Tue 29 Aug 2006
Summer bank holiday weekend….
Posted by Melanie Phillips under All Work in Progress
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For those of you who don’t live in the UK you probably may not have heard of a bank holiday weekend. We have quite a few of them scattered thought the year and it means that lots of businesses close, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The Monday being a bank holiday Monday. To be honest im not sure the full meaning behind them, im guessing it had something to do with banks closing but i don’t know why…and probably the majority of the country don’t care as long as they all get a day off work 
And thats what we did! Well a day off in my book doesn’t mean lounging on the sofa reading and watching tv,…far from it! The last few days have been pretty tiring. I have been trying to sort out all the commissions so i can work out dates and schedules for each one for the xmas deadlines. I have printed out the reference photos for all the commissions and cut board and paper and stored them in the drying rack ready. I find myself at this time of year almost having a spring clean, i like things to be organized and to run smoothly as i know pretty much every hour of the day will be devoted to painting between now and xmas. I bought a huge load of bubble wrap which led me to clear out the attic where i keep supplies, along with those usual things that you don’t use any longer, or think, well i may need that one day….! The first to go were loads of boxes, you know the ones, where you have purchased an electrical item and though, ‘oh i had better keep the box…just in case’! They just seem to pile up and up. So we had a big bonfire!
We also had piles of books in boxes that we don’t use any longer. I have put some aside for the charity and set shelves in there for the ones i wanted to keep so that i could easily get to them if i needed too. Sometimes reference books can come in handy and both nick and myself bought many, many books years ago when we were illustrating. We were always scouring the local second hand book shops for a bargain but now all this time has passed, i feel that some of them could be put to better use by someone else. I also had a couple of boxes of things that didn’t sell at a car boot sale last year so that’s all ready to go to the charity too. The attic has never looked so tidy
So now this morning, im off to the post office to post a few things, drop some things off at the accountants and then back to my portraits. The cats are finished and today im working on the rottie!
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