Exmouth Sunshine - Blogalong Day 7

Seaside today...

Feet in the sand....
 

Devon ice cream....

Me and my beautiful girl...

Arty pic....

Collecting stones and shells...

....(I keep them in random places indoors and in my garden, don't know why!)...

Listening to Alanis Morissette for the first time in ages on the way home...

Just a nice day :)
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Butterflies and Moths - Blogalong With Effy 6

There have been so many butterflies this year. I'm loving it. We had a beautiful peacock butterfly make itself at home on my son's window. I tried to take some pictures but with the reflections and the evening sun I just couldn't capture the vibrant colours. Then I instagrammed it and created an equally pretty version, nothing like how it actually looked!

A few days later this tiger moth decided to spend the entire day on the playroom wall...

As I am seeing so many, I remembered to do the Big Butterfly Count. Today I've counted 7 small whites. I really enjoy doing this, it really makes me take notice of how much wildlife there is in my small town centre garden. We are also experiencing a lot of bees visiting us most days and the collared doves sit in the tree behind us almost constantly. 

http://www.bigbutterflycount.org/

 I took part in Pixie Campbell's 7 journeys recently.

http://pixiecampbell.com/7journeys

 It was an intense week of journey work and I learned a lot from taking the time to participate. Even though time was not on my side, this just had to come out onto paper...

...butterflies do seem to be fluttering around everywhere at the moment and I'm enjoying them. 

Blogalong Day 5

Today has been about...,

Time in my garden.

Finishing Effy's 'Artful Shamanism' Lifebook lesson.

Visit and Italian meal out with family and receiving this beautiful dog bowl as a gift from a family member who does not like pets. I like it but am a bit bemused!?

Ending my day with a cup of tea, a lovely view of the stars and a lapful of cats. 

 

 

 

 

Lifebook Catchup - Blogalong Day 4

I don't do 'everything happens for a reason' , I'm more of a 'shit happens' type person. BUT! I love that some quite difficult times, plans not turning out quite as planned seem to have led here, to randomly discovering Lifebook at just the right time and learning to do art again. 

Here's some of my recent lessons, in no particular order....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blogalong Day 3

I seem to be spending a lot more time reading at the moment. I still have many books on the go at once, it's just how I am. I went through a phase of being really down on myself for this but I'm very over that now because, thanks to listing them on goodreads, I realised I do actually finish them! There is no problem! I am the same with craft projects, artwork etc and I'm embracing it :)

So, I will probably soon start on one of these books that got added to the 'to read' pile after a wander around the local charity shops earlier this week whilst carrying on with what is on my kindle and trying to keep up with the Artful Readers Club!

 

Blogalong Day 2

Today is our day off. My boys are at their respite care unit for the day and I'm sat here having a quiet cup of coffee with paint all over my hands. Unfortunately not the creative type! I've spent the afternoon damp-sealing the conservatory in preparation for painting it.

 I have so much decorating to get done that I have written out a list which breaks it into small tasks in the hope that it will be a little less overwhelming! I feel like with the extra days off we are getting, I might finally get to grips with it. 

Gaby went off to the flower show with my mum while I was making these plans. They both entered some of the creative categories and both got second places :) Gaby's entry was for the celebrity cupcake class. She chose Gerard Way, and came up with these....

I think they're fab and they taste good too :-)

Blogalong With Effy

I'm going to try and join in with Effy Wild's challenge to blog every day throughout August. It's school holidays and things are pretty full on for us (2 of my 3 children have severe and non-verbal autism), so I will probably miss a few days here and there amid the chaos! I blog here mainly for me, as a reminder that I can and do do other things alongside caring. Usually, art, knitting, reading etc.  It seems like a good idea to make a point of checking in here through this month.  

Today has actually been quiet and uneventful which is good :) I finished reading 'Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself' by Lissa Rankin. It makes a lot of sense and I  need to take note! Yoga classes booked for next week is a start. I think I'd like to try reflexology again too because I'm feeling all my stress in my feet!

Well I tried all of yesterday evening to post this and it just wouldn't publish so I am a day behind already!