tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59775645699733219262024-03-13T12:25:38.505+00:00DRAWINGS FROM NATUREMILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-43751793655272700042021-05-20T11:33:00.004+01:002022-01-14T15:13:40.314+00:00Thirteen Feathers<p> <span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Thirteen Feathers</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_nCjAdj_mbg/YKLrAQSPGZI/AAAAAAAAFfc/j6JwYFTjyNAOwo99NvddgM9WuqL5qkWTACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5755.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1530" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_nCjAdj_mbg/YKLrAQSPGZI/AAAAAAAAFfc/j6JwYFTjyNAOwo99NvddgM9WuqL5qkWTACLcBGAsYHQ/w478-h640/IMG_5755.JPG" width="478" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I am always collecting feathers and I love to draw them. The thirteen long tall feathers belong to the Seagulls. I find them on the shore where I live and each and every one has a different shape, pattern and Colour. Hours and hours of time passed by as I sat drawing all the details and captured them on paper. All my artwork comes from being inspired by Nature, from this lovely English countryside surrounding my village. </span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Yesterday we took an early morning walk and everywhere is now so green, cows in the fields and the hedgerows are bursting with wild flowers and blossom. The birds are singing and someone is scanning the banks and branches for nests. He spotted two, the intricately woven nest with a sitting blackbird and a tiny circle of moss belonging to the Wren. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Whilst I breathe in the soft familiar scent drifting through the air before you even see the carpets of Bluebells. It is nest building time, two nests in my garden and young birds been shown around the garden and fed by parents. The blue tits have the luxury of a bird box as we caught sight of a tiny head peeping out. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dwincQHCXtM/YKObesOdU8I/AAAAAAAAFfk/cqwpxWPl458UgE_tuG4vwOMa5UmEl8RewCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1040077%2B-%2BCopy%2B%2528640x427%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dwincQHCXtM/YKObesOdU8I/AAAAAAAAFfk/cqwpxWPl458UgE_tuG4vwOMa5UmEl8RewCLcBGAsYHQ/w598-h429/P1040077%2B-%2BCopy%2B%2528640x427%2529.jpg" width="598" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I know I am lucky to live here and be able to enjoy and appreciate the different seasons throughout the year. Nature is very evident inside my house too and the choices I make. We are all aware how very fragile Nature is and we all must play our part to care for it, for the future. Having a garden for the wildlife has always been my aim and one of the pleasures is hearing the birds singing from dawn to dusk. They usually sit in the Ash tree at the bottom of my garden.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s6Mu4RvMrKA/YKPzAz9g4wI/AAAAAAAAFhg/i9C6cmeOxR0dXB0bAU5HFP7A71qkSphWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_1069%2B%2528478x640%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="478" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s6Mu4RvMrKA/YKPzAz9g4wI/AAAAAAAAFhg/i9C6cmeOxR0dXB0bAU5HFP7A71qkSphWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/IMG_1069%2B%2528478x640%2529.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aJtAfGJjBPI/YKO0twpUTZI/AAAAAAAAFgw/e_-UntfcPY8icZCSYGfg4DJfebqrqQPWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5757.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="478" height="673" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aJtAfGJjBPI/YKO0twpUTZI/AAAAAAAAFgw/e_-UntfcPY8icZCSYGfg4DJfebqrqQPWgCLcBGAsYHQ/w559-h673/IMG_5757.JPG" width="559" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">My beautiful Canvas by "Photowall" of my Thirteen Feathers.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br />One of my greatest pleasures in life has to be having the ability and time to draw nature. All the beautiful things I see and find, collect and record in my sketch books. Then my project of making inks and drawing with my own colours has been so exciting. Discovering and finding colours from plants and berries from the hedgerows and also using them to dye with. So much to learn from Nature.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IoBQHEYwf48/YKP7LWsfkqI/AAAAAAAAFh4/GXhLebsQ7wEZENulBzPVcrzMduAq0NW4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/thumbnail_IMG_1031.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="478" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IoBQHEYwf48/YKP7LWsfkqI/AAAAAAAAFh4/GXhLebsQ7wEZENulBzPVcrzMduAq0NW4ACLcBGAsYHQ/w478-h640/thumbnail_IMG_1031.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: center;">A page in my sketchbook using my own ink to paint eggs and a row of smaller feathers using a dip in pen in my walnut ink. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pkqk9a7wz2o/YKP8oDLDmkI/AAAAAAAAFiA/0hjLc1xqytwh1TLNls8b36MfOKDaFoCpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5757.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="478" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pkqk9a7wz2o/YKP8oDLDmkI/AAAAAAAAFiA/0hjLc1xqytwh1TLNls8b36MfOKDaFoCpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/IMG_5757.JPG" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">I am getting used to this new beautiful Canvas Picture in my living room, it really has changed the focus and made the whole room look so lovely. I am still using the back of my sofa as my gallery.</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nb7rn408Bbo/YKP-Uo0MHhI/AAAAAAAAFiI/laTjX-D_8s8KKJ8W92oeDKHc6VDGP14rwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_1044.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="478" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nb7rn408Bbo/YKP-Uo0MHhI/AAAAAAAAFiI/laTjX-D_8s8KKJ8W92oeDKHc6VDGP14rwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/IMG_1044.JPG" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Everything I put next to the giant feathers looks so beautiful and matches so well. I have been drawing and learning names of different Moths after we saw a Moth trap and then made our own in the garden and had a glimpse of what is out there. I recorded my favourite moths as postcard sized drawings, adding to them as and when. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">This leads me to telling you about, 'The Thirteen Feathers'. I was invited by a company called 'Photowall' to try some of my artwork on one of their products. I chose the large size canvas to display my feather artwork. Which they very kindly gifted to me.</span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Thank you, it is beautiful.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-align: center;">The Photowall website was really easy to use. I just had to upload a high quality photograph of my work and then pick my size. My illustration was printed the same day and arrived three working days later sent all the way from Sweden. </span></span><span style="font-family: times;">It arrives with all parts and instructions to construct as a framed canvas ready to hang. There is even a helpful video on the website to show you how to put it together.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">When my print arrived I was so pleased with the quality. As you can see from the photographs the detail of my illustration has enlarged really well to make an impressive piece of art work. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span>I chose to work with this company as they share a similar love of nature and really do care about the environment. Photowall strive to minimise their environmental impact by printing only what is required and they have an environmental approach which permeates everything they do. The</span><span> printing ink they use for their wallpapers contains
no solvents or hazardous chemicals, and is biodegradable. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NGUY7kvz_fI/YKQHG9RaDwI/AAAAAAAAFiQ/lvsrsiUZD6sV57Q79cbq7-jLEOUle6VQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_1088.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="640" height="478" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NGUY7kvz_fI/YKQHG9RaDwI/AAAAAAAAFiQ/lvsrsiUZD6sV57Q79cbq7-jLEOUle6VQQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h478/IMG_1088.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M3oz59OKdLg/YKQQZZb6N9I/AAAAAAAAFiY/CfJekPmA28I4ChXDBanOLIB-MymBj19RQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1010651.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M3oz59OKdLg/YKQQZZb6N9I/AAAAAAAAFiY/CfJekPmA28I4ChXDBanOLIB-MymBj19RQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/P1010651.JPG" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">I would not hesitate to use Photowall in the future. I am wanting to try some of my work on a poster next. The website has options for printing Wallpaper, Wall Murals, Canvas and Posters. The site has heaps of ideas if you want some inspiration to help you decide what you want to print. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I uploaded my photograph of my own art work but there are thousands of different images and subjects to choose from, in the different sizes. You can print your own work, maybe your children's artwork or even treasured family photographs. A great personal gift.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">As a treat for my blog readers , photowall gave a discount .....Sorry this discount has now expired. You can still visit the excellent website and view all the gorgeous art work. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Today is a beautiful sunny day so I am off for a walk on the shore....might even find some new feathers to draw for my next canvas idea. Hope you enjoyed seeing what I have been up to, see you soon, Take care, Eileen x </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gPC_2Yi4ZBA/YKVT0w-j4WI/AAAAAAAAFi4/dAclC07wPeEo2Op2fM9_I5XiY1pI4dj7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_1090%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="478" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gPC_2Yi4ZBA/YKVT0w-j4WI/AAAAAAAAFi4/dAclC07wPeEo2Op2fM9_I5XiY1pI4dj7QCLcBGAsYHQ/w478-h640/IMG_1090%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="478" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">I also have a new Instagram account where I will be sharing my art at </span><a href="http://www.instagram.com/drawingsfromnature" style="text-align: left;">www.instagram.com/drawingsfromnature</a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">All artwork by Eileen Postlethwaite. Please respect my ownership.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-45131195816979160602021-03-29T00:11:00.002+01:002021-03-31T22:13:27.310+01:00Looking Forward<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fNZD6Ryk1Cs/YGDX9EJHUTI/AAAAAAAAFek/aCOWpExs9uoGruF1cuY1ygvv-FCyJS8NQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/E869CDA3-E531-4D8E-8CDC-445973E2A748.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1530" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fNZD6Ryk1Cs/YGDX9EJHUTI/AAAAAAAAFek/aCOWpExs9uoGruF1cuY1ygvv-FCyJS8NQCLcBGAsYHQ/w299-h400/E869CDA3-E531-4D8E-8CDC-445973E2A748.jpeg" width="299" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is officially Spring and the daffodils are out. </span> We have put the clocks forward for British Summer Time. </span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> The day has been dark and gloomy with a grey sky and a windy rainy wet view looking out of the window. With the arrival of the the full moon, it brought the high tide with sea water covering most of the shore. Thank goodness for the yellow cheerful jug of flowers. It was one of those days when you need the lights on and a cosy fire going in the woodburner, as the rain never seems to stop! </span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q5wenix6wUQ/YGDXKYJxXhI/AAAAAAAAFeE/CkO8u7PJZrQHK9M8TEKSnOJOrERiY4ErACPcBGAYYCw/s800/9F4E9AE8-0B3F-40B6-B5C1-13B1067A66AE%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q5wenix6wUQ/YGDXKYJxXhI/AAAAAAAAFeE/CkO8u7PJZrQHK9M8TEKSnOJOrERiY4ErACPcBGAYYCw/w299-h400/9F4E9AE8-0B3F-40B6-B5C1-13B1067A66AE%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> I sit by the window with the lamp fitted with a daylight bulb. I glance around at all my clutter and decide to have a little sort out, as it seems being organised is not my best trait. It is good clutter, creative inspiring and keeps me going during this strange time we are all living through. Under the lamp is a collection of objects like the ivy skeleton leaf ,big pebbles and berries and blue china and jars of my ink and acorns that have been there a while. Then I am ashamed to see a jam jar with pink water containing the first and second snakehead fritilliary flowers from the garden that I picked to draw. The first one was never drawn and has now collapsed, shrunk and hanging off the side of the jar. </span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_m8bxPMwArM/YGDXOyHBpLI/AAAAAAAAFeE/vL6JOSFuE74j8nEX6d3X2Rqum48xpjJcwCPcBGAYYCw/s800/652A1F89-4E3C-4B00-AD58-0958D26251AD%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_m8bxPMwArM/YGDXOyHBpLI/AAAAAAAAFeE/vL6JOSFuE74j8nEX6d3X2Rqum48xpjJcwCPcBGAYYCw/w299-h400/652A1F89-4E3C-4B00-AD58-0958D26251AD%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" width="299" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> I did manage to draw the second flower this week in ink and used the water to wash my pen and brushes. hence pink water! And I enjoyed painting the big pebble with the red berries as I liked them together. And the lovely new Sketch book was used to draw the skeleton leaf with my own handmade ink, using a dip in pen. SO all that clutter was used well.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-spDlCznSFB4/YGDX0kSj-FI/AAAAAAAAFes/IywsY6QB1ocrOzRE6Z_fAAPBKD4p3cEZACPcBGAYYCw/s800/D4103D4C-45C6-42C4-B884-568E9875CAE8%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-spDlCznSFB4/YGDX0kSj-FI/AAAAAAAAFes/IywsY6QB1ocrOzRE6Z_fAAPBKD4p3cEZACPcBGAYYCw/w478-h640/D4103D4C-45C6-42C4-B884-568E9875CAE8%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" width="478" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">Does anyone else use the back of the sofa as your gallery? I found some other art work I have been doing and there seems to be a colour theme going on. Another lovely coloured pebble along with the acrylic paints and mussel shells. So the gallery exhibits were propped up on the sofa to view.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6BfMQQiVido/YGDXgialGAI/AAAAAAAAFeo/HKKgf7TUZPwhIWfpZwbygFsgfYkQNiSoQCPcBGAYYCw/w478-h640/A965E240-7D65-4B88-9BCD-334BC2431DBA%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" width="478" /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> I really love this pebble found on the shore where the old iron mines were, hence the red colours.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X4mNihIFspc/YGDWxbN1bUI/AAAAAAAAFdc/1rqg1f-H3GMMwz41aWm59OV_gq6k1PkYQCPcBGAYYCw/s800/3D757B39-D0BF-43E1-9DC7-633B6F364657%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X4mNihIFspc/YGDWxbN1bUI/AAAAAAAAFdc/1rqg1f-H3GMMwz41aWm59OV_gq6k1PkYQCPcBGAYYCw/w478-h640/3D757B39-D0BF-43E1-9DC7-633B6F364657%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" width="478" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">Talking of colours I found my big box of crayons and have been sharpening some for the blue china found on a beach walk . Since the lock down here I have just been walking in the village. So these objects remind me of the sea shore which I am so looking forward to having the freedom to go on some lovely long leisurely walks along the sands.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p-JiPKyE3a4/YGDXl4tqaqI/AAAAAAAAFeg/5PhX2wlWkCAkwaq0mywzdwTyeGREQnhQwCPcBGAYYCw/s800/A5261A20-28B2-4DE6-9D27-BFF7CE370C14%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p-JiPKyE3a4/YGDXl4tqaqI/AAAAAAAAFeg/5PhX2wlWkCAkwaq0mywzdwTyeGREQnhQwCPcBGAYYCw/w299-h400/A5261A20-28B2-4DE6-9D27-BFF7CE370C14%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" width="299" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: times;">I have had a quiet time drawing and working on some of the found pieces of broken china. It is fascinating looking at all those little patterns, fragments from the past and all such beautiful little treasures.</span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--XLJoEeRd-4/YGDYEcx_DJI/AAAAAAAAFe4/36vWzAUuyQUgLwWxM7bHBGoUTF3nYj3DwCPcBGAYYCw/s800/EE83AB8A-D46B-421D-931F-3AA0717F8519%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--XLJoEeRd-4/YGDYEcx_DJI/AAAAAAAAFe4/36vWzAUuyQUgLwWxM7bHBGoUTF3nYj3DwCPcBGAYYCw/w478-h640/EE83AB8A-D46B-421D-931F-3AA0717F8519%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" width="478" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fhHZuT_LVHI/YGDXVJL5J6I/AAAAAAAAFeM/nShNyxfK-jY7uqsv3KJdXnkbcZ_Tw3GFQCPcBGAYYCw/s800/60619118-72E1-40EF-B99F-B60D3C858BD8%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fhHZuT_LVHI/YGDXVJL5J6I/AAAAAAAAFeM/nShNyxfK-jY7uqsv3KJdXnkbcZ_Tw3GFQCPcBGAYYCw/w478-h640/60619118-72E1-40EF-B99F-B60D3C858BD8%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_JwFUkX2j9Q/YGDXZxflwvI/AAAAAAAAFeU/_aoT8ZHMxugg2ApO9tZGhsIfaNWebHCSgCPcBGAYYCw/s800/A4DFCDE0-6A01-437F-9EB7-A763218595DA%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></a></div><p></p></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_JwFUkX2j9Q/YGDXZxflwvI/AAAAAAAAFeU/_aoT8ZHMxugg2ApO9tZGhsIfaNWebHCSgCPcBGAYYCw/s800/A4DFCDE0-6A01-437F-9EB7-A763218595DA%2B%2528598x800%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;">I have seen two tiny ladybirds resting in the sunshine. One morning a butterfly decided to wake up thinking it was Spring, No, I refused to let her go even though she had spent her winter sleeping in my bedroom window and was now flapping her wings and trying to be free. The times not right, you will thank me for it. She settled down again and remains still in her sleepy state. The weather man said we might even have snow yet. The little yellow bud and leaf I picked one day this week were added to this sheet of other little finds. I picked it from the hedgerow on a walk this week, as lots of plants are starting to show. The birds are just as confused as us, a blackbird has started to build a nest in the garden</span></a></div><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9nABgCCnkIA/XPKw2h53AlI/AAAAAAAAFOc/xqfAT_7sAbUxZ3DPLQAhscVVUesBoVtYACPcBGAYYCw/s800/thumbnail_IMG_0547%2B%2528800x598%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9nABgCCnkIA/XPKw2h53AlI/AAAAAAAAFOc/xqfAT_7sAbUxZ3DPLQAhscVVUesBoVtYACPcBGAYYCw/s320/thumbnail_IMG_0547%2B%2528800x598%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">Sending everyone good wishes, hope each and every one is keeping safe. I hope you enjoyed seeing my little Gallery. From little part of the world.....See you soon. Millyx</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oTEvIL396sI/UdWokjwQcqI/AAAAAAAAC30/Rjve2lMDxdA0hkSed1KK8LrOfNLHTCMygCPcBGAYYCw/s800/photo%2B%252890%2529%2B%2528800x600%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oTEvIL396sI/UdWokjwQcqI/AAAAAAAAC30/Rjve2lMDxdA0hkSed1KK8LrOfNLHTCMygCPcBGAYYCw/s320/photo%2B%252890%2529%2B%2528800x600%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">All art work By Eileen Postlethwaite Please respect my ownership and copyright.2021 </span></div><p></p></blockquote>MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-64739282666435418162020-04-04T18:56:00.000+01:002020-05-02T21:01:08.658+01:00April 2020 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is a very strange time we are all living through. it is hard to write about so Let me write my post and hope that everyone reading this finds a little bit of pleasure from what I write and show you from my little place in this world. </div>
