Well, first of all, Welcome to Ali, my newest follower. Hope you enjoy your time on here and hopefully, before too long, I can have some interesting and varied stuff to show you.
Well, some of you know I had a brief stay in hospital and on Friday last I had to go back in for a procedure to be carried out. The instructions given on going home were not to iron, clean, cook or anything over the weekend - so as you can no doubt gather I obeyed the instructions. Especially as Chas was there when they were issued - directed at him actually (tee hee). Felt a bit ropey as it was, so I just sat on the bed most of the time and had my crayons scattered about and did some colouring and slept a lot.
Now I can understand those people who enjoy the adult colouring books - which I had not "got" until this weekend. Still don't think I will buy them, prefer to use my rubber stamps at the moment - and here are a couple of pages I have been playing around with using my new Tracy Scott stamps.
This first page was already covered in various colours of paint and then I had done a bit of stencilling on top with some Gesso. One of Tracy Scott's new stamps from Stampotique, Lola, went centre stage and was coloured in with my lovely pencil crayons. They are so waxy and blend beautifully, even mixing two colours together results in fabulous new shades and tones. Love them! Love Tracy's stamps too - they stamp amazingly and make for interesting colouring.
The second page of my square journal was just stamped and then coloured with the same pencil crayons. This time I used George and Bella along with those gorgeous flowers and circular constructions that are part of the collection Tracy did for paperArtsy. You may notice the stamps on the right hand side of the page look a little different. These are some I got from Carabelle which had particularly taken my eye a while ago when I was at Wendy George's/Wheeler's on a workshop.
Much more interesting than my desk
which is not much different to how it was last week, except this time the book is closed and the pictures are finished. The big book? That is my journal I am working through on a Thursday with Wendy. Incidentally, Wendy and I should have been meeting up for a long weekend including a trip to Port Sunlight. We have decided to call it off as we don't really know how I will be with this back pain etc - just hope I can manage a few hours at the show as there are certain people I have never met who I would love to meet (are you reading this H?) and lots of people I have met who I would love to see again.
If you are wondering what else you can see on this Wednesday, why not pop along to see Julia at The Stamping Ground and see what fun she has on her blog, then get a cuppa and pull up a chair and have a browse around several deskers. It's good fun, honestly - and you make some smashing mates! The sort who really care about you.
