painting shoes

We have just had older childs 14th birthday, so her little sister bought some white sneakers and decorated them.  And she also painted some for herself, below.

 I love the little clouds.

dawdling and doodling

I have been rather slack on the blogging lately, and hopefully will soon have more stuff to put on.  I have been relying on other people and their lovely creations, as I haven't got any of my own.  But some creativity is bubbling away hopefully ready to surface at some point soon.  A few random ideas in my sketch book.

 above some card ideas, christmas decorations?! whatever.

 above  Lace ideas taken from some old lace, some old medals, and some books from the library on textiles/old fashion.

this rose was on a chinese top I recently aquired.  I thought it was very pretty so I drew it.  I have a mission this year to get the rose drawings sorted, as I do love roses so and I want to be able to draw a fine lot of them.  Not happy with my efforts so far sohopefully will be some more posts on these later in the year, once the roses come out, and a good excuse for rose stalking around the neighbourhood.

an afternoons fishing

 It was a beautiful sunny winters day so we decided to go to this beautiful spot for some fishing.  We also managed to get a pink cup-cake and two rather delicious custard slices.

 My daughter is the one with the fishing rod and the fishing licence. I don't know what you're meant to do although its probably pretty straight forward. 

 My husband and I have been vegetarian for many years and so are not into impaling small maggots onto hooks or fish having hooks in their mouths, but decided that it may be good for the kids to learn how to catch food ( they may starve at their present success rate )

the three boys next to us must have caught all the susceptible fish.

 I was no help with the fishing so I tried to draw my daughter, from the back incase you can't make it out

She is wearing a very snuggley puffer jacket which I am rather jealous of. 

roses

Today I tried to draw some roses in my sisters garden.  It was quite nice sitting in the sunshine with the lovely rosie smells wafting around.

I tried a few different angles, there was a lot going on, with all the petals, but I have decided that if I keep on trying I may eventually improve. 

This was a bit easier, there was only one layer of petals, but not so pretty.