ArtyFartyAnnie

 Inspired by a class with Angela Kennedy as part of PYHaS 2020, though my take on it isn't a patch on Angela's beautiful painting and my girls have turned out looking a bit sad and grumpy as always :o) I learned a lot though, and enjoyed the process - especially loved doing the hair, and enjoyed using salt to create a pattern in the fabric of their dresses, definitely adding that to my repertoire of techniques. 

 Rediscovered whilst tidying my craft room - this watercolour painting I did as a practice years ago. It was shot down in flames by the teacher at the evening class I was going to at the time ("nice" but not proper watercolour technique and too controlled she said), so I shoved it back in my sketchbook out of sight at the time - but I quite like it now, though I'm sure I'd have the patience to do this now :o) Years later, I have come back to watercolours. I love them because they're relatively inexpensive, portable and really fun to play with, now that I've learned to let them do their thing and enjoy the process. They're also great to combine with other media and these days I'm happy to break all the "rules" if the mood takes me!

 Hello Fellow Deskers,  I've missed several weeks - Life seems to keep swallowing my Wednesdays recently - but I was determined not to miss another one, so I'm posting now and will be back later to have a snout around. Pop over to Julia's Stamping Ground if  you would like to join in, we're a very friendly lot :) Here's my desk this week, in the throes of finishing up my Christmas cards - yes FINISHING my Christmas  cards, can you believe it?!  I've made 120, enough to sell a few and leave plenty for us to last for a couple of years I reckon! I've also been playing with origami this week ... The shirts open up to hold sweeties or small gifts - a friend suggested they would make a great gift bag for a tie and you could give socks or tights in the shoes. The shirt uses one sheet of A4 and the shoes use two squares of whatever size you like - the smallest I've done used 3" squares and the ones in the picture were 8" squares.  Anyway, I'm off ...