M.I.A.

I have been missing in action this week.  No journaling, no art, no going into the dining room and creating.

However I have been creative.  I spent some time over each of 4 days tidying an area of our home office.

I then decided it was so tidy that I should decorate the room.  That's an exaggeration - I would paint the ceiling and the walls.  Wash and iron the curtains.  And maybe wash the paintwork.   So I untidied the room again.

I painted matt Almond White emulsion over silk Almond White emulsion on the ceiling and walls.  Not a very good idea.

1. Matt doesn't really go well over silk and actually I prefer silk but picked up the wrong tin in Homebase
and
2. Putting the same colour on top of the previous colour means you can't tell where you've painted until it's dried and then you can see all the places you've missed!!!  Which is when the room looked like a coffee and cream dalmation!   I did go back to these patches on the wall on Wednesday.

So much to my disgust, this morning I spent repainting the ceiling and the sloping wall to the left of the window.  The weather had warmed up somewhat so the paint was drying rather quickly which meant yet again it was blotchy.  However the ceiling has dried and there are no blotches.  Hooray!

We've put the furniture back except for the bookshelves which probably won't go back up until Monday.  And I am really thrilled with this clean and tidy room.

We do still have these 2 bookcases to sort out but we can do that a shelf at a time.

The problem of course is that in order to have all that clear floor and clear worktop, plus no shelves on the wall I am left with this (in our newly decorated spare room!!!)

I think I might go back to some art journaling and travel journal making before I tackle this lot.

Thanks for stopping by
Bernice

Rainbow Sherbet

The weather here is dull to say the least and it has rained almost all day.  Plus it looks to be quite windy.

So it was a pleasure to be working with the bright colours of shocking pink, orange and yellow which make up Rainbow Sherbet the inspiration ice cream for week 1 of the Summer of Color: Ice Cream Inspirations.

Here's the inspiration photo from Kristin's blog:

And here is my journal page inspired by the ice cream.

And a closeup

Art almost Every Day in May

I have kept my Every Day Art Journal up-to-date through May although sometimes I have done several days at the same time.

As a result there were times when I couldn't remember what I had done so in this completed May calendar you can see that there are sketchy flowers.  I expect they were days when I procrastinated all day!

Here are the completed pages:

And here is my June calendar - a very simple page full of Jubilee bunting.