SEASONS GREETINGS 2024

Well here we are again!

Seasons Greetings from Stephen and I for Christmas 2024.

Hope that 2024 has, in the main, been kind to you. Apart from the aches and pains of an aging body we have both been in good health thankfully.

We managed to have some travel adventures again, still trying to fit in as many as possible as we are acutely aware that time marches on and before we know it we will have reached that point where travel is no longer a viable option for various reasons.

Our biggest adventure was a road trip to Seefeld in the Tyrol region of Austria. Yes we had snow, a bit unheard of in September.

Starting with crossing the channel from Plymouth we drove across France staying in Blois

and Colmar

on the way there.

Returning a week later and doing the reverse journey only this time we stayed in Sundgovienne at a lovely auberge....yummy food.

Bourges, with it's fabulous Gothic church (very in the style of Notre Dame in Paris)

Auray

and Roscoff.

I'm afraid to say that crafting and arty stuff is very intermittent. Well...let's face it...when you are going on jollies as much as we have done this year, where would I find the time? Ha ha. :)

Perhaps in 2025?

I will leave you with this...it made me laugh when I saw it, although I have edited the original...

"One minute you're young and cool, maybe even a little bit dangerous...

And the next, you're reading Amazon reviews for anti slip grips for your shower!!!"

😂😂😂

Try it on Tuesday

 Halloween for Try it on Tuesday

Hello from me to “Try it on Tuesday” for their Halloween theme.

OMG! Do you know when was the last challenge I entered?

9th March 2016! Whaaaaat!

And it was for Try it on Tuesday….spooooooky! 😂

Been too long. But a combination of trying to earn a living and being in constant pain for the past 3 years put paid to many things.

Anyhoo, still working but not for as many days and thankfully my pain, which was predominantly from rotator cuff injuries to both arms (one following on from the other) has ceased….hallelujah!

Smootched background of Paperartsy Fresco Paints with stamped images from Paperartsy, Stampotique and T!m Holtz.

Thanks for looking and happy stamping :)

xoxo Sioux

Shall We Reminisce?

Shall We Reminisce? 1

Being awol for four and a bit years means there is quite a lot of arty stuff that has not been shared here!

Mmmmm…shall we revisit some of my favourite makes over the coming months?

Apologies to those who may have already seen some of these on Facebook or Instagram, although not all of them will have appeared there…let’s call it a little catch up series 🥰

This was part of Sketchbook Revival run by Karen Abend…I find it very inspirational.

Always something to help unblock ones negative beliefs!

I’m definitely full of negative beliefs, especially when it comes to my own drawing/painting skills…

I just can’t help it…even though I more often than not end up with a piece I’m pleased with, I have this unfounded feeling that whatever I do will be rubbish so what’s the point of wasting my time! Crazy huh?

Again from the same year 2018 at Sketchbook Revival…

This was an exercise focusing on perspective lines in buildings, whilst some of mine are a little off, I’m O.K. with the added quirkiness:)

Pen and watercolour on watercolour paper.

Thanks for looking…enjoy your art journey.

xoxo Sioux

This was my place!

 

This used to be my place!

I don’t mean the little cottage in my junk journal, I mean here here…on Blogger!

Things happened, mainly Blogger not playing ball with my iPad and iPhone, but also relocating and then moving back to our original house in early 2019 after 2 years. I missed being in the place I love best, Brixham.

 Obviously it’s now 2023 and four and a half years have passed…but I’m coming home, home to Blogger 😉

Things will be different as my art practice has evolved into much more than the stamping, although it won’t be abandoned altogether 😊.

I’ll be sharing an eclectic mix which hopefully won’t be too disjointed and always from an artistic view point.

xoxo Sioux

P.S. the little cottage journal page was done with water soluble neocolours II and pastels on brown wrapping paper. Based on a view from the “Café Cùil” near Carbost on Skye.

The colours on the hillside were gorgeous that day, with just the right light, although perhaps my iPhone didn’t quite capture what I saw.

If you are ever in the area it’s a funky place serving tasty food and drink.

G+ ?

I see that Google are giving up on the Google + business.

I never did see the point of it myself!!

Must be a pain for those that chose to go with it though.

xoxo Sioux 

Beyond Astonished!

As the title says I am actually beyond astonished....

I gave up long ago trying to use my IPad to post on blogger, it just didn’t work and the word was that Blogger was not even trying to update to work in conjunction with Apple devices!

I discover by accident today that everything seems to be an effortless, seamless working blog!!!

And I have  been able to comment on blogs without continually having to sign in and/or loosing my own page on a tab as the links to a blog now seem to be opening in a new tab as does the comment pages!! Wow!

Not been part of blog land for so long (I simply don’t sit at my main computer screen anymore).

I have been using Facebook but it’s not the same.

I’ll leave you with a collage page  I made not long ago...OMG! I can even access my camera roll to add photos......beyond astonished 😧 

 

Thanks for looking and happy stamping folks...

xoxo Sioux