LOVELY VISITOR

Yesterday afternoon I had a visit from a dear friend from Cambridge.

Pip is an FBG girlfriend, and now a personal friend.

It was just lovely to see her.  She's been through a rough time so far this year.  Health issues.  And she's building a new home and that is stressing her out too.  I think she enjoyed just sitting and yakking.

She brought over a thing for Bex:

ABOVE:  This is the 'thing' for Bex.   Any idea what it is?  

I do know what it is obviously.

Today my little shop is open.  It's been incredibly quiet lately.  I'm hoping it picks up closer to Spring and Christmas!

Otherwise I will just have to go do more markets.

I'm not going to be sewing today.  I'm going to make a couple of paintings.  Then finish cleaning the next two that are ready, then varnish them.

I can do all that in the garage, and keep an eye on the shop at the same time.

So that's my day sorted.  Lacy said she was coming over today for left overs. Poor Lacy.

We have none !

And Bex is coming over to do some housework, so I will have company for a while, which will be nice.

ONWARD...

ABOVE:  Been listening to these two for a couple of weeks.  I love their singing.  Mother and Son.  

Yep, it's a wool carder.  I'm sure Bex will use it at some point.

I did a painting.

It's not a wave.

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ABOVE:  It's a riot of colour!  Maybe too much colour?

It's now 'clean up' time.  I've made quite a mess today.

1.40 pm:  Well... Lacy called in, and then went and bought me a pie for me lunch.  Bit of a turn around... she fed me!  

😋

And now... I'm relaxing inside after closing me shop.

No visitors today... but that was good cos I got to spend 3 hours making that painting.

I'm itching to make another one, but as I don't have enough level shelving for more right now, I need to hold off.

I've been thinking about what to call this painting.  I will be doing more in this 'theme'... so what do you all think of this:

'Kaleidoscope.  A joyful riot of colour' ... #1

Is it too much?

  ABOVE:  I 'tweaked' Kaleidoscope' a bit.  Parts of it were bugging me.  

I need to leave it alone now, or I'll totally bugger it up.

I thought I had buggered it up, but I keep going back to look at it, and it's still lovely.  Thank god.  The photo does NOT do it justice.

It's all a learning curve, and I'm still figuring out what works, and what doesn't.

My next one will be BETTER.

*** so tired ***

The company that monitors the alarms at Stew's business premises rang him at 4.53 am this morning!  Seems a door was left open and had set off the alarm.

So he had to go in and turn off the alarms.  OMG can you imagine what it feels like when the phone goes at that time of the day?

Yeah.  NOT NICE.

BUT ANYWAY... we are both knackered now... cos you never go back to sleep properly after waking up at that time.

So, as soon as Coronation Street is finished I'm off to bed.