Aaah!, the quiet life.

It's what we yearn for and seldom achieve, a quiet uneventful life. Our lives, the Prof's and mine have been anything but uneventful these last few weeks but thankfully we are back to an even tenor at the present time. A stint in hospital for the Prof and a looming 'procedure' as the doctors so euphemistically call it has lately upset the applecart. So, while I have  been as busy as the proverbial, it did not encompass my great love, painting etegami.
One bright spot has been the hanging of an exhibition of my etegami and some of the cards that I have received over the last couple of years. The show is at the hospital where I am a frequent guest, lining a corridor. The hospital has an active program called "Arts for Health" and has ever changing displays in corridors. I have had a lot of positive feedback, etegami being a form of painting that seems to be accessible to most people and even the ones with Japanese or even Icelandic writing hold people's interest.
My etegami for today are a response to the last few weeks, I seem to be buzzing around with not much to show for it.

The second card is on a high 'nijimi' (absorbency) card and the first is on a watercolour card.

Sliding back in.....

to blogland.
Well, the inevitable happened and I landed in hospital myself but it is all sorted now and it is onward and upward!!!!!!
I amused myself for the two weeks by knitting cute stuff and making more origami. I did try a bit of eraser carving to make stamps but it wasn't a success.
Bear with me folks, it will be full steam ahead tomorrow now that I have access to the internet....got to get myself one of them there wireless hotspots!
Hatsue, I watched the DVD of your train etegami, it was great, didn't understand a word but that doesn't matter, I really enjoyed it...good work.