Sunday

It's amazing the difference a day can make, yesterday we roasted under the sun with temperatures in the low 30s and today it's 15C at almost noon & we've had some rain!

I made some more pages for my DLP journal....

Last week's with the new monthly heme of face, human form & characters, it's about expressive faces & what I can see clearly now. Regular visitors on here will know that I'm not big with drawing people! I think my last attempt was Bill lying in his hospital bed back in January 2014!

I drew an open eye, closed eye and a rather angular face, no pictures to copy from. I decided to add a couple of magazine ads showing eyes that I thought looked quite nice.

The new theme for this week is characters and the prompt if you are going to be weird then be confident about it. We had been down the valley to Colmars in the morning for the fete medievale and so my thoughts were stuck in the days of yore, Knights, damsels etc but when I started drawing my knight suffered  from a panic attack at the thought of climbing on his destrier & thought that as it was so hot it was possibly a better idea to head to the lake and try some deep water driving instead.....at worst he'd get rusty!!!

I hope this leaves you smiling!

Friday already

Where has the week gone? It's been a hot one here with temperatures in the very high 20s to low 30s!

Bailey enjoyed an outing to sample the local fountains...

We enjoyed some fine food...

I got a page done for journal 52(20" challenge)

And tomorrow I'm putting my glad rags on & attending the medieval fete in Colmars les Alpes....

I'll see you all again soon :-)

Monday

A new week in the sunshine and a walk first thing this morning up to the Lac d'Allos which is a large lake at altitude (2230m) so I was higher than anyone in the UK - mind you I am at the chalet too (1800m)

And we saw some marmottes on the way to the refuge too, sitting/lying on the rocks sunning themselves & occasionally scratching fleas!

Always good to see these creatures, they are used to seeing people at the lake so they are not too shy.

And it's inchie day! The theme for this week is windows....

My hotel room?

Acetate aperture 

Hope my sunny skies are reaching you :-)

More pages

I managed a little journal catch up time yesterday as we were having a damp skies day!

DLP real life/ at this moment: I used Under paper & magazine clippings

And for JOURNAL 52 positive change

I'm enjoying fruit that actually has taste because it's been ripened in the sun rather than "ripen at home" stuff that we get in the UK

THE Carrefour magazine came in handy for this one as did the paper bag that some of said fruit came in :-)

Inchies day tomorrow.....

News from abroad

We have been having some glorious weather & enjoyed outings

Along the local river (Verdon)

The main road lies above us

A drive over the mountains to a valley where I used to spend weekends staying with a girlfriend from boarding school - yes, I was lucky enough to grow up in this beautiful area....

Barcelonette...

Place Manuel

A modern sundial

Bailey had a blast at the restaurant, got loads of attention & treats (not all from me either!)

We stopped for a cold drink at the refuge at the top of the mountain on our way back home...

The cows were just out of sight but we could hear their bells and the marmottes were whistling in the distance....

It was lovely sitting up there with a breeze blowing!

Today we have some cloud and I'm catching up on some journal pages for POSITIV JOURNAL

What resources you

Lunch on a shaded patio with friends, a walk in the forest, a cold bottle of Fizz, a good book, a summer scent, cold water & a swim in the pool

Magazines

These were both done with pictures from the local paper weekend supplement & the Ubaye Valley what's on brochure.

See you all again soon :-)

Yellow

A happy colour for me! It's also our new challenge at every inchie Monday.

I spent the afternoon of Sunday under blue skies, a big sun shining down and my sunshine yellow parasol giving me shade when required...bliss!

Here are my shares for this week

A shell & brads for my inchie

A happy mail background with some added black dots and a yellow hand button!

Wishing you all sunny days....

Rudolph day

High summer and I came away prepared with some Christmas cards I made earlier....

I won't brag about what a beautiful day it's been because I know that it's not been the case everywhere, I did however have to sit through 2 hours of an exceedingly boring residents association meeting! Thank god it's over for another year.

Back again soon - I'll try & get photos of the bake house tomorrow where they only fire up the old village oven once a year, it's the source of exceedingly good bread :-)