Thursday, October 21, 2010

Family Woes

In keeping with the family tradition of never doing things by half - elder son has his results back from the MRI .... Grade 3 tear on two of the knee ligaments and surgery is next.

He sees the doctor and worker's comp people today to find out when; luckily for me he has been down at his partner's home since it happened 2 weeks ago so I don't have to 'mother' him...lol. Not sure yet how long he will be off recuperating or how long he will have to wait until surgery.

The Abi spent the night at hospital - croup!

Never rains it pours in this family ... Abi with croup now, her Dad with a broken foot and now her uncle into hospital for repairs to knee....lol.

The good news is that M is over her flu - just in time to look after Abi - hopefully that's it!

I finally got my gouache plus a few extras this week when I took a trip to the Art Supplies shop - my I love going in there - like a kid in a candy store but I thought I was very restrained and only bought some pastels (they were only $10 on special) and a sheet of 850gsm paper which weren't on my shopping list.

The cat gave them the once over and declared them safe to use so I am ready to go.

I have never used pastels before - I had a small box of them and now this new lot - but I have seen some beautiful works done with them.  I will have to get some paper suitable for them and experiment.  Check out this site for some examples; you will go to my stuff then you can wander through the site and be amazed as some of the wonderful work.


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