Spirits of the forest

I found these wonderful carvings in the forest at Moors valley country park.
Spirits and guardians of the forest

Out And About

The children are on their two week Easter break, so I am going to be out and about.
Tuesday we drove to Dorset for a spring walk along our favourite beach. If only it was always this deserted! We visited Corfe castle where the air was perfumed with the scent of what I believe to be angelica? or a close relative? We finished off with fish and chips in Swanage. A beautiful day, enjoyed by all.

Crafty Hares

I have been making birds hares and hearts this week. Although I've always considered painting as my 'main' media I also love 3D work. So, am looking into getting an 'Etsy' shop! And, have big plans for some large hangers and maybe I'll sell a painting or two?

Strange Happenings....

I've always been a night owl and find it hard to go to bed early. I have a habit each night of looking out of the bedroom window at the sky. I'm a moon gazer and a shooting star seeker! Regardless of the weather I always look. Late on Good Friday/early hours of Saturday morning, not sure of the exact time, the sky was spectacular, amazing light and fast moving clouds. Then even more amazing, I saw writing in the sky!!!! The darkness behind the clouds beneath the moon formed the letters 'eya' so clear as if it had been written in a fine pen. Unfortunately because the clouds were moving fast it disappeared before I had chance to get my camera.
What does it mean?
Is it message?
Could it be significant to Easter?
Is it the name of a blogger, fate wants me to link up with?
Maybe its a company that wants to offer me loads of illustration work! Yay!
With numerous amounts of hot chocolate I began to sift through Google search.
I've yet to find the blogger or the company, but I thought this was interesting...
'eya' seems to be a lyric in some hymns in latin, I think as a form of praise?
Strange!? well, this is Wiltshire after all!
Now there are little hoards of chocolate eggs lying around the house which are too tempting to pass! No sign of the Easter rabbit at 'Mells' Daffodil festival on Monday, but look, I found some friendship cats. (I bought a green one)
I am ashamed to say that I still haven't done anything for Illustration Friday and now look at the time, it is Friday all over again! Time has not been wasted though as I have been learning new computer skills regarding my website. Surely this can only be a good thing!?

Where does time disappear?

I haven't written here in over a week and time seems to have just slipped through my fingers.
I haven't managed to get on and do the things I had planned, instead I've being busy with things like my son's 13th birthday, ( I can't believe he is a teenager, scary!) jobs in the garden, having a horrid cold and sadly yesterday having to have our guinea pig put down.
Hopefully I will get around to joining in with Illustration Friday soon!?!?
I have a scarecrow to finish, which is at the moment sat by my desk. It's for our village school annual scarecrow trail. This year the theme is Cats & Dogs. We are making 'The Mousehole Cat'.
We have to put his whiskers and tail on, then make some papiermache fishes and a stargazey pie!
Should be fun!
Anyway I wish a 'Happy Easter' to anyone that happens to stumble across this blog.? Which reminds me...I must put some links on!

Watch out! There's a wind wolf outside!!

A bit of a sleep orientated weekend, what with children coming and going between friends houses for sleepovers, it concluded last night when we all decided to camp downstairs in the living room to escape any danger of old chimneys falling! The storm crept in quietly, but by 3am there was a ferocious wolf eager to get in at doors and windows. We found it a bit of an adventure, but the kids were a little disappointed when they discovered their schools were fine and open as normal this morning.
I'm shattered today from lack of sleep. Not only did the storm keep me awake, but we were pestered throughout the night by our two 7 months old cats who also found camping fun!
This week I've decided to give 'Illustration Friday' a go. The theme is 'garden' so I'll see what I can come up with?
It's still wild, wet and windy outside. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my greenhouse doesn't blow down!

Too Sunny To Be Indoors

Sunshine called me out into the garden yesterday
to smell the sweet scents of spring.
I sowed some more seeds.















These are the one's I did earlier.















Today there was a chill in the wind so I did some work in my journal. Playing around with faces, I was quite happy with this one.

The creation

Forgot to put the picture on the last entry!!
I'm just getting the hang of this uploading images, have been a bit of a techno phobe in the past, so this is big stuff for me!

Faerie Spectators

Being watched from my windowsill on Friday as I sat down at my desk to paint.
I think they must have sprinkled a little faerie dust, as I was quite pleased with
my finished creation.........

What do people write on their very first blog entry?

Setting this up has been on one of my lists of things to do since last year, so hey! 3 cheers for me, i've finally got here! Hmm.... this is the hard part as now i'm thinking what the heck can i write as i've never been a big diary writer? Sometimes being creative can get buried beneath the day to day of family life. Putting the third washing load of the day on rudely pushes any inpiring little gems to the back of my mind! Time ticks on and i look back and think, what have i done today? Now i can record things here and look back and see that really i am being creative everyday even if i don't always feel it.