…@symatt and Carolyn Scott :D

I decided to split this up since Facebook and Twitter in some cases are split in two camps :p @symatt get the big print and Carolyn can pick out a print in a smaller size :)

So send me the info of which print you want together with your postal address in an email. There’s a form in the contact tab above if you want to use that. Otherwise you can get in touch with me via Facebook or Twitter of course.

The sooner you get in touch, the sooner the prints will be with you :)
Now it’s time to get back to work. I will be back later :)

My grandson was playing in front of the mirror when his mom took the photo’s above…heh Looks like he found himself a cute friend in that reflective surface ;)

It’s Bank Holiday Monday here and I’m bored. Want to go somewhere…anywhere but here would do just fine…but neither of us can think of any place to go, that’s the problem. Outdoors it’s kinda cold today and the sunshine we had this morning is hiding behind a very grey sky. I’m sure there’s a market in town today, but I usually end up buying stuff neither of us need, and shopping is not really my thing anyway. I might drag Robin into town anyway, but I haven’t decided just yet.

Last night when I posted the last time I completely forgot that we had a bank holiday today, so I was in the mindset of having a regular work day. Then Robin came home and pointed out that it’s a long weekend.

Anyway…we’ll see what happens. I hope you guys will have a nice day no matter where you are and what you’re doing in any case :) I might be back laters in here :)

I didn’t plan on finishing both these, but I made two versions of this painting…kinda. I couldn’t decide how much to tweak his eyes and the upper part of his face, so I saved a second version just in case the first one broke too much :p Both these paintings were in the same file, I just had this second version of his left eye on a hidden layer :p That way I could decide later which one I wanted to use. Spares….hehehehe

Since I still can’t decide which one I want…because I made the mistake and went back to have a look after I posted the first painting…so here you go…both of them :p Pick and choose which one you like best…or dislike less (heh). They are both a part of the free print draw on September 1, so it’s up to you if you want a painting with eyes that is pointing in all sort of directions…or if you want something more normal…in a surreal kinda way :p

Now I’m done….I promise…hehe

I think it’s time to stop messin’ around with this painting or I will end up ruin it completely. Done my very best to ruin Will Smith already, so that will have to be enough :p

I’ve given him a bit smoother skin, a more detailed goatee, some sideburns, more highlights and some details in one of the eyes that wasn’t there before. And in the opposite to what I planned to do I painted the background in the same layer as the rest, which is usually more difficult than to do it on a separate layer. But this is a big painting so the more I can do in one layer, the happier is my computer :p The only thing that is in a separate layer is my signature.

I will add this to the prints that you can win in a bit. Should make a fairly good size print if anyone would want this :)
But Photoshop is closed for today and it’s already 7.30 PM here. This took most part of my day today, so I guess it’s time to come back to reality again :p Tomorrow it’s a regular work day again.

Hope your Sunday is/was a good one :D

As some of you know I mixed a green drink on an every day basis for quite some time a while back. Cucumber, celery, fresh spinach and apples filled the fridge here and both the blender and the juicer never had a chance to get dusty.
Then one day my digestive system put an end to it. In a way. I had signs that I got way too much fiber and in the beginning I stopped making that green juice all together, deciding that I should start again when the symptoms vanished and mix that drink once every second day instead. I also switched the fresh spinach for some lettuce and used only half the amount of celery.

When you start a detox it takes a while before you notice any changes and can point them out, but when you stop a detox or change the pattern of it you notice pretty much straight away when your body is storing all that poisons stuff again. And it happens pretty quickly. At least it did for me.
What vanished with that green juice was a lot: my skin changed, especially in the face, and deep wrinkles became much more shallow; no dizziness and no headaches like before; easier to focus and less lethargic; more energy overall; my body temperature stopped going up and down like a yo-yo and my mood became a lot more even. No big ups and downs at all. I also lost weight that I honestly have no clue where it came from to begin with, and I lost it in spite of eating in the same way and move just as much (or little) as before.

Now it’s been a few weeks ago since I had to fall back and make this drink once every second or third day and the different is huge. I’m always tired, my body temp flips from normal to high within seconds (and no, it’s not menopause…not yet), the hair’s gone dry and brittle and the dizziness is back again.
When it comes to the weight it’s difficult to say, but I’m not losing anything, that’s for sure. Except from clothes that fits me :p

In the past I never believed in detox, I always put it in the same box as witchcraft and ghosts :p Neatly tucked away and labeled :p
But these past few months changed my mind about that bit and now I’m almost ready to believe in ghosts and witchcraft too. Almost :pp Seriously, it has an amazing effect on the system and it made me realize how food can make a difference.
I mean, I’ve read about how fast food affects children and teenagers, and that it will make them both moody and difficult to deal with. And most food these days, not just fast food, is full of additives of all kinds and it affects grownups as well, no question about that.

So now I need to get my hands on a nutritionist or similar. The nurse I talked to at the docs office a few weeks back knew less about this than I did, so she wasn’t especially helpful. She handed over brochures and that was pretty much it. I could have picked those up in the waiting room :p
That NHS here won’t provide any preventive health care I already know…but they should since they are the ones who slap people around for being obese and sick. How can anyone stay healthy if they won’t teach people how to eat?? It’s just stupid.

I might just continue with this drink and slowly upper the amount I’m drinking in a week to see if my body will adjust better that way. It might have gone in to a shock or something since I literally poured it full off all that good stuff on an every day basis from day 1 :p
In any case, I might have to find a better substitute for that fresh spinach than lettuce. The green veggies is what makes a difference. Well, the outer layer on the cucumber is actually great for detoxing as well, just as the celery and the apple…but I might have to add something else that is all green to kick my system in the right direction again as it seems.

But it really makes a huge difference to drink that juice on a daily basis…that I can assure you.