Christmas

I have found this link , lots of interesting things for adults and children -some great recipes on there!
http://www.northpole.com/

Todays Class -Sat 10th Nov

We had a lovely laid back class today- ''Mrs Subtle'' and Chris from Hadnall Wi came along with Mrs Subtle's (Jean) daughter in law Joe. We had met Jean and Chris a few months ago when we did a class in Chris's conservatory!!!

It was a tad cooler than when we had met before---I swear I lost several lb's that day!!!

Anyway, we got stuck in to 'tropical summer day'' and it wasn't long before we had some exciting skies going on !

Joe (pictured above signing her first masterpiece) who was a first timer told me she had done a fine arts degree, but found this more fun and she was learning how to actually paint a picture, she really enjoyed her day.

The time flew by and before we knew it we were finished.The palm trees went very well, everyone was surprised at how easy they were with the fan brush.

Sharleen got chatting to the other ladies and found they had mutual friends via her dog training classes--it sure is a small world.

Sharleen has also kindly offered us the use of her business premises for classes in the Telford area. Straight away the 3 ladies booked up for a class, which means that with Sharleen there are only 2 places left for ''The Birch Trees'' on Feb 9th.

The students went away with canvas's and brushes to carry on at home,

I am going to sit down tomorrow and get the dates sorted out for next year-after going to the boot sale that is!!!

Beautiful Night

we were very lucky again with the weather while away,we only had one day of wet weather and that was just for a few hours. we were rewarded that night by this beautiful sky.

I have so much inspiration from this beautiful place, I shall never run out of painting material!!

Boot Sales and Freecycle!!

I have had a lovely day today, we went to the boot sale this morning and ended up buying some stick insects for my little nephews and nieces.

A little boy was selling them at the boot- 10 for £1. After checking with the parents that they would like them we bought 2 lots of 10 and I have ended up with 4 myself.

We have read up about them on the interenet and found out what they like to eat etc and I am looking forward to watching them grow and mature.

They only hatched out in the past couple of days and will soon reach full size of 3-4 ins.

Ater the family came round to collect them, we had a quick look at the freecycle site and saw some lovely pine bedside tables on there,really well made and handy to hide away the clutter-luckily for us they were still available and very local so we went to fetch them.

We have previously had some storage stands off the same lady Tracy , so I took one of my small oil paintings for her as a thankyou.She was chuffed to bits with it-and exchange is no robbery!

We have been very lucky on freecycle , only yesterday we went to fetch some more storage stands for the garage, and also a brilliant back door for the garage.

While we were chatting with the owner of them, it came out in conversation that I'm an artist and the lady said she had a lovely big easel to go as well, Its a hand made one and is going to be every useful for bigger canvas, so we came back with more than expected!

Freecycle is a fantastic site-we have given lots of stuff away on there, from computer moniters to double glazing. Well worth a look at your local site if you are looking for anything, you never know what you will find on there!