Freshly pressed

Proudly flaunting his freshly ironed shirt ironed  by mama's own fair hands....

( thought I'd exert myself as he was getting his diploma.... :0)..)
 Photo nicked from one of his pals......( many thanks...it makes excellent blog fodder...   you know how i like to have a pickie at the top..)

Days have passed so quickly since i last wrote in here.... i guess that means I'm having fun....  which in my case means I'm happily exploring new things.. and as i do so realize i have in fact been standing still for longer than i thought...

 Here we are in September..  and i've practically forgotten what a blog looks like...
I think its good to take a break sometimes...
( well that's my excuse....!!!! )
...if nothing else it will have given my voice a rest....  and for for those of you who may have thought i wish that woman would give it a rest.. it will have been a pleasant respite...

 Deliver us from evil..? Oh surely its not been that bad.. but one drone sounds pretty much like another i guess...

Maybe we should consider awarding a medal for bravery to anyone...  who happens to come this way....

Apologies to Elaine..  who has been trying to comment i've probably switched something off i should have.. will see if i can fix it.. thanks for  remembering me... :0)

Had a lazy day today art wise..  though on the positive side at least it gives the paint time to dry.. so shall attempt to fling myself back into it tomorrow with great gusto..

I'm now sat here in the dark.. as the sun has run across the sky and left me still sitting here...

and i have to get up early tomorrow.. so am not sure whether I'll be going to bed at all before that.. it may be easier to crash on my return..  rather than sleep a little and then try to drag myself out of bed...

All for now...

Shall try not to leave it so long next time... xxx

Thanks for the new bed ma'

I've soooooooooo been looking forward to showing you this...

Behold the above photo showing my new ironing board..  truly blessed by the worshipful pose of my beloved cat Jo..(  alias Josephinaki )

So far the only thing the new ironing board had been used for is a bed..and the iron is still in its box though i did peep at the instructions today...

Summer is drawing to a close at least i hope so... the weather the past few days..has been heavy... so am really hoping it breaks soon...

Alexander collects his diploma on Monday..  So my younger son Ari has wandered out into the depths of Athens to find out where exactly it is... so far ...i've managed to discover that its in the center in the national gardens and the actual building itself has quite a few rooms ( almost 30..) so it would be a good idea to find out which room we're supposed to go to..  then we dont have to poke our head around every door...

Its one of those affairs where they wear a cap and gown.. ( which one rents for the day for a small fortune...  So I'm envisaging him resembling something out of Hogwarts..  so yes we will be armed with a camera....  though am hoping there will be professional ones done too.. as its not something you do very often....

We're still waiting to see what happening with Ari this coming year... where he will be going...  what he will be doing.. i suppose that applies to both of them...

I still have a collection of things out on the balcony... the weather here has been dry for months.. which is why they're still out there..

When it rains here it really does pour down.. so its only a reprieve.. sooner or later the skies will open.. hopefully i will notice  and will drag everything inside.. if not well i suppose i shall just have to leave it out there to dry.... xxx

Happy Days

Greetings all

Its feels   to have been a a hectic few months... what with one thing and another...  i could have done without the bug invasion... but the bright side  was that it has given me the opportunity to do some space clearing that i wouldn't have got round to otherwise... 

Happy to report that the visit  from my nephew went well...   ( see the above picture..)  and a fun time  seemed to have been had by all.

Its a national holiday here today ( Monday..) which means the shops are closed.. but hopefully the fridge  has enough in to sustain us all until tomorrow..( otherwise i shall have a very stroppy cat on my hands....)

Feels hot and stuffy here today.. and I'm just about to do some painting... a breeze would be welcome  but i dont suppose I'm going to get one....  I'm enjoying doing the background and seeing what its going to be.. of course it can change from one day to the next,,  though it does seem to have rather a celestial... ( I'm sure Dad would love a pair of wings  :0)..  but i dont think I'll go quite that far.....)

Today is now Thursday...  and for the past few days i've been engrossed in browsing e books.. its like being in a candy store...unfortunately i could do with having more than one pair of eyes to read them all..

Was greeted this morning by the news that irons  were on sale..  and we ought to go and get some...  we meaning me and someone to help me carry it.. so off we trotted   though not till later on... and came back with a pretty pink iron.. ( needless to say i have left it in the box till its a little cooler here...)
Glad to have one.... as the last one shifted its mortal coil a year or so ago... and some things do look a little better with a quick press.. ( maybe i should get training the lads..:0)..)

August

Time i wrote something in here before it becomes extinct...  Its easy enough to start a blog but the challenge lies in keeping it going..

I have three large hairy lads here at the moment instead of the usual two as my nephew is over from England..I tend to let them get on with whatever it is that lads tend to do these days...

They stay up late and sleep late.. and usually go out somewhere and do something..I seem to have amazingly sensible kids..so dont worry about what they're doing.. as they're probably safer on the streets of Athens than I am!

