Liberate Your Art 2014 Blog Hop

You know how when you check your mailbox and all you find in it are bills and menus for the local pizza joint and a Weed Man brochure, you feel kinda gypped? Well, over the last few weeks, checking the mailbox has been way more fun than usual – every now and then, there’s been a wonderful little surprise waiting there for me :-)

After doing what I do best last year (procrastinating), this year I made sure to participate in Kat Sloma’s Liberate Your Art postcard swap. People from all around the world turn their art into postcards and send five of them to Kat. Then Kat and her trusty assistants send six postcards to every single participant. I hope they had self-adhesive stamps!

These are the postcards that I received (click the image to go to the artist’s web site)…

Midwest U.S.A.
Audrey Staples

 

Shadow Lilies
Marjorie Kinch

 

Aspen trees, Lake Tahoe
Shirina

 

Divine Magic
Suzanne Jordan Villella

 

A Case Of You
Marguerite Bryant

 

Layered Autumn
Kat Sloma

 

It’s interesting that four of the six postcards I received are nature-themed. And they all came from artists in the U.S.A.

Six of my paintings in postcard form were liberated out into the world. I wonder where their journeys ended….

Thank you Kat for creating a great way to share the art love! Looking forward to Liberate Your Art 2015 :-)

An InLinkz Link-up

Bulkhead befuddlement

Yeah, I really did say befuddlement – that’s because I’m befuddled! Our next renovation project is the basement. It’s kinda sorta finished. The walls are drywalled and painted (although the wall colour is going to change). The floor is done (although we’re ripping up the laminate and replacing it with cork). And the ceiling needs to be completely done.

The thing about basement ceilings is that there’s usually a lot going on between the joists. Plumbing pipes, ductwork, I beams… all the things you want to hide. And hiding them requires bulkheads. And that brings me to my befuddlement – how to paint the bulkheads. I originally planned to paint them the same colour as the walls.

Contemporary Basement by Ottawa Design-Build Firms Just Basements

 

Contemporary Basement by Ottawa Design-Build Firms Just Basements

Or maybe they should be painted white, like the ceiling.

Modern Kitchen by Seattle General Contractors The Alhadeff Group

 

Contemporary Kitchen by Naples Architects & Designers Weber Design Group, Inc.

Or maybe a combination of both?

Contemporary Basement by Cambridge Architects & Designers LDa Architecture & Interiors

But then I found this – what about cladding them in wood veneer…

Modern Kitchen by Austin Architects & Designers Tom Hurt Architecture

 

Do you see my befuddlement?! Which option would you choose?

 

A bit of this and that

Thanks for all the kinds words about Squirt. I miss her a lot, and I know this summer is going to be hard without my swimming buddy at the cottage. Everyone is going to ask where the “chien du lac” is. She won’t be with me in the water, but she’ll always be wit me in my heart…

On a brighter note, I’ve got some really exciting projects to share with you – two huge basement makeovers, and our master bathroom reno is FINALLY finished! Here’s a little teaser sneak peek…

Also, I’ve been going paint crazy! I’m loving the new technique that I tried out…

Sparkly Waters

 

Molten Rainbow

 

Purple Flow

And this colourful one that I just finished today…

Rainbow Explosion

 

Happy weekend!