Jessie Lilac Blog

On a walk down a country lane, Something purple caught my eye. You might already know that my favourite colour is purple,  it really was quite beautiful.  I'd love to be one of those people who know all the names of everything I see in the wild, every flower, every bird, every tree. I'd like an App to be invented that could do this, wouldn't you? Not the Google Image Search with its outrageous suggestions that are almost never like the picture I put in the search box! So until that App gets invented, does anyone know what the wild flower in my photo is called? :) **UPDATE** It's periwinkle! Thankyou kind people! :) ♡ ✶ ♡ ✶ ♡ ✶  ♡ ✶ ♡ ✶ ♡ ✶ I've been addicted to making colourful crocheted blankets over the past few months. I upload them to Ravelry so that I have some kind of record of what I've made. I've just popped over there to have a look to see how many and it's six (so far!) Here's one I made a f...

I showed you my latest painting 'Spring Magic' at the end of  this post and the original mixed media painting on canvas board is now for sale on Etsy. I just thought you might like to see it now that the design's in my Society6 shop too. :) It's also available as a tote bag or a clock, a greetings card and even as a framed or unframed print! Has the Spring magic worked for you yet? ;) ♪ *•.¸¸¸.•*¨¨*•.¸¸¸.•*• ♪ ¸.•*¨¨*•.¸¸¸.•*• ♪ Spring Magic is featured in 2 Etsy Tresuries ~  YaY thankyou! :) https://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjEyNDQ4MnwyNzI1OTUyMzkw/spring-is-in-the-air https://www.etsy.com/treasury/MzIwNDgzNDF8MjcyMzM5MTM2Nw/everything-revolves-around-her It's Friday and the weekend beckons. Let's hope this horrible smog clears and we get some sunshine! Have a good one. :) xx

Take an old chest of drawers that is on its last legs, glue the parts together that have broken and give it a new lease of life with some old paint you find in the shed. Never mind that the lid is rusted on, you can pick the bits of rust out of the paint before you begin. No one will ever know, unless you tell them. :) Paint the drawer knobs with a jaunty sea-side design and there you have a nice new piece of furniture for no cost at all. :) :¦:-·-:¦:-·-:¦:-·-:¦:-·-:¦:-·-:¦:-·-:¦: Thankyou to those of you who entered my giveaway on Facebook. The winner is  Mandy Congratulations Mandy! Sorry to have missed out my bloggy friends on this occasion. Next time I do a giveaway I'll definitely have a blog one. You can be sure of that. :) Jess x x

I took a break from acrylics yesterday and got out my watercolours and black ink to make these cards for sale. :) They all have birds in them except one! They're all listed in my Etsy shop , so hurry over there if you'd like to snap one (or two?) up! Thinking about it, I've been drawing and painting birds a lot this week.  In the picture above I've drawn with a black ink pen, over watercolour washes. I love how the page is really wet with the paint and then becomes a lovely surface to draw on once it's dry. This one above is acrylic painted in my sketchbook with a teeny amount of pen here and there. You know I said at the beginning of this post that I had a break from acrylics to paint the cards? Well here's what I was working on. It's mixed media on canvas board and I used one of my favourite paint colors! That pink is actually really bright pink, it's difficult to show how beautiful the colour is in the phot...

I could not believe my eyes earlier today when I saw that my likes on Facebook had jumped up to 900! As a thankyou I'm having a giveaway of one of my A4 prints. All you need to do is to be a liker of my Facebook page and to share the post I have there about the giveaway on your own Timeline.You can choose any print from these above, so please leave me a comment underneath that post too so I know which one you'd like to win! To see the prints in more detail, please  click here . I'll announce the winner on Monday, both here and on Facebook. I've been working on a new painting for Spring.  You might remember this sketch (below) I did a couple of weeks ago? Well I kept finding myself turning the page of my sketchbook back to it because I love the colours. I just knew I had to do a painting based on it. So here it is! It's called 'The Song of Tulips' and is painted with acrylic on 7 x 10 canvas board. It's now available to buy...

Thankyou for your kind comments about my new paintings. :) I had quite a busy week last week so any new ideas for paintings that I had since then, were put on hold but hopefully this week, I should have more time. Meanwhile, let me show you my latest crochet project. Now if you have visited here before and are aware of my craze for bright colour, take a look in my bag of wool in the picture above. Do you see anything odd? No? Well it might not seem unusual for you but I bought some grey wool. Grey! I think I must be influenced for the apparent fashion for grey everywhere at the moment, in paint, wallpaper, fabrics, carpets but my thinking is that it would set the other colours off nicely and make them seem even more bright! You can see I haven't altered the photo because the grey looks like grey and the yellow ZINGS out of the picture. I find crocheting in the evenings very relaxing and as you may already know, I've made quite a few of these colourful blank...

Evening Peace, acrylic on canvas board. Gosh! After that very unusual post from yesterday, I'm pleased to see you still here! Let me show you  my new artwork. Glittering Stars, acrylic on canvas board. I love sparkly things don't you? I had a lot of fun adding the shiny gold to these two new paintings. You can't really tell from the photo above but  if they're held towards the light, they sparkle!  Each one measures 7 x 10 inches and I've listed the originals on  Etsy at £40. That's roughly about $66 to my USA friends. I do worldwide shipping and any currency is taken. :) If you'd like these designs on a mug or a cushion (pillow), or maybe a tote bag or a phone case? Here's a screenshot of my Society6 shop . Please pop over and have a look. :) You can even get this one as a clock! So which one would you choose? :) Thankyou for looking! xx