I had a really lazy time in the garden this weekend, the kids were all brilliant and did there own thing leaving me with nothing to do but enjoy the sunshine and get on with a bit of outdoor painting!
Eloise is enjoying her first sweet summer as a teenager so I bearly see her at the mo. I’m not too upset about it though I remember it well, lazy hot days with my best friends and the sweetest notion of having nothing to do but watch the fluffy clouds flout by all summer long! Bliss…
Milly has nearly gotten over her sniffles so she was quite happy bouncing away on her new toy under the shade of a tree.
Milly in the garden
And jack was amazing, usually Jack finds it hard to amuse himself,
Case in point…
Jack, “mum I’m board…” Me, “go draw some pictures, thats what I did when I was your age,” …
five minutes later … jack, “where are the pens, where is the paper…”
another five minutes later, Jack, “Muuuum, What shall I draw?…” , you get my point!
But he seems to be growing out of it, he spent the whole weekend with a tiny toffee hammer (the only safe tool i will let him have, poor kid!) hammering away at the old bits of wood that have taken up residence down the side of the shed. He made this really cool sign for his room (just using the hammer mind!) which says “jacks room, keep out!” The artist in me could’nt resist surgesting he decorate it around the edges with some colourful buttons, but Jack and Jay just looked at me like I was a crazy, apherantly boys don’t do buttons.
He also dug out a broken chunk of a tree that I’ve been mouning at Jay to remove since before Christmas! He spent about an hour striping the bark off it.
Jack, busy, busy...
So with Milly happily bouncing, Jack chopping wood and Ellie off chilling with her mates I reveled in my new found freedom, relaxing and soaking up the sun, and painting of coarse! I managed to finish my new canvases and I’m quite pleased with them, they have a really cozy retro feel. I always try and imagine the little boy or girl that will choose them when I’m designing them, I even give them names and personalities! it sounds a little crazy but it helps me decide on the vibe for each piece.
new works...
The only downside to the whole weekend was knowing the school holidays were nearly over, when all peace and tranqility would be shattered with the sound of Monday morning shouts “mum, where’s my p.e kit?” and my personal fav, “oh no, I forgot about french homework!”…