Jessie Lilac Blog

These are my first ever peas I've grown, so please don't laugh at how few there are! All the other plants were eaten by a slug army. I should have known better and next time I will, you can be sure of that! Here's a watercolour painting I did of a guitar playing bird, even the plants are dancing to the lovely birdsong! It's approx. 29 x 21cm in size and painted with the best quality materials. I'm selling it on Ebay for next to nothing and the bids end on sunday 4th July at 13:59 BST, so here's a chance to pick up my paintings for very little, I just want them to go to loving homes :) CLICK HERE if you think you might have a loving home!

This must have been the hottest weekend we've had for a long time, I'm not sure if I feel envy or pity for those at Glastonbury Festival! Ok...envy. Anyway, I'd recently heard a local garden that had become open to the public and what a find! It's called Hanham Court . It has to be a little piece of heaven. Like most photos these don't do it justice but I am drooling over those delskinnybums...oops I mean delphiniums. Some welcome water. I can only dream..............!

The moon is the earth's natural satellite and don't I just know it today! I've really felt the force of the full moon affecting everything I've been trying to do! But I did end up making this painting so all's well that ends well. Thankyou for bearing with me through my ordeal, it was so reassuriong to hear from you and to know I'm still functioning in the Bloggesphere. I do hope my older comments from you come back from the stratosphere, they are very precious to me. Thankyou for your patience :)

Hello! I'm trying to stay cheerful because I've changed my blog name which I was quite excited about but somewhere along the line all my past lovely comments from you that were previously there have disappeared! Does anyone know what's happened? Did I delete them by accident? I didn't think I did, could anyone be kind enough to check your followers list too to see if I'm still there? Thankyou so much, I'm in a bit of a pickle!xx :(

First of all I must apologise for getting behind with my blog visiting. I seem to run out of time to do everything at the moment. I'm coming to see you as soon as I can because I can't wait any longer to see what you've been up to! The days have been long and sunny but I haven't even had the time to sit here in my garden! The Bluebird of Happiness While you're here, can I mention I'm having a sale of my newest paintings on Ebay . Please have a look if you've a moment, they're all painted on good quality paper with lovely bright watercolours! The Bluebird of Happiness (above) is one of them. You may have noticed, I love to paint birds and because of this I've been thinking about a change in Blog name. The Purple Treebird. What do you think?

We spent the weekend in London visiting my eldest daughter. Here are my eldest and youngest together. They're very similar in personality and get on really well despite the ~h u g e ~ gap in ages! Back home, yesterday was sunny and rose fragranced. and before I pop off to tackle this week's Illustration Friday drawing, here's one of the life drawings I did on friday :)

Here's my illustration for Illustration Friday . I thought about water but finally decided ripples in the hair would be fun to do!