weekend

over. i painted three layers of white trim in the purple room only to have it peel off when i took off the masking tape ... i have left the rest of the tape on as the room looks better with it still on than the peeling weird-ness that is the neat crisp edge i was aiming for ..damn humidity ... and my inability to be clever with house painting. Rachael once told met that the cleaner you are at the end of the day after painting the better painter you are (in regards to house painting that is) I am always a total mess.

We are also battling with head lice .. a gross topic i know but widespread up here and for most of the locals nothing they worry about but, and really this is the most interesting thing about nits, they make kids crabby. Its a Official Side Effect - grumpiness. This strikes me as kinda strange but cool and certainly a good explanation for iggy's mood swings of late ...

i gots to talk to my nieces on skype on the weekend (and sisters too). The eldest started school today, they are both so gorgeous and growing up, and i miss them! boo, made me homesick...

but now it is monday and ...

Kade had a moment at work with a exhibition he initiated confirmed in the US ..in Idaho no less and right on the 30th December... i am working on my excuses for why i need to accompany him there ... the fact that jon bon jovi attended the last opening is excuse enough for me  ha! shot to the heart!

(how far is idaho from mn again?)

The print space is guns a-blazing producing all kinds of new work - some really mind-blowingly awesome and some ...  not. I get the honour to try and pick colours to make the prints mind-blow and that tis a challenge indeed. I try not to let my personal colour predijuces intervene as then everything would be printed grey... or close too. Certainly there would be nothing purple.  Today we did a yellow and pink print - and it is sweet and lovely so ...

It is almost april - i can hardly believe it , we have been here close on 3 months... way back in january a lady at iggy's daycare told me that time here is different . I am beginning to think she might be right... timeflies and i don't know if it is because it feels like perpetual summer or because i don't have any real engagements to attend or because i am never late for anything coz i am never in traffic trying to get there or because i don't get txt messages anymore or because people just ain't busy here but somehow one or all of those things make time fly .. go figure ...

in anycase, it is almost april and i might be needing a city fix soon.. bring on may i say

we have kade's folks arriving on thursday so we get to show off ... and around ...  our first guests! excitement!  wonder how they feel bout painting ....

and now, after that grand ramble, some more photos of my kids and some multi coloured prawn crackers