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I'm finally making progress! I got an excellent start at tackling my koi fish painting I've had in my head for over three years now. The goal?- Just to have some art work I wouldn't mind hanging in my living room. I started with trying oil paints, I considered acrylic (never started it though), I tried chalk pastels. Not too long ago I decided to browse Etsy to maybe buy some prints or simply for some inspiration. I ended up pulling a few ideas from artwork I found there and decided to try out watercolor. What better for a water scene? The work was made quickly and far more to my liking than any other method I've tried. Haven't been real

I finally started painting my koi fish oil painting. Haven't gotten very far and to me it looks horrible but it has its potential lol. I started while watching Lost with my friend Chloe and put the basic colors down. I was suprisingly not as messy as I usually have been with paints, particularly oil paints. So hopefully I can motivate myself to paint some more and get 4 canvases of a koi fish up on my living room wall.

Our house still seems pretty empty but we're about to get more stuff on monday when my household goods from Missouri FINALLY get here. But the only things that are really furniture are my heirloom chairs and a desk which is going in the studio. Sadly, only one chair is going to fit in the living room so I have to find a different place for the second one which means it's probably going in our bedroom. We still have another chair that Jeff's mother gave us and I don't know what to do with it either. I like the style but it needs to be reupholstered and I still don't think it'll fit in the living room, though it's pretty small. I wish we didn't