21 Years and 1 Day ....

I know that I said I was going to be absent online due to cleaning

but we headed up the coast to the beach

for a good old break away to get ourselves in the mental space needed

to attack the monumental reorganization that the house needs

and ended up staying a bit longer than we had originally planned

despite the fact that it absolutely bucketed with rain the whole time

in fact that was kind of nice

basically we sat around read books, chilled out, napped

drank tea and I even did a bit of painting of the amazing present I got for Easter

which was a wonderful Tea forte set from one of my favourite haunts, Susan's

and even though I couldn't bring it with me which meant the colours were a touch off

it was nice to fill in the line drawing I had done before leaving

and outside of that we did bugger all which was truly magnificent

I had had grand plans for doing a bit of sketching and painting at the beach

but it really was bloody awful weather

and I am not such a hardy soul that I would head out into rain to paint

so I did some little sketches in my sketchbook using a magazine as inspiration

and discovered there is such a thing as wine flavoured tea in the US of A

I am kind of becoming obsessed at the thought of it

though I am a tad worried it will turn out like the chocolate flavoured tea debacle

and be all sorts of wrong

but I am hoping someone out there has given it a try

and can tell me how it is and save me from obsessing about it

So here we have holiday highlights

spectacularly bleak skies

wet as a shag mutt

sandy flip flops

 and a rather cold pool

but on the plus side I sent Sinus off to take some shots of the beach for me

as I am too precious to get wet remember

 and he did a sterling job... like really freakin sterling

so it turns out that my wonderful husband of 21 years and 1 day has quite the artistic eye

and it is an awesome thing that after all this time he can still surprise me

and nice he took all of these on our anniversary... very cool way to remember it

Less fab is that he has started constructing cabinets as I type which means the pressure will be on for me to start culling and sorting

which is enough to make me wish I was back at the beach even if it is still raining

Happy Paint Party Friday all ...xx