Nature is and always has been a big part of my life. so I will share some beautiful nature that is making me happy and occupied during this time.<br />
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My garden started to show lots of signs that Spring is finally arriving. daffodils and the amazing Snakehead Fritillary flowers. Those of you who know my blog will already know how much I love these flowers and how I add more each year at the bottom of my garden.<br />
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each day I wander down to see them, spent time looking at them and usually pick a few favourites to bring into the house to draw. I have used my own homemade Blackberry ink and a fine nib in a dip in pen. It keeps my mind focused and it is a slow time carefully drawing as I concentrate on the flowers and the patterns slowly appear.<br />
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My eyes are not as good as when I was younger but Starting to draw I guess I can also use my memory of past drawings and my style of drawing appears to replicate the flowers.<br />
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And something lovely appears on the blank page. can you see how very beautiful these flowers are, so delicate and elegant. They really are a special sight as they appear now year after year and even more special because I planted each tiny white bulb.<br />
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The birds are singing each morning, hopping around the garden all day long. We were talking about how they seem so safe here, they know we feed them and I even left a pile or two of nesting materials for them when I did some gardening and collected dry stems. How delighted we were to spot the blackbird going into the privet hedge, the same place she made a nest last year. Quietly I had a gentle peep and there it was.<br />
A beautiful new nest with two blue eggs. it melts your heart.<br />
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And then my husband watched a Robin flying out of the ivy. Guess what, another nest. We have been respectful, kept away at a safe distance from both nests but will be delighted to see the young birds later on in the year hopefully hopping around in the garden from both of the nests. <br />
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It makes my heart sing to know they chose my garden to build in and that I am doing something right living along side nature and caring for it. I hope they are the same family returning.<br />
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I guess it is not news to you all that we have been battered by two different storms during the past two weekends. It has caused flooding. So sad for all of the people who have had their homes flooded and damaged by the rising rivers breaking their banks and all the heart break and upset it causes. I am sat listening to the wind roaring and watching as yet another high tide is on the way to cover our seashore. </div>
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I feel very grateful to be warm and safe. As the sea rushes into the estuary you see the force of the water with the wind behind it. Last weekend all the trains were cancelled because of the danger. Day after day we have had such tides and the land and fields are waterlogged. Yesterday I spent the afternoon drawing by the window looking out onto the grey gloomy weather.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my drawing of the found piece of china from the shore by Eileen Postlethwaite </td></tr>
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I am recording some of the blue and white china pieces that were found on my shore walks.<br />
After such storms the rough sea water batters and erodes the sand bankings and reveals forgotten and hidden remains from a past life. I have collected so many and yet each time I find a new piece it gives me such joy. The little pieces always have such interesting patterns and it really feels like I have a box of treasure. The most exciting part for me in this drawing is that this is my own handmade ink made from flowers, a secret for the moment. I was amazed to make a blue ink and thrilled to be able to draw my found china with it.<br />
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I carefully sketched the china piece with a pencil and then used the dip- in pen with a fine nib and painted with an equally fine paint brush. My own Blue ink. The Perfect Colour for the china.<br />
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I have recorded lots of lovely pieces but it is still a work in progress. My Project started with my homemade book with drawings in my own inks. All made from natural plants and objects found by me.<br />
It has been a slow process drawing but I am really happy how its looking and growing into a great project. It is almost a year since I started by making the handmade book, the inks and drawing my finds. It is definitely a labour of Love and so rewarding to think I did it all. My eyes do not always thank me with the slow detailed work dip by dip and today I have stained blue fingers.<br />
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So a feast for the eyes is seeing the snowdrops and daffodils flowering.<br />
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I have two blue glass vases each growing a beautiful blue scented hyacinth that greets you each morning. A bulb teased into growing as its roots drink up the water in the jar and they remind me of a jelly fish with the long white roots dangling. I can see so many new spring shoots and signs of more colour in the garden as old and new bulbs put down their roots.<br />
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A new piece of china found on our recent walk. When we saw some blue sky and sunshine!<br />
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It is good to walk and feel the cool breeze and blow away the cobwebs.<br />
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A few weeks ago I walked past this lovely old oak tree. Then last month when the leaves were brown and falling I found a single acorn on the ground, I picked it up and looked at it, your coming home with me I said. Unable to resist I climbed the wooden gate and dropped down into the wood. It is like entering another world, leaves crunch and twigs send out loud cracks as you walk through the wood. Whilst my acorn is held softly in my hands so not to harm it. I had a special place where I wanted to draw it. My handmade book I created to draw and record my home made inks.<br />
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I like small things, they surprise you, as size means nothing when you know the potential and power that little acorn has. As I look up into the spreading branches of the oak and know this tree started life as a tiny acorn.<br />
I once planted an acorn and now it grows behind my house, last year was the first time it had acorns and this year the first time it had oak galls but each year it gets stronger and grows some more.<br />
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I decided to draw acorns and oak leaves,and because of my love of brown inks make my own. This picture above shows my drawings using my own ink made using some oak galls I found. A dip in pen and my ink records oak finds......... a little piece of magic as my natural ink records nature. All found in my own village.<br />
As I have slowly watched my book fill up, a little at a time. I have used plants and flowers and berries and seeds to make different colours to draw with. Just as nature takes its time, I have to wait patiently until things are ready, each season brings something new. During 2019 it has been so exciting finding different colours from nature.<br />
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Nature constantly surprises us with colours. To end the year this was the sunset from my bedroom window. What a way to end the year.....better than any firework display.<br />
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And I have just planted some more tiny creamy coloured bulbs to grow and add to the snakehead frillary flowers already in my garden. Small things have such potential to make beautiful things happen. I often see my drawings and realise in my own little way I can send and share my love of nature to so many people and make a difference. <br />
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Hello. It is beautiful weather here and we are enjoying being outside and going for walks around the village. The verges and hedgerows are full of wild flowers, it is so lovely to see so many wild flowers thriving in this changeable weather we have experienced over the last few months. It is hot and we are not used to it! Then it can turn so cool and oh dear, can it rain here in the English Lake district! So as it is now officially Summer, it is lovely to have some sunshine.<br />
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I have been capturing colours with different flowers from my garden. I did this last year and experimented with different coloured flowers. It was trial and error, as I sat and rubbed different flower heads and squeezed the colours to create an image.<br />
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I tried whatever flowers were in my garden, some worked beautifully and others not so well. I used a pebble to roll across the flowers, and I become more aware of what techniques worked. How much pressure to apply and more aware of the different types of paper to use to create a better image. First I used a watercolour paper then tried other various papers, the best way is to just experiment and play to discover what you can use.<br />
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After a lot of different coloured flowers and many skills learnt I felt like I was capable of moving on to fabric and chose a cotton handkerchief which was new and unused. I placed the cotton between two sheets of paper and decided to use a metal soup spoon to rub these delicate flower heads.<br />
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It was a slow careful process as I rubbed a single flower at a time, sitting at the table. I had to be careful not to move or brush across the flower heads. It actually took about four hours to complete but the moment I peeled back the paper was really exciting. These were all done last summer so I had to try again this year. I decided to go bigger and not just small flowers but try the whole plant, so here we go. A hammer was used to carefully bash the stalks and leaves and flowers, a small headed hammer and the same techniques. It all takes time and patience to achieve a good result. It is exciting to try diffrerent plants and discover what works well. Have a go and see.<br />
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I really love using nature for creative work. I have also been making natural dyes and my own nature inks to draw with. I am drawing with my home made inks and again it so exciting to discover colours using my own garden plants, hedgerow berries and seeds.<br />
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The dyed fabrics will be made into something. Do you remember my little miniature quilt from Elderberries? sadly it faded to a paler version, as many natural dyes do. I still enjoy dyeing and discovering colours and sewing them. My lovely hare drawing on the pincushion, watching me as I sew. </div>
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I am using my own homemade inks and have been working on some new drawings using only my new colours of ink. It feels so me, using my local colours, from picking berries, making inks and using them recording natural objects I have found on my walks. In this fast world it is good to slow down and use a dip pen and quietly work at my drawings, slowly and carefully, no rush just take my time recording my found objects. </div>
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Can you imagine the feeling of using your own inks to draw with? Here I used my Elderberry, and Walnut made in 2016, the sycamore is from an elderberry made back in 2015. I am always full of ideas and inspired by where I live. When a peacock butterfly appears on your curtain one morning.</div>
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Last Friday evening we walked on the shore and my daughter took this photograph just before the sun went down. I think it speaks for itself. We have had such beautiful sunsets. It is nice to share. </div>
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Hello. I walked to the bottom of my garden to see what was growing and I was delighted to find my foxgloves flowering. I have scattered wild flower seeds and Woodland plants and letting it become even more of a wild garden. This is going to be an exciting year watching what happens and seeing how many different varieties grow. The garden has been full of butterflies on sunny days. the birds sing each morning and it is so lovely to know we have birds nesting in our garden, two blackbird nests with eggs all safely hatched and playing in the shrubs and hedges. Our bird box has also attracted a great tit nesting and raising a family, We were delighted after hanging the box three years ago, we have seen the two adults busy feeding the young. One day as I was hanging the washing out I saw a little head peep out !<br />
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<b>My washing line has also been used to hang up my experiments with natural dyeing. These are some of the lovely colours from plants hanging out to dry, from last summer. I have also been using lots of different berries and plants to make my homemade inks. </b></div>
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<b>I really love working like this, collecting the berries and making the ink and then drawing with my homemade colours. It is so exciting drawing blackberries with ink made from my own village hedgerows. I will share some other colours and drawings using my inks over the year. </b></div>
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<b>During the last few months I have been recording some of my finds. I have been drawing leaves and acorns and my favourite Magpie moth. the moth was painted on a recycled box, our porridge box which has lovely parchment coloured card once you turn it inside out! I can't think of a better way to recycle than use it to paint a beautiful Magpie Moth. </b></div>
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Last year I contributed to a wonderful project by printing over a hundred Moths for the " Moth Migration Project" by Hilary Lorenz , you can read about it <a href="http://www.mothmigrationproject.net/">HERE</a> .I carved and printed my designs and posted them to the USA . We received a certificate and personal thank you from Hilary Lorenz from the USA, who is exhibiting over 20,000 Moths. I was just one person along with so many others from around the world who contributed, so pleased I did.<br />
