'Trust Me'

We went to the dump the other day and got rid of rubbish and recycling and of course its only polite that I should help them out and take a little something off their hands too!

So check out Binnys new bike!

 'Trust Me' was coming to stay so I set him a little project...

Pimp My Ride Kiddie Style

Spray cans out, he chose purple ...Honest!!!

Painting a pretty basket for the front to collect treasures on her travels...

Woop woop, how beautiful is this xxxx

Thanks 'Trust Me'...what else do you have up your sleeve???....

Extreme Makeover Shanty Edition!  the old wall was looking a bit tired after 3 years

It said 'Bo' who is 'Trust Me's son

So out with the old and in with a new bright look to match the new witches garden!!  ( coming soon!)

Purples and greens to match the Lady Cave

The colours are amazing and I will plant some lavender underneath, so the purple can glow!!!

We also hung some purple gypsy bunting too..eww sooo pretty!

So what else do you wanna do today 'Trust Me' ?

Seems Binny has grown herself a westie mullet hairdoo so its time for her first hair cut!

Just the man to do it, we let her wash the dishes to keep her relatively still!! haha yeah right!

My little pixie girl xxx

Thanks 'Trust Me', what an awesome few days xxx

Any other friends want to come and stay!!!

Creative Everyday Body Show

Creative Everyday subject for January is 'Body'

So I decided to go on a hunt in a 1km radius from my house and photograph every friend an neighbour who has a tattoo.....and this is the result..

Thankyou to all my friends who participated, and especially my family in this last one xxx

Creative Everyday, Creative Always xxx

Duck Duck Duck

Ohh what treasures, ohh what treats, My mum brought me something, it does not tweet....

layered in feathers, bulging with down, big flappy feet and a cute little frown

These are my new duckies, to feed every day, to follow me around and have a good play...

two boys and two girls so more there will be, lone child no more, just my animals and me xxx

Quack Quack Quack xxx

Paper Moon Exhibition Preview

Just a snippet for this week as I am super frustrated with my... what shall I call it?? hhhmmm....Shit camera!!

I cant quite capture the jars, well I cant capture them at all actually haha!  new camera next week ohh joy!

On with the show!

All the art is mainly from paper, indian ink, gold leafing and natures treasures

I guess the theme is black and gold with a bit of white flung in....

'click to enlarge'

these are 3D books to either rest on  a table or be hung on wall

All the pages below are framed...they are indian ink and gold leafing

Now these are the jars that I cannot photograph gggrrr.  but they all have different scenes in them

The one slight success I had!

This circus tent is for the birdcage lamp I am working on at the moment.

They are lamps made from cages with scenes of paper inside.

My floor

These working photos are taken by my darling friend Becky...xxx

Im making a dragon fly jar

Drawing the girl for the jar

I will try to update each week so that all pieces are previewed before the show

Thanks for taking a look

Sheree xxx

Plums..Ghouls..and Magical Fools

Ive had the loveliest afternoon.

We went to visit friends down the road and see how the house makeover was going, we take a walk around the yard looking at all the old fruit trees. Lets pick some plums!

The afternoon light was beautiful so we snuck through the gate and went for a walk.  Out of the grass appeared a path of broken beauty, smashed memories made into a beckoning road

Where did it lead???  What adventure was it taking us on ??? Who had walked here before us....

Across the rickity fenced bridge, falling to its death from a lack of loving hands

An erie place, it feels like we have travelled to the Bayou.  Munchy dont mind, she plays in the fresh cold water throwing bits and bobs under the stunning afternoon sky..but whats that we see....

Its a house, an old abandoned shack sitting silently all alone on the edge of the erie water...

Who can you see in the window???  The reflections are very spooky indeed, if reflections is what they are!! Eeekkk!

Private Property signs always work so well dont you think???

How many feet have travelled through this door, how many mice are now using it to get back to their cosy nests after fishing in the river for a family feast....

Sssshhhh as we whisper through the magic key hole....

"We think its time to go now house and leave you in peace...bless..

So what was I doing before I got side tracked???  ahhh yes plums, a yummy bowl of plums, far too nice to just eat, these have to be processed with love into something we can savour all year..

Off to the garden to pick some memory sharpening Rosemary, mmmm the smell makes me want to eat potatoes and lamb on a cold night..

Here is the recipe I chose

Chopped plums, a very time consuming but meditative task..

Dreamy colourful ingredients...

Brown sugar jar on a stainless steel bench.  I adore this photo x

I went back in time and got some authentic kiwi suzy scales, I love them xxx

Spices for the muslin bag

All dressed up and ready to party!

Pure clean glass jars....

The loved up plum chutney, now to make some labels...

I made crisp white labels by printing onto sticker sheets then cutting around the words.

Voila, cant wait to eat it with some cheese and meat mmmmm yummy yummy!

xxx