oooooohhhhhh....so nice...

The gorgeous book Gav bought for me off EBay...

It's got loads of blank pages too for adding more images.

My Dressing Table...

Photos of my dressing table, it looks so stunning. I had a large black jewellery box with all my necklaces and earrings and things in, but, but everything got so tangled and was constantly hidden away, so I got rid of it and picked up these lovely vintage dishes from the auctions to hang and put things in. I also found this lovely old covered coat hanger (I think it was my mothers) to hang some things from, it's so much easier to choose things to wear now.

Topsy Turvey

Hmmm....having a funny few days, i feel like a character out of Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree (OMG...i love that book), i used to read it to nicci when she was young, remember Toffee Shocks and Pop Biscuits, silky the fairy, dame washalot, moonface and saucepan man...ha, everyone should read that book!!!! Anyway...yesterday whilst cooking tea, i prepared the veg and as i went to rinse them in a colander under the tap, for some odd reason i squirted washing up liquid on them..... took me an hour (instead of five minutes) to get the soap bubbles off them!! even when i served them up i was sure i could still taste remnants of soap. Also as i was going out, i'd decided in my mind that i would first clean my teeth and then put some make-up on, but my brain was topsy turvy (one of the lands in the magic faraway tree) and i ended up putting toothpaste on my make up brush!!!!

I feel back to normal today, Gav and i are going for our daily walk up to the castle and then we're coming back to bagels, scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and coffee......weekend treat.

"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast"

- John Gunther

Well.....not always, but for today anyway

Art Journals i'm currently working on...

Moleskine Page Spiral Bound Art Journal

Altered hand made Art Journal

Just Gorgeous

Some of the gorgeous pendants we got for the shop - they're fab, it's like christmas here, the postman's delivering goodies every day!!!

Some Photos of my new Art Studio...so far

Still have loads of work to do in here, but have at least set things out so it's usable.

This is the seating area (looking for a nice rug/carpet to put in this area and a nice table cloths to cover the tables. The back behind the sofa wall will make a nice display area for completed art...(currently on the floor), in fact all the walls can be used for that, there's enough space for me to have a design wall too, so i'm currently thinking about avery large fabric covered board where i can pin notes on ideas and inspiration. We fouund a lovely big sturdy table for the printer, we wanted something really good so we could do art prints of my work, Gav's having a great time with it, he's falso ound some vintage posters that he can print on there in order to sell in the shop, they've come out fab so far, (although he says he needs to play about with the colours a bit more...such a perfectionist) i think they look fab. The little table to the right is my embellishing table and the one on the left is my sewing table. The floor boards in here are fab, they're so old and uneven, the light coloured square on the floor is where we think the post hatch may have been used for the post office back in the day... Sewing Table
Painting Table
This is the opposite end of the room to the sofa
Completed Art

Vintage ephemera for collage

I now need to find some pretty lace netting to go over the windows, some pretty curtains and some decent lighting. I think once all that is sorted and the rest of my supplies are sorted out, it'll be perfect. If/when we get permission to open the shop, i can work in there and also work in here creating art to go in the shop.

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life" - Greg Anderson

Montgomery War Memorial

We went for a lovely walk the other day up to the Montgomery War Memorial, fantastic, the views at the top are out of this world, well worth a visit.