Good heavens……….

……………………has it really been that long!!!

I have just had a couple of comments on my blog which need my permission to publish them. Thought someone had been tinkering with my settings so I took a look and realised they were set so that comments needed to be approved after 28 days!

Doesn’t time fly.

It’s been really, really hectic here lately. Lots of family stuff and other things going on (more about those later) and I have been getting everything together for a two day workshop I am giving at ArtVanGo on 23rd and 24th June. Really looking forward to it.

Totally forgot about the hangings on the last blog and must admit I haven’t actually put the backings on any of them yet.

Looks like No.4 came out on top to go in the ALQS4 swap.

Kate said I could put two in the swap which is what I am going to do and so I will give the other two away.

I numbered all the comments on the blog entry plus the two emails and put them in Random.org and this is how it came out.

Number 48 - Corryna Janssen and number 6 - Lins Artyblobs.

Many thanks for helping me decide and for all the lovely comments.

If you’d like to email me your addresses and let me know which one you would prefer out of 1, 2 and 3 I will send it off to you as soon as I can – quite possibly around the same time as I send off the ALQS ones.

As I can’t write a blog without photos these are close ups of a couple of others I needed to finish. Yes, I know, those words again – told you I would do them to death.

And then there is this one. Was aiming to try something different with the painting and this was supposed to be the undercoat but I may leave it as it is. Yes? No?

The flash has made these close ups look a different colour when they are really the same as the main photo. I am also having real trouble with my emails. For a start I have found out that several people haven’t received replies I have sent them, and some being replies to emails that I hadn’t actually received – if you can understand that bit of double-dutch.

And even more amazing is that I have received emails from way back – one was almost two years old and it’s not as if I had saved it either.

Mind you, the provider I am with is useless. Sometimes I can’t go online and sometimes it just cuts me off in the middle of a session and says there is no connection so I switch to IE and off I go again. I’ve been with the same one for about 15 years now but think it’s about time I had a change.

Just finished a brilliant book - ‘Cutting for Stone’ by Abraham Verghese. Started it twice but couldn’t get in to it but finally had to when I ran out of books and am so glad I did. Absolutely fascinating reading. Went to Waterstones on Saturday and stocked up, 6 books £32 (buy 2 get 1 free) – but what a price! Only wish I could go to the library but I have this thing where I can’t read a book that someone else has read. I’m OK with text books, it’s just novels. Even the new ones have to come from the back of the shelf – same with magazines too. Unfortunately, have passed this ‘affliction’ on to all three of my daughters. Very weird. *LOL*

And with that bit of information I will take my leave of you. :)

P.S. So what I should have said after that bit about the emails is that if you have emailed me lately and would have liked a reply and didn’t get one then please email me again – wouldn’t want anyone to think I was ignoring them. :)

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