Furniture Jenga...

The renovations continue... endlessly

 but it is certainly getting to a stage where I can kind of see the end in sight

 The continued chaos is fuelling my need to exert control somewhere 

  so my paintings are continuing to lean towards realism to soothe my poor frazzled brain

 and I am loving the progress on this one... I might even get to finish it later

There may be more realism to come though

as we aren't going to be done for a few more weeks yet

demolition and reconstruction continues at breakneck speed

 but soon we will at least have the right things in the right room again

at the moment it requires us to move things from one to another as walls are demolished, doors moved and different rooms are worked on

it is sort of like a giant furniture and homewares game of Jenga

I have always been a fan of Jenga

not that I have skills in this arena...I am actually pretty rubbish if truth be told.

My Dad however, is scarily good at it

he blitzed us all one Christmas night a few years ago.

Now on one hand as a retired builder you would hope he would be good at it

but his nicknames, courtesy of Sinus, are either Thumbs, or Knuckles 

and the man has never met a tablecloth that he didn't feel the need to spread crumbs over

or a floor he didn't like to drop something on, and he does have a noticeable, albeit slight, hand tremble so you would think he could have been picked off like low hanging fruit

but no... he was a bloody genius at it

I however excel at dishwasher Jenga... and fridge Jenga

I can stack things in those suckers like no one else.

it is a weird savant type ability as I have no spatial awareness to speak of

and don't even mention depth perception

but somehow fridge and dishwasher Jenga are my thing

perhaps I got more from Dad than just my hair

which showed up as it grew in post chemo and led to him walking in one day and me realising we were sporting matching hair cuts... like exactly! 

same colour, sticking up in the same places... the whole hair shebang...

I had hoped my fridge Jenga prowess would transfer to furniture jenga 

to make the furniture moving for the renovations a bit easier

but I totally suck at it... turns out a large chair on a small pouf doesn't work

well it works if you like a cascade of chair and objects with the first gust of wind

but even I didn't believe myself when I said that was my objective

So I will continue to leave furniture jenga to the experts and will retreat to the studio to attempt to finish this painting

happy painting all...xx