Life is so much better with friends . . .

My little clown girl has found some friends.....

Hope you are all having a lovely Sunday.... pop over to Sophia's Sunday Sketches to see everyone....

Where have the clowns gone? . . .

I'm feeling much better today... yippee.....

Here is a little lady that has been popping into my dreams over the last week.... she finally made an appearance today... she's also part of my homework for Jane Davenport's Supplies Me course that I'm doing...
I'm totally in love with this little girlie... will have to find her some friends to play with....

I'm bringing Little Miss Clown to  Paint Party Friday  see you all there.....

A tishoooo. . . atishoo. . . we all fall down!

Grrr... two weeks back at school and I have one almighty cold. The works, runny nose, feeling hot and cold and so darn tired.... a tishooo, atishoo non stop.... thankfully today Wednesday is a no school day... so I've flopped about all day. I've done a bit of drawing and painting mainly for my on-line course that I'm doing....

This is the page that I did for last weeks mixed media homework... I couldn't resist a little story.. Missy mermaid is wondering if her bum looks big... "No Silly" says the little fairy "I've bought you a dandelion flower to cheer you up.... you have to blow on it and make a wish"...

Will upload this weeks homework later on in the week....

I re painted the spare room and turned it into my art room... my gorgeous daughter Rebecca said that I should give my room a name... her boyfriends Mum has a creative room that she calls her "Pod" which sounds cosy and cool. I couldn't very well pinch her name "Pod" so I've been wracking my poor sick befuddled brain for a name for "My Room", work station isn't right, coz it's not work, studio didn't sound right either - far to grown up ... then it came to me...

"The Dolls House" 

because it's where magic and make believe come together, where I chat and have fun with my friends. All creative souls out there know that the drawings and dolls that we make talk and have wonderful stories to tell and share... The Dolls House where I go to leave the real world behind......for awhile at least.

Rebecca and Emily Jane...

check out my wonderful daughters' video that she and her friend made for Freshers Week.... 

Sunday Sketches . . .

Good morning everyone... it's a crisp bright sunny Sunday morning here in rural western France. I'm thinking nice cup of tea and a warm croissant would go down nicely... My bakery lady is on her hols. So hot cup of tea and toast with some yummy homemade plum jam. Pop over I'll put the kettle on and we'll go see what everyone is up to over at Sophia's Sunday Sketches.......

Creative Tuesday's . . . Kitchen . . .

Toogle was burying a bone in the garden and didn't see "Petunia" from No 23 sashay up the garden path and bustle into Boogie Bedhead's kitchen...... - he was too late to warn Boogie to hide and pretend to be out.

"Petunia" went on and on and on about her "Brand Spanking New All Mode Con's shiny Kitchen" that she was having  fitted.... and did Boogie want the name of the "Kitchen Fitters" because after all, Boogie's kitchen could do with a major relook darling.....no offence of course...but your kitchen darling is sooooo last century....and it's so you Boogie to have a Kitch Hen in your kitchen.....ha ha ha ha ha..... must dash darling have to keep an eye on kitchen progress..... let's do lunch.... soooooonnnn......"

Boogie can only hope that Petunia will be too busy polishing her brand spanking new shiny kitchen to have time to "doooo lunch darling....!!!"

Let's pop over to Mr Toast's Creative Tuesday and have a peek in everyone's kitchen.... :)

Thank Goodness it's Friday.....

Phew what a week....back to school...... I'm exhausted..... and have started Jane Davenport's class at Artomology brilliant.... I've been a good student and did my homework for teacher.... loved every minute of it... worked late in the night and early in the morning....

It's not a master piece but I learnt some new technique's and even though I didn't know which way to tackle it and what I was going to do.... it just happened.... so here it is...

The whisper of autumn

 When I started this is was freezing outside....

However today it is now hot hot hot.....

Will also be sharing this for Paint Party Friday..... I have a load of teenagers over tonight for dinner... my daughters friends....so I will pop by as soon as I can.... have a wonderful weekend....

Ta ra 4 now Catherine xx

Back to School. . . 2011

The new school year has started and I have 5 brand new 4 to 5 year olds.....  so far no tears (and that's just me). Can't get over how little they look each year. My class of last year have got so big in the last two months..it's lovely they still want to give me a hug and kiss in the morning..(they're not that big, yet - some of them would like to stay with me and paint all day and play games)... Have also had visits from the big kids who have now gone onto secondary school...It's great seeing them all excited to be at BIG SCHOOL....

So in honour of the the new school year I just had to sketch the playground with the new wall art and one of the hopscotches that I painted on the ground.... the kids are loving the new games..... have a great week everyone....

Sunday Sketches . . .

Good Morning everyone... I've been messing about with my watercolours this week. No clear plan of what I wanted to do... these little ladies just popped onto the page and I just went with it...

This little "Miss Cross-Patch" popped straight onto the page and started yelling about this and that... at the moment she's just ranting, I have no idea what about so I just turned the page... I'll go back later when she's a bit calmer....

I sketched about ten little people and rubbed them out till "Miss No" popped up... and she's here to stay.. she reminds me of my girls when they were little and had discovered the word "NO"....

I was trying my hand at backgrounds.... not happy with these grassy things...but I do like my mushrooms at the bottom.... Missy here, wandered onto the pages looking for something but can't remember what... I told her to retrace her steps and hopefully that would jog her memory....  It's something that happens to me all the time.....  Watch out... us girlies are coming over to see everyone at Sunday Sketches....