Friday, February 23, 2007

a long and lonely week ...

My boyfriend has been away for the week, so for me it's been a bit lonely here at home. I'm amazed how much I've missed him and how much I'm looking forward to him getting home tomorrow :) :)

Thursday, February 22, 2007

I know it was over a week ago ...



Some Valentine's Day inspired paintings - done by ME! I really enjoyed myself with these ... ;)

my delightful paintbox ...


I was playing with my camera and took some photos that I thought I'd share .... my paintbox - packed with watercolours - including my very special Daniel Smith ones .... they are so lovely! ;)

Friday, February 09, 2007

sosf catch up ...

Thank you very much to Julie my SOSF swop partner late last year - finally here's the pictures of the lovely parcel ...

site launch ...

I've just finished the design and build of a small website for a villa in Cyprus, it's now online - Villa Margarita - take a look ... I'm pretty pleased with it myself!

Next job - my own portfolio web site! ;)

ebay treasures ...

I won some really special items on ebay recently, some original Arthur Rackham prints (he's one of my illustration heros) and a pair of original scraper board drawings by John Tennent, I haven't been able to find out much about him, but his work is amazing - judge for yourself ...





Now I need to find the ideal spot to hang the pair.

no snow ...

It's typical, you listen to the forecasts and gear yourself up for snow and then .... none comes :(

... we've had cold and wet ... but NO SNOW! I guess it's a bit silly, but I watch on the news and the internet, seeing the white out everywhere else and I get what can only be described as "snow envy" ...

Hope everyone who has snow is enjoying it ;)

Saturday, February 03, 2007

new look ...

Following on from the last post I've decided to change a few things - step one - a new template ...

More steps to follow ...

February has arrived ...

Well, so much for the new year's resolution of keeping my blog up to date ... where does all the time go, I just seem to be so busy, and when I'm not busy there's the question of what to put on my blog ...

The reason I started this blog was to keep track of my progress as an illustrator, well so far not much progress on that front, and my blog seems to have become more of a record of time passing in my life with the odd mildly momentous ocassion, than anything.

I think I need to re-evaluated this blogging thing and make some decisions about where this and my "illustration career" are going.

I'll be back with some answers, I hope, but in the meantime, if anyone does pop by and read this, I'm still around and still ticking and feel free to leave comments I do come by and check if anyone else has visited and left a message.