Hi there

Thanks for popping in. Thanks for joining me in the SHAC this morning! I think we’re doing a grand job of these Butterflies and Flowers. Let’s call them our Japanese collection, shall we? And I thought the brush pen worked well on those Japanese ideograms, especially when I started pulling the stroke sideways. If you’re wondering what on earth I’m talking about, check out the Youtube below. We get into the Japanese writing near the end.

Here’s the pen I used:

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I really enjoyed the SHAC today. And it helped me move quite swiftly through the artwork I needed to prep. Want to see what I did? Let me show you. This Reflection Set is on the TV show on Friday. I did 2 versions. We call this stampset Barbara’s WInter Cabin Reflection. I LOVE the writing!

Time to stop for the day. Must tell you. I had a real cringe moment earlier. I had just come indoors at about 4.30, having been beavering away above the garage all day. I hadn’t been in the house long enough for the kettle to even boil and the front doorbell went. It was the alarm engineer, come to service our alarm system. (We had forgotten he was coming). No problem, come on in.

Thing is, he had to go all over the house to change the batteries in the smoke detectors. Cringe. Bed not made, laundry piles in the upstairs hallway, ironing piled high on the other bed. And when he said, “there’s a smoke detector on the second floor”, I withered. That’s the loft! So he pushed through the cobwebs to change the bats, (the batteries!!) and when he came down again, I didn’t know whether to dust him off or just leave it ! He was covered!! Anyway, I left it!! I thought he might take it the wrong way if I started patting his head and rubbing his shoulders! Hahahaha.

Ah well, whatever.

Quote for the day,

Nobody ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed!

Erma Bombeck

Travel gently this week.

Love always

Barb x x x