Hayley- one of my fave pics (age 3)

Well, this time I am trying to get into a bit of watercolour painting. I tend to use mainly acrylic paints when I do have a go, but I have dabbled in watercolours before....I have to say I am pretty rusty! anyway, I thought I would paint one of my fave photos of Hayley that my Dad took years ago, I think it really captured her shyness at the time.

Heres my finished product, used watercolour paints, black artline pen and my fave derwent coloured pencils. Took about an hour all up, but next time I will use thicker paper as I just used normal paper so the watercolour paints ended up making the paper go a little out of shape and lumpy. I tried taking a colour copy of it hoping the bumps wouldnt be as noticable it did help a little...(note to self) anyhoo, Hayley loved it, thats the main thing! I will keep at it....

 My watercolour/coloured pencil/artline pen version:

Dads photo:

Love, love painting, definately going to try and commit more time to it. My happy place, well one of them anyway.

bye for now,

Deahne xo

Happy New Year!

2014! wow, where did 2013 go? crazy hey....

I hope to be extra creative this year and get out my paints/pencils again and get busy. Finding time for myself is not always easy, as most Mums/parents know...and then sometimes its nice to spend that precious time reading a good book or just watching mindless tv or a movie. Anyhoo, thats my intention.....we'll see how I go hehehe.

We all start the new year with the best intentions, I guess sticking to any resolutions is the hard part...

We had a great Christmas! the kiddies were spoilt rotten, Santa was very generous and so was family, lots of thoughtful, loving gifts. We are very blessed. It was a nice relaxing few days of eating, drinking and sharing time with our nearest and dearest.

All the decos are back, packed away for next Christmas. sigh. One thing I did want to add....my 10 year old daughter Hayley made some lovely decorations all on her own accord. Thought I should add them in as well, even though we have now finished Chrissy.

She had been online and next thing I know she was creating a lovely paper snowflake....it looked great! so I asked her if she would be happy to make a few more so we could hang them in the loungeroom. They turned out really well, I was very impressed with her efforts.
Here they are below. What a creative little chicky we have....

Here is Hayley making the snowflakes...step by step.

square piece of paper folded into a triangle....

Cut towards spine (fold) 3 or more times...

 folding in, without creasing and attaching with a little tape, turning paper over for each fold.

(She stuck them together with a little stickytape, this was the easiest option for her and still effective...)
Then we hung them with a little cotton, easy, but still pretty. Can try different sizes too, or any paper for that matter.

BTW while I am on the subject of my clever Hayley...check out this Christmas fascinator she made for herself....

(We got the idea from Pinterest, then Hayley went around and sourced different things/bits she could use to make herself one. She hopes to be a designer one day....I think she is off to a good start!)

Thats all for now, have a few plans on the backburner...will keep you posted.

Have a very happy new year from my family to yours!

Deahne xo