Snowman 2 and Cards

This is taken from the same drawing of a snowman as yesterday but this one is just stitched.

I used both yesterdays snowman and today's for printed greetings cards.

Snowman

It was very cold today but we went for a walk at the coast at Seaham. A crowd was gathering ready for the annual Boxing Day dip in the sea. Guess what ..... I didn't join them.

Quilted Table Runner

I made some place mats a couple of years ago and as there was plenty of the winter themed fabric left I made a quilted table runner to match. 

Snowmen on a Branch

Two Snowmen

black snow but a white snowman

or white snow and a black snowman

actually I have made snowmen when they have looked quite dark, when dirt has been rolled in the snow, by accident.

IF - Spirit

'If only I had arms'

The Illustration Friday challenge this week is 'spirit' which has many definitions but I thought I would go with the alcoholic kind.

Winter Wonderland

I met up with my arty friends today and we decided to go for a walk in the winter wonderland. They say we are in for the big melt soon, so we thought while it was looking so pretty we would go out.

I took these photos with my mobile phone, but I'm quite impressed; the mobile is just a cheap one so I was expecting them to be as good as this.

Snowman

It's been snowing this weekend and I couldn't resist making a snowman. I found a big shell for his nose and marbles for eyes, dead plants for hair and arms.

Audrey, Molly and Messenger [IF]

Christmas Greetings from myself, Audrey the cat and Molly the dog.

The Illustration Friday challenge is 'messenger'.

The background cityscape - pen drawing, the doodle house - pens, brush pens, envelope - vintage image, owl - digital drawing 

Tis the Season [TM] and C&G Books/Quilts

Take your pick - I did two for The Three Muses challenge - Tis the season

Below is some old City & Guilds work. The top two images are books, for the top one I painted on fabric and covered a big file, the lower one is a handmade book.

The two images at the bottom are little quilts made with hand painted fabrics. All four items were inspired by tigers.

People Book [35] & Snow

Yesterday I saw the first snow of the season, & I was expecting another small flurry overnight but the snow was quite deep this morning. My hubby informs me that the last time we had snow this early in the year was 17 years ago. It doesn't seem 2 minutes since the long heavy snows of last winter. The snow looked very pretty on the branches of the trees [see bottom picture]

Snowmen Sketches

My initial snowman sketch [above] which I altered [below] before doing the embroidery shown in my last post [Winter Wonderland]

Cold & Wet

There has been more snow here the last couple of days but we decided to go to the coast to blow the cobwebs away but it was freezing, rainy, snowy, sleet and very windy - the snow was blowing in horizontal sheets rather than coming down from the sky vertically. I got my camera wet just with opening the car window so I didn't try taking any pictures outside. The photos don't show the snow and they look very grey - it was very grey. We did venture onto the beach for a minute but I'm a whimp - it was far to cold, wet & windy.

This one was taken through the closed window, I thought it made an interesting pattern effect, maybe to be used in something creative one day.

My effort for the Illustration Friday challenge - renewal - http://linsdoodles.wordpress.com/

Knitted santa & snowman, snowman in snow

Knitted snowman & santa - these were made when the kids were small so probably about 20+ years old

 I wanted a photo of a snowman [for artistic purposes, you understand] so I went out to build one [by myself, I'm still a kid at heart], but the snow was so crumbly it wouldn't hold together, so I just drew one in the snow instead with a trowel