A few flowers

Now that my blog seems to be behaving itself I feel more inclined to post! I have been busy recently with "stuff" which I will gradually add. Some things I didn't take pictures of and I have also been doing a lot of finishing off  so you will see things again that I showed you when they were works in progress. As I haven't yet sorted out my pictures here are a few photos that I took in my garden the other day.

 I think the dew on this rose looks like glitter.

 More like dew here....

This is an old fashioned rose called Kathryn Morely that I bought when I had my second daughter, Katy. I guess this means Autumn is here.

Art Journal CJ continues....

....and we are nearly there with it, despite a few sticky moments and delays. This CJ was "Nursery Rhymes" and belongs to my friend Helly who is a CJ virgin. I had a few ideas but as I know her quite well I decided to go with a blackbird pie!!

 I hand drew the pie and use a bit of a bird stamp I have to stamp the blackbird peeping out. The background is watercolour crayons washed over and then I hand wrote the first line of the rhyme...

Inside are my four and twenty blackbirds; a feat of multiple masking! All was coloured in with watercolour pencil or crayon before attaching the pie lid with a brad. It has turned out rather similiar to my Berkeley Square hasn't it?

Normal service resumed....

It's official....I LOVE Pinterest!! And, I guess like lots of other people, I pin stuff on there with all good intentions and then forget about it! Well as part of the Learn Something New Every Day class by Shimelle we were challenged to actually learn a new technique that we may have pinned there for future reference!

 I'm sure this is a pin many of you will recognise but in the complete absence of ANY creative muse this is what I went with. Step one was to draw everything then colour in all the squares using oil pastels. Then scratch into the pastel...

 .. wash over with watercolour in a browny colour until you get the right amount of grungy.

 Next paint in the tree trunk using acrylics and add the concentric circles, mine are a bit wobbly!

Lastly add gold highlights and circles. Great fun to do and something I may expand upon in the future.

I don't know if I am the only person having difficulties with Blogger at the moment? When I try to create a new page I have no little boxy bits to click on tho do all the functions that I could previously! Like insert a picture etc. I also used to upload from Picasa quite often too but that seems to have also removed the "load to blog" button! Can anyone help? In the mean while I will see what happens as I try to show my next altered art CJ entry.

Art Journal CJ

I have had neither the time or the inclination to be creative for some time now. But this CJ continues....just about and this month's entry was "Now is the Time". Well considering that this is meant to be Summer and all we seem to have had in the main is rain, that was my somewhat obvious inspiration! THis is a slightly different rendition of something I did previously in my own Art Journal that I rather liked.
So let's hope this CJ can get back on track as it all seems a little de-railed right now

The arrival!

I said I would show you the last pictures of Prom night! Just as the Mini got to the school it broke down. Everyone jumped out and the Head of Year was saying "No girls, get back in". When the girls explained they had to push the teacher said "OK everyone, stand back, good photo opportunity"!

Apparently it was the entry of the evening! Katy had a lovely time with her friends.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

Another week, another hunt. First of all here is Minnie's "Funny Face". Don't you love her white eyebrows? No idea why it is the wrong way round again!

Promise this will be the last Prom dress one. Here it is "Hanging Around" before the night.

We went to harvest vegs at my Dad's house as he is away in America at the moment. As you can see thee is not much "Space" between the rows of peas!

Self explanatory "Sunset" My hubby took this when he went out shooting the other night

Last of all some lovely "Sweet" strawberries.