A different kind of painting

Lately I've been doing a lot of painting. Not the canvas kind though, I've been painting walls! I finally got a condo!
I had been looking for a year, and lost out on many of them. Finally the perfect one came along and I wasn't about to let some ugly walls ruin the deal. I have taken on the big job of painting all the walls.
I decided to go with a color scheme of my cat Lily. Cream, taupe and blue. Plus my black furniture will add to the whole siamese feel. So far I have the walls painted cream and my bedroom is blue. The sun room will be taupe.
In the photo above, I wanted to see what a big babushka painting would look like :) I painted it just for fun before I finished painting the wall.
Thanks for being patient while I continue to suit up my new place.
Hugs to all!

Feelin' HOT HOT HOT!

WOW! Is it ever HOT here!!! We are on day 4 of a heat wave here in Toronto. I am soooo grateful to have air conditioning. Just walking to the post office wipes me out. It's like an oven out there!

When I was a kid I would swim in the pool at our condo every single day. I swam like a fish. Now that I have to wear glasses 24/7 I can't go swimming. Plus, I don't like what the chlorine does to my skin and hair.

Back then I didn't care! My hair was knotted and bleached out from the sun. I remember I had a swim suit that had little Canadian maple leaves down the sides. I was SO TANNED that where those little white leaves were I got a tan. Little tanned maple leaves down my sides. I remember I also had a barbie doll that would tan in the sun. Do you remember that doll? I can't remember her name, but she was so cool! After about 10 minutes in the sun, the barbie would have tan lines.

HA! I just found the commercial on youtube:



My newest painting is a mermaid. The best thing to be this time of year!
Up for grabs on ebay.

Wild and Wooly

Well folks, it's been a wild and wooly few days here in Toronto. First off we had an earthquake here. Not a big one, but one big enough to make the pictures on my wall swing back and forth. One big enough to make my cat Lily's tail puff up in fear for 10 minutes. I have been through 2 other earthquakes and none lasted as long as this one. It was probably about 15 seconds long. The others I felt lasted about 5 seconds. It kind of freaked me out that it wasn't stopping right away. No harm was done and everything went right back to normal.

Then the G20 summit came to town...



The above photo is taken from my balcony. It was taken moments before the riots broke out. You may have heard about the riots. They were all happening right outside my home. A little nerve racking to say the least.
I am hoping that tomorrow everything will be back to normal and I can go back to my day to day life. Minus any natural disasters or mass hysteria :)

Happy Summer!

Happy Summer! I think I'm a day or two late wishing you that, but that's okay. You were probably too busy soaking in the sun to notice :)
Just stopping in to let you know I've added some brand new prints to my etsy shop tonight. All your new favorites are there!

Time to go outside and enjoy this warm weather!
Talk to you soon!