The wheels fell off!

 Apologies for my lack of posts, I’m fine and the knee is coming along well. 

Here we are in a new year and I’m going to try to do better!

Sadly one of the groups that I have been with for 10 years is now defunct so here’s hoping I can find a new one. 

Here’s the last of the Colour Me Positive pages…

The other group continues and some of the CMP members have already joined me over at Life Documented 

Here are the last few of 2025… 

Mirror repeat 

Section of the mirror repeat used to create a pattern for textiles 

Design a wreath 

Baubles made from wrapping paper/stencilling

More wreaths for cards were made 

Well that wraps up last years creations scene and I will try to get back to blogging soon….. first I need to get the drive dug out so I can walk the dog!!!

Home is a wonderful place!

 I have had the pleasure of 2 nights in hospital and come home with a half knee replacement…

The food was pretty good too!

I now need to put in the effort for the physio side of things.

I’m managing to get some art done and also get some blog surfing done whilst I’m icing the knee!

October is almost over and I have gone off track- supposed to use gelli prints but I’m not quite ready for that yet so I convinced my assistant to let me stick paper scraps down then diecut some leaves, I used some punches on the leftovers 

#2 seasonal colours/neuropathic 

I used soft pastels set with a damp brush.

The last one is colour me positive again:

See you in blog land!

Summer is over

 Summer in France was lovely, we came home briefly and then we went to New England to visit the family. Thank goodness we were not relying on seeing Fall as the drought has had a big effect on the trees this year. Anyway, we are back and have been busy on all fronts catching up with paperwork etc - I also had to try to get some of my art journal pages done before I go into hospital for knee replacement surgery (tomorrow). So far I have only worked on the Colour Me Positive pages ….

Joy

 As we are strangers in real life I have to explain the humour of this one…. I am totally bilingual & a lot of French people, on meeting me when I’m with my husband or english speaking friends who don’t necessarily speak or understand french and that I therefore translate to, will often comment on what good english I speak for a French person. I have spoken french since 1960, could read it before I was able to read english, it is very definitely a habit for me although I came away from my first year of school with the “Prix d’Excellence” (40 pupils- 27 nationalities including French) This little “frog” leaping with joy called to me for the prompt! Bonjour les amis 👋🏻

Catch up time

 Colour me positive pages:

Documented life project 

July is about Doodles:

Then August is based on a travel journal page:

#1

#2 is then abstract elements from the previous page:

September comes with a new chapter 

High mountains, deep blue skies, shade from the larch trees, twitter of little birds & the occasional skirl of an eagle make this a beautiful place to chill/read … oh wait, there’s also the occasional roar from a passing motorbike that rudely interrupts!

Kaisa Hart free course: mindful layers - thankful that you cannot read the scribbles whilst I deal with stuff!

You have now reached the end of my latest chapter as I am off on my travels again (USA) and will be heading to hospital on my return for knee replacement surgery so I will be back on here as soon as I can!

Holiday season

 I’m away from my desk…. I have done some art while I am in France but not a lot and some of these are from before I came away. 

I’ll be playing catch up with Life Documented next month!

Rennie MacIntosh time

 Play time with a new 4” embossing folder, some smooshed ink 4” scraps and some Art Deco Charles Rennie MacIntosh stamps that I have coloured with distress inks & finally some flat gems. The purple one has been done with silver embossing powder, the orange is the debossed side + gold gilding wax, blue is gilding wax and the pink is black ink rubbed over the raised pattern.