TWEET TWEET, not the type thats #Trending

I surely hope these birds that I had spotted at London's National History Museum weren't real stuffed birds, despite what was being TWEETED in my ear.........my inspiration for painting my own birdies was drawn from this exhibition (1 year on....better late than never)

STEVENSON SQUARE

i spent this weekend helping my brother-in-law in his new chic little coffee shop in the up and coming, artistic town of Stevenson square in Manchester.
next door to the coffee shop was the most magnificent art store (H.Blyth & Co.) which naturally i spent too long in and came out spending a mini fortune!
but alas! my purse was not ready to go back into my bag as i spotted yet another art store across the street!
..."art store" is a little short for what this shop really was....it was an arts, crafts, book, haberdashery, photo, model and gift store!

live forever....

i couldn't bare to throw out this beautiful bouquet of flowers, so i wrapped ribbon around the stems and hung them upside down in my dry, warm utility cupboard to dry....
1 week later, they are crisp dry sitting in my vase, still holding their beautiful colour!

megan

domesticated goddess....or plain mess!

im no athena (greek goddess) but the other day i did feel a bit like a DOMESTICATED goddess!
in the space of a day, i cooked, baked cranberry and orange short cake cookies, decorated my bathroom, customised some shoes....done some 'engine work' on my car and even found some old fabric which i turned into a luscious cushion cover!!!

in the name of love.....

therapeutic doodling....even if it is on the base of my feet (but the below isn't....im only a size 5!)

paint me pretty!

Im a fiend for fashion illustrations.
i especially like the one kelly smith has created using graphite pencils, photo montage and watercolours.

below are a selection of my fashion illustrations using mixed media.

reprocess

london cheek