A little birdie

 nother offering from my more recent bird pictures:

Lucky Girl!

oday, I am a lucky girl.

The postie arrived with well taped up box and I opened it to find my prize for the Advent Christmas Challenge:

Gypsy Dancer made this delightful soap bowl and two sets of chunky ceramic buttons for me. What a great surprise, I had forgotten all about it and wasn't sure what would turn up, but it's just so nice to get a hand crafted present; it has really made my day.

The colours are my favourites, so I suspect that these have been selected especially. Check out her Art of Notions shop on Etsy if you like these- she also makes 'yarn bowls' if you are of the knitterly persuasion.

Knit Love, Love, Love!

he first round of this year's Kit Love Sock Club has arrived.

I've been sitting on putting pictures up for a while so that everyone could get theirs. Alice has had her own yarn spun and hand dyed it all. It's called Sokkusu-X, a lovely cashmere mix and it's heavenly; squishy yet firm and soft. Deluxe!

 I'm absolutely in love with the colours. They are a perfect balance of a crushed berry

 purple with a touch of muted gold and a splash of grey....gorgeous! The colour way is 'Corallina' and I have to decide whether I can make it into the allotted sock pattern or save it for something else...I'm not sure I can slip it into a shoe....we'll see.

So, it was off to the swift and ball winder and I am glad to report that it wound like a dream into the most

delightful ball of colour.......I love this club!

Experiments

I've been having a little play around with clay and thought I might share one of the experiments. This is a ceramic tile at around A4 size made out of impressed, glazed and fired clay on which I then experimented with image transfer for the blue pattern and the bird using acrylic matte medium

Swedish Swap

When I came home today the postie had been and amongst the pile of letters was a large parcel filled with a brilliant array of Swedish stamps

and inside a pile of pink packages:

Which turned out to be my swap parcel from the lovely 'Sandykins' in Ravelry's Knit Love group. I have been a very lucky girl and was absolutely over the moon with the contents. They are not all photographed together because moments after the unwrapping was done my daughter was running off with things....it's the last I've seen of the Ysolda bear for sure!

My absolutely favourite, was the skein of Wollmeise (how brilliant?) and the Spina Di Pesce pattern by Yarnissima....WOW!

Lots and lots of singing and dancing round over this swap parcel and a big thanks to Sandykins.

Chicken

hicken!

It's been a while since I put up any of my artwork so I started to put some up the other day and then after a conversation with a friend I was promted to post this one.

It's a mixed media piece and photo's don't really demonstrate the surfaces involved, lots of paint, print, acrylic medium etc on a gesso ground.

In Flight

his little bird caught my eye in my studio and I thought I'd share him with you: