Treat

Posted on March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Food, Fun, Ice cream, Life, quarter, Restaurant, Spode, Stoke-on trent, Tea, TreatLeave a comment

Ice-cream Sundae at the Quarter restaurant at the Spode Site, Stoke on Trent today. I have to say this was a huge amount of ice cream. I felt really naughty, but I’d had some good news so I treated myself to it.

I’d called in at my studio to collect paintings that sold during my Retrospective exhibition. I’d met up with a friend and we decided to go for tea. It was lovely to see her and to chat for a couple of hours. It had been a few months since we last got together and it was good just to have a laugh for a change. Things have been difficult but I just had a glimmer of hope today.

Esther’s prompt, Nostalgia

Posted on March 20, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1960's, 1970's, Esther Chilton, happiness, Life, Memory, Nostalgia, Prompt, Thinking, WritingLeave a comment

I really like writing to prompts.

Here’s a short response to the word Nostalgia:

Nostalgia hits me all the time now. I long to be back in simpler times. Old TV shows from the 60s and 70s remind me of past times when I thought adventure was real. Hero’s could do anything. Irony did not exist and no one suffered real hardship. Nostalgia is sneaky, comfy, mostly happy. If I could make life better I would create nostalgic bliss.

Random answer

Posted on March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1883, Elephant, Foot, rhino, sole, Tattoo, Thinking, Tiger, wild animalLeave a comment

What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

I think, if I ever got a tattoo it would be of a wild animal, maybe a Tiger? Something that is threatened with extinction. I would NEVER try and own a wild animal, or use part of its body for medicine. I’m so disgusted when people pay masses of money for products made from Rhino horn or Elephant tusks or Tiger skins.

Give the animals their freedom, don’t keep them as pets or use their anatomy for medicine. If you want to do something dangerous which includes an animal get a tattoo!

Where to have one? I don’t want it to show. So it would be on the sole of my foot!

Early Easter drawing

Posted on March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black, Colours, craft group, Drawing, Easter, Happy, holographic paper, Layers, Scraper board, ScratchLeave a comment

Today I went to a craft group.

It’s something I sometimes go to, it’s the chance to experiment without doing anything serious. The group has lots of different materials and today it was scraper board. It’s a black coloured layer over the top of holographic metallic board. You scratch through and add shapes or texture. I found a stencil with patterns punched into it. There were rabbits and daffodils, tulips and egg shapes. I drew an Easter egg and added the stencils inside it. Then added spirals and Happy Easter to it to finish it off.

Things to do

Posted on March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Afternoon, enthusiasm, Evening, event, Ground, Land, Life, qr code, Thinking, Time4 Comments

I took this photo to remind me that I’d like to attend this event. But I can’t decide whether to go. It’s an evening workshop and I’m not very keen on going out on my own in the evenings. (it’s actually lunchtime till mid evening). Plus I haven’t been able to scan the qr code. Perhaps I need to go with someone else. Things are going on that I have to try to go to, but I need more enthusiasm.

Japanese for tea

Posted on March 19, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged delicious, duck teriyaki bento, Food, Japanese Restaurant, Miso, Miso soup, TeaLeave a comment

Miso soup and a duck teriyaki bento box for my tea tonight from the Miso Japanese restaurant in Stoke on Trent! It was a treat as I’ve had some slightly better news about my health. Not a clean bill of health, but slightly less worrying. The food was delicious and plentiful.

I’ve still got to have some more tests, but with luck there will be a reasonable treatment and nothing to drastic. Maybe I’ll treat myself again if things work out.

Anyway after a few weeks of worrying I feel a little less stressed, I have lots of other things to deal with so things were really getting me down. Crying with relief seems to be the thing to do. X

Eccentric?

Posted on March 19, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Bee, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1882, Description, Eccentric, Fun, Humour, Limerick, Mad, Poetry, Short poemLeave a comment

What is one word that describes you?

I decided to use the form of a limerick poem to describe the one word ‘eccentric’ that I have chosen for myself. The painting is of me as a green woman…

I’m rather eccentric, that’s me

I prefer that to ‘mad’ you see

I love paint and mess

With nothing to stress

And my mind is a buzz, like a bee!

Phone alarm

Posted on March 19, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged alarm, Awake, Bed, Cat, cats claws, Morning, Music, Phone, Sleeping, tinkly, TiredLeave a comment

Somewhere downstairs my sisters phone alarm is going off. She must still be asleep, but the high pitched tinkling music woke me up and my cats too! I am quite a light sleeper and I have good hearing which doesn’t help. Then on this grey and tinkly morning one of my cats has decided to tunnel down the bed next to me and stick her claws in my knees in order to get a bit of love. Chin and belly rub over she leaps back out of bed. Now I’m awake so I decided to let you know. Perhaps your phone will tinkle or beep and wake you up? X Morning X

Air

Posted on March 18, 2024March 18, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Air, Art, Blue, Earth, Fine Art, Fire, Imagination, Painting, Time, WaterLeave a comment

A painting from a few years ago, a bit burry with camera shake. It’s one of four I did to represent Earth, Air, Fire and Water. It was a series I really enjoyed. Working with the flow of paint, allowing my imagination free rein. It’s acrylic on canvas. Two of the set had already been sold and I was thinking of painting replacement images. I wish I had, I’m not sure I ever will. X

Playing with trees

Posted on March 18, 2024March 18, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Autumn, Digital sketches, Drawing, Fall, in collage app, sketchbook appLeave a comment

Catching up with #bandofsketchers again. The prompt was Fall (American word for Autumn). Various versions of a doodled tree drawn in my sketchbook app. I just saw the news of a new Banksy mural in London and this is my reaction to it. Nothing like his painting except for the feeling of dripping paint. He just used green and black but I went for more autumnal colours. I had fun with this.