The Village

‘The Village’

I am so excited about my new pencil illustrations, they seem to have a charm unlike my other work. I’m using a lovely warm off white paper which give the drawings a lovely soft look.

You can find ‘The Village’ and other pencil illustrations available in my Etsy store.

Enjoy!

xxx

Sunday Morning

Back in the swing of things creating daily paintings for you to enjoy

‘Sunday Morning’ now available on Ebay.

xxx

Back From France!

 

We’ve been in France all last week for a Church mission trip! It’s been very exciting since this was my first time abroad and I’ve always wanted to go to France.  A dream come true!

I took plenty of pics so I could show you where we were and what we did.

This is Chateau Blanc in Thumeries, France. It’s a mission prayer house that is involved with various works and last week a team of us went to help maintain the building and grounds.

This is the view from our bedroom, which you can see in the first pic, it’s the turret at the top :D

This is the bed we were clearing on the first day, it was pretty overgrown so we got to work weeding and chopping and re-potting.

This is the view looking from the grounds towards the Chateau.

There was much work to do including re-pointing, painting, gardening and more. We all shared out the work and enjoyed the fellowship with each other. In the evenings we went for walks and chatted (there was no tv which was really nice actually!) I really enjoyed the slower pace of life and even though we were working hard every day I felt so much more peaceful than at home trying to do so many different things.

This trip has been great for me in so many ways but especially it’s made me realise even more how I need to get my life in balance – which I’m finding very hard to do! More creativity and less busyness + a slower pace!

How do you create balance? I’d love to hear your tips.

Join me tomorrow when I’ll be posting more info about our trip and more photos.

xxx

P.S Like the new look?

It's raining, it's pouring...

It's a warm and wet Sunday here in England so I'm enjoying some quiet time this afternoon after a busy morning helping out at Sunday School. The kids amaze me, they are so funny and love to sing and dance they help me to remember to lighten up and enjoy myself too, it's so easy to get bogged down with life and forget to have fun.

This afternoon I'm doing some crochet, I started on my first ripple blanket using Lucy's pattern. It's coming along great I'm on the second row, I think it will take me a very long time to complete this but it'll be so worth it. I'm going to use it for our bed. Currently our house is in the process of being completely overhauled so every room needs a makeover! We bought it like that ;) We do like a challenge. So this blanket is my attempt to start putting some love into our home and transform it into a beautiful vintage style country home :D I'll make sure to show you some pics sometime so you can see the transformation.

It just downpoured so I thought I would quickly grab a photo of my tomatoes to show you, these have been grown from seed. I'm really pleased with how they have turned out, not bad for a first attempt. My carrots aren't looking too hot though, they look like the tops have been eaten by slugs :( But I'm still hoping they will work out.

Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my podcast, I really enjoyed doing it so look out for another one soon.

I'm off to snuggle with Ellie. Have a great Sunday!

Afternoon Tea

'Afternoon Tea'

This weekend went by so  fast, but we had a great time. We've been tidying up the front garden and hubby has been working hard on the back landscaping. On Sunday we had church and in the evening we went round to my parents for a BBQ and they surprised me with this:

A sweet little set of vintage style mug, little tray and a matching coaster! I couldn't resist trying the whole thing out this afternoon with some lovely chocolate too lol.

In the spirit of 'afternoon tea' here is my latest painting available at my Etsy store.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, what did you do?

Sun, Sea and Great Company...

Sizewell Hall overlooking the sea.

We are back from a wonderful weekend away at Sizewell Hall with our Church. It was amazing and it was so great to get to know people more. I was amazed at how close to the sea we were, the view was breath taking.

I'm back refreshed and ready to create lot's more wonderful paintings for you!

In that spirit I am pleased to announce I  have added new prints to my shop and it is with great pleasure that the 'Glo Cakes' painting for Ange's Shop 4 a cause will now have a new home in the USA!  To continue fund raising for The Canadian Cancer Society I am offering 'Glo Cakes' as a print and 10% of each one sold will go to this great cause.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, what did you do?

Niki

xxx