The Gypsy on Adventure

Fear...just have to walk through the fire

Day 2 of 31 days of blogging with Effy

Part of my art anxiety was actually doing paint to canvas. That whole, who the crap do I think I am, an artist? Yes, I have always thought of myself as an artist. No I am not van Gogh but I enjoy working in paint, I enjoy the art I do. Honestly, I don't care if I ever sell a thing, it IS the process of creating art that fills my soul up!

View from the side of my house

Dream She-shed

Part of my frustration has been not having a studio. When we moved into our forever house, I compromised with not having an out building, and a smaller home to stay within our budget, I don't want my studio IN my house. I create a mess and like to leave it...too long. Also, I want to keep our guest room a place for people to come and visit us. In our last place my studio/family room got way out of hand, I lost 3 girl friends and inherited some of their supplies plus mine and I was completely overwhelmed until we moved. I stopped having people over because the house was old, and it looked like a hoarder lived there.  Plus, inside our house, they put new carpet before we moved in...so I didn't think of painting inside the house. But I have been here over a year, and I am no closer to getting my She-shed studio, 90% of my stuff is still in the storage pod.  

This will be my view when I get the She-shed up. They are more expensive than I thought they were, and I am going to look into them building it on a trailer frame. For 2 reasons: 1 if we move I can take it with me, and 2nd, if it is on a trailer frame it won't be attached to my house taxes being raised.

For the last two years I have only been doing watercolors since it is so portable. I did get my portable art table up near my window, to the incredible view I am SO grateful for! And I have started to paint! On canvas! I have been working in my 2019 Journal as well. So my living room now looks like an artist lives here who is messy! gah...but I can't NOT do extensive art anymore...my soul needs this work.

Trying to figure it out

Here is the tough thing about learning how to travel when you really have never traveled before...I brought too much, I pared down, and pared down again...I am still having trouble finding things I need and where the hell to put it all. Today WGB and I went to the stores to try to find a Patio Storage Bin, we found one so WGB and Vernon put it together when we got back to his place and it fits perfect in the back of the truck. We were getting some rain so some things needed to be covered...And while they were putting it together I played with Twinkle.

We had a ton of food left over from the party last night so no cooking!!! Giggle

We went to the Skate Park for a little while to get out of the house and let the dog go play!

           

Enjoying Twinkle before we take off. She was SO cute, she took me on a tour of her room and wanted to play with me!

 

It is all about love

We woke up early and started to make sure that the house was clean, then we decorated it for the party. Started to put the drinks and food out. Of course I could not find my battery and charger for the Canon camera so I was glad that I had my Nikon with me!

The one thing I love about a Mexican and Phillipino family party is the food! We all seem to show our love by food! We had SO MUCH FOOD! OMG so good!  The baby loved the party was super tired by the end of it! The Pinata was so cute! How fun!!!

It was a success and I think we all had fun! Bubbles good food and fish in the pinata for Twinkle!

 

Prep for party

Mizz V and I went to the store to pick up favors for the kids coming to the party tomorrow, and last minute decorations. It is going to be a Hawaiian theme, the baby loved Hawaii when they went last month.

I am getting annoyed not being able to find things. I am trying to consolidate my stuff...I am feeling a bit overwhelmed.

We cleaned the house some for the party tomorrow. Trying hard to just be flexible and go with the flow. I am starting to feel nervous about the party...

Love

We are trying to recover. Didn't sleep great but that is the story of my life.  My entire body hurts. Just trying to enjoy the time with the kids and the baby. The baby started to warm up to me. When I was telling my son I had to leave my plants (especially the ones Lucy gave me) I started to cry. So WGB took off to go pick them up in Mountain View. I wish he would not have done that...but he insisted.

Mizz V had to go on a girls trip and my son had to go to work so I got to babysit Twinkle! Since she had warmed up to me it all went really well! She is really into her big bouncy balls, and totally into fish! We are watching Dory a lot!  She is cute as a button!

WGB was able to get the plants and my rose and made it to Chris and Brian's again by 11 pm...of course he hit commute traffic trying to get back to Grass Valley. At least he got a nice nights sleep!

My arms hurt so bad they cannot be lifted up!

Moving along

Love my friends. I am so lucky to have them!  This morning Maryanne came over to help me and brought lunch. Then Dale and Jan came by to take some of my plants. I can't handle the thought of my beautiful plants being tossed out without a care. The took my 4 orchids that Fan's mom gave me, my 2 hydrangia, my mini myers lemon tree, the flowers in the tea cup planter, my special orange iris, and my pixie, fence, and dragonflys, some frogs and plant movers too. SO happy they could take some of my babies

Then Maryanne and I packed the Art White cabinet up and ready to be placed in the POD. That was a hell of a job! I could not get through my life without my friends! I have a hell of a support system! I am so grateful and lucky!

I had a lot of stuff packed in here including my wax pot and sewing items and spinning items.

 

The kids sent a photo of Twinkle to give me a little bright spot during the day. She is with daddy in his office...