want my garden to look like this: But the reality is that my garden looks like this: Oh yes, loads of work. I worked on the
There was a little sun this morning and the day promised to be not so bad, so I decided to do that one last push of work in the studio so I can actually get some work done and paint
Hi everyone, It all feels like it might be coming together after all! Here is the progress over these last three days. Chloe gave me a few hours on Wednesday, I drove my sports car out of the space and we put
Oh boy. I really thought I would have all of it sorted by the end of this long weekend, but it would seem that my project is a bigger mess than I thought. The good news is that the painting's done. All
Hi everyone, Here's a brief update of the garage into an art studio project. Outside the big melt is happening. And inside we're sweeping away the cobwebs, standing on ladders and work benches
Hi Hi. I'm back. I've had to take a few weeks days off of social media. Actually, I had my finger hovering over the delete button more than once. A few personal attacks on the ol' FB, the state of the world,
I'm sitting in front of an open fire here in my peaceful and quiet living room this night before Christmas thinking what a whirl-wind day this has been. I got the house ready last night and waited (a little anxiously) for
I'm so excited to have my older children and their families here for the Christmas holidays, and, since I don't usually have such a large crowd I rarely bake the kinds of traditional Czech Christmas cookies my grandmother (babi in
Hi everyone, This post is long in coming and I've been looking at it for several days now, but the truth is that I'm finding Christmas very hard this year. Ok, I'm just going to stop writing about that now because