Recent artwork

I am finally feeling like I can be creative again, the artistic juices are flowing and rather than giving up when things don't turn out perfect, or not even starting out to begin with, as I have done in the past, I am just having a go anyway, making art for myself and not even thinking about selling and not worrying that some of it is quite bad.
So here are some recent artworks that I have created just in my small journals, I drew ideas from how I was feeling at the time of paintings them.  They are certainly not the best things I have ever done, but they are "something"; paint to paper, creativity, and something of my spirit on paper.  I would love to know what you think.

Versatile Blogger Award

I am pleased to say that I have been tagged with the versatile blogger award from my blogger friend Fran over at SkullsandPonies.

The idea of the award is to basically share a blog you admire, respect and like!  So I am thrilled to be awarded!

When you are tagged with this award you are given the opportunity to share with your readers some information about you.  So here are 7 things about me that you may not know:

1. I am a massive fan of the BBC TV series The Good Life, and would love to be self-sufficient myself.  I grow my own veg at my allotment and try to make as much as I can from scratch.

2. I believe I have some kind of magnetic field in me because electronic equipment often breaks or malfunctions when I use it and i can't wear a watch because they always stop.

3. I have a kind of split personality, I can never commit to one thing I always like a bit of this and a bit of that. I like Mori girl style, but also 1940's, I like shabby chic, but also mid century modern, I want to be self-sufficient, but I love convenience, the list goes on.  Although I don't believe is star signs, I do seem to match up with my symbol of the twins!

4. I wish I could sing, I like to think I can, but really I know I am terrible!  I would love to sing like Vera Lynn and tour round old peoples homes singing songs that won the war!

5. I have two guinea pigs, Florence and Matilda, they are a naughty, cute pair and I love them.

6. I am allergic to cats, some people think that I don't like cats, but that's not the case at all, they are so pretty and look so soft to stroke, but I just can;t stand to be around them for more than a few hours without sneezing, having an itchy throat, coughing and wheezing.

7. I used to love dance and gymnastics, I did tap, ballet, theatre craft and gymnastics and loved it so so much. Now I don;t do any dance, for some reason I don;t miss it, but it brought me a lot of happiness at the time.

I am passing this award on to:


Two Shades of Pink

Take Courage

Ruffles and Stuff

GIVEAWAY WINNER

Rather strange happenings with blogger has stopped me posting for the last couple of days, now I am finally able to announce the winner of my 100 followers giveaway, not many entries this time so lucky for those who entered, they have more chance of winning!
So the winner this time is the lovely Bethany from Sweet Bee Buzzing.  Well done Bethany, you just need to let me know what you want your bunting to say (pleeeeease not supercalifragolisticepialidocious!)

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend, I have a cold which is a bit rubbish.

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xxx

Beautiful Bird Painting

Added a new painting to the shop today, this is the one I created with my lovely friend Hannah a while back.
I would reeeeeally love to sell one of my paintings to someone out there in the world (hint hint!) This is what I truly want to do in my life and I so want it to be a success, it all feels a bit futile at the moment.  Anyway, none of this "woe is me" nonsense, here is my painting, I hope you like it.

My First Craft Fair

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to really quickly share with you a couple of photos I took today at my very first craft fair.  I had a really great day, networking and meeting lots of really lovely artists and crafters.  I didn't make much in the way of money, the the experience alone was worth much more than the £12.50 I paid for the stand. I was really pleased with the layout of my table, and I have learnt a lot that will help me improve if I do any more craft fairs.  Here are some pics from the day:

Giveaway!!

As promised I am doing a giveaway today for all my lovely followers and any newcomers.  I am so grateful to have you all, it brings me such joy when I have a comment left on my blog or an email.  I feel like part of such a wonderful community here on the internet and have met so many lovely, like minded people, I feel really blessed.

So today I am doing a giveaway of a set of five of my postcard prints of my own original artworks:

To be in with a chance of winning this set of postcards all you have to do is leave a comment on this post with a way of contacting you.  For extra entries, become a follower and facebook and tweet this post and share the link.

The giveaway ends on Sunday Evening 7.00pm GMT.

Good luck!

p.s. If you can't wait to see if you win the giveaway you can buy this set of postcards from my Etsy Shop Serendipitychild Art.