Thursday, December 27, 2012

Season's Greetings

A late Merry Christmas, I hope you've had a relaxing few days. It was remarkably peaceful at my house; usually someone is complaining about what they didn't get, or needs help putting together something with hundreds of little plastic pieces!!! This year everyone was happy!!

I hope you got a present to inspire you - I remember one christmas I was about 16 and got my first set of acrylics - after a lifetime of kids tempera blocks and powder paint they were a revelation! This year I treated myself to some books, including the sketchbook challenge, and got a moleskin journal. The moleskin is still in its shiny wrapper - I hope it isn't too nice to use!! (Do you have this problem too?) But I have been doing some drawing, here are a couple...






Also this in progress work for the Cloth Paper Scissors 'Quotable Art Journal Challenge', you can find out more about it here. There's still time to send something in if you feel inspired.


Best wishes and happy holidays!!

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Don't give up!!


A month ago I was ready to throw this plant away. We got it last christmas (a curry plant, you have to keep it in a pot or it will run rampant across the neighbourhood! mine was not rampant!). I don't think it grew a new leaf all year, the leaves it had looked sickly. I did everything I should - plenty of sun and regular water. A couple of weeks ago the last leaves fell off leaving a bare stick in the pot. Well, that's that - I thought. A few days later I was amazed to see a ring of bright green feathery leaves emerging - a tiny miracle.


I don't have green thumbs, half the things I plant don't survive, but there are enough surprises - like the rebirth of the curry plant and like this red flowering plant that's come up in my veggie patch - to keep me interested.




Oh, and the pineapples are pretty good too. This was the first one of the season, not much bigger than an orange but very sweet!!


Hope your xmas preparations are going well, school is over for the year so the kids are getting excited, I still have a week of work to go..

Sunday, December 2, 2012

december already!!

Just a quick post with a couple of photos of my stall at the craft fair 2 weeks ago (time flies!!). I was lucky to be inside one of the studios, under the fans and out of the chance of rain - tho fortunately for everyone it was a fine day. Thanks to everyone who visited, stopped for a chat or bought something, it was a lovely day!!



Also I'd like to send you off to visit a lovely blog I found called Jumie Handwerk, it's all in German so I don't understand what she's saying but the photos of her work are gorgeous!!