Yellow Brick Road . . .

What happened to the happy "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" fairy tale... somehow it soured along the way...

The rioting in London made me want to cry this week.... I grew up in Croydon....it was a safe place to be... people worked hard for what they had, we didn't have mobile phones, computers...most families only had one car....If we didn't have something, we didn't have it....we didn't assume it was our right to have what someone else had......as kids we darn't misbehave... 1.  It didn't occur to us to destroy our neighbourhood.... 2. What ever we did was reported back to Parents or grandparents....

I would like to see the thugs that went out rioting apologise to people face to face and be made to clean up their mess.....unfortunately I expect they will be put in "Correctional Facilities" for a week or two and told Tut Tut not nice please don't do it again.......

I'm a day early, but I shall be adding this to Paint Party Friday....

Morag in colour. . .

Here's Morag in colour.... Battie thing is staying uncoloured for the time being..... he's a Wozbat but for now won't tell me his name.... he did whisper it to me sometime in the middle of the night...but by this morning I had forgotten it....hopefully he'll whisper it again when my ears make contact with my brain.... I have a very rough story outlined for her...just need time to sit and concentrate ....um where have I heard that before...

Hope you are all having very creative days and getting lots done..... I did manage to get my grey hairs painted out, that seems to take more and more time.. and I also baked muffins... Mr H has been bugging me... I've been getting the "If you loved me enough you would bake muffins..." Pathetic.... so I baked muffins..... :) I obviously love him enough..... I expect next week I'll have to love him enough and bake a walnut cake....

Morag and Bat thing . . .

I went to keep Mr H company this morning while a job that was supposed to take 1 1/2 hours tops took 3hrs... (why do men always underestimate the time a job will take by half?). While I was waiting patiently I decided to attack my doodling in a different way......so below right I shut my eyes and did a doodle, then fiddled with trying to make my lines into something and "Voila".... a sort of bat creature came to be... I then decided to draw him full frontal.... then obviously a little girl popped out... she's called Morag....have no idea why she looks so sad.... but Battie thing took to her straight away..... I think he's saying "Love me, love me... I'll be your friend...."

Checkout what all the other lovely Sunday Sketchers have been up to.....

Paint Party Friday . . .

Hi everyone,  I've managed to squeeze a little me time in over the last couple of evenings and these are my little doodles.... Book Girl was looking a bit dull till I drowned the poor girl in gloss varnish...she suddenly popped out of the telephone directory...so I tried it on Safari Girl and friends and it brightened them up too...

Once I had finished printing I'm off to India! but I'l be home in time for tea! I realised it was very late and my "M's" had mistakenly turned into "N's"... so Safari girl is either a bit snooty....or dyslexic like me... I suspect she's a little bit of both....

How things have changed...when I was growing up dyslexia was something to be ashamed of and certainly not University material - dyslexic's were just "Thick", now dyslexic's who go to University get i mac's.... so glad something's have changed for the better.... :)

It's Paint Party Friday and popping along there...Love a Party....

Owls. . . 1 2 3 . . .

Bonjour everyone.... I should be clearing out the little bedroom, where I just happen to have my crafty corner (spreading out over the whole bedroom) my office etc... I promised I would re-paint the room ... oh why oh why do I open my big mouth and jump head first into things..... I will .....clear it out tomorrow....when I have more time....la la la...

Anyhow, thought I would share with you this little bookmark that was just crying out to be made....so much more fun than packing stuff away.... The card with the slot is a price tag that I saved (good quality thick card), then some leaf paper I had in my stash cut to size and wrapped round.... My little owls were drawn on paper from the telephone directory.....then a little stamping went on...a bit of a string...whipped out the old sewing machine and machined the leaf and owl onto the string.... EASY PEASY LEMON SQUEEZZY... et Voila!!
One Owl bookmark that will be winging it's little way off to a dear friend very soon....

If I've inspired any of you to make your own bookmarks (get the kids involved in this - they'll love it), please let me know and I'll post your creations on my blog...have a good day everyone.....

Ice Cream . . .