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<b>Walks on the beaches have been blustery and cold during the winter months. Just the thought of going to the sea inspires me. I always find so many natural objects, then I arrive back home and get out my big box of coloured pencils to record the pretty pastel shades. A rainbow of colours on a winters day. they are tiny simple shells but I love collecting them and drawing them. Of course I never stop at shells....feathers, seaweed, mermaids purses, oak leaves, pieces of blue china, sea glass......all sit in dishes waiting! </b></div>
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<b>Waiting and dreaming of Springtime and the thought of my beautiful Snakehead Fritillaries filling the garden. And once again the snowdrops push through, then the daffodils and primroses and violets.</b></div>
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And then they arrive, fragile and so beautiful, hundreds of tiny chequered heads, the Snake head Fritillaries, everyone planted over the years from tiny white bulbs. I wander down just to sit and look at them and then choose one to draw.</b></div>
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<b> A study of one of the flowers, each one seems to have different patterns. I had pink shades and lots of white ones too and even some with double heads. I love their elegant shapes and the way they droop their heads and the leaves create movement.</b></div>
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Time seems to pass so quickly, but gladly it seems a slower pace here in our little village. The other weekend we were reminded of a different time when things were slower and handsome steam powered trains travelled along the railway lines and passed through villages and people waved at the train and the passengers waved back with smiles from one to another. I think everyone would agree for a few moments we captured the spirit of that age, as I also captured some photographs to share with you. I hope my blog makes you smile and you find the time to send a little message back, it would be lovely to hear from you wherever you are.</div>
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Each day I wander down to the bottom of my garden to see the snowdrops. From the muddy leaf covered ground once again they appear, peeping green shoots. In no time the clumps of white buds open their petals and show their pretty flowers. I wonder if they know just how pleased we are to see them. I picked a handful and placed them in the kitchen window, each time I wash the dishes I marvel at their clean white petals. It is magical how they appeared again on time, when we so needed to see some sign that spring is on the way. Today I felt so happy to see all my bulbs growing, the first yellow daffodils flowering, blue and white crocus starting to open. I planted lots of new bulbs last Autumn and feel like a child waiting for them to flower. <br />
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My fritillary are coming on well and I even noticed one has got off to a fast start showing a bud already. I have been sitting drawing in front of the window so each time I look up I can see the view across the shore to the Lakeland hills. Our lovely view, always changing, always so inspiring whatever the season. Rainbows and sunsets and blue sky, as I need to remind myself of the promise of more colour in these gloomy grey days of winter.<br />
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The blackbirds are pulling out moss from the lawn and flying off into the Ivy with their beak full of moss and grass. A nest is being build! The birds are singing.<br />
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The primroses are coming too along with all my memories of childhood collecting them along the hedgerows. Now I only pick them from my own garden and enjoy seeing them on my walks because sadly they are no longer as plentiful and common as when I was a child and they grew in huge clusters and nobody minded you picking a bunch or two. <br />
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This is one of my favourite views, I always stop and stand and look down across the estuary leaning on the wooden gate. This place is so special, I have spent my life here and I am so lucky to have been born in such a beautiful environment. Just as the snowdrops grow like a miracle each new year, I am hoping there will be another.<br />
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There is a sadness that it may be blighted by huge, well no giant metal pylons to carry electricity to the national grid from a proposed nuclear power station up the coast. They have proposed to build the route around the estuary and across the village and along this side of the estuary. On New Year's Eve I made a banner which I painted, " NO PYLONS . SAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL DUDDON ESTUARY. NO PYLONS ". We placed it on the shore between two fence posts . It was a day when people came together to make their feelings heard and walked from two villages to gather here. I wrote a letter with my feelings, along with many others, it would certainly have a great effect on our lives and on our well being if it is allowed to happen.<br />
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The mantelpiece has been decorated with Ivy collected from my garden. The hyacinths are putting down roots into the water and the green shoots are growing well. The holly was picked but no berries to see but I can add some in my drawing. I did find a few red berries left by the hungry birds as they have feasted each day on the cotoneaster bushes. I popped them into the glass lanterns to decorate the white candles. A few favourite little decorations and my lovely angel cards, collected from past years and brought together for this little celebration of Christmas. The twinkling lights make it all feel magical and cosy and it feels like my home. <br />
Nature features, seedheads of white Honesty, growing bulbs and green branches, a fir cone and the holly and Ivy. And a bowl full of brightly coloured glossy red apples. <br />
I made some little stars with twigs and a red wreath with woven twigs I twisted into a circle. This is how Christmas feels for me, simple,honest, homemade and using nature just as my mum did. I remembered how she placed holly over pictures and it all looked so pretty and special and how we all helped decorate the real tree. <br />
I painted a holly leaf, looking at the shape and glossy greens and thinking of times gone by. I know where there is red berried holly in the hedgerows but I will enjoy seeing it as I wander though the lanes. I love the red berries in the hedgerows, one of my favourite subjects to draw. <br />
I won't have to wait much longer to smell the sweet hyacinths, such a welcome flower to remind us of the joy of growing and the pleasure we are given with the perfume that fills a room and greets us in the morning. <br />
Simple pleasures, I try to remind myself how grateful I am to live in the countryside and know the joys and beauty that surround me. It seems my pictures do not want to be displayed so I will leave you with just words, my words and thoughts for now. And a promise I will post soon. <br />
It does not seem long now until Spring will arrive, the snowdrops are already pushing up green shoots. I have planted so many pots of spring bulbs and feel excited waiting for them to appear. Almost a hundred new fritillary bulbs and how beautiful they will be when they grow and flower along with all the others in the garden. I shall once again sit and marvel at their beauty, intricate patterns on those elegant flowers heads as they grace my garden. And I shall fall in love with them all over again. <br />
The log burner keeps the room so warm and cosy despite the stormy weather outside, the rain lashing against the windows and wind howling. I feel safe and warm, hot drinks and a mince pie warmed on the top of the hot burner enjoyed with visitors. Sitting quietly writing this post to wish you all a very Happy Christmas time wherever you are and whatever you do. <br />
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<br />MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-79615816912078794742016-09-06T21:15:00.001+01:002016-09-06T21:15:32.812+01:00Lost and Found
<p>I have never lost my interest or appreciation of nature. Every single day I wake up and pull back the curtains and see where I live I am so full of wonder and happy and grateful that I live in this beautiful place.<br><br></p>
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All those little treasures waiting for me to find them, as every time you turn that white shape over and discover the blue and white pattern, it makes me smile. We sat down on the sand and ate our sandwiches and fruit, with sand of course!<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1ANy0mW1eps/V87nxM3OPzI/AAAAAAAAFHQ/PGcr4Kqf__Y/s960/Photo%25252020160906163633133.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1ANy0mW1eps/V87nxM3OPzI/AAAAAAAAFHQ/PGcr4Kqf__Y/s500/Photo%25252020160906163633133.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886917.092" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div> Looking out to sea as the tide is coming in, just as we are leaving.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8aV9dH7iooM/V87n4GsJAQI/AAAAAAAAFHY/urA9ortwRgc/s960/Photo%25252020160906163633149.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8aV9dH7iooM/V87n4GsJAQI/AAAAAAAAFHY/urA9ortwRgc/s500/Photo%25252020160906163633149.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886879.4756" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div> The view towards home. It was a lovely walk and I couldn't wait to get home and empty my bag. <br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UHENtFBH_Xw/V87n9DuZvUI/AAAAAAAAFHg/G0uBUV2WQKU/s960/Photo%25252020160906163633160.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UHENtFBH_Xw/V87n9DuZvUI/AAAAAAAAFHg/G0uBUV2WQKU/s500/Photo%25252020160906163633160.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886972.2893" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div> Here I am sorting it out into sea glass and China and my beautiful feathers I collected along the way. Lots to choose from and add to a drawing. <br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RWKi4W8_aJ4/V87oCI2tmMI/AAAAAAAAFHk/BgjsnqfRlRE/s960/Photo%25252020160906163633170.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RWKi4W8_aJ4/V87oCI2tmMI/AAAAAAAAFHk/BgjsnqfRlRE/s500/Photo%25252020160906163633170.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886940.041" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div> Lost and found, where they lost, well I definitely found them.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wY5KX6fI0ZU/V87oVMdW9mI/AAAAAAAAFH4/xF5hVP9rMjY/s960/Photo%25252020160906163843832.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wY5KX6fI0ZU/V87oVMdW9mI/AAAAAAAAFH4/xF5hVP9rMjY/s500/Photo%25252020160906163843832.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886971.4326" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div> <br><br> And my mind was telling me I must go and collect some blackberries along the hedgerows and so the very next day I was up and off first thing and this is what I found. Four pounds of blackberries, found, picked , washed and made into jam when I got home.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QlbtYkIrBw0/V87oibcEasI/AAAAAAAAFIE/v0KZxhVYuiw/s960/Photo%25252020160906163914331.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QlbtYkIrBw0/V87oibcEasI/AAAAAAAAFIE/v0KZxhVYuiw/s500/Photo%25252020160906163914331.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886976.5078" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div> Four jars of blackberry jam, well three and a bit now. Now to me, that is such a nice feeling nice to know you made it, it tastes so good and as it came from the hedgerows in my own village. JOY indeed, on toast, in scones and I even poured some on ice <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">cream.</span><br><br><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">After finding some fallen Lords and Ladies, drawing subjects, I added them to my book. </span><br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iEBh6DObmMw/V87nCUJJ_PI/AAAAAAAAFGg/pYlm4N0TuvM/s960/Photo%25252020160906163843671.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iEBh6DObmMw/V87nCUJJ_PI/AAAAAAAAFGg/pYlm4N0TuvM/s500/Photo%25252020160906163843671.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886986.4067" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div>I have been working on a little creative project. After a night out at the pictures, watching the wonderful BFG film. I was so inspired, it was a magical film. I was entranced with the dream jars as I had seen some of the large jars in London. But, I couldn't get the image of one of the huge Giants holding the tiny patchwork quilt in his massive hands out of my mind. I had the idea to make one, a tiny quilt, so I did.<br><br> <br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Rrg1OJRjViU/V87nSvPUO8I/AAAAAAAAFGw/bfGyYjOwfo4/s960/Photo%25252020160906163914250.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Rrg1OJRjViU/V87nSvPUO8I/AAAAAAAAFGw/bfGyYjOwfo4/s500/Photo%25252020160906163914250.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886971.2302" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div> I hand printed it with a tiny triangle and then hand quilted it. I finished the border a few days ago. Yes it made my happy to make this pretty little quilt.<br><br><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">I love making things, completely hand made, hand printed, hand stitched and using an old white sheet, recycled. It feels like me. I loved the finished quilt.</span><br><br> <br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R-rGKZTxm4U/V87o_6S3_8I/AAAAAAAAFIg/gih_MYGBvPw/s960/Photo%25252020160906163914348.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R-rGKZTxm4U/V87o_6S3_8I/AAAAAAAAFIg/gih_MYGBvPw/s500/Photo%25252020160906163914348.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886967.328" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div> <br><br> I started a new little project and made a new needle case and pincushion with some left over pieces from my new cushions. It is lovely to see my drawings on things I have made and I thought it would make a nice matching pair with my egg and feather I did for peony and sage.<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2FGZPbeCeI0/V87pHw8jqRI/AAAAAAAAFIo/AS2ZVpmlUmM/s960/Photo%25252020160906163914377.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2FGZPbeCeI0/V87pHw8jqRI/AAAAAAAAFIo/AS2ZVpmlUmM/s500/Photo%25252020160906163914377.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886927.7488" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">My new little Feather pincushion and egg needle case, trimmed with some of my blackberries and bees, ready for the next sewing project.</span><br><br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dIMWpVsYuf8/V87oJPwBMuI/AAAAAAAAFHs/wz0Ixa1MHlE/s960/Photo%25252020160906163633008.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dIMWpVsYuf8/V87oJPwBMuI/AAAAAAAAFHs/wz0Ixa1MHlE/s500/Photo%25252020160906163633008.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886907.1519" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div>
<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">So what shall I make next? Something that brings me Joy!</span><br><br><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Maybe a slice of toast and blackberry</span><br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Qzq98Cal1JI/V87ov0mi7sI/AAAAAAAAFIQ/R1j3AQdbAAw/s960/Photo%25252020160906163843766.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Qzq98Cal1JI/V87ov0mi7sI/AAAAAAAAFIQ/R1j3AQdbAAw/s500/Photo%25252020160906163843766.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886909.5703" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div>And go and sit on my front step and enjoy the view.<br><br><span style="line-height: 1.3em;"><br></span><br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GgaRCyzZv3Q/V87pRwxUMaI/AAAAAAAAFIw/6qDkzRFtjJU/s960/Photo%25252020160906163914313.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GgaRCyzZv3Q/V87pRwxUMaI/AAAAAAAAFIw/6qDkzRFtjJU/s500/Photo%25252020160906163914313.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886956.6663" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div> See you soon, hope everyone has enjoyed their summer and looking forward to Autumn. Millyx<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MnLqENEDCBM/V87oL0eWw2I/AAAAAAAAFHw/xFRaiRsB3Mg/s960/Photo%25252020160906163843735.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MnLqENEDCBM/V87oL0eWw2I/AAAAAAAAFHw/xFRaiRsB3Mg/s500/Photo%25252020160906163843735.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886920.6072" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div>The view as Summer ...........<br><br>...............................................now turns to Autumn.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5R05Yx9Nf1w/V87oPFAnspI/AAAAAAAAFH0/jLqJz5VayBY/s960/Photo%25252020160906163843745.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5R05Yx9Nf1w/V87oPFAnspI/AAAAAAAAFH0/jLqJz5VayBY/s500/Photo%25252020160906163843745.jpg" id="blogsy-1473192886998.438" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br>
MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-54354727268808103702016-05-02T19:12:00.003+01:002016-06-25T11:49:33.921+01:00May has arrived
