A good weekend

So what sort of weekend did you have? A good one i hope! Mine was very nice. Normally they seem to fly by without much worry for my wants and needs but not this weekend. This weekend i managed to get so much done. I went shopping and bought some new acrylic paints, i found some time to finish off this art journal entry
as well as start and finish this entry....
This was last weeks prompt from Suzie. This included some paint and a lot of collage and glue. I had so much fun with the glue….lol

After I had had enough art time I sat down and watched this
And this

And got some much needed knitting time in. As of right now I only have one more row to knit and then I can cast off, block it and then sew up the seams. I am hoping to have it ready to show you all by Wednesday.

My gran has been gone for a week already and I wanted her to come home to a nice little mail treat. So last night I put together this little card for her. Card making is not my normal choice of artwork but it was nice to try something a little different. Inside the pouch is a photo of my self, my brother and my gran and on the back is a little message from me. I hope that it gets to her safely and that it makes her smile.

I am just finishing up work and then heading off to see the doctors. Tonight i hope to finish knitting the baby item and get some more reading time in.

Tea, Books and Birthdays

Today is my dad's birthday - Happy Birthday dad! I hope that you have a wonderful day and that the year ahead is full of happiness and blessings. I love you.

A few posts ago i mentioned that i am going off of tea....well, one of the ladies that i work with brought these in for me to try yesterday.
This was so sweet of her. Now i can try some before having to go out and buy entire box fulls. While sorting out my cupboards this weekend i also come across a box of Strawberry and Mango teabags. Hmm, they were rather nice as well.

Ever since i was a little girl i have always been a lover of books. I remember getting awards regularly in school for the most books read. Today, some seventeen odd years on from Primary school and i still love books. They fascinate me. They draw me in. For the past few months i haven't really found a book that grabs my attention but all this changed on Monday evening. My mom lent me her book to take on the bus down to London. What a great book so far! I have been reading in my lunch break, before i go to bed, even in the bath last night - i just can not put this book down.

Art

I have been thinking really hard about putting my art journal up on my blog. Some of the pages are very personal to me and others i don't mind sharing so much. So what i thought i would do if just share those that i want to.

Now before i show these two pages i want to just let you know that if you don't like them then you are totally within your right not to. Art is different for everyone and this is my art, for me, right now. I am having fun, expressing myself and challenging myself to try different things. To step outside of my normal box and to do things that i might have tried if i was the five year old me.
Be true to who you are
For this page i used acrylic paint, rub ons, stickers, paper and collage techniques. I really had fun with this one as it was the first time in a long time that i had mixed my paints to make the exact colour that i was after in my head - loved it!

Good Bye This was the very first page that i did in my art journal. Again a very personal page but this one i don't mind sharing. I used acrylic paint, masking tape and my journal pen.

Tomorrow i am hoping to have some photos up of some of my knitting projects that i have going on at the moment. I seem to have 3 UFO's and at least another 2 projects that i am just itching to get on my needles...lol.

Have a good day today

Whats going on....

I seem to have a lot of different things going on at the moment and i thought i would take some time to share them with you as well as make a note of them for myself for the future.

*I would like to wish Adrienne a happy birthday for today! Hope you have a wonderful day.

*On Monday i am off to London to go see the embassy. It is way too expensive to catch the train down to London so i am going to have to go by bus. A three hour journey there and a 3 hour journey back. A long time! I am hoping to get at least one knitting project finished and possibly a second.

*My new car is working fantastically and i am really enjoying driving her around.

*We also bought a new DH ready flat screen television on Wednesday night. We have been borrowing a family members TV for months now so thought we had better get our own and give them theirs back.

*Last night we met up with my family and my gran and we had a lovely meal at the Hobby Horse Pub.

*Over the next month i will be spending so much time on this Handmade Holidays Tutorial site by Sew Mama Sew. It looks fantastic.

*Stu's engine in his motorbike has got some problems. We have found a new engine for the bike and if all goes well we should be picking it up this weekend.

*I have not been doing any scrapping lately but i have been doing a lot of work in my art journal. I will get some photos posted some time this weekend. If you are looking for something fine to try your hand it have a look at Suzi's site, D'blogala's site and doc.u.menting site. Your art doesn't have to beautiful to anyone else except to you so don't what others say or what that critical voice inside of us put you off trying this.

* I have only recently found the creative organizing blog but i can not wait to get my teeth stuck into it a little more.

*I seem to be going off of tea for some reason. I am not sure why or what i am going to drink if i keep going the way i am but my daily cups of tea just aren't doing it for me anymore.

* I love Greys Anatomy

* We have made no further plans on the wedding front

* I am really missing my old friends lately

Have a great weekend everyone and keep safe.