Hi there, Thanks for popping in. Stop the clock! We have just finished prepping for the Sunday and Monday TV shows; Paul has gone home, Dave is getting a Chinese takeaway, and I am just winding down. What a whirlwind of a week ! How brilliant to be able to have Friday evening in front of a log fire with Dave, knowing that EVERYTHING IS DONE FOR SUNDAY. Demos? Done Boxes? Packed and checked. Art samples? Beautiful! Tina? All set…
Hahahaha! Don’t you just hate getting lured in like that?We aren’t being crude when we say we’re getting our tits out this weekend! We mean the garden bird variety, of course! Been busy gearing up for the shows on Hochanda. Sunday 2-4 with Tina. She will blow you away with her artwork, guaranteed. Then you’ve got an hour of me stamping and stencilling, 5-6pm Bunny wabbits are the order of the day. And at 8pm I am very excited to be…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Wednesday’s blog is when we take a look at life and how it rolls out in front of us. I have to be honest – (and you may already have figured it out all by yourselves with no input from me at all) – life has been overwhelming in Barbieland recently; I have been doing my best to avoid stress additives like caffeine, which just jangle my nerves even more, but the pressure has…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. A little dreamy down time before bedtime, eh…. Let’s do something simple, let’s use the lovely Northern Lights paper, and let’s just stamp straight onto it. Archival black and a whimsy house. treehouse Well, more like a Fairy high rise really. I love it! Wouldn’t mind the top floor. What a view! Mind you, no lift…. Decided to try out our Perga Liners. The Pergamano pencils. They do a good job!I only used the…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Had a little hour to myself this afternoon, realigning my head after a mental morning at work. Since the paints and Gel Press plate were still on the worktop where I had abandoned them last night, I carried on! No particular direction; just more paint and a brayer, combined with my favourite boy. Well, no, let me qualify that – my favourite boy stamp. fly away My favourite boy is quite without question Mark,…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Exciting day today. Rossella Cottrell had her debut with Clarity on Hochanda today. 11am 2pm and 5pm Oh my! Didn’t she do well?? I KNEW she would nail it. She is such a professional. Very, very happy to have her on board, joining the Clarity Team. I took myself off to my artroom for an hour and made a print to celebrate, in between the 11am show and the 2pm show…. A simple print…
Happy Saturday. Thanks for popping in. How about a simple step by step stamping project, using that sexy boot stamp again? Here’s the Stampset it comes from… Shoes galore! I went with one of the lovely background papers from The New England Fall Book this time: Mount and stamp the boot in black Archival. Mask off the boot with the mask which comes with the Stampset. Add a touch of Fine Wine Artistry Ink from the mini set with a…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Friday’s blog a private peek, right? This morning I visited a friend who lives in a fabulous country house near here. Beautiful outlook, wonderful gardens. Just absolutely splendid. Been there for many years. Thing is, they’ve got new neighours. Now these neighbours are a ways away, you understand. Not next door in the common sense of the word. BUT. They’ve decided they don’t want the deer on their land, so they are erecting some…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Weathered the storm and went to visit my parents today. Spent a lovely day with them. Never left the dining room. Just drank tea, chatted and caught up all day. Enjoyed it so much, I hope to do it again next week! Plenty of trees in the roads; major wind gusts. But Storm Doris wasn’t too bad here. I do hope you are all safe in the dry. So today, what better things…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Bit of a foggy day today. I definitely hit the proverbial wall around lunchtime. Went into work and was met with a load of demands. Not from the team; just picky business demands. They have been sitting, waiting for me to get back, and then all got fired at me simultaneously as soon as I walked through the door. So usually, I am firing on all 4 cylinders, have got my chainmail on, can…