Giraffes

In typical last minute minnie fashion, today my daughter and I finally got around to making and submitting our giraffes to the One Million Giraffes Project

Obviously hers is far superior to mine, she's terribly excited about seeing it online :) Bless!

And so here it is again :)

And here is mine, 

If you want to be a part of this lovely idea, get your skates on and submit your giraffe today as it looks like the target of a million is going to be reached very, very soon :)

Hope everyone's having a lovely giraffey sort of a week, hugs xxx

Happy Birthday

Well this week I have been mainly working on birthday presents, my partner's mothers and my stepfathers, and here is the first of my efforts completed :)

So Happy Birthday Janet!

On another note, this week I heard about something called the Cut-Click Mailart Exhibition

You can read all about this exciting project here

Me being me, I decided at absolutely the last second that I wanted to send something and I really wasn't convinced that it would make it there on time!

So imagine how excited I was to see it being hung :) See if you can spot it here !

I hope everyone is having as exciting a weekend as I am xxxx

Long Time No See

What a terrible blogger I am! Shame, shame, shame on me!  I have been neglecting things for far too long.  I do have a reason ... or perhaps it's just an excuse :)  

My children and I have spent a delightful several weeks in the South of France at my parents house, it was incredibly hot, at one point ot was 37 degrees! (I'm Scottish for goodness sake, we're not built to withstand such intense heat!) and beautifully verdant and lush and full of life.  We experienced some amazingly theatrical thunder and lightning, many fantastic evenings full of operatic frogs and crickets, woodpeckers and owls, long lazy days during which my most strenuous activity was swinging the hammock back and forth and of course many, many wonderful French markets, including some night ones.

So maybe it was extreme laziness on my part, but I like to think that when your surrounded by such gorgeousness it's probably a good thing not to spend too much time sitting indoors in front of a computer.  Well that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it :)

I did do quite a bit of drawing while we were away though, so I wasn't totally lazy.  I came across this wonderful idea by the super talented ambird and started working my way diligently through the list, amazingly I got to number 6 before my good intentions fizzled out as they always do with these things, I'm not sure I'm satisfied enough with anything I produced to want to share it though!

I also found this contest which I decided I'd like to enter at the last possible second so here is my very rushed and not at all completed to my satisfaction entry :)

As always I wish that I had had considerably more time to work on it but c'est la vie!

Also as always I have many, many ideas in the pipeline and I'm trying to work on them but August seems to be the month that family choose to descend on us so I'm not sure I'll have much time to devote to art over the next few weeks.

I hope you're all having a super lovely summer so far, been anywhere nice? xxx