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Number 12, Tanya, gets the fruity paper.
Number 90, Sue Young, gets the newsprint paper.
Congratulations to Tanya and Sue - I’ll email you shortly with details.
To everyone else, thank you so much for stopping by and leaving so many kind comments. I really appreciate having had the opportunity to meet you all.
This is just what I needed. An event to make me find time for myself. I am juggling so many things at the moment–the children, afterschooling, looking for a new house, trying to keep on top of work, plus the usual home chores–that I have dropped anything not desperately necessary (such as making art, blogging, [...]
To those of you who kindly wondered where I was in the last few months: I was relocating, moving homes, getting the children settled in their new schools, working…and missing both blogging and art making.
Plenty still remains to be sorted out, but I hope to be somewhat more present in January. Meanwhile, I’d like to [...]
I have a chronic need to start from scratch. I try to fight it, but inevitably end up succumbing to the urge. Take the twelve weeks holiday art making journey, which I embarked upon earlier in the month. I started making a Halloween banner, but couldn’t possibly use anything ready made—oh no. Instead, I had [...]
It’s raining outside and, for the first time in weeks, it feels really autumnal. If truth be told, I fancy some pear and chocolate crumble, and damn the diet I always want to go on (but never really do).
Perhaps this is why I felt compelled to put some pears in this paper?
I just couldn’t [...]
What a blur September was! Settling Nicco in at school and Caterina at the childminder’s, coping with mountains of laundry and a broken dishwasher…all while suddenly freelance assignments flooded in left, right and centre.
I had so much work to do I barely had time to keep up with my swaps and little else.
But now I [...]
Well, the laundry is not quite under control yet, but I am making inroads. Between that, Nicco starting at his new school (so far so good) and Caterina starting to be looked after by a childminder (not so good, as she cries desperately when I leave her) I haven’t made so much as a scrap [...]
Wow, what a trip. Gentle hills covered in tidy vineyards rose and fell in the embrace of a soft, cool mist in Burgundy. Each vine groaned under the weight of fat and green grapes, on the verge of turning purple and ripe.
Every now and again a turreted chateau soared over the landscape, a vigilant sentinel [...]
You know what? This business of being on holiday is really hard work. I have been with the kids in the Alps for ten days, and it has been an intense affair of watching Nicco climb high on old pine trees up on the Piccolo San Bernardo, helping Caterina ‘jump’ on the trampoline for the [...]
When I was little, I had a pencil virtually glued to my hand. I made ‘art’ every day, several times a day, Even though I was no great talent, there was nothing I enjoyed as much as drawing, except reading.
Growing up, I fell in love with the written word, and, while I kept busy with [...]
