Weird but wonderful..!!!

I,ve been in my element tonight, combining two of my favourite things, painting and Christmas... I did warn you all the other day that I was on a mission to get you all painting..!!! So here's one of the workshops in the next brochure. Awww...don't you just love it..???

I,ve always had a thing about snowmen and about 5 years ago I used to spend every evening painting and creating them, I think I can now paint them in my sleep, lmao. Bezzie Su has put in a request for one to go with the trees on her front room wall. Hey , I 've just had a cracking idea. I can paint all four walls, she can get her hubby, the gorgeous How, a new red suit..!!!, and we could turn it into a grotto...Sorted..lol. Please form an orderly queue...

Some of you are panicking already at the thought of painting them. You will be fine honest, trust me, I have faith in you all..!! And don't worry if you cant draw, I've done it all for you. So there you go, no excuses left, have you...???

This journal page was done on the beach. I had stuck down the image, and the way she was posing made me want to do a page about emerging from a sleep, or re awakening from a chrysalis into a Butterfly. As I was wondering what to write an young Italian couple asked me if I would mind taking their photograph, so I duly obliged. They packed up their stuff and headed back indoors. As they were walking away the girl bent down and picked something up from the sand, turned and ran back to me. This is for your writing book, she said, and handed me a glittery plastic butterfly..??? Perfect for the page I was doing, how weird was that..??? Of all the things to find on an Egyptian beach, a glittery butterfly is the last thing you would expect, isn't it. It made me feel as though I was in the perfect place for me at that time, and that someone was letting me know they were watching over me.

Enjoy xx