Painting Party

The decorating continues.  After the laboursome task of papering and painting the studio, Boo has decamped into said finished room to allow for the painting of her room, in a calming (hopefully) salmon pink tint.  Several coats are required to cover the blue that we started with, and all we all muck in at various points in the proceedings... muck being the operative word with Boo of course, who decides to participate in her dressing up clothes.  I did snap a pic of her engaged in the activity but I would like to point out that this lasted all of a minute, before the walking disaster area was encouraged to leave the area, meanwhile trampling out a touch of salmon on her slippers.  

Things are much calmer of Sunday evening, with a bottle of vinto tinto and a more efficient painter in the form of Dadda Boo, although he should learn to bend over with his knees not with his back, which was suffering at the end of the activity.

Just also wanted to show you this bit of creativity, which emerged from Dadda Boo's  workshop at the weekend, newly equipped with a woodworking vice.   

I love this little boat, which Boo has been enjoying sailing in her bath and along the hallway during the daytime.  This is just the prototype apparently, there are plans for trying out different specifications in future models.  I love it when things are being made in the house, especially when its not just me making them!

I am celebrating my return to yoga classes this weekend, now being able to drive myself there as I have a driving licence.  Life looks a whole lot different in North Vancouver when you can get yourself around and I returned to the Body Harmony yoga studio with a feeling of returning home, and of finding the link that's been missing since we moved house a few months ago.  Maybe yoga and knitting will ease my passage through this period of frustration I am experiencing.  I came across Bad Annas, a knitting shop in Vancouver that does mum and kid knitting time, which I would really like to try out, and a teacher likened knitting to yoga, a moving meditation.  For me its a slowing down and a  focus, perhaps taking oneself out of the chattering mind a little.   

Comments

[Leah Beecher]

I found your post about returning to yoga class, and the connection between yoga and knitting as "moving meditation".
I have been doing yoga myself for nearly a year, and love it. I am currently trying to learn embroidery, as an attempt to find slow and mind-full creative outlet.
Embroidery is not coming easily, and causing frustration and stress (I don't like it when I can't get something).
Do you still do yoga?

Cheers,
Leah
of manyslices

[Cath Hughes]

Hi Leah
I'm afraid yoga isn't making into my life right now, which is something I definitely need to change (esp with postnatal slack belly!). I was doing some prenatal classes but they gave way to running club sessions for my hubby who was training for a half marathon. I can't imagine I'll be making it back to a yoga studio for a while, but I have some postnatal yoga DVDs it's definitely time to crack open.
I've never really done embroidery so can appreciate the frusration - I feel like that with knitting sometimes - but when it's flowing I find it meditative.
Happy sewing!
Cath