A little arty fun!

I have managed a few hours of arty fun over the last week or so, here are some sneaky peeks at what I've been up to....

.... mini journals and mini canvas....

And of course its that time again - show and tell for the 365 Art Calendar hosted by Kate - although of course it will be a 366 Calendar this year! Did you remember to add a February 29th for leap year?

Here's how mine started out - I went with a black and red theme using Dylusions rose pink and red paint and hot pink and granite spray inks...

I had a little dig through my stash of scrap paper and found Blonde Moments Sugar Dumpling and Suet Pudding papers for the journal blocks then I used some black paint on my old Making Memories alphabet foam stamps for the month title and voila - February is ready to go - a day early!

But I was late with January - didn't get round to posting at all - here it is completed...

... continuing the challenge to myself to work with the colour purple more.

Yoohoo!

Well I've only gone and got myself an iphone at last... my faithful old Samsung is no more. Of course I've got lots to learn so I can use it to its full potential - posting to blogger from my iphone? well not just yet but one day!

And I have managed to have a little play in my art journal...

This is a page my A5 moleskin - its the first journal I ever bought in 2008 and I haven't worked in since 2010 (last year I made three Teesha Moore style journals and have been working in them) I enjoyed looking back on the pages I had done when my journaling was in its infancy.

Hopefully I'll get to do this more often :D

After a month away we are back home at last to a very cold house in the North east of England!

Just sharing a few photo's of Laura-Beth and Jim's wedding to get me back into the world of blogging....

This snap was taken in our hotel room on what we called 'wedding eve' - we were all in our PJ's having a glass of wine - she suddenly blurted out "I'm getting married in the morning" ... of course we all replied in our best sing songy voices "ding dong the bells are gonna chime"!

We have gained an adorable step grandson, Charlie ....

This was the morning of the wedding - how happy and relaxed does she look... she was talking to Jim and Charlie on the 'phone...

Andy popped in to her room to say lots of Dad things to our baby.... who of course is no baby but a beautiful and accomplished young woman....

She wore her hair up to show the detail of the dress...

And a fur wrap (fake of course) was needed to keep out the December chill

This is my new son-in-law!

I didn't get to take many photos - too busy enjoying the moment but the official photo's were taken by Stan and his loverlee wife, Shelley (who just happen to be our best friends) and they look amazing, they are both artists in their own right using light and the environment with great style - can't wait to see the finished album :D

So, 2011 was the year that our two daughter's got married (the bank balance doesn't look too healthy at the moment!) next up is our son and his lovely Irish lassie, Niamh...

A few more years yet they said - they are just too busy enjoying their skiing holidays to buy a house and settle down!

I'm feeling the need to get some art journaling done - its been over a month since I did any, except for filling in the daily snippets for my 365 Calendar.... tomorrow is going to be a paint filled play day!