Looks like Boogie Bedhead and Toggle are enjoying their summer break by the seaside. Here they are each enjoying a delicious  ice-cream cone with a 99 Flake. The ice-cream van man couldn't stop laughing when Boogie asked for a Zoom ice lolly to attract the fish....She and Toggle didn't like the idea of hooking worms....and everyone likes Zoom multi-coloured ice lollies.... "It's a well known fact...so there!"

Creative Tuesday is here so pop along and see what wonderful ice-cream ideas everyone has come up with....

Our lovely friend Sophia at Sunday Sketches is feeling very down today so pop over there and  leave her words of encouragement that things will get better....Send her a smile :)

Sunday Sketches . . .

This little fairy is all I have managed to produce in the last three weeks......I have spent my time cleaning and painting Mr H's house that he rents out....that took two weeks.....and this last week we took the roof off the barns of my old farm house......

 This is a typical Charentais farm house..... my house is all shut up and waiting to be renovated....

Most of the roof is rotten so I was having lots of kittens.....Mr H sent the tiles down the shut where I grabbed them and put them in the wheel barrow for a massive planter or popped them up against the wall....

No need to go to the gym....after handling about 4tons of 100 or so year old tiles I have alot more upper arm strength then I've had ever....

My planter is about 3 and half meters in diameter....85 tiles round and about 20 high.....alot of tiles...

Whilst we were doing this work...there was a mega amount of traffic with people driving past very slow to have a good look at what we were upto.......the house sits on a road that goes nowhere....the only traffic is the odd tracker once a week etc....

Am off now to take that big ugly metal door off....no rest..... Fingers crossed I will get time to come visit you all at Sophia's Sunday Sketches......

Night night . . . sleep tight . . .

 This little sleeping beauty has found her way finally to B over at SweetLimes... I was worried she had got lost due to Canada's postal strike...but no...she made it....

The idea came from B's own words "Once in a while I will pull myself away from my sewing machine but I’d sleep with it if I could."  yes that is a teeny tiny sewing machine...

 and then this little lady came into being for a friend who is sick but well on the road to recovery....

Be happy, be safe and be well everyone......

Little house on the prairie. . .

To everyone that has popped by recently...thank you for all your comments....I'm so sorry I haven't been to see you all.....I've been up to my little elbows in cleaning stuff and white paint....Mr Hollywoods tenants finally left nearly two weeks ago...IN a year they never cleaned the house so you can imagine.....yuck yuck yuck....I really hope that they get all that is coming to them in their new (old house- renovation job) that they deserve........and let me tell you I'm being kind...coz I hate sending out bad vibes...it always comes back to bite you in the bum....but am beginning to believe that being "nice" "polite" etc....doesn't pay.... I sometimes feel like being really truely NASTY.........UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.... rant over..back to calm polite well brung' up ME.    :)..

It's a lovely six year old house in the middle of the countryside....that I like to call "Little House on the Prairie" now I call it "The White House on the Prairie"...I want to live in this house...but for the mo...we can't....

This is the view from the front patio....

 This is the view to the side...

 Out back to the right and the vineyards....not mine...what a shame...

Out back to the left of the tree with a view way off in the distance there, to a teeny tiny village and the school where I work.....can't get better than that...if only the money was better...my only gripe....

 The front further down...

 Close up..ish of the two windmills...ahhh just love that view...something really magical about proper old fashioned windmills.....

This is the rainbow that was outside my kitchen window this morning....it was more spectacular in real life...

My days at the mo...are filled with jobs that I have to do...but the scenery is breathtaking...and for that, life is ok.......oh and Mr H...is learning to give me less instructions on how to paint walls....which is Gooooood...
Off to bed now...so sweet dreams to you all...and lots of happy thoughts...xx

25 Years. . .just flew by. . .

This is a card I made for my friends who are celebrating 25 years of marriage....congratulations to them both...

I used shiney silver card but unfortunately the scan makes it look black...It really does look better in real life....

I'm popping over to see Sophia and all you lovely Sunday Sketchers . . .