glazed over…
July 8th, 2009 -- Posted in domestic engineering, family, hill to haven, house to home, pain / disability, painkillers, pics | Comments OffI knew I couldn’t keep up this pace… I’m tired of being an even more brain-dead zombie than before.
The past few days, I’ve had some vision loss and other problems seeing clearly. This weekend, I had a sudden and unnerving bout of double vision as well. Which I feel contributes to my suspicions that there is a limit to how long I can spend maxed out on all my pain meds… but with so much more on my plate than there used to be, it will be difficult to cut back again.
At least the worst of the big move is over, and I am mostly done with the packing, unpacking, painting, and helping get the right things to the right rooms. I will still have to cope with extra childcare and extra cleaning than normal (more than I’m capable of without hurting myself and risking further injury, really), but I’ll tough it out as much as I can as always.
I am proud of how the house looks though, and really pleased with how the painting went. Paul did most of it, but I put together most of the colour palette and the glaze effects.
Here are some pics of the glaze techniques and a basic “how-to”:
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