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mPAAaJPBQIQ/VyeFJBjUCUI/AAAAAAAAFA4/SDp46Hj-Bd0/s960/Photo%25252020160502174558723.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mPAAaJPBQIQ/VyeFJBjUCUI/AAAAAAAAFA4/SDp46Hj-Bd0/s500/Photo%25252020160502174558723.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749886.1787" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div>May has arrived. April was full of surprises as the weather had us all perplexed, one day sunshine and warm and then the next hailstones and endless rain and the grand finale was snow. I thought I would share some of the moments of April. The moon was amazing, A big moon brings big tides.<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9e-ff97xX5I/VyeFL4w8qbI/AAAAAAAAFA8/le6z6BnVrAg/s916/Photo%25252020160502174558573.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9e-ff97xX5I/VyeFL4w8qbI/AAAAAAAAFA8/le6z6BnVrAg/s500/Photo%25252020160502174558573.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749921.8923" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="374"></a></div> I always feel the pull to go and wander and see what the tide brought to our shore. I wandered down onto a wet soggy and slippery place but it didn't matter. I felt excited and the air was fresh and the drizzle made my cheeks glow. I found my way to the place I know so well. I had it all to myself.<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yKJ1VuSp_pw/VyeF_0VpfeI/AAAAAAAAFB0/F0qHH_J-Qe4/s960/Photo%25252020160502174558744.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yKJ1VuSp_pw/VyeF_0VpfeI/AAAAAAAAFB0/F0qHH_J-Qe4/s500/Photo%25252020160502174558744.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749892.0232" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div> It is such a special place, so quiet and peaceful. All alone with my thoughts.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RiNZKOysZVQ/VyeGMWr__EI/AAAAAAAAFCE/w4WvtFKUhL4/s960/Photo%25252020160502174725616.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RiNZKOysZVQ/VyeGMWr__EI/AAAAAAAAFCE/w4WvtFKUhL4/s500/Photo%25252020160502174725616.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749910.3318" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div> I collected some objects to draw, loved the crab but he stayed there. I did bring the leaf which appears on my page and a whole bag full of finds but only so many are going to fit on my page!<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vEsP3z2vCVA/VyeGWLx4xBI/AAAAAAAAFCQ/GJrCSfuOrAE/s960/Photo%25252020160502174725646.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vEsP3z2vCVA/VyeGWLx4xBI/AAAAAAAAFCQ/GJrCSfuOrAE/s500/Photo%25252020160502174725646.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749831.6511" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XQzQ98CizUk/VyeGGDiVqeI/AAAAAAAAFCA/Lq-TkTVf5t8/s960/Photo%25252020160502174725605.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XQzQ98CizUk/VyeGGDiVqeI/AAAAAAAAFCA/Lq-TkTVf5t8/s500/Photo%25252020160502174725605.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749853.4539" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div> I noticed the changes, the bank collapsing more and more, but then it is life, everything changes.<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8SY7MUxKyKg/VyeGStCRCCI/AAAAAAAAFCM/wGbCBB4PVR0/s960/Photo%25252020160502174725639.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8SY7MUxKyKg/VyeGStCRCCI/AAAAAAAAFCM/wGbCBB4PVR0/s500/Photo%25252020160502174725639.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749915.2268" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div> The beginning of a new page sketched out.<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FLioFEDVgRI/VyeGCjrMN0I/AAAAAAAAFB4/u8jIUl8rhpI/s960/Photo%25252020160502174558753.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FLioFEDVgRI/VyeGCjrMN0I/AAAAAAAAFB4/u8jIUl8rhpI/s500/Photo%25252020160502174558753.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749872.573" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div> I have had several walks along the shore, it might look grey and dull but it never feels like that to me, I feel excited and alive as I search and find treasures. I love this environment, it is real and honest. It was so wet as the sloppy and slippery mud seemed to get everywhere, so if mud on your clothes is measured in contentment I scored pretty high.<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UcsQWRgc94A/VyeHOR1J5EI/AAAAAAAAFDc/JRWDSvLgPp8/s960/Photo%25252020160502174725800.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UcsQWRgc94A/VyeHOR1J5EI/AAAAAAAAFDc/JRWDSvLgPp8/s500/Photo%25252020160502174725800.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749894.354" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div> There has been beautiful bright days and I have given my time to recording the fritillary. One day I sat on my step and used sepia ink to record details of a flower. I thought they would surely be over with some of the bad stormy days and so I wanted to draw as many as I could to catch them before they were gone.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UbZj9rcELss/VyeHKS1CRVI/AAAAAAAAFDY/WX3VZUqTd8M/s960/Photo%25252020160502174725789.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UbZj9rcELss/VyeHKS1CRVI/AAAAAAAAFDY/WX3VZUqTd8M/s500/Photo%25252020160502174725789.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749909.6968" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div> Each day I wandered into the garden just to admire them. They have surprised me with how resilient they are, they look so fragile and delicate to withstand hail and frost, but they somehow did.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3e_dxQdC3OI/VyeHGUTZHSI/AAAAAAAAFDQ/aotyaRRkgvo/s960/Photo%25252020160502174725779.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3e_dxQdC3OI/VyeHGUTZHSI/AAAAAAAAFDQ/aotyaRRkgvo/s500/Photo%25252020160502174725779.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749858.8074" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div> So elegant and beautiful and I love it when the sun lights them up .<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cpo5_OhhqH4/VyeHrmZoHyI/AAAAAAAAFEE/R-0DPhJK6_Y/s720/Photo%25252020160502174820637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cpo5_OhhqH4/VyeHrmZoHyI/AAAAAAAAFEE/R-0DPhJK6_Y/s500/Photo%25252020160502174820637.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749921.003" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="500"></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R-lKA3yuCY8/VyeHjlGNgTI/AAAAAAAAFD4/VYllMU0y4Xg/s960/Photo%25252020160502174820615.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R-lKA3yuCY8/VyeHjlGNgTI/AAAAAAAAFD4/VYllMU0y4Xg/s500/Photo%25252020160502174820615.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749917.5515" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iKjCQd4QAlA/VyeHnoXZ-dI/AAAAAAAAFD8/0-s6dZmdbSs/s720/Photo%25252020160502174820626.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iKjCQd4QAlA/VyeHnoXZ-dI/AAAAAAAAFD8/0-s6dZmdbSs/s500/Photo%25252020160502174820626.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749934.2778" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="500"></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ppmG65nMaV4/VyeHugaJYFI/AAAAAAAAFEI/Ta6qf0dJTTo/s960/Photo%25252020160502174820655.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ppmG65nMaV4/VyeHugaJYFI/AAAAAAAAFEI/Ta6qf0dJTTo/s500/Photo%25252020160502174820655.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749935.26" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div> I liked playing with shadows. And I like capturing them with pen and ink. I have to work so slowly so it all takes time but time well spent looking and seeing these wonderfully patterned flowers.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3iIDdFjU0n0/VyeH8I4qx9I/AAAAAAAAFEY/_HD7NSVxcWg/s960/Photo%25252020160502174820696.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3iIDdFjU0n0/VyeH8I4qx9I/AAAAAAAAFEY/_HD7NSVxcWg/s500/Photo%25252020160502174820696.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749864.1052" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div> Red ink and red stained fingers. Which didn't wash off for days.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5Cmq20IgJcI/VyeIEKcybrI/AAAAAAAAFEk/p04Hp6ig9Jk/s960/Photo%25252020160502174820717.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5Cmq20IgJcI/VyeIEKcybrI/AAAAAAAAFEk/p04Hp6ig9Jk/s500/Photo%25252020160502174820717.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749942.6348" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Qr1tCjyUxkU/VyeIICiXLmI/AAAAAAAAFEo/m_HxeZvwBeg/s960/Photo%25252020160502174820729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Qr1tCjyUxkU/VyeIICiXLmI/AAAAAAAAFEo/m_HxeZvwBeg/s500/Photo%25252020160502174820729.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749880.9856" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div> And one for my square book.<br><br> <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kPW8mvf40L0/VyeIL8QfSBI/AAAAAAAAFEs/PDR_g5Xm6Hw/s960/Photo%25252020160502174820740.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kPW8mvf40L0/VyeIL8QfSBI/AAAAAAAAFEs/PDR_g5Xm6Hw/s500/Photo%25252020160502174820740.jpg" id="blogsy-1466851749947.0835" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div> I have seen many colours during April. I saw my first and only ladybird, she crawled up and down my middle and ring fingers. 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There have been lots of moments when I had an idea to do something.</div>
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I was staying in Wales with my friend and as we walked in her field I discovered all the beautiful Elderberry trees growing in the hedgerow. They were laden with branches of ripe elderberries. This was one of those moments.</div>
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My friend knows me and she understands me. So two huge bags of berries later and armed with her biggest pan my idea is well and truly in motion. I am making some ink. They were the best berries I had ever seen and hours later I had made my ink. Some Stained fingers and a lot of mess but I had a huge jar of this richly coloured liquid. I made a little colour chart of the ink when I returned home and tried it for the first time.</div>
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I used the ink and a dip in pen to draw an oak leaf. The ink worked so well. </div>
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I recorded it all in my sketch book. The lovely poppy seed head I collected from my garden was a perfect subject for my new ink as I experimented using it to both draw and write with.</div>
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I am enjoying watching my three hyacinths grow in the bulb jars. Watching each day the moments they put down their roots into the water. After a few weeks I will see the buds form, then eventually the scented flowers of this much loved spring flower.</div>
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They remind me of a day wandering along an empty shore. It was a foggy day and I stumbled across a huge jelly fish. I examined this strange creature with long jelly like legs, now abandoned by the sea and what a strange curious creature it is. </div>
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It was such a silent place, surrounded by the sea fog on this empty beach. I collected shells, feathers and pieces of pottery, anything that caught my eye.</div>
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Treasures that all came home with me. They haven't made it into a drawing yet but they remind me of the day. Listening to the soft wavy line of the water as it crept onto the sand out of the fog.</div>
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I loved this leaf stuck in the sand, the shape and colours. A moment of beauty, perfect in my eyes.</div>
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I have closed my book documenting the time line of the Lords and Ladies plant. Maybe I will add more next year. I so enjoyed doing this little project and I learnt so much collecting my samples and recording them in all their details.</div>
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I am working on a little arrangement of my tiger moth and some other objects I have collected. I never get fed up with oak leaves. I have brought some home this afternoon I found on my walk.</div>
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Just the finishing touches and it will be complete. It feels like me, gathering beautiful natural objects together and arranging them and then challenging myself to capture them.</div>
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So it is time to leave you with a couple of moments I photographed. A grey watery world as the full moon brings in a huge tide which covers the shore.</div>
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Then, the colourful sunset when clouds turn pink. </div>
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And I have to mention all the rain water we have witnessed over the last few days which has caused the terrible flooding in my county of Cumbria. My thoughts go out to all the people who are suffering at this time. </div>
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This view from my home changes each and every day. I see something like this and I am just stunned by the beauty and so inspired. And I want to share it with you.</div>
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Hope you are all warm and cosy, happy and creative. Hope you too have some wonderful moments in your day....... Millyx</div>
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<br />MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-47736742315223524692015-10-14T17:34:00.001+01:002015-10-14T17:52:49.404+01:00Sometimes
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Sometimes you watch a stone thrown into the water.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> First the splash. Then the circle as the ripples grow and grow.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Then moments later it is gone. I have ideas like that, an idea to do something and it grows and grows and then it is gone because I never found the time to follow it through.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> I have been busy in the garden. It is Autumn and there are lots of jobs that need doing. Just as I was finishing off , tidying away the tools and sweeping up I saw this pale moth creep out of the leaves. I thought I must draw it, because sometimes that is how it works, a gift from nature. I captured it with a dip in pen and used my own homemade oak gall ink that I made last year or the year before.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> I like moths. I like my pincushion, carved in soft Lino and printed on linen and stuffed with sheep wool I collected off the shore.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> One evening we walked on the shore and sat down by the waters edge. The sky was so pretty, pastel colours and it was so peaceful and still. The sheep were on the other side of the tidal river and as they walked along I captured their reflections in the water.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> And the pink clouds. It was a magical evening.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> I could have stayed there for ever watching the clouds.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> As we wandered back to the railway station the moon was out. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> So many things I see and find on this shore inspire me. Each and Every striped feather I collect is beautiful. I have been carving an egg in the Lino and printing myself another New tea towel. I made it completely from start to finish. First I cut and sewed the natural linen into a teatowels, then printed six eggs in a row with my carved eggs, all printed by hand with fabric paint. It worked out beautifully.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Sometimes it takes me a long while to get around to capturing my finds. Meanwhile nature carries on changing and decomposing and the snails helped as they ate the berries too. So sometimes it all adds to a more interesting subject.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> And let's put them together as they were captured on the same day in the same homemade ink. A postcard of the Moth and the eaten Lords and lady red berries. Sometimes things just seem to work on the same page, a memory of my day.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Each time I create I start with an idea and fill an empty space with something new and made by me. A bit like the Sky that evening, shapes magically formed to fill the space ....right over the top of my house.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Miles away from each other yet sharing the same things like the moon. Lately it surprised me in the early morning.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> And now as I press "post" my blog will ripple around the world . I hope you enjoyed seeing a little more of my world. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes I just have to capture the sunset and share it with everyone else. I hope everyone is well and enjoying this time of the year as much as I am.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thank you for your comments, I love to read them, and appreciate you taking the time to write. See you soon. Millyx</p>
