When a Blockage Becomes and Blessing

I went down to Stevenson's last week and made eight copies of the printout of my portrait of Marge Lewis.  The copies turned out very well and I planned to glue them to canvases and 'masterize' the surface as I have often done before.  I had ordered canvases at Michael's for less than half price and picked them up the same day I got the prints.  I decided to use a spray on glue.  It was fortunately half price with a coupon.  At home I carefully prepared for the job, using my semi-outside workroom to spray the glue on the canvases and doing all I thought was needed to insure they lay flat.  They didn't.  My work seemed to have resulted in failure.  Not only did the adhesive work poorly, but when I sprayed the prints with an archival spray to protect them against fading it had a strange effect on the inks used in the prints.  Some of them were not as bad as the others, but I needed six mounted prints and I only had three that were useable.  So I ordered some more canvases, which were fortunately still on sale.  Meanwhile several of my children critiqued the portrait and said it needed something to complete the composition.  If I had been successful in mounting the prints I would have brushed away their suggestions.  As it was, I took heed and added my own insight and added a portrait of Marge's deceased husband to the empty space the the right of the portrait.  I printed out a representation of the proposed change and ran it by Marge and one of the other caretakers, Erin, this evening.  They really liked the idea and now I will proceed to change the painting.  So the Blockage became a boon.  I believe I will give the three portrait prints to Erin and Julie and Roxana.