Pearl Jam Peony

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 

I am linking this up with Paint Party Friday

and also 

Paint and Palette

and hope you will head over to have a look at what 

everyone has been up to in their hopefully

much saner worlds...xx