The painting remains untouched... and so does the first one I started a few weeks ago. Both nearly finished but abandoned at the finishing line... we'll get them sorted eventually I keep telling myself...
I've been doing my best to keep my very ridiculously busy workload in check and really use some of my 'sort out life' time wisely but it's an ever elusive goal. I swear my friends and family deserve gold medals for all the therapy they're pumping out my way to help heal from all of this life upheaval.
On another impossible-esq task we finally found a nice giftie for my mum for her 60th birthday. It's no small feat as she hates spas... has more clothes than madonna and isn't one for any fussy luxuries... yet we wanted to get her something symbolic for this birthday as it's quite the milestone. So after searching and re-confirming that we have VERY expensive taste we settled for this lovely ring we found at tiffany's. We LOVED the gold one but the price did not LOVE us... the silver one is beautiful too. It's got 5 bands... symbolizing one for each of her daughters and grand daughters. It's delicate and timeless. We just hope she likes it as she's not worn any jewelry since my father died and she stopped wearing her wedding band. We where kind of hoping she loved it and would wear it every day as a reminder of all her girls and how much we love her!
The Elsa Peretti wave five-row ring (pretty!)It was so funny to enter into a shop like Tiffany's. If you know me it's something that I'm sure you can't imagine me ever doing... nor quite frankly likely to ever do again... But I found it fascinating the diamonds. I had no idea they existed like that. I mean i've seen some real whoppers worn by some ladies while I was working down in South Kensington when I was living in London and such but wow, to see them like that in the shop I was really dazzled. I was a small bit saddened as the little canadian girl in me I guess has the princess dream still flickering in the back of my mind that one day I'll get married and be given a lovely ring (not that i could even fathom the likes of these ones) but that I would have that *gasp* moment with someone I really loved... the realist in me is very quick to refute this ridiculous fantasy as it's simply so wasteful in spending what could surely be considered a solid down payment on a house on a shiny rock... It's all just a bit ridiculous and showy really... but I am happy for the people to whom it brings joy to them for having such things. The biggest value to me would be a person who love and adored me as I did them and wanted to spend their life with Sienna and I (no shiny rocks required)... and that my friends would be the greatest gift in the world... no small task of course... well we'll just store that away in the pipe dream file for the time being...
good days and bad, good days and bad.
*deep breath*
