Jessie Lilac Blog

It's not too long since we had the big celebration of my brother's wedding and today, it's the turn of Youngest Daughter turning 19! As you can see from the photos above, we planted an acorn when she was born and as it's continued to grow throughout the years, as has she! It's always been known as 'Carenza's Oak'. It's far bigger than she is these days and hopefully will continue to get much bigger! I mentioned in my last post that I've started to make paintings outside my art journal. All three of these are now available in my Etsy shop . So here's the first one I finished.  It's called ' The Wishing Tree ' and is a mix of acrylic paint, pens, inks and some lovely iridescent paint. If you wish, click here to see more details. The Wishing Tree The next one is a small painting called ' Cottage in the Forest '. While I was painting this I'm sure I must have been thinking about Eldest Son's recent...

As you might have seen from my last post, I recently visited the isle of Skye. The shop above was north of the island, standing alone in quite a remote place. I was drawn by the woolly loveliness inside but to my surprise the lady in the shop was from where we live, over 600 miles south! She'd moved up there a few years ago. I was tempted by their wonderful array of naturally dyed wool and handmade buttons and cards. Not sure what I'm going to do with these yet but I'm getting a whole lotta pleasure just getting them out of the bag and day-dreaming about their future. ;) A little highland cow picture made from the local wool. I love that gorgeous russet colour! It had been dyed using the natural colours from madder and onion skins. I had to buy some for myself. :) Aren't these ceramic buttons beautiful? I'm going to have to knit something blue for them now aren't I? Talking of which, I've nearly finished the purple cardigan...

I have a large collection of buttons,  most of them have had a couple of incarnations already. A lot of them are many years older than me! I was looking for some buttons for the jacket I'm making. It's almost done, like my painting, it's been on hold for a while because I've been away from home over the school holidays and haven't been able to sit and do anything that involves concentrating. I woke this morning wondering how I'm going to get back into painting again after such a long break and what do you think arrived first thing? Ta daaaa! My long awaited book written and illustrated by  Suzi Blu . What a lovely treat to start the day! :) Happy weekend everyone! xx