Creative Tuesdays - Morning

Creative Tuesday's challenge this week is Morning.  I thought hard about this as to what mornings meant to me and usually it is the sunrise coming up with the dawn chorus and the fresh start to a day.  With that in mind breakfast is always a lovely time, not when you are rushed though, but the leisurely kind.  So my contribution this week is breakfast.

I decided to do it in the same style as my time for tea entry for the Idea Coffee Break week.

Pop over to Mr T's blog on Tuesday to see what others have done.

Show and tell Saturday - whimsical bluebird

Well another week has gone by, my how time flys.  For this week's show and tell for Artists in Blogland I have been busy painting this whimsical bird in mixed media.   I have cropped the pic for this blog but am intending to use is as a basis for a card.

I am also doing the fabulous Jane Davenport's great Supplies Me class and this is my first coloured pencil face, trying to get some shading as Jane is teaching us.  Looking at this I feel that the whole face is not strong enough in colour, but I think that will come with confidence and practice.

The next challenge for Mr Toast's Creative Tuesday is all done and I will put that on my blog probably tomorrow.

It's Marcia's birthday today, she is the lovely lady who runs Artists in Blogland, go and send her best wishes.

Well that's what I have been doing this week.  Happy weekend everyone!

Coffee flowers and Zazzle cards

This is my update for the week for Artists in Blogland.  Well, I finished my Creative Tuesday's challenge of Kitchen.  My witches kitchen can be viewed here or in the blog entry below this one.  The next fortnightly challenge is Morning and I already have ideas for this one.

I have also been playing around with coffee, yep using coffee as a basis for a picture.  Not only is it wonderful to work on but smells heavenly as well.

Also I ordered some cards from zazzle of some of my designs to see what they would look like, which have now arrived and I am soo pleased with them. So I have now decided to open a Zazzle store, I will keep you all posted on that.

After reading my update for the week, check out what everyone else has been doing at the Artists in Blogland page. Thank you so much for dropping by and have a great weekend.

Creative Tuesdays - Kitchen

This week Creative Tuesdays challenge is Kitchen.  Well, as my kitchen is tiny and I am now not one to spend a lot of time cooking, used to be, but not at the moment, I pondered on what I was going to do.  With halloween just around the corner I thought, witches kitchen and the following bit of fun was drawn.  My witches are not nasty ones, just a bit batty.

Why not check out other lovely peep's kitchens on Mr T's blog.

What have I been doing this week?

Well, I have joined the oh so talented and lovely Jane Davenport's Supplies Me on line workshop.  This class looks fabulous, with such lovely other participants.  I have not yet managed to start on my first assignment but am hoping to do that this weekend.

My beach huts bag arrived from Zazzle, it was a good test as I realised that paler items on frabric are not so vibrant.  But I think I will open a shop once I can get my head around all the correct sizings (pixels and ppi's), its another world!

I am part of a fortnightly co-op called Creative Tuesdays, and next Tuesday's entry is Kitchen, so I have had my thinking cap on and have been working on that, this is a sneaky little bit of my entry still being worked on, but I don't want to give the whole game away.  Visit my blog next Tuesday to see the finished item.

Finally, I painted four ACEO size owls.

 Hop over and visit the fabulous Artists in Blogland to catch up on everyone elses week.

Good weekend to everyone and my thoughts and best wishes to those who are were affected or are still suffering from the terrible 9/11.

What's been happening this week- Ideas and moving forward

Now being back at work from a two-week break, I found that I have done lots of doodling but nothing serious except think about how I would like to move forward.  I am testing the waters with Zazzle and have put my beach huts below on a tote bag to see what it will look like.  When it arrives I will let you know. Have any of you had any experiences with Zazzle as I am thinking of opening a store.

I am also thinking of painting some ACEO cards with some of my owls on to try and sell on ebay to see what happens.  I did manage to prepare them this week ready for painting.

Some of you might suggest opening up an etsy store, but I don't think I am quite ready for that yet and like everyone else all this has to be fitted around other work and home commitments.  Why is there not more than 24 hours in a day!

This post is for my show and tell Saturday on Artists in Blogland.

Happy weekend everyone!