Hi all,
I am having a little freak out. The scary type...The bulletin which is a newspaper in
Australia is comming to do an interview on me at the end of August.
The feature is in the Amazing homes section and the people who live in them. I have never considered my place to be an amazing home.
Since my son passed on in 2005, I have just lived like a hermit I don't have visitors,
my boyfriend is the only person I have really let come over. My main contact with the outside world is the internet my art lessons with kids who are a safe haven, I did go to an art opening earlier this year. But I have to wear a mask and pretend all is ok and I haven't really done much to the house or garden, and its 2 and half acres of it!
You need to nuture a garden and I just haven't had the motivation to really lift a finger. It has
been hard enough just to keep up with orders etc., Most of the time I have just been painting my way through this grief.
I am thinking it is probably a good thing in a way as I will have to put it back and fix it pretty like it was before.
Maybe the universe is forcing me pick myself up. I did some weeding yesterday, It is all a bit overwhelming. I am handling his loss a little better than before.
I do think my garden is special. I started it 20 years ago. Mostly all from cuttings.
I have a secret garden.. always loved that movie. Every plant in the garden flowers white. I did that
I think because I live with so much colour inside the house as well as the art.
The secret garden takes up about half an acre It is a huge circle with two archway entrances.
I created that garden for my sons to get married in....one day.
My house is 100 years old and even though I've lived there for a long time it is still not finished.I took all my stuff out of the studio and am painting in the house because it is just too cold at the moment to be down there. There is a fireplace but it is the open type and just uses too much wood. So my studio doesn't even look like a proper arty place at the moment.
I have an orange lounge room and a purple/lavendar dining room. I think they are just going to
think it's all too wierd. I know some people come in and think it is amazing and some other people come in and think it is a freaked out hippy home.
One part of me wants to do it as the publicity as it would be fantastic, the other part of me want to
say no and just keep hiding a little longer. I don't know whether I can motivate myself to get it all together in time.


Huggs! Seems like my kind of place! I would love to see pictures!
Ruby~V.08:48 PM CST