It’s been very busy here this month, with travels and house stuff. I now have a garden studio!! It was pretty amazing to watch. In the space of about 3 days for base, build and electrics, it was done. The guys really did a brilliant job. There has been stuff everywhere and there still is […]
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We’ve had a pretty busy time over the last couple of weeks as we had a sneaky trip to Yorkshire, our eldest graduated from university, we had a brilliant evening at Kew the Music watching Mika (and even managed to stay dry), and we’ve been finalising plans for the garden studio, which is due to
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We’ve had a fab half-term week away to the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, staying in a lovely little cottage. We’ve been going down to Cornwall for several years, but had a break and went somewhere else last year, so it was lovely to revisit a few of our fav places and go to a few
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There are times when life takes over a bit, nothing sinister, just lifey wifey general stuff, and I find myself saying ‘uhh I don’t have time to do any painting’ or ‘by the time I get everything out, it’ll be time to pack up again’, which after a while, get’s a bit frustrating. Because art
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I have rediscovered my love of doodling after scrolling through Instagram this week. I came across an account called @thecalmcreator. They create beautiful doodles and it reminded me of the Zentangles I used to draw a few years ago, so I dusted off a couple of books I have, and cut up some paper into
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One of the things I love about having a fairly large indoor jungle, is the variety of leaves and colours there are and I’ll quite often paint a new plant just to document its start. These are usually in watercolour and serve either as a successful reminder of how small a particular plant started before
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I have to confess, I’ve not had as much ‘creative’ time as I’d have liked so far this year. Learning all about newsletter creation, adding pins to Pinterest, researching Substack have all been eating into my studio time. All a necessary part of building a business, but quite time consuming, and frustrating, especially when things
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So for me at the moment, I’m thinking about getting back to basics, prioritising the things that I really want to do rather than the things I feel like I ‘should’ be doing. There’s a sense of freedom in really deciding how to use your time. I’m thinking less time on Instagram and not worrying
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It’s been half-term here this week which means no routine and lots of time to do all sorts of things at a lovely, leisurely pace, which makes me happier than a happy person in happy town! I completed my second leaf painting. Technically this was a couple of weeks ago, but I always like to
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