Fabric sunflowers

Posted on October 22, 2024October 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cloth, Craft, fake flower, Memories, Stuff, Sunflower, Time, tranklementsLeave a comment

I forgot to ask how these were made when I saw them at the weekend. I don’t normally like fake flowers but these were cute and life size. I think they are made of cloth. I suppose you could wash them if necessary. It’s fascinating how many crafts there are, and what you can make things out of. Like plastic, wool, wood, cotton, paper, ceramics and metal. The world is full of “stuff” , often nice “stuff” but these tranklements take up a lot of space, and are they necessary to enhance your life? You choose.

Trifle

Posted on October 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blancmange, Cream, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2100, Family, Food, Fruit, Jelly, Memories, recipes, TrifleLeave a comment

What food would you say is your specialty?

My trifle is based on my mother’s and her mother’s recipe.

It consists of a fruit and jelly bottom layer with a touch of sherry or port.

Middle layer? Blancmange (not custard). Either the same flavour as the jelly or something different like chocolate.

Top layer, a decent amount of whipped double cream, with possibly cherries, strawberries or raspberries on top or grated chocolate.

You can’t really go wrong with that X. Usually I make it at Christmas or for birthdays.

Copper sky

Posted on October 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged beautiful colour, Camera, Colours, Comet, Copper, Driving, golden, Red, spectacular, SunsetLeave a comment

The clouds shone like copper tonight, not red or gold. This is the closest I can get to the colour like in this photo. I’m still looking out for a view of the comet that’s in the evening sky after sunset when it’s clear, but I haven’t spotted it yet.

I wish I could have taken a photo of the actual sunset but I was driving and my camera was in the handbag on the back seat and I couldn’t find anywhere to stop. I will try and look again tomorrow

Clocks going back

Posted on October 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged changing the time, Clock, Darkness, extra hour in bed, falls back, Night, Poem, Poetry, TimeLeave a comment

Time flies forward

Slides past

But falls back

Next weekend.

An extra hour

But darker earlier

The light fades

Time seems to slow

Nights distances lengthen

I hate it.

Bring back the sun

Or leave the clock alone!

Dragon/ Chamelion

Posted on October 22, 2024October 22, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged crocheted, Cute, dragon eye, Fun, Funny, karma Chamelion, Multicoloured, Painting, PhotoLeave a comment

I painted a dragons eye on Saturday and found someone at the craft fair I was at on Sunday was crocheting karma Chamelions. Weirdly the eyes seem to match! How odd. I’m not sure why I bought the soft toy, it might go to a neice. I was so pleased I thought I’d take a photo of them together. X

Forgot to add a title I’m so tired!

Posted on October 21, 2024October 21, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Craft fair, Exhausted?, falling asleep, Life, Miniatures, Painting, Sleep, Time, Tired2 Comments

Paintings from the weekend. The central painting was done previously but the rest, smaller ones, were painted over the previous three days. I was happy with the outcome. Unfortunately I only sold one, my excuse? Gale force winds and heavy rain made for a grim morning. Thankfully it improved in the afternoon. But we only had a few customers.

Today? It’s caught up with me! I’m shattered, tired, absolutely knackered. Just fell asleep typing this!

Met a cat

Posted on October 20, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged art sale, Cat, Etruria Industrial museum, ginger cat, Stoke-on trent, WarehouseLeave a comment

A cat moved into the warehouse where we held out art and craft show. It has a home in a local housing estate but I guess because the warehouse is heated it’s found a place to visit. The main problem is there is a ladder up to the loft space and on Saturday it climbed up and went to sleep!

There was a panic because they couldn’t lock up the building until it was found. Luckily someone bought some cat treats so it came down!

Cyanotype

Posted on October 20, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged a type of print, Art, Blue, cyanotype, Fine Art, light sensitive paper, Sketching, stencil2 Comments

@creaderart showed me how to do a cyanotype today. It is made using light sensitive paper that is exposed to light then washed in water to wash away the coating. The bird stencil was hers. If you can see a vague cat shape that’s my drawing which I added a few minutes later. Looking slightly like a reflection in a window. It’s oddly like an xray?

Penkhull village calendar

Posted on October 19, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 3 photos, bench at thistley hough, calendar competition, Hanging baskets, penkhull village, photo competition, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, The Greyhound1 Comment

Very proud to say three of my photos I entered for Penkhull village calendar competition were chosen to be included in the 2025 calendar. They were on display and I looked and thought they looked a bit like mine, but someone else must have taken similar views? I actually didn’t believe it until they told me. How bizarre! These are photos of the photos so they are a bit cropped to get straight lines!

Little owl

Posted on October 18, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, exploring art, Fine Art, Fun, Little owl, miniature canvas, Painting, rough, TextureLeave a comment

One of the problems with the little canvases, the weave is too bumpy so it’s hard to get a smooth surface, I could put a thick layer of paint on first but it might not stick properly? Anyway it’s fun exploring different images.

Mallaband-Brown

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