In the woods today.

It was a beautiful frosty sunny morning this morning, so we ate our porridge and had a little tidy up and then the children were dragged out the house and taken for a short steep walk up a hill and through some trees to see a beautiful view of the snowy mountains. I don't have a picture of the snowy mountains 'cause they weren't very good.  I blame it on the camera lens myself. 

I love this part of the walk, especially really early in the morning with the light shining through the trees

 the girls prefer not to use the windy path and to scramble up the scrambly slopes. 

 I thought the colour of the bark was so pretty, and the negative shapes in blues and bright greens.

 and then I had to try and take photos of the girls while they climbed the tree and hid behind the branches

These photos made me think of Little Red Riding Hood with my little one in her red coat running along the forest path.

And later today there has been rock climbing and some rather groovy mini dolls house furniture being made ( not by me)

sweet dust logo design

Sorry there are 2 posts.  The first one disappeared and so I did it again, only for the first one to turn up.  

I have spent the day designing a logo for Sweet Dust.  I am making a dolly for a school auction and they needed a logo.  I tried making one using a word processor but it was a bit dull, so in the end I printed out 6 of them and coloured them in and took photos of them on different backgrounds,  Circus and a fairy-tale book, Little Red Riding hood and Hansel and Gretel by Jane Carruth and illustrated by Aldo Torchio.  Such cool illustrations.

Little Red Riding Hood

Gustav Dore 

Danita Art

Annie Rodrigue

steven noble

Sweet Dust Dolly.  She is a vampire dolly in Little Reds clothing.  Confused dolly, hoping she is a bit "Twighlight" as well maybe.

There are many "little red" illustrations out there in the big wide world, some I couldn't include as they were a bit rude.  We'll keep it sweet here.  I do like the old fashioned style ones,  they bring on a fuzzy nostlgic feeling.

Red Riding-Hood and friends

More Red Riding Hood goodness from cart before the horse, plus some other little creatures.  Their sweet, melancholy little faces are so endearing.