COUPLE OF PROJECTS

 My friend's fence panel is bugging me.  I really want to do an acrylic pour 'wave' on it, but because the panel is not flat... I know it won't work.

So I've decided to go out and buy a FLAT piece of thin wood to do the wave on, then I shall nail it to the original panel.  Took me ages to come up with that solution!

ABOVE:  The second thing I want to do while I'm out is to get me nails 'done'.   For some reason I've had nails just split right down the middle, to the nail bed.  SO SORE!  And they catch on everything and hurt like buggery!  That one (above) split in two damn places.  

So, if I get fake nails on top, that will solve that problem eh?  Oh, and I'll have pretty nails for the first time in years!

Once I get home from that, I will make a start on another Cat Runner.  Probably the same one as 'Need Wine...', but slightly different of course.

I think I'll try a blue background.

And well... that's me for now.  

Catch ya later.

11 am: And I've been out and about.

Got me piece of FLAT wood.

Went into The Base, checked out two nail places.

The first one said "Sure, sure, come on in, we do your nails now".

I said I wanted to check out the other place before making up my mind, so I then went to the other place.

And the guy behind the counter looked at my nails, pressed them, bent them and said "No way.  You need to strengthen them first."

And sold me some nail strengthening stuff.

I was impressed.  He could have just ushered me in for the full false nail treatment, but No.  He actually cared enough to recommend what I needed, not what I wanted.

ABOVE: This is the place to go for good nail care.

ABOVE: This is the stuff he sold me.  I'm kinda amazed!  You can actually buy nail stuff WITH FORMALDEHYDE in it???  Who knew.  Not me.

Glad I'm not going to be putting formaldehyde on me nails.

ABOVE: The Christmas tree is up at The Base, and it's very pretty.

Now... I'm going to have brunch, then perhaps make a start on the fence panel.

ABOVE:  It took a while to get my painting area all set up again, and to find everything I needed.

But eventually... I was ready to go.

But changed my mind about the wave pretty quickly.

I decided to go with a simple 'swipe', and possibly embellish it with some shells later on.

ABOVE: So ... there's the swipe done.  I now have to wait a few days before adding anything else. 

As I sit here in my sewing room, Coco is right at my feet.

And OMG her tummy is going to town!  So many noises coming from her tummy.  Almost like she's got aliens in there!

I wonder what she's been eating?

It's only the second time I've ever heard her tummy grumble like this.

2.28 pm: Have you ever thought:  Oh, I think I'll make us a lovely potato and bacon salad for dinner.  Then you cook the potato and put it aside to cool.

Hours later... you come back and the potato is so soft it turns to mush when you try to cut it into cubes?

YEAH.

So, now we are having a potato and bacon pie, with a side salad.  NOT exactly what I'd planned, but it's edible I suppose.  

Shit it's been one of those days.  I keep dropping things. Spilling things. Just enough to make me wanna scream.  I'm now totally out of sorts.

Instance:  This morning, me mascara is not liquid, so I drop the entire thing in a hot cup of water.  Forget about it for a while.  Then I unscrew it to use it, and bugger me, the stuff ERUPTS out of the container... all over me and my clothes, down me leg and NARROWLY missed landing on me new carpet!!!

I'm like.  FUCK, that was close.

And I proceed to clean up the mess, making an even bigger mess in the bathroom.

Mascara everywhere is not fun to clean up.  I dirtied a flannel, a dishcloth AND towel.

I grab a bag of tomatoes out of the fridge. The bag breaks.  Tomatoes everywhere.  I pick them up and put them on a shelf in the fridge.  Close the door.  One of the tomatoes falls from the shelf as I'm closing the door.  Result?  Tomato gets squished ALL OVER THE FLOOR.

Damn tomato everywhere.

I am boiling a couple of eggs for dinner.  I go to check on them. One of them has disintegrated in the water.  I'm going to kill the other one now.  Cos I can.

NEXT.

Dinner was OK, not fantastic.  the 'pie' could have done with more flavour.  The lettuce salad was nice though.

But I'm already over lettuce salads, and summer is not really even here yet.

Must look up more salad ideas me thinks.

I'm now watching Coronation Street, and playing Solitaire on the computer.  Once I'm tired enough I will go to bed.

Catch ya tomorrow.