What a difference a week makes......

This time last week it was snow, snow and more snow....

Now, wind, sunshine and some more wind, no excuse not to craft/create today!!!

This week I have been mainly making a surprise for a friend...

Any excuse to you some of the fab buttons I bought back in October from No 47, Tobermory

I've finished off my felted cuff that I was working on, trying to decide whether to make them commercially or not???

I started to play around with another crocheted cuff design...

I've also finished my jigsaw pieces for this piece of Craftism

I've been making some flower rings (soon to be added to my Folksy site)

And I've booked a holiday to our little piece of Paradise

It's been a busy week riding the wild donkey!!!

Snow stops play.....

Today was supposed to be about craft.....

It's all about the snow instead.....

Little bits of colour to be found

No washing today

Bet she wishes she'd covered up

Drawing Class....

One of my 100 things to do in 2013 was to

Take a Drawing Class.

I haven't done any observed drawing for eons, possibly college in 1997, where I could produce stuff such as this:

and this

Or School where I could do this....

So off I trotted to a drawing class, not nervous, but definitely apprehensive...what if I can't do it anymore?

It seems practise makes perfect

as now all I can produce is this:

Back to the drawing board for me I think......

:o)

Riding the Wild Donkey.....

So, today I rode my first Wild Donkey....

No, not one of these:

One of these:

Riding a Wild Donkey

For ages now, I've been procrastinating and getting easily distracted ....this is the story of my life, but for 2013 I have decided to adopt the Riding of the Wild Donkey technique.

I knew that I needed to get my Folksy site up and running, I'd taken the photos of the things for sale, played around with the images......drank many cups of tea and spent hours on the interweb doing nothing in particular...anything, but actually doing the damn thing.

So, I wrote in my new diary at date and time that I was going to do it..no ifs or buts..that was when I had to do it.

And surprise, surprise..it worked.

Maybe I'm someone who works to deadlines and strict timetables after all???

So may I proudly present my new Folksy site....

Missmerrydown Folksy Shop

And I owe it all to this:

Leonie Dawson

2013.....

I'm going to make you full of this:

New work.....

"Whilst she sleeps"

I am playing around with the idea of taking my work in a slightly (very slightly) different direction.

I've been feeling a lot more grounded and calm recently and feel the need for this to come through in my work...a more tree hugging, yoghurt knitter kinda vibe!!

She's still a work in progress, but I like her.

I have been mostly....

working on top secret projects!!!

Starting a new painting.....although I'm being drawn to the craft side at the moment, so I expect it will sit on the easel for a while, waiting for the inspiration to strike again.

And I've been working on me abit too...maybe I'll explain that at a later date....