‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚Spring Break𐦍༘⋆

Hello, my Kandarchists! (It’s a compliment, I swear…) I hope everyone has been hanging in there. The news headlines feel BONKERS right now. Like, all of this information is REAL?? It is madness which is why I’ve tried to keep my own peace by microdosing it. It’s going as good as you’d expect… My kids just started their spring break and since we were just in Florida a few weeks back, we aren’t going anywhere this next week besides our local area & maybe doing some stay-cation shenanigans. We like to check out antique/thrift shops, visit museums, libraries, coffee shops, and maybe we’ll find an indoor pool we can swim in.

A majority of this week was spent working on my newest painting: a butterfly-finned sharky! I’ve slowly been chipping away at the background and getting lost (as I do) in the details of a coral reef. I’ve wanted to do a detailed painting of this subject for so long that I’m adding as much love and relishing in all the stages. I’ll be so excited to start painting on the actual shark but know that the love I pour into this piece, background and all, will translate well. I will be adding little fishies and more bubbles to the background after I finish the reef and THEN will begin the main subject. I have found two galleries to submit this piece to…if I can finish it on time. Wish me luck!

Our upstairs renovation is in full swing. As it is, I am upstairs listening to Nathanial scrape the absolute piss out of the subfloor so we (haha, I’m helping) can have an entirely flat surface to start laying our flooring. The majority of the new walls have been dry-walled, and we hired an electrician to come do some wiring work. It’s coming together. We are finally on the building up stage whereas we have been on the break down stage for SO long! For anyone who is new around here: my sweet stud-muffin husband is a licensed contractor and after already redoing the basement in 2021, we have moved the reno to the ENTIRE first floor of our home. Luckily, the basement has been our living space since our earlier reno and we can hide down there, pretending all hell is not breaking loose upstairs. I’ll be so jazzed to have this wrapped up & be able to invite people over. Not that we have that many friends… I’ll have a reason to make more once the house is finished, right?? ╮ (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) ╭

I began the next Austen novel I planned to read, "Mansfield Park”, but then accidentally picked up an absolutely GORGEOUS collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories with illustrations by Arthur Rackham and have not been able to put it down. It’s gorgeous. I found it at the library but may need to find it to purchase for my own collection. I’ve also still been perusing the Canterbury Tales, though obviously it has taken a bit of a backseat.

I hope you all have been behaving yourselves… not too much though. I’d like to start a Friday segment where I answer a specific question…. be it about art, personal life, famous query’s, anything really! I hope that sounds fun! But even if it doesn’t… it’s my hecking blog and you just have to deal with it! ( ദ്ദി ˙ᗜ˙) DON’T LEAVE ME THOUGH!!!

xxx- Kanda ⋅˚₊‧ ଳ ‧₊˚ ⋅