fawnie update

while it's a bit too early to really tell,
and i may be seriously hoping this

i think fawn is slightly better
she isn't quite as ravenously hungry as she's been.
but we'll see, we're not out of the woods yet.
she came to bed this morning and got between the two of us to be hugged and kissed and petted, we love when the cats do this and they all do it regularly
we especially love that fawn has learned to do this, as she was always too timid before


i kept busy as i always do when i'm upset
i did heavy cleaning
moved furniture and scrubbed the studio floor
naturally it was raining
naturally the floor didn't dry
naturally calpurrnia peed on the wet floor again

naturally i am a bit upset ......to say the least
but i am still working on the floor over there
i have to say that the stuff i'm using does absolutely work.
nature's miracle doesn't
i understand that doodoo voodoo works too, as someone posted on i think knitter's review one time that they use it and a few folks seconded that.

now i am up to the point where i need to move the shelves and add some sort of privacy thing without sacrificing light to two of the windows on the north side
i've been picking up a lot of vintage chandelier prisms, so part of what i do will include them
i am considering things like ribbon streamers interspersed with prisms, hanging from a tree branch ( i like doing that as i ALWAYS have tree branches, and i can't seem to remember to pick up curtain rods)
i am also considering some either frosted glass or some colored glass panels in frames to hang there
not leaded but possibly painted
i just have some nosey ass neighbors on that side and i really do like the light from the north
if i had no neighbors i wouldn't have any window treatments except to temper climate, nothing for privacy ( we never had anything on any of the windows here until it got so overpopulated and then jackass cut the trees down)

i am also trying to figure something to separate that side of the room visually from the rest...i would put a screen or curtains but someone would pee on it
i can pretty much guarantee that
there are also lights i need to put up there (and on this side too)
i have some white christmas 'fairy' mini lights and i WANT two or three small silk lanterns and a paper star light
i know, i know......
but i have drafting table lights for working
i need the other lighting to make me feel better....i find it soothing when the sun goes down.....besides i need much more light now that i'm older
and the studio is so very dark even during the day due to the wood walls and the TREES.......

now this week is bernie's second half of his physical.....  i can't say his annual as he only goes when i nag the crap out of him.......so like once every 4-5 years
the following week is my second tooth/gum cleaning of the year...
then i have the specialist in july
oye
i am hoping that there isn't too  much we will have to deal with after my specialist appointment

meanwhile my true gesso panels arrived so i am going to be thinking of egg tempera and a subject
due to the length of time it takes to paint in egg tempera, i want to be sure about what i decide to work on
i wonder if i can do my black and white drawings then paint them in?
or just do normal paintings?
i hope in a way that i don't end up painting ducks....but really i suppose if i am playing with light and shadow, rendering form with line and color that ducks are as good as any other subject
seriously degas had dancers laying about all over the place
and monet has his famous lilies.....( i wonder if any one ever said to him....'claude, why all the lilies? how about a nice puppy or something')

i had thought i would have moved on from ducks to budgies or chickens or something but somehow i am still doing ducks. i have enough for a book as you guys know......and i am even DREAMING drawings so i best get the studio whipped back up and sit down again no?

ok one final thing before i run
happy father's day to you all who are fathers
or who have father's
or have husband's who are FANTASTIC fathers

take good care

vi