One Lovely Blog Award

How thrilling- Kim has given me my first award this year! You really should visit her blog, because she does deserve it :)

As with most awards, they want you to pass it on to others that you feel are deserving. In this case, there are 7 others to gift :) So here I go, in nor particular order...

1. The Inspiring Breezy at A Bowl of Moss and Pebbles
2. The ever so talented Lin at View from the Oak.
3. The very creative Margaret at Resurrection Fern.
4. The delightful Mary at Across the Pond.
5. The inventive Julie at Little Cotton Rabbits.
6. ALL the ladies at Catholic Cuisine, who make LIFE beautiful!
7. And Geninne- creator of some of the loveliest journal pages you've seen :)

These ladies are all very creative, and sit in my blogroll, I thought I'd share their pages with you, because I think you will like them all :)

Thanks once more to the lovely Kim for giving this to me, and those of you I nominated- enjoy!

apple and clementines

apple and clementines
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Prismacolor Pencils

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Continuing my crusade into the world of coloured pencils :) I am going to be working through a book on it, but I like messing with them now anyway ;)

Chicken...

Saw this chicken in the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalogue- and had to draw it. The photo reminded me of Roz Stendahl's State Fair pictures... that made it irrisistible :)

You'll notice the different papers give different effects with the prismacolor coloured pencils- I like the grey Canson Mi-teintes better than the watercolour paper for pencils!!

Frosty Robin

EDM Challenge #204: Draw Something Frosty. The weather here in Central Virginia has not been precisely co-operative as far as frosty things go, yet it has not been cold enough for frosty drinks either ;) So when this little guy appeared in one of my favourite magazines (Country Living UK Edition) and was sitting on a frosty twig, I knew he'd be the perfect subject.
The English robins are quite different from their American counterparts. They are smaller (about the size of a sparrow), and very terratorial, defending their territories from intruders - they'll even attack red rags in spring!

Seed Catalogues

Seed Catalogues
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Just thought I'd share some of the mail that has been arriving in my mailbox recently :)
These catalogues are quite delightful to browse through when the weather is wintery :)
I love to use them to dream about the possibilities for the summer :D