Share a little something

"Sail on the Clyde" by Emma S Davis

I found this image in a book I am reading at the moment and wanted to share it with you. The artist Emma S. Davis was born in Paisley (the town where I now live) and she went to Glasgow School of Art, (the same art school I went to, I started there the year Emma graduated!)

I think her work is beautiful, rich layers of texture and she captures landscapes that I am familiar with in such a colourful and positive way.

I couldn't find a website for Davis's work but here is a link to more of her work and other talented Scots!

I am still plodding away with the paper work and there are piles and piles of it to get through, but I am getting there. I am still keeping focused and sticking to my three things, well almost. I have started sneeking in a bit of sewing at bedtime, to shut my mind down and I'm having so much fun, photos are on the way I promise. Last night I started a new piece of cloth and I'm kind of doodling on cloth with thread if that makes any sense. A few months ago I started noting down proverbs and I'm going to incorporate them or use them as a base for some new work. So far my favourite is

"home is where the heart is"

what's your favourite proverb?

x

Early this morning

I have been up for hours, sitting at the table at my front room window working on a rush project for my Mum. She popped by last night and asked if I could re do an old product flyer for her company who are attending a big trade show next week. I have been helping her with these for years, back in the day before laptops, digital comeras and photoshop I used to draw all the products and type words on top. They took so much longer to do but between myself, my little bro (who is now a graphic designer!) and my Mum we redid or created many many sheets. Now things are so much easier and I can do so much more and much more quickly. So I worked into the wee hours and was perched back here at 7.45 this morning and I'm nearly finished. I am working on changes that are needed as the request come in.

As I was sitting here this morning I looked out of the window to my little blossoming garden and saw the beautiful glistening rain drops catching the petals of my tulips, and I decided I had to capture them!

Sometimes it is all about noticing the little things.

x

I have a plan....

Things are going well over hear in my comfortable spot in blogland. I have been sticking to my 3 main objectives and am seeing results in all areas, hoorah!I am getting there with book keeping, I should have mine done for to it my target date and maybe one other set.

The excercise regime is going well too, it is getting slightly easier each time I do it and I will have toned abs in next to no time. In all honesty it is still the sparkley stars which are keeping me going, I know, I am such a big kid. I have treated my self to it on DVD, all this old fashioned rewinding is taking up too much valuable time.

The Artists Way group with Suziblu is going really well too. I have been reading and writing and am on day 8 of the 12 week course. In an effort to keep me focused on the book keeping I had said to my self that all making would have to be put on hold. I know my self too well and will get engulfed by a new and exciting design and not want to go back to job in hand. But I have been finding it quite hard, so got the thread box out again the other night and have been doing little bird pictures. The one above has a little border round it which I will stitch tonight.

So it has been kind of strange working through this Artists Way book, which is looking at all areas of creativity and our perceptions of it and I have chosen to start it at a time when I have to side step from my own creativity!

I have a little pile of sewing to share with you but I'll finished them off first.

x

Another apology

Dear friends,

I am so sorry for abandoning you again. My excuses are endless, but the main reasons for the huge time gap has been a little bit self discovery, taxes and being a rock for friends in need.

I haven't blogged for over a month and feel totally out of the loop, but in all honesty I had no spare energy to give to my blog. It has been a strange four weeks which on one hand has flown by and the other some days felt like they were never going to end.

One of my topics for self discovery has been my inability to stick at anything. My list book is full of un-checked-off jobs, unfinished projects and my journal full of ideas which I don't see through. Things have now come to a head and I need to get my life and my messy head sorted out. I am fed up with loose ends dangling around and have been using the last few weeks to start to get things sorted out.

1. Taxes - going to have them finished and off to my accountant by end of April.

2. Excercise - have started doing my beloved Beverly Callard video again. I have been putting off starting any excercise for sooo long because I never do it more than 3 times. But I dusted off this old video which I used to do religiously and am starting afresh. I did it four times last week and have made myself a record sheet, so that I can put sparkly stars on the days I do it!

3. I have joined Suzi Blu's Artist Way ning group. I am really excitied about this as I have started the course about 4 times before and never made it past week 3. I now feel ready to commit and see where the journey takes me.

I have put all the other things I need to get done on the back burner for just now. I want to concentrate on these three things for the next 17 days and then I'll see where I am headed. Maybe that has been where I have been going wrong in the past, pilling on too much almost setting my self up to fail.

Heres to new beginnings!