Finally got around to oil painting again after making a hundred and one excuses for putting it off till “tomorrow” – really felt good just blending and meshing the colours together and plonking them onto the canvas.. it’s so true what this one artist once said – that “the real purpose of painting is not to actually create a painting, but rather to achieve the certain feeling that one gets when painting” .. I know what he means..

busy day at the store… we put up a tiny ad in the papers yesterday for a “Full Time Retail Assistant”. It read: Join the team at a fun and exciting Art store! We are looking for someone eager to serve, friendly and pleasant, responsible, committed and willing to learn. And the response was overwhelming!! Spent almost the whole day either interviewing or picking up phone calls from people responding to the ad.. wow! what did we do right?? Didn’t we all just read in the papers that Singaporeans are still shunning service line jobs despite the downturn? This is the first time we are actually putting personality ahead of knowledge and qualification – and by the end of the day, we were seriously spoilt for choice with the huge number of suitable applicants :) goody goody…

Beadhub is selling this really interesting product called Art Clay which looks and feels and moulds like ordinary air-dried clay but transforms to silver when fired in a kiln! Wow! Pretty impressive but tiny 10g block costs something like $30! There is even a real gold one - can't imagine how much it would cost!