We are almost there! All our furniture has arrived from storage and we are now in the (long, tedious, untidy) process of unpacking the 60 or so crates that contain our possession.

We are sleeping at the old flat (so the children won’t have to live with dozens of unpacked boxes littered everywhere) but the new house is looking more and more like home, hooray!

My paints and brushes are still buried somewhere in the unpacked mess, but I found one of the last background papers I made before we left the flat in Italy.

It was a free painting exercise—blue and green splotches ’stamped’ bubblewrap, corrugated cardboard and milk bottle caps. It is not the best one I made in that series, but it is the first one I came across when unpacking, and therefore deserves the honour of being used.

I am not sure what I’ll make with it yet, but it should celebrate our new home.