Sale Going Well !!!!

Considering the awful weather we had last week my sale is going well...sales on line are going well too...  We are delivering 3 paintings tomorrow to a lady after I have been to the RSH to have an endoscopy....the painting above has always been one of my favourite ones.. I love the purple poppies and brown foliage..

I love the dragonflies on the above painting--they show up much better in 'real life''

and the photos of the Chocolate Poppy do not do it justice-- the centre is very 'touchy feely'' melted wax...

Ha d a call from the photographer who came to take pictures for the local paper about my sale.... he had shown his wife the photo of me holding the above photo- and when she saw it she loved it-- so he has bought it for her as a surprise....

And when we go down to Devon next month we will be delivering 4 paintings to a lovely lady who has bought off me several times before.. Stormy Skies is a big one-- 3ft x 3ft so quite big to post...and as we are on holiday nearby we have arranged to take them with us and get to meet Angela at last!

I love the colours in the Birches...

This was a one off--- quite fancy doing another one on a bigger canvas--this one is 16in x 20in

This is also another favourite one... its so tranquil...

I have reduced all of my Shabby Chic slates --they are now just £3 each or 2 for  £5

Koi Carp sold on the first day of my sale here... its encaustic wax on perspex...

these 2 went same day,,

Was happy to see a couple of  early watercolours sell to the same couple  too..

another of my watercolours went too..

Cards have sold really well... and my stand is much emptier now....

there are not that many tiny paintings left either-- but I have sorted out a load of craft/card making materials that I will not get round to using..  so if you enjoy making cards etc... there is sure to be something you will like!  Lots of bargains to be had.. and we are staying open for an extra day as it is Bank Holiday Weekend... so open all day on the Monday  instead of finishing on Sunday..  So thank you all so much for all of your support so far--- another week to go-- will be lovely to see you-and the weather forecast is looking good as well!

Happy , Healthy 2015

Well its that time of year again--does not seem 5 mins since I was doing this for 2014..a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.....We have met more lovely people than ever--and welcomed them into the world of painting...old friends have been back to paint more paintings, and we  have had so much pleasure from seeing the nervous ,convinced they cant ever paint , grow in self confidence and huge smiles adorn their faces in just a few hours when they see their paintings develop. We  will never tire of that happening I can assure you!    2014 was our busiest year to date with this years diary already filling up.I will adding more dates over the next week or so..

It does not start to even feel like Christmas until the Santa's and snowmen come out and the tree goes up....this year we have a huge 7ft tree that fills one end of the room! Its a beauty and even better its a £170 tree reduced to £30 and then bought using £15 worth of Tesco vouchers that were doubled up! So a free tree really! I love a bargain!

I had an Ipad off  Bill as well as loads of other things--have not had time to set it all up yet,,,

This little munchkin has been a blessing this Christmas, Cant believe he is coming 3 years old..he loved his Peppa Pig train and other stuff he had off Nanny Di

Not a great photo---but Bill loved his main pressie off me-- I commissioned a model of our Sparky cat from a very talented lady I met on the craft market in Ludlow.She worked from photos I sent her, and did him begging as he always did--complete with his one fang showing  and the nick in his ear..He came complete with a black rabbit as he always caught the black bunnies and bought them home from the field behind the house!

Table set for dinner....

I love this photo of Tommy and his Daddy taken on Christmas day...the look on that little face says it all I think!  Loved to bits

Dinner cooked by Bill was delish as usual...

The Christmas Elf!

A lesson to be learned here---do not make the custard for the custard for the boxing day trifle when you have had too much to drink! It was solid next day lol-- a slice of custard on the trifle wouldn't have been right!

Usually the star of Christmas food is the turkey--however this year it was this beautiful whole leg of ham..

It was really lovely--and there was so much meat on there-- a bit like parma ham--Bill soon had the knack of cutting it wafer thin! I tried it dry fried yesterday and it was really scrummy xx

We had al the family around on Boxing day...did far too much food as usual !

The ham seemed to get more tasty the more we cut off it!!

Now this pressie from my friend made us laugh a bit....but is also very apt.....while I have been making light of things-this Christmas has had a very sad side..my lovely son Jim has been poorly for a while now on and off... well 2 weeks before Christmas he had blood tests and its all been happening very quickly from there... We  have been told he will be needing some chemotherapy.....its been a bit manic with trips to Shrewsbury Hospital to see the lovely specialist Dr O'Connor who is the very best in his field...bone marrow tests, an op on Christmas Eve to remove Lymph nodes from his neck, and now awaiting a special scan at Stoke On Trent next Tuesday.. We will see Dr O'Connor on Monday for an update..and possibly he will start his treatment too... Trust my Jim to be different--specialist thinks he has Hodgkin's Lymphoma and also he has a very very rare condition that has actually started to go into remission on its own which he has never seen before called haemophagocytic syndrome...but Jim has been feeling loads better the past 10 days or so and his latest results at the hospital show its nearly gone away..which is great news! So hopefully he will start his chemo on Monday and we will go from there...
So on that note we will wish all friends, family, students and students to be a very Happy, Healthy, 2015..