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I love this time of the year as the red berries hang from tiny threads and seem to dance along the length of the branches. I couldn't resist, I picked a few.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9O3IwiCbMO4/VgG6R92hmWI/AAAAAAAAEhE/oFam-2KfOS0/s960/Photo%25252020150922211719993.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9O3IwiCbMO4/VgG6R92hmWI/AAAAAAAAEhE/oFam-2KfOS0/s500/Photo%25252020150922211719993.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540786.2302" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> The hen come wandering over as she thinks I have come to feed her and looks up at me. Perhaps she remembers all that bread I threw over the wall the other day. I smile as I think of the ducks and hens running this way and that way racing to be first to gobble it down the moment each piece of bread hit the ground.</p><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xR2prZOj-Yo/VgG6dkVJKDI/AAAAAAAAEhU/Y3LG6EJ0iUw/s960/Photo%25252020150922211720028.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xR2prZOj-Yo/VgG6dkVJKDI/AAAAAAAAEhU/Y3LG6EJ0iUw/s500/Photo%25252020150922211720028.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540788.561" class="alignnone" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> I kneel to capture the cow parsley seed heads against the sky. The sheep are all busy eating the grass and just ignore me.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7VMk1RVKTFM/VgG6h7VidJI/AAAAAAAAEhc/6w20HNaWRyA/s960/Photo%25252020150922211720046.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7VMk1RVKTFM/VgG6h7VidJI/AAAAAAAAEhc/6w20HNaWRyA/s500/Photo%25252020150922211720046.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540757.918" class="alignnone" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">I spy the farm in the distance which is along my way, I am on a mission to find more reds today.</p><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-soO93rfNHkY/VgG65vd3wpI/AAAAAAAAEh8/ybIfz3sQgYQ/s960/Photo%25252020150922211720084.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-soO93rfNHkY/VgG65vd3wpI/AAAAAAAAEh8/ybIfz3sQgYQ/s500/Photo%25252020150922211720084.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540807.929" class="alignnone" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> There are lovely leaves.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qgdqXAbBkU4/VgG6zvbX-7I/AAAAAAAAEh0/bzedNhZ95wY/s960/Photo%25252020150922211720075.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qgdqXAbBkU4/VgG6zvbX-7I/AAAAAAAAEh0/bzedNhZ95wY/s500/Photo%25252020150922211720075.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540769.0737" class="alignnone" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> I really like this one.</p><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_BjP_Q6DQ0Q/VgG6_15ps_I/AAAAAAAAEiE/4COw8NImAPY/s960/Photo%25252020150922211720091.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_BjP_Q6DQ0Q/VgG6_15ps_I/AAAAAAAAEiE/4COw8NImAPY/s500/Photo%25252020150922211720091.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540729.2312" class="alignnone" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> Rose hips catch my eye hanging over the stone wall from someone's garden.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Uf0RrKgiT4c/VgG7TEcOvVI/AAAAAAAAEic/8fdNDQYVlik/s960/Photo%25252020150922211930805.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Uf0RrKgiT4c/VgG7TEcOvVI/AAAAAAAAEic/8fdNDQYVlik/s500/Photo%25252020150922211930805.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540758.7634" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> Still more red berries but not the ones I am looking for.</p><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mXF5ses6mjE/VgG7H3rfqNI/AAAAAAAAEiM/W7yrTOhLPA8/s960/Photo%25252020150922211720119.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mXF5ses6mjE/VgG7H3rfqNI/AAAAAAAAEiM/W7yrTOhLPA8/s500/Photo%25252020150922211720119.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540721.1436" class="alignnone" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> After a long walk I arrive by the edge of the wood and this what I came for, it is the place where the lords and ladies are growing. Since I was last here they have all fallen so I feel it is okay to collect some. They are going into my book recording this stage of the life cycle. I have been tracking the story for months in my drawings and it is getting near to the end. The red berries are formed. Sadly the stalks are collapsing and the berries are falling off and this story is almost at its end. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0HQsIjVaHeE/VgHAfErjphI/AAAAAAAAEk4/n3Nxr3ktH5M/s960/Photo%25252020150922215512165.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0HQsIjVaHeE/VgHAfErjphI/AAAAAAAAEk4/n3Nxr3ktH5M/s500/Photo%25252020150922215512165.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540731.8936" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J38PFZK9uh8/VgHC6Lz46sI/AAAAAAAAElE/slB_Z3svI-I/s960/Photo%25252020150922215926227.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J38PFZK9uh8/VgHC6Lz46sI/AAAAAAAAElE/slB_Z3svI-I/s500/Photo%25252020150922215926227.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540790.8494" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> I just finished this one so needed some new subjects.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> I have so enjoyed this project, watching them form, change shapes and colours and I have learnt so much a more about this plant.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kzz1Mg8Wk5o/VgHC9nK4CdI/AAAAAAAAElM/MMxo2o_K--U/s960/Photo%25252020150922220449765.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kzz1Mg8Wk5o/VgHC9nK4CdI/AAAAAAAAElM/MMxo2o_K--U/s500/Photo%25252020150922220449765.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540794.1956" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> These two were recorded recently.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lLPe1lsIV30/VgHDFl3wq6I/AAAAAAAAElc/TrFj614glvc/s960/Photo%25252020150922220536702.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lLPe1lsIV30/VgHDFl3wq6I/AAAAAAAAElc/TrFj614glvc/s500/Photo%25252020150922220536702.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540777.587" class="alignnone" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> My tiger moth sits on the table, completed in between the red berry paintings. I captured my lovely Moth on a watercolour postcard size paper using my inks and a fine paintbrush and dip in pen.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lCzln7ZgvBo/VgHDJWL6bFI/AAAAAAAAElk/TGnWhPVwbHc/s960/Photo%25252020150922220536671.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lCzln7ZgvBo/VgHDJWL6bFI/AAAAAAAAElk/TGnWhPVwbHc/s500/Photo%25252020150922220536671.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540797.9556" class="alignnone" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">As I have been Slowly working away, autumn has also been slowly creeping in. With such Cooler evenings we have been lighting a fire to take away the chill. The mornings bring the fog as it too creeps across the hills and over the estuary. One morning I was lucky enough to witness this scene.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O5uhyoHwvDE/VgHDMS5ZYjI/AAAAAAAAEls/hbJMXcg6uEg/s960/Photo%25252020150922220536590.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O5uhyoHwvDE/VgHDMS5ZYjI/AAAAAAAAEls/hbJMXcg6uEg/s500/Photo%25252020150922220536590.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540782.5217" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Each sunset brings such beautiful colours to admire.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9GQFJhJS74Q/VgHDQQx5zbI/AAAAAAAAEl0/8qH-N028mOM/s960/Photo%25252020150922220536574.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9GQFJhJS74Q/VgHDQQx5zbI/AAAAAAAAEl0/8qH-N028mOM/s500/Photo%25252020150922220536574.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540798.2407" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> I am walking each day and I feel like I am surrounded by treasures, As every moment I see such beautiful things and realise how lucky I am to live here. I hope you enjoyed seeing some of the things that inspired me today. As I wander through this countryside I always feel so calm and contented.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Xd9s2HTYYEM/VgHJ-rrJ1dI/AAAAAAAAEmU/7T5rXP-0VkI/s960/Photo%25252020150922223601070.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Xd9s2HTYYEM/VgHJ-rrJ1dI/AAAAAAAAEmU/7T5rXP-0VkI/s500/Photo%25252020150922223601070.jpg" id="blogsy-1442960540754.0747" class="alignnone" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> Wishing you all some quiet peaceful time. See you soon Millyx</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <br/><br/>MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-81394540804816590572015-06-02T00:56:00.001+01:002015-06-02T00:56:15.255+01:00The first day of June
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today in the rain my first red poppy burst open. There are twelve big fat buds to go. It was my highlight of today to see that flower as the rain lashed against the windows.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I took this photograph at 9pm last night. It was very dramatic with huge clouds building up ready for the stormy weather we experienced today.
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So the first day of June has certainly made its mark.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And what of May?</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I loved the blues of May. I came home with a little blue egg, a single bluebell and a little stem of violets. </div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> We had a lovely deep blue sky as the cherry blossom started to open.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> My fritillary crop was amazing and I did manage to draw some flowers which I am very pleased with because they didn't seem to last long. I am glad I walked down the garden each day and enjoyed their elegant shapes and marvelled at the patterns. It seems a long way off until I see them again, one my favourite flowers.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> I picked some flowers from the garden and placed them on a sheet of paper. I used to do this each year and put them into my flower press. I guess I draw them instead.</p>
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<div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;">I have been seeing so many of these patterns on the leaves. It took a while to discover who was making them but I found out eventually with a bit of research. I love seeing them just as I see the silvery snail tracks on paths and along the stone walls. </div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> And another thing keeping me busy is the Lords and Ladies. They seemed to be growing everywhere and guess what, the wet weather has totally devastated them. Hopefully I can still find some good specimens that grow on to form the berries. I have been drawing in sepia ink with a dip in pen and captured some lovely specimens.</p>
<div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;">Talking of sepia, it reminds me of my beautiful hare drawings on the linen fabric For Peony and Sage. I made my friend her birthday present in May using this fabric. She was delighted with not one</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> But two Hare cushions. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> I am particularly pleased with how popular this fabric seems to be. I remember sitting drawing the two hares with a fine paint brush and little pot of sepia ink, this sitting hare and the leaping hare, producing my original drawings that became the beautiful fabric. </p>
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<div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;">It has been used by many people and I have seen cushions, lampshades, chairs, pin boards, bags, book covers, blinds and whatever people have made, my hare drawings always look amazing. </div>
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<p style="text-align: center;">At this time of bird nesting and eggs I was inspired to make myself a new tea towel. I carved the eggs and hand printed them onto a piece of fabric and sewed it into my tea towel. I love working like this, my original drawings and patterns carved into soft Lino and hand printed carefully by me, then sewing the teatowel and enjoying using it in my kitchen, an authentic piece of creativity. I recommend it to others, to know you made it. A simple and honest piece of work that you look at and be proud that You did it all.</p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My little sepia study of the violet. I have been working with a fine nib and sepia ink sat at the kitchen table and every so often taking a break and watching the birds in the garden. My usual drawing style, to capture every detail as I like to draw from something I found myself. I only ever draw by hand, every mark and every line slowly formed. </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It means I can recognise my own work, just like my hand writing it holds my signature. I know my own drawings, even if it was some time ago. It is simple really, when you spend time really drawing something it stays in your memory and you know it is truly your hand that created it.</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> The steam train passed through our village on Saturday. I left what I was doing and wandered down to the station to watch it. The oak leaf is part of a collection from the shore, it is going to take a while to finish and I was ready for a break so the train was a good excuse to pack up for the day. It seems my love of oak leaves continues. I like drawing them and to know my work is unique to me, no one will draw the oak leaves the same as my hand does.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> The train was lovely to watch as it made its way around the estuary and billowed smoke from the engine. A lovely moment as happy people looked out of the many carriages and waved as they passed by.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> And so the first of June will be the day the poppy burst and cheered up this gloomy grey day. Everything in the garden is growing so fast with all this rain.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hope you enjoyed seeing a little of what I have been doing during May.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thank you for your comments which I enjoy reading. Hope the sun is going to shines for us all in June. Millyx</p>
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MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-66721633533989008872015-04-30T23:20:00.002+01:002015-04-30T23:42:22.911+01:00A Nice Surprise
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<p style="text-align: center;"> I had a nice surprise earlier this month as I was the winner of this lovely pack of fabr<a href="http://janetclare.co.uk/blog/" target="_self" title=""></a>ic as a giveaway on <a href="http://janetclare.co.uk/blog/" target="_self" title="Janets blog">Janet's blog </a>. It is sea themed and named "More Hearty Good Wishes" by Janet Clare who makes gorgeous quilts and has a book with this same Title. Since receiving my prize I have been busy designing and making this little quilt. After finished the hand quilting and sewing on the borders it was finished and here it is photographed in the garden today.</p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And then after it was all complete I have my little seaside quilt to treasure.</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Guess what turned up in the room as I was sewing one day. It just came and sat on the tissue paper which was wrapped around the spare material. It opened its wings and flapped and fluttered on the window sill. I opened the window but it never left, it kept me company for several days. Perhaps a lucky charm. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> And the rainbows made me smile, as they magically shone on my quilt ,.....moments later gone.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Hope you enjoyed seeing my sewing. </p>
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MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-59508190038572610922015-04-07T19:03:00.002+01:002015-04-07T19:12:57.527+01:00Easter
