This house is clean! | hippieheart's Blog

Every time I get sick, afterwards (or while I am beginning to feel better), I always love to clean.  I guess I feel as if I am removing all of the toxins & germs from our home.  Today was one such day.  I was in my son's room and it just felt dusty to me.  I had just dusted it a week (or maybe two?) ago, but it needed it again.  Then I went into an all-out cleaning frenzy.  I was unstoppable!  I vacuumed, swept, cleaned the bathroom, folded laundry, washed & put away more clothes, brought in the trash bin & two recycling tubs in from the curb, emptied the 5,000 or so cigarette butts  from the can out front which had been overflowing for days...

It feels good to clean.  I love living here.  This place is so perfect.  This little duplex is so small that it feels very cozy with just the three of us.  I have fresh cut flowers from the front yard on the table, along with a single aromatherapy candle on the table next to the sofa.  The windows are open and everything feels so fresh.  There is a very good energy here.  I am bursting with creative energy.

I have been painting a large, square coffee table.  When I ran out of orange paint (for the sun), I found some 12X12 paper that was the exact color.  So I first laid down some gold paint, followed by the ripped pieces of paper.  It looks like stone ~ it looks like mosaic.  I am really pleased with how it is turning out.  The center of the table is the center of the sun, round and a very bright (and happy!) yellow.   The flames of the sun then come out from the center, in the orange paint.  Where the orange paint runs out, the ripped pieces of the orange paper take over.  At the end of all the orange, I am going to come in with some bits of red ripped paper, continuing with the mosaic theme.  From there, another layer of Gesso will be put down on top of some silver paint (with blue ripped paper on top, again), in the space surrounding the sun ~ a representation of the sky.  

I think it's really cool how little pieces of ripped paper can so easily resemble mosaic tiles.  

Anyways...I've had a lot of creative energy lately and a lot of art projects have come out of it!