Paint Party Friday - Lovely Nails

Welcome to Paint Party Friday! This is a greeting card (5 1/2" x 4 1/4") done in watercolour pencil, called 'Lovely Nails'.

At the Hairdresser

My sister recently sent me this photo of sunset at the Florida Keys.


I was at my hairdresser's last week, a new magazine had just arrived. It's 'Fashion' magazine. Flipping through the pages I was shocked at the prices of some of the clothes the models were wearing. The dresses were well over $3,000 dollars and the shoes were over $800.

I heard that some people are  throwing their census forms in the garbage  in their apartment buildings. Hmm, this is not good.

A customer sitting beside me was telling the hairdresser that her friend was using molasses in her hair as a treatment to ward off grey hair.  Hmm, I don't know about this one!

Jurassic Park

We happened to be downtown Toronto this past weekend and passed by the Air Canada Centre where game 7 of the NBA Basketball Conference semifinals between the Toronto Raptors and the Miami Heat were in progress. I took these photos for you. The area where the fans are standing is called Jurassic Park. People who don't have tickets to the game can watch from this area on a huge jumbotron. The Raptors won convincingly and will advance to the Eastern finals for the first time ever.  They are not expected to win against the Cleveland Cavaliers but they've done well anyway.

Spot the Squirrel

Can you spot the happy squirrel in these photos?

I watched the movie 'Age of Adaline' recently and enjoyed it.  It's a 2015 fantasy/drama starring Blake Lively and Harrison Ford.

Sad News in the Neighbourhood

Husband M and I were out walking last week and I took these blooming spring flowers for you.

Tulips

Magnolia

In a bit of a shock, husband M discovered last week that our next door neighbour (the wife), died at the end of January this year. I had made a blog post regarding a neighbourhood emergency at that time. It seems she died later that day in hospital, she had just turned 60.  The woman had been ill since last June, but I thought she had recovered. The house has been sold and M saw the husband outside last week and was able to speak with him at length. The good thing is that she was not in pain, it sounds like heart failure to me.  Ironically, his mom lived with them and she is fine. 

I found this blog post from last June I had made concerning our neighbour. And shortly afterward, I made this other post, where we thought she would be ok. The couple had been married 40 years.  We are in a bit of a shock.

Sunday Sketches - Coffee Cup Art

Welcome to Sunday Sketches!  I did some coffee cup art for you today, I decided to paint this magnolia bud on a coffee cup sleeve in acrylic, outlined in waterproof pencil. I have it displayed in various ways in the photos above. 

Homemade Sushi

Daughter L had received a sushi making kit as a birthday gift and decided to try making her own sushi.  It was delicious, especially for a beginner!