and the winners are….

I know and I apologise…I’m late.  The run up to school has suddenly included (among other things)  a complete overhaul of the kid’s rooms, including a paint job.  I’ve been meaning to paint their rooms since we moved in (4 years ago, says she with a red face) and it seems that now is the time.  The benefit is that now they can help with the job and learn about the joys of cheap renovation via painting!  Max’s room is a wonderful bright green which rejoices in the name of ‘Lime Freckle’.  Suits him…he has wonderful freckles, though not green ones.

   
                                                                              

A couple of shots of Max’s new green womb…he coils himself in there and reads for hours…

                       


Rachel’s room isn’t quite finished, but you can see the blue she has chosen.  It looks too Madonna’s robe blue here and is actually a little greener in real life.  My camera doesn’t do blues well.  Here is a demented shot of the wonderful (if a little sinister) Victorian doll’s house that Rachel inherited from her great aunt.  Yes, it is filled with miniatures…

My wonderful daughter also cut out all the entries for the draw and I folded them up into small bundles.  Somehow we like this better than the old random number generator, possibly because we are luddites at heart.  My daughter is no friend to technology (although she can work her way around a computer just fine, thank you…) and I’m seeing at school that it isolates you from your peer groups if you’re not connected.  But that is her choice – we all have to use technology in a way that works for us!  But I digress…you’d like to hear the winners, no?

                                         


                                                         
                                                     
                                            
         And the winners are.......Peg Gerrard and Linda Sudimack!
 
I don't have email addresses or shipping addresses for either of you, although I see that Linda has an Artfire shop linked to blogger, so I'll try sending a message there.  If either of you see this please contact me through Etsy or this blog so I can get your mailing addresses and send out your winnings!
And please, check in with me tomorrow as I’ll be adding my first video (made by me…) to my blog.  It will be up tomorrow barring any more unforeseen technical glitches.  Oy, the world of video formats and converters is horrible….

Cleaning therapy

I know I've mentioned before that I'm a less than stellar housekeeper.  There are exceptions to that, though, particularly when I'm cleaning my studio space.  A very particular pleasure....Yesterday I spent the afternoon cleaning and organizing my space and evaluating work in progress.  I had made 3 or 4 dozen sturdy origami boxes over the course of the last two weeks to help me organize all of my stuff.  And while doing that, I made myself decide whether to keep something (continue working with it) or pitch it!

It was an interesting process!  I found a lot of stuff that I had parked/abandoned while I flitted onto some other idea - not surprising as my polymer mind is definitely a bit flighty these days.  This is stuff that I will rework/finish.  Also, happily, I did find stuff to pitch, which tells me that I have grown a little in this medium, or I have at least determined ways that will not work for me.  It was also sobering to look at the work I have to do, but also a pleasure to be able to find everything in an instant!  I will keep it like this, I will!  It had reached the point that I couldn't concentrate on one thing because of the other ideas intruding from all sides.  Now they are safely in their boxes on their trays ranked by urgency...to be tackled another time.