Rhonda Bracey: At Random

Is my creative mojo returning?

7 03 2022

Is my creative mojo starting to return? I lost it for more than 12 months (COVID Blues?) and just couldn’t find the motivation to create anything at all. No quilting, no sewing, no art (not that I did much of that). But today I had an urge to do something. I created 2 small (A5 paper) colour washes then experimented with putting different sized white dots over them, in a nod to Aboriginal dot paintings. It’s a start…

They’re still drying, so I’m not sure how the white dots will look once they’ve dried. I used fabric paints for the washes and the dots, even though they were on paper.

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Categories : Art things

Water purifier and softener system

19 02 2022

We had a water purifier and softening system installed earlier this week. Our water here is really hard and full of chemicals such as copper, calcium, and lime, which cause all sorts of scale issues in the pipework, the HWS and other appliances, as well as unsightly blue/green and chalky residue on porcelain, taps, showerheads etc. But you can’t just buy a system and install it—there has to be drainage for the monthly purge of the system, which meant a soakwell and a new drain under the concrete slab, plus all the pipework to route the water from the mains point into the house through the filtration and softening system, and a new electrical point for the pumps for the monthly purge. The plumbers and electrician did a great job in the stinking hot weather!