Morning walk – London sheep

I’m pleased to be back to full strength and managed to do my morning walk today YAY! London seems to be dotted with these cute colourful sheep at the moment. I had a pretty restful weekend trying to catch up on sleep lost whilst my ear infection amplified every sound outside and inside, I’m glad…

Morning walk and catch-up

It was a glorious morning today, I routed my walk via St Paul’s Cathedral and managed to capture it bathed in the early morning spring sunshine. The warmer weather has given me a boost in energy and I spent the weekend rescuing my garden path which had been choked by weeds and grass. The crazy…

Life book week 40: Goddess

Hi all, hope you had a fantastic xmas and got some lovely arty presents :) I’ve been catching up with my Life Book lessons in preparation for starting Life book 2015 in January, YAY!! This lesson was given by the lovely Kate Thompson who is known for her Fractured Angelics paintings. It involved using a…

New nymph painting – Melia

Hi all, I’ve finally managed to upload my nymph painting, she is Melia, a wood nymph who lives in a remote northern ash forest. She is quite surprised to see a hummingbird flying around and wonders about the far away tropical lands from which it came. I guess that the if I had made the…

New mixed media whimsy painting – Nereid

Yay! It’s the weekend. I started working on this painting last night, using one of the several layered backgrounds I made during my staycation. I had no idea what it would become and just let it evolve as I was making it. So it turned out that the painting wanted to be a sea nymph,…

New mini-album ‘Kiss Hinge’ binding system tutorial

I wanted to share with you a new binding system I created for mini-albums, I’m calling it the ‘Kiss Hinge’. I wanted to make something that was easy to cut on the Silhouette Cameo (it can also be cut by hand) and also very easy to assemble. So pull up a chair, grab a cup…