Some work

Of a kind- at last!
Strange few days but some drawing out of an idea has begun- just waiting on the silk fibres I have ordered so I can start playing with it more tangibly.
Had this idea for another mask- I like masks a lot for a number of reasons. The metaphor of a mask is an interesting one - the one we hide behind? Or perhaps simply a layer of persona- albeit a persona we might not acknowledge in our public lives.

For some reason while thinking about masks and forests and the like this image came out of my pencil- a spirit of the forest perhaps? Who knows but I am sort of looking to expand that idea a little with silk paper leaves and a mask..... wonder what will happen?
Here goes nothing

SOLD!

We sold our house yesterday and got more than we had dared hope after the way the market had softened in the past two months.
This past week has been an exercise in not going crazy- we-ell any crazier than I am already!! lol If I hadnt added that M.O.T.H would have :-)
We decided during the week not to be greedy- and the good karma seems to have paid off. Our home has been bought by a couple with two young daughters so it will be a family home again- a tad bittersweet in some ways but we are really pleased about that because the street is turning back into one of young families. When we arrived here it was one of older people many of whom have moved on in one way or the other. We will miss our neighbours a great deal to be completely honest but it was time for us to move on or we would have never done it.
Our Real Estate lady was brilliant- none of the smarm of the blokes I have come across and her honesty was refreshing to say the least. She admitted to me afterwards that like me she thought it was not going to sell because bidding was so slow initially. I left the room I was in to listen to the auction because it was killing me and I had only gone a few feet and the price had risen by 50,000 dollars!! It rocketed off yippee.
So tropics here I come and now after the end of this week when the buyers have had their second inspection I can FINALLY get down to some work for me- Yipppeee ki yay LOL

The countdown

in three hours and seven days we will know for certain if we have sold the house.
Since we had the first open for inspection there have been about 40 people at each opening on average which is very interesting and we have received a credible offer on the house. The opinion however is that we can get more at the auction.
Not that I am looking forward to that process at all- rather nerve shredding to say the least.
We have had a fortnight of non work on the place- even to the extent of not cooking during the weekends because it might mess up the kitchen LOL and the rest of the time I have been catching up on much needed sleep.
I am hoping this week to start some work for myself as such even though the majority of my art supplies are locked in a girlfriends garage as part of the decluttering process- we are living in a display home and I have re read all of the books we kept in the shelves as part of the display process so I am rapidly getting bored as there is little else I can do to amuse myself without making a mess.
I am going to spend this week making pages for a book that I am going to ask attendees of a party to put their contact details on and decorate -or not- to their desire and bind them all with chicago screws in a cover I am planning at the moment- that I can manage without too much mess and being able to pack things away if needed if someone wants an inspection during the week.

But just trying to stay calm is not easy but the pics are the results of the work I have done over the past 5 months or so -oops 'we' LOL M.O.T.H objects!!

Time to stand up

and be counted

As much as I would love to visit China because of its cultural heritage I cannot bring myself to do it and certainly not during the best bit of propaganda they have ever had handed to them the Olympic Games.
Anyone notice a sense of irony here considering what went on in 1980?