<p style="text-align: center;"> The sun is out and it is a beautiful day. I have been in the garden and the birds are singing so loud, they are enjoying the day too. I hope you all had a lovely Easter.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I had a little display on my kitchen table. A jug of primroses I picked from the garden and some daffodils and my favourite coloured hyacinths called Woodstock. I made a new bag , featuring my hare drawing and the blackberry coloured spots from the peony and sage fabric. I spent all day Saturday making it and it was finished with the perfect coloured button I bought once on holiday. I always find my way into haberdashery shops and I buy bits and pieces, then one day it is just what I need after storing it for several years.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> When I had finished it I was really happy, I brought it downstairs to show the 'interested' husband. He actually likes me sewing, I am quiet for hours and hiding away with my sewing machine. Easter was the perfect time to make a hare bag.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> I have lots of flowers out in tubs and around the garden. The birthday present of 60 bulbs is looking and smelling wonderful. My sister planted them last November and on Sunday I picked her a bunch of the sweet smelling daffodils and told her how lovely they are. I have enjoyed watching them grow, the are just outside my kitchen window. Soon the pot of tulips will be out, another 60 bulbs all blooming, what a lovely present they have been. She also gave me the maroon hyacinths wrapped in brown paper.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Now for a tour of some of the flowers in my garden, all taken this afternoon.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Cowslips and the first camellia. Then a few snapshots of my snakehead fritillaries. They are growing at different stages, see the many colours, shades, Chequered patterns and some of them have appeared white ones.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> A secret little glimpse of a little chequered pattern of my own. This is the little mouse quilt I made with the elderberry dyed fabrics.</p>
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Last night we changed our clocks to British Summertime. I am looking forward to the longer evenings. I have been enjoying lots of late afternoon walks. It is such a lovely time to go just before the sun sets. All the birds are singing and high up in the trees the rooks are building their nests.</div>
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I like watching how the the colours change as the light fades. You see all the silhouettes of the trees against the evening sky and the nests are easily seen. And by the time we wander home the sun is setting.</div>
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Beautiful colours all soft and faded. A lovely way to end each day. It has been a mixture of sunshine, rainy days, windy blustery days and several days of cold frosty mornings. One morning during the week we woke to snow covering the landscape but it soon disappeared in the sunshine later in the day.</div>
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I am happy to say the first bright sunshine flowers have appeared along the hedgerows, the lesser Celandines. I picked a few and had fun capturing the flower and leaf in my square book. It began to curl up and the petals gave me some interesting shapes. I also have a large new pot of black Indian ink and so couldn't wait to use this too.</div>
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It so reminded me of my childhood, as we discovered if we liked butter, as we held a flower under our chin, the bright yellow glow always told us we did, an innocent game we played time after time.</div>
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I love the way the primroses appear too, from all the dead leaves and plants on the ground. I have noticed lots of them growing along the lanes and footpaths, the same places as when I was a young girl. I picked a single wild flower as I have this large clump growing in my own garden.</div>
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I have been drawing a bramble leaf with the tracks made by a mysterious insect. After some reading I have discovered it is a moth. These are the three finds I picked an a walk, I managed to paint the ivy leaf and the pencil sketch of the bramble leaf, and the primrose gave me that gentle sweet smell and glowed in the sunlight through my window.</div>
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I didn't hold back from collecting the fragments of China. I climbed into the field to look in a muddy river bed and scanned the ground for pieces which has come to the surface. I am thrilled at finding even the smallest blue patterned shape and sometimes patterns on both sides. I love discovering each and every fragment, left from broken objects from long ago. Another treasure was a little green glass marble from a bottle neck in the side of a hedge. I picked up the sycamore seeds at the same place, the photograph shows my finds all washed and sorted.</div>
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I never tire of drawing the sycamore and love the twin ones.</div>
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And this acorn cup, remnants of last autumn, the seeds sown for new life.</div>
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And that brings me to my beautiful snakehead fritillary. My first flower and buds of this year down at the bottom of my garden. They are growing so fast. I planted over a hundred new ones last November and I am so excited to watch them all flowering again this year. I picked one of the buds.</div>
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I sketched it in pencil and left it. Little by little I have started to paint it with the acrylic inks. My eyes only allow me a short session. So it all takes time but I am making progress. Last year I could not even attempt to draw anything, so I am so grateful I can this year. I just have to be patient.</div>
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And something else that has made me smile is seeing the first glimpses of several different ladybirds. When the sunshines I spot them in my garden and along the hedgerows. We counted five one day. This one was captured by the photographer. </div>
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So small but so beautiful. I have been making something small by printing and sewing using red fabric paint. It is a slow project as I am making very small stitches, I will keep it to share another time. </div>
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I will leave you with a dramatic looking sunset. Each day is different and I love to stop and take it all in. Before the sun sets today I am going to wrap up warm, then enjoy a very windy blustery walk around the village and make full use of our extra hour of daylight.</div>
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Hope you enjoyed seeing what I have been doing. Thank you for your comments. If you are visiting I would love to hear what you are doing, or just say hello. See you soon . Millyx</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As I started to draw these objects my mind thinks that I have saved them, rescued them from becoming specks to be blown by the wind or from being swept along with the water running down the sides of the road and into a drain. Who cares much for an empty snail shell so easily crushed under foot without a second thought. </div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They may not mean much to others but they do to me, they tell my story of a day, a memory which I want to keep.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I will leave you with the view outside. As the temperature dips we are keeping warm by the fire. I am going to start sketching my branch of berries and skeletal leaf.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What are you drawing ? I would love to hear why or how you choose your subjects to draw or paint. Hope you are all keeping warm.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank you for visiting and for the lovely comments, I enjoy reading them. It seems to take so long posting as my eyes do not like the computer. I hope you like seeing my first completed drawing of 2015, painted using acrylic inks.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sunday 18th January 2015 At. 4pm. See you soon . Millyx </div>
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MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-82541054796648856432014-12-22T19:34:00.001+00:002014-12-22T20:10:00.444+00:00A home at Christmas
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We went for a walk on Sunday and it felt so cold and damp and grey. The hedgerows are all neatly cropped and I only found this one holly berry on a mostly chewed up leaf. I brought it home in a bag with a bunch of ivy with clusters of their dark reddish berries.</div>
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<p> I put water in a big jar and placed my ivy inside, with ideas to decorate the house. And to my surprise not only did I have a red berry on the holly but a beautiful ladybird on the leaf. I was amazed to see it and marvelled at it's tiny form, an unexpected guest for Christmas. It was certainly a precious gift. Either way I suspect she was hiding in the ivy which was growing on a stone wall and found her way to my home.</p>
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<p> She was photographed and taken to my little ladybird hotel out in the garden. It is all the hollow stems from plants in the garden which I cut to size and put into a plant pot. I must have known we would have some guests because a few minutes later another ladybird appeared as I sorted out some dried seedheads I had collected a while ago and were in the jar I now needed for the ivy.</p>
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<p> So she has also gone to the ladybird hotel for Christmas. While I was outside I collected long branches of green ivy from my garden. I always like to decorate with natural plants. It just feels right. Each year I twist the ivy through the old picture frame and add it to the mantle piece and let it dangle amongst the lights. Each year out come my postcards bought from an art gallery I visited on a holiday, together with my collection of favourite cards. A few simple lights, two new white candles and the greenery and I have transformed our living room into a cosy home for our quiet days over the festive time. It is so quiet and peaceful I can hear my finger tapping as I write this. </p>
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<p> It is so dark and grey outside, it makes it seem even more cosy and warm. A warm fire as the wood burner glows.</p>
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<p> I have been painting on a piece of firewood, I couldn't resist having a go and to see if it would take the acrylic ink. I used this branch of red rosehips.</p>
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<p> And I have been painting a holly leaf postcard. I like the connection that this leaf was picked from my garden. I planted this variegated holly bush a few years ago in the garden and I am still waiting for it to grow bigger and be covered in berries. I used a berry I found on the shore.</p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Added another berry and then another. I was pleased with how it turned out.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As it has gone to a new home for Christmas, in New York, I hope it has arrived safely.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did this sketch of a seedhead with my homemade ink and a dip in pen to try it out. Over the holiday I am going to find the time to try and draw with all of my homemade berry inks. This one is a brown walnut ink. My friend in Wales has a walnut tree in her Garden, so I asked her to save the walnuts for me. My jar of ink seems to have changed to a much darker brown colour so I am looking forward to trying it again with the same subject of the cow parsley.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So one day I went for a walk to a place I know where the cow parsley grow and are untouched by the hedge cutters. I wandered down the footpath to see if the cowparsley was still there and how it looked. I was pleased to find some nice specimens. It is quite a lonely place and it was lovely to know a little robin was following us along the lane. It was singing in the tree and as I was standing watching it. The photographer managed to captured it.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I really love this photograph. It is little moments like this, magical moments I feel so grateful to experience and I want to share it.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So this is my Christmas Card to you all</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With thanks to the photographer, my husband, for all his encouragement, and help with his beautiful photographs for my blog posts. X</div>
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MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-19660959766565394002014-12-07T18:36:00.001+00:002014-12-07T19:00:15.405+00:00Expectation
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<p> Expectation. This was the title of a piece of art by Gustav Klimt. It was on the card my daughter sent to me for my birthday. She wrote some lovely words, lots of wishes for me and a message, " Go for all the things you want in life and don't worry what anyone else thinks".</p>
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<p> I wonder how I reached this milestone, looking back how quickly the years have passed. Then I realised how grateful I am to be healthy and live in a place I love and have so many good things in my life. </p>
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<p> Shortly after my birthday I realised I don't feel any different at all. It is just a number. I expect to carry on doing all the things I love to do and one of them is walking and seeing views like this. Last Sunday we walked across the Marshes and wandered along the board walk. The trees have shed their leaves and we were now able to see this nest, the expert believes it maybe a hawk's nest. If you need help, it is in the centre of picture.</p>
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<p>We walked through the marsh across the board walk and then along the footpaths. </p>
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<p>Everything has turned brown, the rusty bracken and leaves line the footpaths.</p>
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<p> The lovely big oak tree on the edge of the wood looking magnificent with it's out stretched branches. Every last leaf has dropped, making a thick carpet on the ground. </p>
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<p> The sun was bright and the views of the hills seemed so crisp and clear. As we wandered through the footpaths in the woods it felt so peaceful. Then a loud scream of a pheasant would break the silence. I stopped to look around and see toadstools and leaves of every colour. I loved the blackberry leaves, lots of beautiful spotted patterns and deep burgundy shades as they turn. They ended up being my choice of things to draw along with some rosehips I collected from that lovely day.</p>
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<p> I have been working on this all week, an hour here and there. It is painted in acrylic ink and a number three brush. I wanted to capture what I saw, the ways the edges of the leaves change colour to the deep shades of red, burgundy and the spotted shapes and patterns. They were once green leaves but to me so much more beautiful in this stage of decay.</p>
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<p> The first frosts have had a dramatic effect on the state of the rosehips, some black, others caved in and crumpled like a piece of paper.</p>
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<p> I was feeling hungry and took a snack out of my pocket. As I unwrapped my fruit and oats bar the sheep all came rushing towards the fence. I think the rustle of the paper and possibly the smell attracted them, I felt mean eating it with so many hungry eyes looking at me.</p>
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<p> Today is so grey and there are hailstones bashing against the windows and icy winds blowing off the shore. It is lovely to see the blue sky in these photographs from last Sunday. All taken by my husband.</p>
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<p> My finished page in my square book. And I will just share one of my birthday presents. The lovely stool with my hare drawings, made by Sally's Sporting seats, in the beautiful "Peony and Sage" linen fabric.</p>
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<p> Hope you enjoyed seeing my drawings. </p>
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<p>Hope you are all keeping warm. I am wearing my warm wool scarf and bird brooch. Sitting by the wood burner and feeling very cosy listening to the wind!</p>
<p>Expectation.....you weren't expecting a picture of me, where you?</p>
<p>Thank you for all the lovely comments that all of you write and send me by email, I really appreciate them and enjoy reading them. Hope there will be many many more years of Drawings from Nature. Millyx</p>
