Doodle Day Doodle - Clock

Doodle Day Doodle - Dragon flies?

Subject this week, butterflies and dragonflies




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Doodle Day Doodle

New Growth





Doodle Day Doodle

Doodle Day Doodle - Dragon

Doodle Day Blog

working hard

...unfortunately that is working hard at work!! not much time for anything else ayt the moment. I hope to make up some little stitch kits for myself to take to work. The idea being that I can work on them during my lunch hour, maybe sitting in the sun somewhere. The biggest problem is that our staff room doesn't have windows and if I go for a walk I end up spending money on silly stuff.

My little birds still keep turning up in my doodles, must find a proper place for them :-)


Next weekend is looking really busy already with a meeting of the spinners, dyers, weavers guild on Saturday and a motorcycle show on Sunday.

Have a good week ( and weekend) everyone.

Still here....just

I think I survived my first week back at work, good job it was only 4 days! So out of touch with everything coupled with a new building and new staff. Consequently I have been simply collapsing in a heap each night instead of being at all creative. Except for Wednesday night when I managed to play catch up with a bit of bobbin lace and gossip at Stitched Up in Sherwood, Nottingham.

So today, whilst Ian is out doing biker type things with Biker Ted, I spent a little time playing. Firstly, I completed the lace so it now just needs tying off and mounting (just???)



I've made six quick doodle key fobs ( awaiting the metal bits)



and I've made my first felted bowl using wool tops, a balloon and a pair of tights. This is just a tryout to see how the method works so the holes are allowed. Next attempt will probably be with natural coloured fleece and maybe stitch to finish...watch this space.



I hear the sound of ice clinking in glass ( in my imagination) and my bottle of Schnapps calling so have a great weekend everyone.

Just for fun

Hi, since I'm still surrounded by the decorators and the embellisher is still on the table, I decided to have a play just for the fun of it.
This is my doodle for Doodle Day blog



and this is the embellisher version



not my usual style but fun to do and pretty quick:-) ( picture a little darker than actual item)

Update- no heating still, engineer trying to find a fan for the boiler but the newly decorated hallway looks great!!

What If? lace experiment continues

remember my little fish doodle, well now he is part way to being a lace pattern.I have some lovely big chunky bobbins which make life a lot easier and plenty of time so if I have to rest after just 5 mins then so be it.

two more little creatures from my sketchbook





I managed a small amout of work on this then decided that I had been away from it for too long ( last touched beginning of December) so tied it off and cleared the opillow.

escaping from the sketchbook

this one is making a bid for freedom!!

just noticed my counter is showing 99 countries...how cool is that!!

Banished

from the house........Ian has been busy tearing up carpet, rubbing down paint work etc on our stairs and landing so my workroom now looks like this:
So I have been exploring Nottingham between cups of coffee, well it is rather cold out there! On Friday I called in at the Nottingham Society of Artists where John M Pooler was continuing his exhibition of oil, watercolours and drawings. The watercolours of Italy bought back memories of our motorcycle trips there.
I went on to visit Nottingham Castle which is no longer a castle but an art gallery.

long winter shadows

This fellow bought a smile to my face as the sign on the door clearly read private, staff only but obviously held a supply of nuts just for him!

I also wandered up to look at the Sky Mirror by the artist Anish Kapoor which is situated outside the Nottingham Playhouse.

Today I visited the New Art Exchange to view the exhibition 'Strength of Feeling'by Sokari Douglas Camp
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This little creature also appeared in my sketchbook.

Doodling

Bumblevee left this comment on my last post:

Maybe you could try some little things "lefty" ...for kicks.... but, don't fret if you can't... just play at it for a bit and see what happens. Seems to me that some art classes suggest using the other hand to see what can be done.... and some interesting things often happen...

So I picked up my pen and doodled:

I think these little fellows could be fun :-)