Decorations up?

Posted on December 14, 2024December 14, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Angel, boxing hare, cat ornaments, Christmas, Decorations, holographic paper, Memories, Moose, red beadsLeave a comment

An angel and a moose reindeer ornament and a boxing hare, a string of red beads, some shiny holographic card and two cat ornaments? Will that do?

I don’t have a tree because of the cats, and I’m feeling very minimal this year. I will put any cards I get up on the mantelpiece.

No I’m not turning into Scrooge, just feeling a little flat and I can’t climb to hang things up. And if I did, then I’d have to take them down again afterwards. Oh well…

I remember years when I used to put up a tree, I have boxes and boxes of glass ornaments, Christmas tree lights, I would hang paper streamers, presents were put under the tree. Not much to put there now, a couple of calendars. But I don’t need anything, my house is full.

Kindness

Posted on December 14, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Care, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2152, kindness, Memories, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, ThinkingLeave a comment

Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.

I hope people see that I am kind

That I care about things

Wrap my heart and soul

Round those who need.

But if they don’t see it?

Not important,

as long as things improve

Kindness can be hidden too

Who needs recognition?

If you can help anyway.

And yes, I am soft hearted.

Band drawing

Posted on December 14, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white, Boxes, Drawing, Ink pen, Life, Stuff, TimeLeave a comment

Finally drawn (no pun intended) back to #bandofsketchers. Here’s some ‘stuff’ I need to sort out. I must try and do more sketches

Carol concert

Posted on December 14, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged agnostic, Carol concert, Carols, Christmas, Church, Fun, Life, Music, Singing, Time, vicarLeave a comment

It was singing at the Church carol concert tonight. I felt proud, I think because I hadn’t been rehearsing due to my broken rib, people were surprised. I got a few compliments at church and when I got home a couple who had been up at the concert stopped to say I’d got a lovely voice!

Strangely when I was having a mince pie during the intermission I had a discussion about being agnostic with the local vicar! I don’t know what got into me!

Knit one twisted pearl one!

Posted on December 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Craft, crazy pattern, Hobby, Imagination, Jumper, Knit one, Memory, twisted pearl one3 Comments

Just found this jumper I knitted about 40 years ago! I apparently was using a twisted pearl and knit stich. No pattern, I made it up as I went along! It was in one of my divan drawers that just got sent to the tip, the drawer not the jumper!

Doodle and texture

Posted on December 12, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Doodle, Drawing, Photodirector, Sketching, texture toolsLeave a comment

7 Yr old digital drawing put through photodirector.

I’ve found my favourite tweak in Photodirector after losing it for a bit. There were added tools and some of them have been relabled so it took me a while of looking through things to find the texture tools somewhere I wasn’t expecting. The original drawing on the left was done in Artrage oils app 7 years ago.

Cat

Posted on December 11, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged 5 minutes, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Drawing, Life, pen sketch, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

He was sleeping then he woke up! Quick 5 minute pen drawing of one of my cats. I was watching the portrait artist of the year and the only thing I could do was my cat. It turned out reasonably I think.

New bed

Posted on December 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bed, divan, double, History, Humour, king-size, old bed, Sleeping, Time, tired out, Worn out4 Comments

Blimey! I’ve just had a new bed delivered. My old one way about Xx years old (too embarrassed to mention it’s actual age). What a palaver! Moving furniture and boxes out the way. Making sure there were no trip hazards in the way. Emptying divan drawers of stuff that could have come out of the ark, were those cushions from the 1980s? Then because I’ve gone from a king-size to a double do I need to get new sheets and a duvet? do I need new or will the old ones do? Will it be too soft or too hard? A friend of mine has given it me and she lives miles away so I didn’t get a chance to try it out. All I can say is that it looked comfy as the men carried it upstairs, but I’m too tired to get up there and try it out!

Zoom in

Posted on December 10, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged aurora green, Experiment, Fence, Light, Movement, Orange, Photo, symmetrical, ZoomLeave a comment

Playing with symmetry and light. The green is from an aurora a few months ago, the orange is from light reflected off the fence outside the kitchen window at night. I liked framing it in a circle, it looks like I’m zooming in on the centre of the space and it’s fuzzy enough to indicate movement. I like exploring ways of creating art and images. You don’t always know what to expect.

Soup?

Posted on December 10, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Bowl, Flowers, Food, Lentils, Orange, Photo, soup, table mat, White, YellowLeave a comment

Someone sent me this photo of lentil soup and suggested I try it but I wasn’t up to following the recipe. But I did like their photo. Apologies if it is copyright but I don’t think so? The table was visible in the original and the dinner mat was twisted but I straightened it up a bit and cropped it to lose the table. I just like the orange bowl and the thin blue line round the edge. It just seperates the bowl from the white and yellow of the mat.