Creative Snacking!

Forget those sugary snacks! Try these, they're good for your health and your mind!

Time in the Burgess household is rather taken up by a building project at the moment- you know - buying materials, chasing artisans, researching vmc’s… blah blah blah. Yes, I know that’s to be expected but holy moly, I’m an artist and itching to get in front of that easel…

…AND maintain my exercise regime 💪. The latter of those two things is slightly less appealing, I have to say, but at 66, I'm damned if I'm going to become decrepit.

Ok, to my point… at several times in a day that’s overflowing with bullet lists of thangs to do, the urge will come upon me to have a snack. Now my addiction for sugar used to lead me by the hand to the biscuit tin (cookie jar for the Americans amongst us) BUT NOW, I respond to whatever creative itch needs to be scratched like

“ooh, that artwork needs a bit of collage just there in the bottom left-hand corner”

“Okay, painting in progress, I hear you, you need some Orange just about… there?”

“I feel a five minute blind sketch coming on”

Oh, I must get this sketch down on paper for my next series

And often…

“oh shit, I must clean those brushes that have two days worth of paint on them” (can anybody recommend a good brush cleaner by the way? One to get acrylic paint off brushes)

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Exercise snacks are fun too. Here are some of mine that you may like to try :

• The Big Four (thanks to Zach Bush bush, the lush!) Do look it up as it's so good for you and only takes 4 minutes

• Walking up and down a flight of stairs very slowly, carrying weight in each hand (2 minutes depending on your living space)

• Zone 2 on the X-trainer. Okay, I know that takes a lot longer (for me 45 minutes) but it doesn't have make you feel better afterwards.

• Hand mobility exercises for Those if you like me, who have arthritis (5 minutes). Try these from Virtual Hand Care on YouTube, simple but effective.

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Well, that’s all from me for now. I hope you have found this useful and amusing and if you’d like to know more about me and my art, please take a look at my website Hazel Burgess Art

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