I thought putting my latest creation up here might encourage me to paint more, sorry about the photo it is a little wonky, but the painting is hanging up in the front door area and I couldn't get a better angle. At the moment I am just painting to decorate our house which is very bland with hardly any pictures on the wall. Also painting pictures for family presents, poor people, when you give someone a painted picture they feel obliged to hang it up even if they don't like it. But we have a rule for grown up Christmas presents, that we only give presents that we made. It makes you think and be a little creative and so much fun.
Rant of the day - Whitcoulls book pricing
I was in central Wellington today, not a common occurance in my world as I don't really like it. I had an appointment but also wanted to look for a certain book or set of books for my daughter. They are Dora reading books that come in levels and encourage word recognition etc. They are only thin books of about 10 pages each, I have seen them in Palmerston North for $4.50 each. Well today I went to two city Whitcoulls, to find that the same books were $8.99 in one shop and $10.99 in another. HELLO they are only 10 pages long and of average paper stock etc. How can they justify the price tag of $10.99. Esspecially when at the Whitcoulls online store you can get a 12 pack of these books for just $23 dollars. If you are wondering the reason I was looking in the shops is that I haven't seen many and I want to see what they are like before ordering them online, plus if they were as cheap or close I would have brought them instore. I couldn't b...
That's gorgeous!
ReplyDeletewow!!!I wish I was that talented!!!
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Just found your blog while looking for some Kiwi blogs.... you are very talented. Do you sell your paintings at all?
ReplyDeleteThank you, i have done in the past but have trouble actually getting them painted at the moment. the one above is in our house but would always be on sale for the right amount lol.
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