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MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-4430366220772890362014-11-24T17:59:00.001+00:002014-11-24T17:59:24.617+00:00Following the Tide.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-21Kj7lGGlqM/VHNwuSomyPI/AAAAAAAAD24/4mAvPR1fwt8/s960/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-21Kj7lGGlqM/VHNwuSomyPI/AAAAAAAAD24/4mAvPR1fwt8/s500/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964863.7107" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> I really love wandering along the shore and scanning the ground and the sand banks to see what I can find. Of course it reflects the time of year with so many wind blown natural objects all mixed up with the sea treasures. After a high tide I collected a bag of finds. It has taken me a long time to finally complete this in the wide landscape A3 sketch book.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dohd5MyH-RQ/VHNwyaR3QmI/AAAAAAAAD3A/s05hGJdP-JA/s960/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dohd5MyH-RQ/VHNwyaR3QmI/AAAAAAAAD3A/s05hGJdP-JA/s500/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964830.0686" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> A delicate piece of seaweed and a leaf, my hand armed with a fine sable brush as I slowly strive to capture them. The leaf was totally dry and curled up by the next morning and reminded me of why I am happy to spend the time meticulously recording all the detail. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ftWSBji_q7w/VHNw2O-GFNI/AAAAAAAAD3I/-D68Ll7TBCs/s960/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ftWSBji_q7w/VHNw2O-GFNI/AAAAAAAAD3I/-D68Ll7TBCs/s500/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964829.3618" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> Then I added the rusty brown seaweed with the fat bubbles and a black sycamore seed. They always fascinate me, how something so delicate can survive this environment. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-STSAM0c8-_c/VHNw6dK5sdI/AAAAAAAAD3Q/kla-W2gKvGw/s960/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title=""><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-STSAM0c8-_c/VHNw6dK5sdI/AAAAAAAAD3Q/kla-W2gKvGw/s500/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964818.4456" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> The second page links in with every red berry I found that day. They were in different states of repair, but I like to record that. No longer the perfect bright red berries they once were. Now damaged, wrinkled, some rotting and with blackened skins. But hopefully the tree has sown the seeds.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Npfj8cjC_w4/VHNw_GpLPFI/AAAAAAAAD3Y/CxX4_tr1oBY/s960/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Npfj8cjC_w4/VHNw_GpLPFI/AAAAAAAAD3Y/CxX4_tr1oBY/s500/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964872.2722" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F5nUzWKBRzg/VHNxD9Po30I/AAAAAAAAD3g/xipkIbNUIzc/s960/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F5nUzWKBRzg/VHNxD9Po30I/AAAAAAAAD3g/xipkIbNUIzc/s500/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964792.0964" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> The mussel shell with so many tints of pale colours was fun to try and capture. I remember picking it up from the muddy sand, half buried, my finger rubbing and poking the wet sand from out of the shell to see the inside. I am pleased to call it finished, a memory of that day.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v1FPUNLwSQc/VHNxH-n5xOI/AAAAAAAAD3o/F0C2E8EHSFw/s960/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v1FPUNLwSQc/VHNxH-n5xOI/AAAAAAAAD3o/F0C2E8EHSFw/s500/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964830.037" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p>Another walk on the shore last Saturday had me once again collecting some bits and pieces. The tide had just gone down, it was very very muddy. My footprints sunk down into the soft squelchy slippery sand. I found pretty pink shells, leaves and seaweeds in tiny pools of water. The sand was covered with rippled patterns and I became a child again, lost in the wonder of this place. It felt like every minute was precious in the fading light.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--z99PJkvuMM/VHNxM0cTIcI/AAAAAAAAD3w/XqQvzLG5cSE/s1024/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--z99PJkvuMM/VHNxM0cTIcI/AAAAAAAAD3w/XqQvzLG5cSE/s500/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964807.765" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lrOa5pvEphU/VHNxRZ-SxNI/AAAAAAAAD34/fqo2IsNNAUU/s960/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lrOa5pvEphU/VHNxRZ-SxNI/AAAAAAAAD34/fqo2IsNNAUU/s500/Photo%25252020141124175348.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964818.0244" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> Collecting treasures from the sand I am not sure what I have until I get home and wash and sort my bag of finds. Look at the colours and patterns of the bright pink feathery seaweed. Tiny pink shells and seeds and leaves scattered on the sand. I found different coloured mermaids purses and a papery thin Honesty seedhead. A piece of Seaweed covered in barnacles, a green twirling species I had not found before and so many blackened leaves.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-MTyKC1TzyFA/VHNxV6vWycI/AAAAAAAAD4A/9-nIohHkKyQ/s1024/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-MTyKC1TzyFA/VHNxV6vWycI/AAAAAAAAD4A/9-nIohHkKyQ/s500/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964872.827" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> We watched a fisherman with his young son pull three flukes from a line. The young boy was delighted with his fish, knee deep in mud and oblivious to the state of his clothes, having such a good time. The birds were also finding food from these mud flats. The geese were there and two white Egrets were an added bonus and added interest to the day. I guess I found food for my soul just being there.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MTsYTDpXJdE/VHNxbnLWpbI/AAAAAAAAD4I/wo9JAn0hWOk/s1024/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MTsYTDpXJdE/VHNxbnLWpbI/AAAAAAAAD4I/wo9JAn0hWOk/s500/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964847.7415" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> And as the sun sets so early in the afternoon we made our way home quietly enjoying the last light of the day.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_A4AzY5x9BA/VHNxgo6uEVI/AAAAAAAAD4Q/ixfAvc1JmtQ/s1024/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_A4AzY5x9BA/VHNxgo6uEVI/AAAAAAAAD4Q/ixfAvc1JmtQ/s500/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964836.2002" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xKPSiWMJk_o/VHNxla_-SiI/AAAAAAAAD4Y/ykH7EwreIMk/s1024/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xKPSiWMJk_o/VHNxla_-SiI/AAAAAAAAD4Y/ykH7EwreIMk/s500/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964869.9487" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> I washed my finds and sorted them out. It was the green seedweed that gently rocked and moved in the water that caught my eye and I immediately sketched it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-P-YnQyYO9oc/VHNxpNQ-RCI/AAAAAAAAD4g/KDbEOKELEGU/s960/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-P-YnQyYO9oc/VHNxpNQ-RCI/AAAAAAAAD4g/KDbEOKELEGU/s500/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964848.538" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nPob0so_jWc/VHNxtHtffJI/AAAAAAAAD4o/hIf4fb3C1Pc/s960/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nPob0so_jWc/VHNxtHtffJI/AAAAAAAAD4o/hIf4fb3C1Pc/s500/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964855.6458" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p>I managed to start the painting of it that same night and added more on Sunday trying to capture what I saw. Almost finished now.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-QUQBwzFQyI4/VHNxxbBIVAI/AAAAAAAAD4w/obGeF_8okpk/s960/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-QUQBwzFQyI4/VHNxxbBIVAI/AAAAAAAAD4w/obGeF_8okpk/s500/Photo%25252020141124175349.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964874.271" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> </p><p> The seashore holds such fascination. Every day it changes and we have been lucky to have such mild weather for this time of the year. Beautiful days and amazing coloured sunsets, there for us to gaze at, before we are quickly plunged into darkness around 4pm. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-C7sz9fz0qio/VHNx0flrD6I/AAAAAAAAD44/A1SzcCDySzw/s960/Photo%25252020141124175350.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-C7sz9fz0qio/VHNx0flrD6I/AAAAAAAAD44/A1SzcCDySzw/s500/Photo%25252020141124175350.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964903.0212" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wd4EfnKzSFc/VHNx3srpt5I/AAAAAAAAD5A/rwYaHk5ejsM/s960/Photo%25252020141124175350.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wd4EfnKzSFc/VHNx3srpt5I/AAAAAAAAD5A/rwYaHk5ejsM/s500/Photo%25252020141124175350.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964830.518" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_wgyVLawAzc/VHNx6gD2feI/AAAAAAAAD5I/ONNDzaSMkXw/s960/Photo%25252020141124175350.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_wgyVLawAzc/VHNx6gD2feI/AAAAAAAAD5I/ONNDzaSMkXw/s500/Photo%25252020141124175350.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964823.1096" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-kUGJzoboP0Q/VHNx-KaaetI/AAAAAAAAD5Q/hCwbn7YT-qs/s960/Photo%25252020141124175350.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-kUGJzoboP0Q/VHNx-KaaetI/AAAAAAAAD5Q/hCwbn7YT-qs/s500/Photo%25252020141124175350.jpg" id="blogsy-1416851964876.1157" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div><p> I hope you enjoyed visiting and seeing my seashore drawings and photographs. A big thank you for the comments which I love to read. See you soon. Millyx</p><p>The lovely Saturday afternoon mud flat images were taken by my husband and the rest by me on my iPad. Thank you for visiting. Hope you are still enjoying some fine sunny days. Anita , seen the weather in Michigan, deep snow! Keep warm. </p><p> </p><p> </p>MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-69979645810590403692014-11-08T19:52:00.001+00:002014-11-08T19:52:43.171+00:00A Sloe Time!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0SDK5QefaBI/VF5zZMkzWjI/AAAAAAAAD0o/kdsiyYWNq2A/s960/Photo%25252020141108194728.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0SDK5QefaBI/VF5zZMkzWjI/AAAAAAAAD0o/kdsiyYWNq2A/s500/Photo%25252020141108194728.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361580.793" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> Along the hedgerows in the village I watched for the sloe berries each time we went for a walk. Usually they are few and far between but this year they seem to be the best I have ever seen them. Of course I went picking them with ideas of using them to try out my ink and dye experimenting. I had a little helper who had such a great time helping me. Chloe was on half term.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kCDIfyrWXqM/VF5zfTtfQBI/AAAAAAAAD0w/lGVzur_0_mY/s960/Photo%25252020141108194728.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kCDIfyrWXqM/VF5zfTtfQBI/AAAAAAAAD0w/lGVzur_0_mY/s500/Photo%25252020141108194728.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361591.9365" class="" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> I used the pressure cooker and cooked them and then added the cotton fabric. Her little five year old face was loving this, adding fabric to the berries. And then we wound some threads and wool and dropped them into the pot and created a pink spoon. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-piIg1VyMjho/VF5zlbgUQKI/AAAAAAAAD04/RdjFjNM56Ms/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-piIg1VyMjho/VF5zlbgUQKI/AAAAAAAAD04/RdjFjNM56Ms/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361577.0776" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> I wanted to show her how it changed from white to pink and so we washed some out and let it dry. The rest was left for a few hours and coloured a deeper shade. Sloe berries are normally used by the locals for sloe gin for the festive season. They are a dry bitter fruit with a large stone, it seemed more exciting to use the coloured juice for this and an exciting little hand helped stir the pot and watch.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-y6z-CAiShHA/VF5zqY5V4cI/AAAAAAAAD1A/hv0IGI2IuQE/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-y6z-CAiShHA/VF5zqY5V4cI/AAAAAAAAD1A/hv0IGI2IuQE/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361561.1472" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> I loved it just as much, threads and fabric to be creative with. I am not an expert, I do not know how the colour will last.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gqAEPcd_1AE/VF5zvvRicLI/AAAAAAAAD1I/2US2DxHrhHw/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gqAEPcd_1AE/VF5zvvRicLI/AAAAAAAAD1I/2US2DxHrhHw/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361542.2764" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> I hung it in the garden to dry. And I just kept one little branch to record the sloes in my square book. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-sPT0PSIfkt8/VF5zyiLvQaI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/dyuqFJgvMrY/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-sPT0PSIfkt8/VF5zyiLvQaI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/dyuqFJgvMrY/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361553.4463" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fHcXevAyII0/VF5z05FZSII/AAAAAAAAD1Y/wPKPOpiTexI/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fHcXevAyII0/VF5z05FZSII/AAAAAAAAD1Y/wPKPOpiTexI/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361575.7395" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> I couldn't really paint the fine details, too hard on my eyes. I like it as it is, a detailed pencil study with a couple of coloured berries. My head was full of ideas as I decided on a little project using the fabric.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-RZjrRMRVwFQ/VF5z5PV5IxI/AAAAAAAAD1g/vFqtqa3miv0/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-RZjrRMRVwFQ/VF5z5PV5IxI/AAAAAAAAD1g/vFqtqa3miv0/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361552.2139" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> Oh look at that colour, threads came out gorgeous variegated shades of the colour. And yes I kept some juice, not sure it is ink but I can see how it looks on paper. You can also see the stones and my branch I used for my drawing.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-M43IRtnt5CE/VF5z9UW59yI/AAAAAAAAD1o/CXsi26t5Lx8/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-M43IRtnt5CE/VF5z9UW59yI/AAAAAAAAD1o/CXsi26t5Lx8/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361554.019" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5xtJkytf-o0/VF50Bf23USI/AAAAAAAAD1w/7OEbJBqOIXU/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5xtJkytf-o0/VF50Bf23USI/AAAAAAAAD1w/7OEbJBqOIXU/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361597.4033" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> I made a little patchwork, hand sewn with my sloe fabric. It is a miniature quilt for a tiny bed for a little mouse. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GBryfE9fIsM/VF50HXvXzxI/AAAAAAAAD14/ORwTnsOXFEU/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GBryfE9fIsM/VF50HXvXzxI/AAAAAAAAD14/ORwTnsOXFEU/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361637.8672" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> It is all stuffed and finished. Now I am working on an Elderberry patchwork in the wonderful rich colour I made from the elderberries. Just wish I had made about ten times more, hence the little projects.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yjJ_K9BwrFY/VF50MjaPI7I/AAAAAAAAD2A/lWMwDkOBQWI/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yjJ_K9BwrFY/VF50MjaPI7I/AAAAAAAAD2A/lWMwDkOBQWI/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361546.435" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> This is so nice I wish I was tiny and it could be on my bed. Maybe next year if there is an amazing crop I might be picking buckets full. See the different shades that came out of the pot, just tiny pieces of fabric, but that makes it even more precious.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cCQ5Ru3Zkz0/VF50R0zhntI/AAAAAAAAD2I/oStU0HzpNyE/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cCQ5Ru3Zkz0/VF50R0zhntI/AAAAAAAAD2I/oStU0HzpNyE/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361570.3477" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"> My lovely drawing of the hare on my pin cushion. I love working like this, things I have made. I collected the berries and dyed the fabric and stitched and made something that means something to me. Things made from my village. The slow and careful way of drawing and making, it makes me feel happy, it feels like me. I will share them again when they are finished.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9ZNo-rPsk0M/VF50VRDySsI/AAAAAAAAD2Q/kZnG4xRgF6g/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9ZNo-rPsk0M/VF50VRDySsI/AAAAAAAAD2Q/kZnG4xRgF6g/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361606.7595" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;">Testing the sloe juice with a paintbrush straight from the pot. It actually changed to blue more like the skin colour. See below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SDTB4t7NCNY/VF50ZHlcB5I/AAAAAAAAD2Y/8LXv8W4TJ68/s960/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SDTB4t7NCNY/VF50ZHlcB5I/AAAAAAAAD2Y/8LXv8W4TJ68/s500/Photo%25252020141108194729.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361607.9902" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> Hope you enjoyed seeing a little of what I have been up to. I have some seashore walks to tell you about and some drawings of my found objects. More about that next time. I am enjoying sewing on these cooler days. as we have had our first frosts. The huge bright moon brings the high tides and lots of treasures for me to find on the shore. I have lots to draw, days fly by.