However has it got to be August...The wheel of life just keeps on going.regardless of whatever else may be happening...

Kitty has been a bit off colour the past few days...stomach troubles..( both ends..) right in the middle of me sweeping the dust under the carpets in preparation for the vist!!  after a year of avoiding normal cat food i tried her on some , she really enjoyed actually ate it all by herself from a saucer and ate every little bit of it...she liked it so much she has probably had too much.. ( hence the poorly tum..)

So she's on the colds turkey treatment at the moment  or rather cold chicken.. uncooked chicken breasts  so hopefully that will correct whatever it is..  she's not been sick today...so that's progress...

Did some painting earlier..working on the detail of the face.. which i always feel is the most important part for if that's  not right then the whole thing is wrong.... 

Then afterwards scanned some old photos  some of which needed doing 3 or 4 times... as they were rather curly.

So now I'm foot looses and fancy free.. but its the time i go and watch TV with hubby dear.. 

Past midnight now so into another day...  Have just watched a rather strange film called` Heavenly creatures..' must have been good as i sat and watched it for 2 hours..  although it led up to a murder...it was quite shamanic in parts... as the girls slipped into another reality.

Its rare i get to watch a film..as my husband tends to flip the channels  but i got lucky today he fell asleep.

Buuuuuugsies...

Looks like i haven't posted in here  since the bug invasion... which thankfully seems to be over.. at least for now..

though it is a common problem over here

 At the age of  9 ( i think..) my kitty has discovered that she can eat off a saucer  ( depending on how keen she is to eat  whatever it is of course...) After a year of abstinence i have re introduced a little cat food back into her.. dare i say   diet... I hesitated for a moment..  as i'm afraid she has my habit of nibbling..  and has ways of forcing me to do her bidding... ( which anyone who has a self willed cat will be familiar with..)

Today was a good day in that at last i found  enough personal space  to lose myself in working on the portrait again.....  so deep does it take me..  that on  pausing for the day... there is a sense of awakening... and it takes me a moment or two to recall what day it is.... its very like awakening from a dream.

The positive side about the bug visitation... ( pause as i wonder if they might perhaps be alien beings... but were never perceived as such  due to our preconceived ideas.. of what one should look like.. well after all they're small  un green..  and the space ship evaporated on contact... many eons ago when the Trolls roamed the earth...singing tip toe through the tulips...

Ooops i digress... back to positive side.. well thanks to the bugsies..  the apartment is now much tidier.. and cleaner   than it previously was..  which has in a way saved me a job.. as we're looking forward to a visit from my nephew Robert.... so at least he wont have to wade through the debri to find the lads bedroom...  though the bedroom itself still reminds me of wandering through the jungle...  though am told this is a common feature of the rooms of young adult males..

Bed... before i  start sleep talking... if i haven't already.... xxx

More Chat

Sat here munching  french toasts  and getting crumbs in the key board as usual... what is it about sitting in front of a computer that makes food taste so goooooooooooood..

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I suddenly realize I'm scratching my ankles  which can mean only one thing unless its a vamp with a foot fetish..

( pause for dramatic music.... ) the curse of the Mozzie beast strikes again...... wanders over to draw the curtains though i fear it is a little late for that....

An hour later semi stuffed with melon. ( again!!!..) this is getting to be a habit.. I've just cut it up and put it in the fridge  so couldn't resist having a nibble... ( you'd be amazed how easily it slips down my throat..)

Funny how those  words remind me of the troll under the bridge... waiting  to snack on the three Billy goats...

Guess it wasn't his day either   i've forgotten exactly what happened in the end.. through I remember the troll didn't have his wicked way...

The canvas is still at my side.. i work in the same room i sleep in.. that's where the computer is too.. convenient huh isn't it...   once my eyelids start to droop i fling myself on the bed behind uttering genteel snores... :0)...

Although i've progressed from sketching.. to using the oils.. it is still in black and white or should i say black/grey/white... hopefully  tomorrow i will get to experiment with skin tones..

Thats if the Mozzies dont suck me dry tonight...

Jo in a box.

And my offspring are in hiding.... 

Perhaps because there's a camera in my hand and they know I'm on the look out for a new blog picture.:0)

So i guess I'll have to go hunting for buried treasure in the depths of the computer..
( guess who I found... :0) )

Friday always seems busy somehow..possibly as its my last shop before the weekend..  so nothing  more done at my canvas..  though did do quite a lot the day before and maybe its not a bad idea to let the paint dry a bit... unless i want to get it all over me...  NOT that there's great dollops of anything on it yet...:0)  

The day started well by chasing a few roaches... have seen more in the past few days than i have all year must be the heat... have sprayed a few vulnerable area's ( dont like to overdo it lest i asphyxiate myself..  though the sprays are much better than they used to be...) so fingers crossed that will be enough...

4 am .. better go to bed before the birds start tweeting...

Sweet dreams all...xxx