Sunny Sunday

Inspiring trees

Brooches

Felt and embroidery

What a beautiful day, blue skies and lots of sunshine.

So I took a few pictures as the light was perfect.

You can see the hand stitching on my felt work.

I also finished off a few brooches.

I must say thank you to Gunnels for giving me an award for my blog, she has beautiful embroidery work.

Have a good start to your week.

Shopping List Saturday

A touch of sun kissed yellow for shopping list Saturday.
All these items are on my wish list!

1. This beautiful expressive painting is by sagittariusgallery.

2.joanjewels makes one of a kind art glass.

3.I love this mellow yellow calendula flower pendant by Gillyflowerjewellery

4.The colourful therainbowroom makes natural goats milk and shea soap and then felts with merino wool and silk.

Hello Charlotte from fancypicnic who makes the most beautiful jewellery and who also started Shopping list Saturday.

Sorry this is again Saturday Night Shopping, due to having family visiting today and I was watching the X Factor, I blame my teenager daughter for that!

Colourful Thursday

Hi,

This evening I have been working again on my embroidery paintings.

It was dark when I took these pictures so I propped them up on the sewing machine.

It's amazing how many ideas come from one painting, I wish I had more time.

I sometimes work also in reverse and paint from my embroideries.

Is my mark making like I paint or is it like I sew?

It just flows from one to the other and evolves as I go.

I will add to etsy tomorrow.

Painting With Threads

Just a quick post to show how my embroidery is coming along.

I wanted to use the strong , rich colours from my painting so I have embellished pure silk on to the wool felt.

I wish you could see the lustre of the silk , it is so beautiful to use.

It measures 10cm x 13cm.

A few more stitches to add and then it will be finished.

I did the original painting in Italy, a wonderful place called Alassio.

Little Art Works And Me

Painting in sketch book

Embroidery on felt

Dusted!

Today I actually did some dusting, I know it's amazing when I have so much stitching and painting to do!

Here I am on the mantle piece , yes the black and white photo!

Taken about 1969.

Not sure I'm brave enough to show a picture now, but maybe I should as I'm only going to look less young the longer I leave it.

Note I say less young, sounds better than older!

Now I know I'm getting older, when my thirteen year old daughter comes home with her new purchase ....Leg Warmers! they are all the rage apparently.

I have been working on this small art piece 8cm x 8cm approx.

My larger embroideries take months of work so I'm trying out different ideas using my paintings as inspiration.

What do you think?

I may add a few to etsy and see if any one would be interested.

I will be working on some ideas from this painting next.

So hope to have some thing new to show you soon.

It's been raining here most of the day so a good day to be creative.

Bye for now.x

Shopping List Saturday

Today I move from purple to green for my selection of hand made pieces.

Thank you to Charlotte at fancypicnic for promoting etsy sellers and other fantastic blogs who also choose items from talented artisans.

You can find the names of these blogs on the side bar of my blog.

1.Treecycle based in South Yorkshire is owned by Andy who is a talented wood turner.

2.This sweet little bird would be lovely as pin cushion and is made by Strawberriesandcream

3.This heart felt brooch is made by Julia of materialised

4.I love this Garden Print by lilypang

Painting And Some Stitching

I did manage to get to life drawing this week but we had a lady with clothes on!

So this is more of a portrait.

I painted with acrylic and used some oil pastels.

She looked quite a formidable character, a stern staring expression.

I hope she never sees this!

To brighten up the page here is the felt picture I'm working on.

I am now adding some hand stitching, sorry the picture is not brilliant as the light was fading.

I will take some more pictures tomorrow in daylight.

Lastly my friend gave me this pattern from the 1950's.

I love it!