</p><p>I want to leave you with this early morning sight, a rainbow and the sky the colour of my sloe fabric. I hung out of the bedroom to take it and as I was wearing my pyjamas jumped back into my warm bed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b1xyxLuXg1w/VF50eysUB6I/AAAAAAAAD2g/pVIJvpvYNZ8/s960/Photo%25252020141108194730.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b1xyxLuXg1w/VF50eysUB6I/AAAAAAAAD2g/pVIJvpvYNZ8/s500/Photo%25252020141108194730.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361560.421" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The products of the day. We had a little Pom Pom making competition and Chloe aged 5 won with her huge yellow one. Mine was the same colour as the sloe dye, so I put it in </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-83hwbamvI-k/VF50h58ciNI/AAAAAAAAD2o/WgK6X9x9IRU/s960/Photo%25252020141108194730.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-83hwbamvI-k/VF50h58ciNI/AAAAAAAAD2o/WgK6X9x9IRU/s500/Photo%25252020141108194730.jpg" id="blogsy-1415476361622.5413" class="aligncenter" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><p> Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoyed seeing my little projects. As always thank you for the lovely comments which I do love to read. Please stop and say hello if you are visiting and tell me what you are making. Bye for now...Millyx</p><p> </p>MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-66214199247923945052014-09-28T23:14:00.001+01:002014-09-28T23:14:40.701+01:00Blackberry Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OaL0Y-tJ3Ec/VCiGhRYxtxI/AAAAAAAADvY/n1pDuKIFfRI/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OaL0Y-tJ3Ec/VCiGhRYxtxI/AAAAAAAADvY/n1pDuKIFfRI/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478886.4458" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> The hedgerows are full of blackberries, it has been such a good year for these lovely fruits. We went for a long walk and I took the chance to gather some before it is too late because they are ripening and will soon be past their best. They really do taste so delicious. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jUrqcnNQ_iQ/VCiGlWsng_I/AAAAAAAADvg/0S0ecOdmfs0/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jUrqcnNQ_iQ/VCiGlWsng_I/AAAAAAAADvg/0S0ecOdmfs0/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478824.6013" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> A pretty butterfly sitting in the sunshine.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HrGF5eOLA_Q/VCiGs5UP3iI/AAAAAAAADvo/O9B5QGY7exg/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HrGF5eOLA_Q/VCiGs5UP3iI/AAAAAAAADvo/O9B5QGY7exg/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478907.9226" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> They were not the only berries to be growing along the hedgerows. It is also time for all my favourite red berries. Guess what I am busy drawing.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1PYoyzrQ80g/VCiGzGVUiKI/AAAAAAAADvw/dmRCTlNZG6U/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1PYoyzrQ80g/VCiGzGVUiKI/AAAAAAAADvw/dmRCTlNZG6U/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478869.874" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> Look at the glossy blackberries.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1NgBFqK94ss/VCiG4N4KY9I/AAAAAAAADv4/T14diA9hfPY/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1NgBFqK94ss/VCiG4N4KY9I/AAAAAAAADv4/T14diA9hfPY/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478916.968" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> The wild rosehips.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-InOmAhBrYD4/VCiG9yeEn8I/AAAAAAAADwA/mAgp1J9fppc/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-InOmAhBrYD4/VCiG9yeEn8I/AAAAAAAADwA/mAgp1J9fppc/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478890.0076" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> And perhaps my true favourites are the Hawthorne berries hanging so delicate from the branches.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jVqx8DlrLn8/VCiHD18DMcI/AAAAAAAADwI/iR-pS5xTZeQ/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jVqx8DlrLn8/VCiHD18DMcI/AAAAAAAADwI/iR-pS5xTZeQ/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478899.2996" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> Maybe the last of the Lords and Ladies, don't worry Because I have been busy capturing some in my zig zag book. This fallen one came home with me.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hO98srsI5FU/VCiHJxrU6mI/AAAAAAAADwQ/447rRnx0JTA/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hO98srsI5FU/VCiHJxrU6mI/AAAAAAAADwQ/447rRnx0JTA/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478892.1135" class="" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> While I collected blackberries and took photographs someone kindly carried my bag with drinks and snacks and my iPad. He patiently waited for me as I stopped every two minutes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZSHJ3qL6kkg/VCiHN5zhG8I/AAAAAAAADwY/Gy4Zrer8eZQ/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZSHJ3qL6kkg/VCiHN5zhG8I/AAAAAAAADwY/Gy4Zrer8eZQ/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478834.508" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-FPB9gQ7ewz4/VCiHRXtGiZI/AAAAAAAADwg/0h5hYZ__cYA/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-FPB9gQ7ewz4/VCiHRXtGiZI/AAAAAAAADwg/0h5hYZ__cYA/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478884.101" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> And even helped pick some blackberries.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RFAH2TRp_2A/VCiHVO1pCjI/AAAAAAAADwo/IdCFJze4Ssg/s960/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RFAH2TRp_2A/VCiHVO1pCjI/AAAAAAAADwo/IdCFJze4Ssg/s500/Photo%25252020140928230637.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478877.9553" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> As we walk higher we stopped for a rest and to look down at the village and the shore. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zXDwcwdNOA4/VCiHY0ivZfI/AAAAAAAADww/JroHIQSC_z0/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zXDwcwdNOA4/VCiHY0ivZfI/AAAAAAAADww/JroHIQSC_z0/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478916.612" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> I love this view and the memories from my childhood days. We would climb this gate into the field and run down the steep hill and scream as we ran so fast and couldn't stop until we crashed into the gate at the bottom of the hill. It always makes me smile when I remember those days. Sometimes it was full of cows and calves and they would chase after us and make us run even faster.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O_Vej62Nbqo/VCiHcKSIAII/AAAAAAAADw4/nJf0dcgmzPY/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O_Vej62Nbqo/VCiHcKSIAII/AAAAAAAADw4/nJf0dcgmzPY/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478931.89" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> I love the seedheads of the cow parsley, another favourite subject to draw.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--Dhm2lTJOAs/VCiHgGnO5yI/AAAAAAAADxA/ljLH7CnXJO0/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--Dhm2lTJOAs/VCiHgGnO5yI/AAAAAAAADxA/ljLH7CnXJO0/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478842.9126" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> You can see the Lakeland hills over the stone wall looking to the North.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-tgH9TCgOCII/VCiHkUOoIMI/AAAAAAAADxI/BN5AYPjJRXc/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-tgH9TCgOCII/VCiHkUOoIMI/AAAAAAAADxI/BN5AYPjJRXc/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478856.7104" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> The views of the quarry, where the stone is being reclaimed by nature, wild flowers and self seeded trees and bushes grow on the old waste stone tipped into large mounds forming this landscape on the edge of the moors.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-43xVimrnvog/VCiHnGElNOI/AAAAAAAADxQ/HyvG0hAGBj0/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-43xVimrnvog/VCiHnGElNOI/AAAAAAAADxQ/HyvG0hAGBj0/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478890.9407" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> The sky starts to look dark and we head for home.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u3g5BaVaQUI/VCiHsaVQMdI/AAAAAAAADxY/MNNmxLMH1z4/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u3g5BaVaQUI/VCiHsaVQMdI/AAAAAAAADxY/MNNmxLMH1z4/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478879.6946" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> Plenty of blackberries.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YdFRNNdojCA/VCiHwkC88cI/AAAAAAAADxg/M1xbTCq5feg/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YdFRNNdojCA/VCiHwkC88cI/AAAAAAAADxg/M1xbTCq5feg/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478916.4463" class="alignnone" alt="" width="500" height="375"></a></div><p> And my other objects collected along the way.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RIsdM_581Rg/VCiH3I7ul2I/AAAAAAAADxo/ngLEiXrKkqA/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RIsdM_581Rg/VCiH3I7ul2I/AAAAAAAADxo/ngLEiXrKkqA/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478941.5322" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> I made some jam, a great success. It really tastes lovely on toast.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yejrZ22fCw0/VCiH7rO0_JI/AAAAAAAADxw/XZoRr6258M4/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yejrZ22fCw0/VCiH7rO0_JI/AAAAAAAADxw/XZoRr6258M4/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478892.3418" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> And an apple and blackberry cake.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dwMNFRZLVx8/VCiIAAeoyCI/AAAAAAAADx4/jdh-iOs9JqY/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dwMNFRZLVx8/VCiIAAeoyCI/AAAAAAAADx4/jdh-iOs9JqY/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478943.5688" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> A pretty jar of my jam I gave for a present. A handmade gift with my printed tag and A little card with my drawing of a basket of blackberries I did some years ago.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b26kZ8gakRg/VCiIEuqJvYI/AAAAAAAADyA/8Rxnn4DeOls/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b26kZ8gakRg/VCiIEuqJvYI/AAAAAAAADyA/8Rxnn4DeOls/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478880.6348" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> And this week I enjoyed recording a pencil drawing of a blackberry.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-oWrEkjZNkDo/VCiIIOtlMtI/AAAAAAAADyI/oDA1wpCCU_c/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-oWrEkjZNkDo/VCiIIOtlMtI/AAAAAAAADyI/oDA1wpCCU_c/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478897.6807" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> And I was really pleased with this delicate painting in my square book of a single blackberry. I used my acrylic inks and a very fine paint brush.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s6ne32dIvjQ/VCiILTuTGsI/AAAAAAAADyQ/bZaXi9kHD5c/s960/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s6ne32dIvjQ/VCiILTuTGsI/AAAAAAAADyQ/bZaXi9kHD5c/s500/Photo%25252020140928230638.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478910.0234" class="alignnone" alt="" width="375" height="500"></a></div><p> We have been so lucky with fine sunny days and a very warm September. Plenty of walks and so much inspiration along the hedgerows.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-qG4ooFyOkcM/VCiIQZQuidI/AAAAAAAADyY/4us51ha7TF0/s960/Photo%25252020140928230639.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-qG4ooFyOkcM/VCiIQZQuidI/AAAAAAAADyY/4us51ha7TF0/s500/Photo%25252020140928230639.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478884.3506" class="alignnone" width="375" height="500" alt=""></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;">On our way home we go past the cows in the field. Through the old kissing gate and along the cart track leads up to where we have just been, with the moors high above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9pz5WdVMGTg/VCiITTLqifI/AAAAAAAADyg/8CJ2ida1yMI/s960/Photo%25252020140928230639.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9pz5WdVMGTg/VCiITTLqifI/AAAAAAAADyg/8CJ2ida1yMI/s500/Photo%25252020140928230639.jpg" id="blogsy-1411942478947.6045" class="alignnone" width="500" height="375" alt=""></a></div><p> Thank you for your comments which I always enjoy reading. I will leave you with this lovely sky I captured last night. Back to my red berries which I am drawing in my square book. I will share with you next time. Hope you enjoyed the walk and seeing what I have been doing. Millyx</p><p> </p><p> </p>MILLYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701141335185294744noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977564569973321926.post-3550830929301132522014-09-14T19:24:00.001+01:002014-09-14T19:44:43.454+01:00September Walk on the Moors
<p style="text-align: center;"> This week we have seen some high tides along with the full moon.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> We decided to go for a walk on the moors and I packed a picnic and took my iPad to take photographs to show you where we went. Lots of people comment they enjoy seeing the countryside and views of where I live. So we started by walking uphill on the narrow road which leads to the moors.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> It is a steep road and has a deep drop on one side with a fast flowing river and this waterfall, it flows straight down to the sea. We are going to follow it's path to where it begins, it's source. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> This is the point where we left the road and the shelter of the <span style="line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center;">Hedgerows and trees behind on this warm day and begin to enter the moors.</span></p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My husband gets to carry the bag. Whilst I have fun using my iPad and photograph this beautiful Butterfly.</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> I captured both the butterfly and then the harebells on the banking of the old cart track.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> The slate quarry is across the moor and every road and field around here is built from the local grey stone. The ground has many large boulders and you will see them in the river too, all shapes and sizes.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> All hand built many years ago from the stone, some of the walls are now buckled and collapsing. Can you see them to the right as they weave their patterns up and over and across the steep hills.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> A glance back to the sea from our high vantage point.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> The river twists and curls on it's journey.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> We cross the river over the ancient footbridge made from huge slabs of stone with a layer of sods and turf over the bridge. We used to play here as children and walk underneath the bridge as we paddled in the river. The boys would build a little dam in the summer time. We saw several small trout dart in the clear fresh water. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> The pretty yellow gorse grows here alongside the purple heather. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Someone found another black feather for me. The collecting begins!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Some glimpses of the river and how it bends and twists in this valley.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> A single tree on the whole of the moor, not another one in sight. We can see the wind mills now. I am not a fan of these twelve structures and there are plans for replacing them with much larger and higher ones.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Time for a sit down and something to eat and drink. A favourite place by the big stone.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Memories as I look at the carved initials of two teenagers, many many years ago, who married and have shared their lives living here.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> The heather is a lovely shade of purple at this time of the year.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Food tastes so good outdoors after a long walk. And then we turn around to head in the direction we came from. Back down the valley.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> When we were young we picked the bilberries from the moor, not quite ready as they ripen to a dark blue.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> Plenty of wild life up here. We saw a buzzard and a kestrel hawk. We disturbed a flock of pheasants. More feathers found here. And I saw a newt and this black beetle.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> And feeling hot and a little weary I couldn't resist a paddle and a rest with my feet in the cool refreshing water. Whilst someone made a mini dam. Simple pleasures.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> We had a lovely day out. The weather has been so nice and warm here, we are making the most of it. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend.</p>
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