The Royal Wedding

Congratulations to HRH Prince William Duke of Cambridge and his beautiful bride Catherine Duchess of Cambridge. I was glued to the TV yesterday and and since my husband wasn't all that interested in the wedding, he took the littlie into the garden and kept him amused (mostly trampoline bouncing I believe). 
I have to say though I cant chastise him too much for his lack of interest in our future monarch, because not only did he afford me the time to watch the wedding, have a diet blowing lunch of little sandwiches and dainty cakes, but he also bought me a new ring, since I don't have an engagement ring (I did have one, but its a long story). Some of you may recognize the ring it is modeled after.
Have a lovely bank holiday everyone.

The Seaside

Did I mention the nursery we viewed was at the seaside? My husband and myself went to school in this small place and spent many summer holidays on the beach there. It makes it all very seductive. The nursery was quite small, the building and the number of children (18 to be precise), which I think will work better for the littlie. He is not used to large volumes of people around him, so a big nursery would possibly be very overwhelming.
The first place opens up in July so we have put our name down for it. I can foresee the littlie asking to be taken to the beach park instead though because he had a wonderful time there, just the two of us, this afternoon.

Choices

Lately I have had to make some tough choices, some good, some bad and some undecidedly neither as yet. Today, my husband the littlie and I are off to look over a nursery. It is in a lovely area and in the middle price range of the private nursery sector, but of course that doesn't mean it is necessarily any better than any other nursery. It doesn't mean I want to 'leave' my son in the hands of strangers 1 or 2 days a week. It also doesn't mean my son will want to stay there. What I do know right now, is that I will benefit from 2 days a week to work on my creative endeavors and he will benefit from the company of other children. Both of these things are dependent on both of us being willing to let go of each other, just a little bit. What a choice to make.

A Lovely Weekend

Well first of all, the trampoline was a huge success. I don't have any photos just now because they are still on my husbands iphone. He is going to put them on to a 'dropbox' account or something, I have no idea what it is but as soon as I have some photo's I will post them up.
I hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend. We had a very relaxing time and even though it rained for a while, it coincided with our egg decorating and the littlies afternoon nap so it wasn't too bad. My husband had Monday off work too so I even managed to fit in some painting. Its a 3 day week for him this week because he is off again for the Royal Wedding on Friday (and May Day on the following Monday), so its probably going to be next weekend before we know it.

Here is the littlie in his Easter Crown, the winner of the egg decorating contest won the crown and a little prize. Funny how the crown fitted the 'winner' like a glove ;)

I Love The Sun On Our Backs

Our back garden is a reasonable size, big enough for the wee guy to play in, but unfortunately its fairly shaded for most of the day. This tends to make it quite cold for most of the day, until we hit late July early August, then it is warm enough in general to play in the shade. By comparison, the front garden (we live in a 1950s terraced house), is quite small, and very overlooked, in fact its on a main bus route and every Tom, Dick and Harry peers in to the garden and the lounge window (to my 'great' annoyance). The front garden however, is very very warm, a veritable sun-trap in fact. So, despite being a bit shy and a bit paranoid, I take the littlie out into the front garden to play, because out there, he is able to do this.

We have had such excellent fun the last few days, I only hope the weather stays good, because my husband was in the back garden until 11.20pm last night building a 6ft trampoline. As I am typing this in the lounge, the littlie is running between the lounge and the dining room (terrorizing the cats), and as yet he hasn't looked out of the sliding doors in the dining room. When he does, he will see a hulking great trampoline taking up most of the garden. Its amusing me no end that he hasn't noticed it yet. I will let you know how it goes tomorrow. In the mean time, here is a round up of the last few days.

Wednesdays Most Wanted

Well, it should be fashion, but like I said before, I get bored very easily. If truth be told, I have been busy looking at artists blogs and websites and not had time to fit in fashion as well. So, here are some of my 'most wanted' artists, in the style of Pop Surrealism.

Aunia Kahn - HERE

Esao Andrews - HERE

Ania Tomicka - HERE

Brandi Milne - HERE

James Jean - HERE

Joshua Petker - HERE

Fantasy

I am still painting and researching for my new project 'Pop Surrealism'. I have an ideas for a whole series of paintings. Its funny, once I started sketching, all of these ideas came tumbling out, and it has been difficult deciding what to leave out as opposed to what to put in. Can you tell it has engaged me? The old problems are ever present, no time to fit it in. The littlie didnt go to sleep until 9pm last night, and by then I was fairly pooped myself. In my fantasy world, I would have all the time in the world to play with my son all day long, and as the sun sets I would sip a glass of wine while listening to some light jazz on the radio and be painting away in my fabulous studio. Yeah! fantasy.
And talking of fantasy, I found a wonderful artist on my internet research travels. I think her work is a bit of a fusion of fantasy art and pop surrealism, which to me at least, are 2 different categorys. Please take a look at her work it is wonderful. ANIA TOMICKA