Shadow Shot Sunday

Shadow doll.

Wellies! Bought at the jumble sale today for 25p a pair! A bargain. I got seven pairs altogether. They are for Forest School as spares. I also bought this mallet for 50p. It doesn't look much but will be most useful for banging in stakes should my home made one break. I have to rope off the area where we do Forest School using blue rope which the children are not allowed to cross!

Early morning shadow in the old mirror in the bedroom. That's not dust in the mirror (honestly!) it is old and speckled. I think it is more of a shadow than a reflection.

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Fit Friday

Sports day today-no pictures-I was too busy running up and down with small children! The downside to the modern world and all its gadgetry is that I will appear huffing and puffing on numerous phone shot videos forever! Or at least until it all breaks which I suppose it will one day. It is also fit Friday as it is the third day in a row that I have cycled to work! I feel so virtuous and I really enjoyed it too. I still have not got the car back but whenever it returns I am still going to try to cycle to work at least till the end of term. The weather has made it a real pleasure but I don't mind cycling in the rain either. I will see. Most of my fads last about three weeks. If I get through the three week barrier I might buy myself some new cycling shorts as the ones I have got are old and worn out.

Here are a few sights from the way home today.

A poor old abandoned building with a poor old abandoned for sale sign. The buddleia has found a happy home though. I love the way buddleia grows anywhere. Any crack in the pavement, side of a building or neglected roof. I planted one in the nursery garden but it did not survive. I was astounded! One has taken root in my garden and I am really pleased.

This is a little nursery which has been there for years and always looks lovely. It is on a busy corner, traffic wise, and really brightens things up. This view is a little limited but I took it because I like their broom display. I need a new broom but did not want to carry it on the bike!

This beautiful tiled sign is on Herbert Road. The shop is now a Barbers and before that was a really good second hand clothes shop. I wonder how many other lives it has had in between being a Grocers and Provision Merchants and now?

Have a lovely weekend!

Bits and Pieces

This week has been so hot that I have been lying in the garden on my old lounger every evening, apart from today when I went to an eye test appointment that is, in fact, next Thursday! It is lovely out there as I have a beautiful pale yellow/green tree (Robinia Pseudo Acacia) which provides the perfect kind of dappled shade. On Tuesday I managed to do my first actual Forest School session. I was so relieved as it went really well. I have been getting ready for it for so long that I was really nervous in case it was a complete flop! But we had lots of fun, rolling down the hill, climbing the log, using the new pressy down flasks (a popular novelty!) and wearing our boots. If the photo below will enlarge you can see Chloe's comment that wearing her boots was her favourite thing!

I have been doodling away recently and here are some of those doodles. I really would like to run over a rainbow!

These ladies came from some lovely paper I bought to wrap Andy's birthday present.

I often use my journal for writing to do lists. I seem to be more likely to do them if they have been fun to make. I have nearly done all of these things!

I was going to do some more on top of this page but I quite liked it as it is.

I have finished my 'Air' doll apart from attaching her balloons and tonight have quickly started a couple more-just the drawing the body part. I am branching out into four legged creatures and am going to make a horse. It will be a bit of a panto horse I think!This is one of the tissue paper experiment pages.

If you are interested in the little giveaway in the post below, please comment there. Thanks!

A Box of Girls...

...as opposed to a box of chocolates! They are in a box which was a box of chocolates I didn't want to throw away as I liked the little frames. It lay around for ages on my desk before inspiration struck and I drew some little faces to fill the squares. And yes I have made a mosaic out of it!

Anyway, I wanted to have a giveaway as I have only had one before, not counting OWOH. So this is my little offering. If anyone reading would like a box of girls, complete with little leafy drawings, then please leave a comment. If no one wants it that's fine, I will keep it myself!

I will draw a name on 8th July which is my Mum's birthday so that seems a good day to do so!

Scream!

A little while ago Sonia gave me this award. Thanks Sonia!
Spiders make me scream along with loud noises and being made jump! I am more quiet than that when reading all my favourite blogs, but they might make me go ooh, aah or oh!
As usual with awards I never know who to pass it on to for fear of someone being left out, so here is today's crafty solution. (By the way-do you know what CRAFT syndrome is? I had never heard that until yesterday and then someone at work said it today-synchronicity!)

If you are reading and you would like to scream along with me and Sonia, then please take this Gourd Queen (I love that name!) and pass her on to whoever makes you scream!

Visit this link for a funny scary spider story! I love googling phrases!

Storm Mosaic

Splish Splosh!

BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos

Thanks Kendalee for telling me where to go to do a mosaic! I was not sure how to upload it and chose share and it gave me the title and link but not the picture. In the end I just saved it in my photos and did it like that. Big huge labs looks great though and was easy to use.
The pictures are of a new technique(new to me anyway!) I saw on a children's programme a while ago and thought looked good. You rip or cut tissue paper and arrange it as you like on the page, then just wet it and the colour leaks out, creating beautiful effects. The main problem I have with it is that most tissue paper these days seems to be colourfast! I was really excited therefore, to finally find some that leaked its colour nicely! It is fun and fast and must have lots of possibilities.