Little ring

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bead, Copper, Life, little finger, loose, Lost, ring, slipped, Washing upLeave a comment

Not again! This silly little ring just fell off again. My fingers on my right hand must be getting thinner (my left always feels swollen), it means when I wash my hands the ring can slide off. Today it ended up in the washing up bowl. You will say take it off? But if I do I might not remember where I put it!

I think I will buy a slightly smaller ring to hold it in place, or maybe discard it completely. It’s only a cheap copper thing with a blue bead, but it was a gift from a friend and I like it.

Questions?

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Careful, data protection, Ideas, Life, Memory, password, prompts, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

I’ve started doing the daily prompts on here but I can’t help wondering about giving away information. I’m not the most interesting person in the world, and I don’t want to share stuff that could allow me to be scammed. So I don’t share per names, or relatives names. If anyone did get into my pages they would find I have a separate password for everything. Capital letters, numbers, symbols, long words. So password protected is real in my case.

I do talk about my past life sometimes, but it will be vague, and I try not to identify with definite dates.

The prompts are questions, which I’m not sure I like to answer, and yet they make me think of things that I would not necessarily write about otherwise.

Next Saturday

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Artisan sale, Drawing, Fine Art, Life, Orme Art group, Painting, Sketching, spring sale, Whitfield centreLeave a comment

Orme Art Group is having a Spring Artisan sale. There’s going to be a variety of stalls, from wire weaving, soft furnishing and painting and prints. I hope to be demonstrating minature painting, and selling some of my mini works. I also have a few glass necklaces for sale.

I don’t do craft fairs very often anymore, I went off them when covid was (still is) about and I’ve had to pluck up courage to do it again. I like space around me, not crowds, but this will be with friends so I should be OK.

The Whitfield Centre is a community centre and the people there are very friendly. I hope visitors will be impressed by the variety of work for sale and I hope we get a good attendance.

Little friend

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Animal, Black and white cat, Cat, Friend, Life, Love, Poem, Poetry, Purr, Sleep, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Every night she paws in,

Footpads run and jump

Up on the bed

Miaow, purr, headbutted

Poddled by her paws

Seeking love

Then she sits

On my chest.

Miew for a head scratch

Tickle behind the ears

Stroke her back

Give love and receive love.

Little cat, big love.

Bench view

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Horizon, Leaves, Life, Photo, Sky, Spring, Time, Trees, View, Weather, WindLeave a comment

I wonder how long it will take for the leaves to come on these trees in the park. Then the view of the horizon will be covered for another six months. The hills in the distance will be gone. My hubby, sitting on the bench before me will be in shade during the morning and in light in the afternoon.

The clouds will drop their rain and the leaves of the trees unfold. Every day they will take in sunlight, until the temperature drops and the light levels fall. Then the wind will blow and the leaves, that have now rurned to brown and orange, will fly from the trees and uncover the view again…

Pastel drawing

Posted on March 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Fine Art, Land, Landscape, Life, mounted drawing, Pastels, Sea, Sketching, Sky2 Comments

Pastel drawing of sea, land and sky. Came up on my Facebook memories from four years ago. Where does the time go? It was one of the drawings I did during a pastel workshop a while ago. It was framed and has a mount over it so any loose pastel dust falls behind the mount and not in front of it. I think I’m going to take it over to a gallery where I have some work so I can try and sell it.

Three new?

Posted on March 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumnal, Fine Art, Life, Painting, reference, Umbrella, Weather4 Comments

Enjoyed starting a few paintings today at the Orme Art Group after turning up with no reference photos, I forget to take my phone and it has some flower photos I was going to use! Thanks to a lady called Steph for letting me borrow her pictures.

These are only daubed in… I will go over them and add details later. I started one little canvas but I didn’t want to muddy the colours so I started another picture, then another. I’m hoping these all have a feeling of atmosphere. I want them to look misty and damp.

So long ago?

Posted on March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1885, Geography, influential, Life, Memory, School, teacherLeave a comment

Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

My most influential teacher taught Geography. He was very good at explaining the subject, but he was also very humane. He would put information in context, and talk about how the world was changing. I think he talked about the population explosion. How people were being exploited, and how countries were growing cash crops despite their populations needed food for themselves. So as well as learning about oxbow lakes and contours on maps we learnt a lot about the world. I don’t think we would have been taught like that today.

Eye news

Posted on March 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Age, Art, cataracts, dazzled, Eyesight, Fuzzy, Life, Light, Opticians, optometry2 Comments

Oh dear! I thought things were getting a bit ‘fuzzy’. I just had my eye test and they are. So far things are not bad, just a blurring round the edge of my lenses, like fogged up glasses when you come in from the rain, or being dazzled by the sun. My central vision is clear. But it’s something to keep an ‘eye’ on literally and metaphorically.

I need to eat healthily and have anti-oxidants in my diet. I will try and do everything I have to. I just don’t want to lose my eyesight, art means so much to me, reading too. I just hope this is a gradual process. I know it can be treated, I hope when I need it, it is.

Painting and drawing

Posted on March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blocked, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1884, diagnosis, Fine Art, Life, Painting, Prompt2 Comments

What do you wish you could do more every day?

I used to paint and draw a lot more than I do now. I feel though that recently I’m quite blocked, stuck, nervous of creating. Yes I sketch every couple of days, but my easle is resolutely empty. The paints in their boxes, the brushes lying fallow. The trouble is my physical health. My left arm keeps shaking and I have pain in my elbow. I’m still waiting for a full diagnosis. I don’t think it’s anxiety, but not painting makes me anxious….

I just saw a painting/art competition online, but the entry needs to have been created after 1st January 2023. The painting I had in mind, and it was a good one, was from a couple of years ago, so it was not suitable. Also the entry date is tomorrow, I’m not going to have time unless I get my paints out NOW and paint all night..

I have a list of paintings to do for friends and family. I feel oppressed by that. I should feel glad. I need to break the block.

Mallaband-Brown

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