I've been a busy bee, making these Georgian inspired eye charms. More of those in a moment though as I've also been messing about with coffee dyeing paper and making swirly patterns with watercolour pencils and oil pastels.
The coffee dyed paper were pages torn from a sketchpad, and took the colour nicely. I laid stencils over the pages as they were drying, and they took the imprint of the stencil patterns but only delicately. Perhaps I need to weigh them down a little next time. I watched this video while I was eating my bowl of porridge for breakfast, so had a go at making Kandinsky inspired pages afterwards.
These two won't win any artistic awards, but it was fun to play with colour and there is something genuinely pleasing and calming about just letting your thoughts go and making circles.
Now, for more of those lover's eye charms. So much fun to create these!
I'm planning on making a short YouTube video tomorrow showing the process, so I'm going to do more reading tonight about the history of the real Georgian love charms. It can't do any harm for me to actually sound like I know what I'm talking about, can it?!!
Before I go, here are four books to add to my dwindling To-Be-Read pile. All found for 50 pence each from the charity shop.
Each looks really enjoyable in their different ways.
And finally, here's a treat that the often-baffling YouTube algorhythm threw in my direction. A gentle little film about artists living by the River Thames. Hope you like it too.
Hello! And goodbye, at least for now. The blog's on hold for a little while as I'm easing myself into 2026 gradually. I'm still stitching and reading and enjoying life with Badger the cat. Even though he treats my sofa like a giant scratching post!
Here's Badger, looking like the little cutie-pie he is. He's settled in so well, is absurdly affectionate and eats anything and everything I put in his food bowl. The only fault I can find is that he likes to sharpen his claws on the side of my sofa. This is despite having two scratching posts, one of which is part of a cat tower that's taller than I am! I may have to try trimming his claws, but I don't know how Badger will react to that. Anyway, expect to see more photos of him, so sorry in advance for any of you who aren't feline fans. Apart from gazing in admiration at the cat I've continued to experiment with embroidery. I really can't decide whether this mainly pink piece of stitching is something I like or just a dog's dinner of a mess. This is another embroidery I've been stitching. Frankly, at the moment it looks like it should be lobbed straight into the bin. I'd painted with a mix of watercolour pa...
The days are marching by at record speed, and I've finally - possibly - bought all the presents I need to buy and written all the Christmas cards I need to send. I decided not to put up a full-sized tree this year as I'm convinced Badger the cat would simply view it as a climbing frame, and I'd find it toppled on a daily basis. Instead, there's a small green tree, and a simple white twiggy one that has lots of vintage baubles dangling from it. To be honest, I prefer the twiggy one, so the green tree might be permanently retired from now on. I've not gone crazy with the decorations, but there are various strings of fairy lights that look so pretty when they're lit. I have - between internet shopping and baking mince pies - made a little fishy pin cushion, decorated with seed stitches, French knots, chain stitch and stem stitch. I'm on the look-out for grey tweedy material to make another fish as I think that'd look better than plain ...
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