Summer Flowers

On the weekend I spent a few hours getting all the artwork off the walls, in preparation for the house painters.  It was tiring work, I didn't realize I had so much stuff on the walls, accumulated over the years.  They said I could put some tape on the holes I want to keep and they will fill everything else.

It is a good time to declutter, so I took piles of old magazines to the recyle depot as well.  Looking at the dates of the magazines, it had been about 3 years since my last declutter.  I gave some of the more recent ones to a friend.

Then we got around to moving the big furniture pieces away from the walls...I feel so disoriented, it is unsettling!  Well, husband M misplaced his keys in the middle of it all.  Then he located them, whew!  We still have to do the upstairs!

And one of our cars is giving trouble, something is draining the battery mysteriously. It may be the bluetooth connection. It is a 7 year old car.

I've been snapping pretty flowers around the neighbourhood for you:

Sunday Sketches - more dark teal and coral

This ACEO (2 1/2"h x 3 1/3"w) is done in acrylic.  I had been experimenting with dark teal and coral for Summer of Color some weeks ago and actually did two different pieces.  I'm showing the other one here today.

Linking to Sunday Sketches.

Summer of Color - pink, apple green and dark green

I did an ACEO artist card  (2 1/2"h x 3 1/2"w) for Summer of Color this week. The colors are pink, apple green and dark green.

Paint Party Friday - Graduation Card

I made this simple graduation card to go with a gift we had for daughter L's boyfriend. It's acrylic on textured cardstock (5 1/2" h x 4 1/4"w).  Happy PPF and 4th of July to our American friends.

Wild Strawberries

I was out walking with my girlfriend S on a perfect summer day this past weekend.  She pointed out these wild strawberries growing by the roadside and assured me I could taste one which I did!  It was delicious, maybe a bit on the tart side.

Yesterday morning, daughter L was eating her breakfast in the kitchen and heard a strange, loud thud coming from the family room.  Then this bird hit the ground hard, landing on the patio stones outside.  It had obviously crashed into a window.  L said its body shuddered for a few seconds then it was dead.   I was quite upset when husband M pointed out the body.  It must have happened so quickly.  I found some small suction hooks at the dollar store and hung these snowflake ornaments I had onto them and pressed one onto each window.  It should warn the birds that is a glass window.

A Good One

Here is a good one I want to share today:



Senior Trying To Set a Password



WINDOWS: Please enter your new password.



USER: cabbage



WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.



USER: boiled cabbage



WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.



USER: 1 boiled cabbage



WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.



USER: 50bloodyboiledcabbages



WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character.



USER: 50BLOODYboiledcabbages



WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively.



USER: 50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessNow!



WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.



USER:ReallyPissedOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDontGiveMeAccessNow



WINDOWS: Sorry, that password is already in use.

Creative Tuesdays - Pig

Happy Canada Day to all the Canadians!  It's a public holiday here, celebrating Canada's 147th birthday.  It's a 'young' country.

It's time for Creative Tuesdays' 'Pig' theme! I bought this pad of textured cardstock on sale and am very pleased with it. Here is my first piece using this paper. There are about 5 different coloured textured backgrounds I can choose from. The pigs are coloured with acrylic paint.