The Peony is finished
finally
after a very messy week full of stops and starts
and all sorts of distractions
I am putting a fork in it
cause it is done baby!!!!
well not scanned properly yet and maybe needs a bit of cleaning up and fine tuning
but close enough....
It all started with this photo
which I took quite some time ago
and the desire to tune up my botanical skills...
So I jumped in and started a peony
which have always been some of my favourite flowers
but deciding to not be a complete masochist
I decided to simplify it and make it like a single huge bloom
simplify my ass...
What was I thinking...
In the past I have really relished doing intense botanical work
okay maybe there has been some bitching and moaning along the way
but by and large I have found the
repetitive nature and close concentration required
to be quite therapeutic in an odd way
It would appear though that that ship has now sailed
frustration and distraction appear to be the key words
and any sort of powers to stick in there
and concentrate for extended periods of time
has somehow fallen out of my brain
or perhaps it
has been obliterated by the madhouse that my house has veered into
The highlight for the madhouse portion of my week was just the other evening
I am quietly trying to get in and do
some pencil colouring over the watercolour layer
well maybe not exactly quietly doing it as I was singing along
to some Pearl Jam at the same time
hence its title
Pearl Jam Peony
and on that note
it turns out Pearl Jam is not that conducive to fine delicate pencil work
perhaps something slightly more restful and calming would have been more appropriate
you live and learn these things...
aaannnyway...
Sinus comes in and announces he is going to the bathroom
as only men do
to which I replied with the standard
have fun
and turned back to my work all the while marvelling at the need for men
to share these sorts of things with us
next I know I hear a squeal from the kitchen
a yell of its all over me which had emanated from a rather
distressingly high pitched male voice
and then these words uttered by the daughter
Well if you need an emergency appendectomy, that is where you want to land....
I did sit for a minute and consider all the possible scenarios
that could have led to this statement
but in the end I abandoned my work and headed to the kitchen to find
Matt dancing around trying to get something off his shirt
from under his arm mind you
like all down the side of this shirt
and
Phoebe staring at a rather large splodge of hand sanitiser
that had been squirted across the kitchen floor
She looks up and gestures to it
and says
again
good place for an emergency appi
and walks off like that is a completely normal statement
Matt then spends the next three minutes explaining
how the kitchen hand sanitiser
had somehow attacked him
and spewed half its contents across the floor
which was now attracting the attention of the dog
who decides maybe he should taste this goo
and leads to us jumping around trying to shoo him away and clean it up
which he of course thinks is just about the best game ever invented...
this example leads me to the conclusion
that my life is somewhat out of control
when something as ordinary as a trip to the bathroom by the husband
can lead to this sort of chaos
and why on earth you would need to use the hand sanitiser in the kitchen
when there is a perfectly good one in the bathroom is beyond me
one of the mysteries of life I suppose
it is a miracle I achieve anything at all really...
So on that note
and also
and hope you will head over to have a look at what
everyone has been up to in their hopefully
much saner worlds...xx