A quiet week.

Woke up last Saturday morning in mid sentence with myself....." if the pictures would be better with white frames?"  Obviously thinking about the Boundaries 2 opening event set for the afternoon and whether my pictures would stand up for themselves next to the other 10 exhibitors.  Pondered all morning and asked Amo what she thought on the way there.  As I walked in the gallery the first words out of my mouth were "Sharon should the frames be white?" She responded with "We were discussing the same thing yesterday... and yes." Bleugh.

Bearing in mind that after months of concentrating on MY painting this is meant to be M's week and I am supposed to be cosseting him, this is how the rest of the week played out:

Sunday ordered new frames on tinternet using notes made during organising stuff for showing and started painting the 3 frames I had.  Made some chocolate chip cookies to try and earn some brownie points.

Hated Monday (4th July) a bad day in my calendar.  We always used to celebrate with a huge fourth of July party (thank you Walter) and also my sister's birthday (she would have been 62 this year).

Tuesday my frame pieces arrived nice and early, fixed them together and rushed off to have glass cut. Lovely Mike managed to turn them round in 45 minutes. Also spent some considerable time filling my new box with my pastels.


Wednesday set off good and early (for me) 9 a.m., to take new frames to L'Artishe in Swanage. No- one there - for good reasons - one of those emergencies that always occur when you don't have time for it, so came home a very unhappy bunny. Sixty miles and three hours wasted.





Thursday, set off much later after having phoned ahead to make sure someone was there.  My painted frames were perfect - yes the paintings did look better, BUT the new frames with glass were all too small.  AAAAGH. (I later discovered that I had ticked the wrong box I needed glass size not exact size). Went out and bought a saw to cut the back boards to the correct size, then had to cut each pastel drawing in its mount down by 1.5 cm all round. I finally finished at 4pm.  Hung everything and yes it does look better, but there really has to be an easier way.




Friday - morning - committed (haha) to hanging the local art exhibition in Tarrant Hinton Village Hall. Gilly Hesketh and I worked like stink for 2 hours and were quite pleased with ourselves. The exhibition is only on for two days but they had around 60 visitors in that time and raised quite a bit for local charities.



Friday - afternoon -severely exhausted, did not know what to do with myself and going back to bed was not an option. Set off across the yard planning to get out some tools and set to in the garden which has been sadly neglected this year, but instead of turning left into the garden shed somehow managed to turn right and into the barn where my prepared painting boards are stored. Lightbulb moment, I think I'll do a painting!!!!! I know there is one rattling round in that head of mine just waiting to come out

This was the board at the end of Friday - quite eye popping.








Saturday around a visit to Chettle village Fete






And Sunday  - the view out of my window, 6 foot tall cow parsley - I have never seen anything like
it, besides they should have finished flowering over a month ago.


Several other things happened during the week, but I think this is quite long enough.