Just a cup of coffee

Now I'm  at the Norman Lindsay Gallery coffee shop. His house is open to the public and so are his gardens which contain statues that he crafted. Here is the view from my seat today. Lovely and leafy, cool and shady. Heaven!

I'm baaaaack!!

So...I managed to go a while year without a single blogpost.
Life gets in the way, I guess. Since then I've had my daughter and my grandson come live with us and life can get a little hectic.

 I just bought a Thomas Thorspecken book called Urban Sketching. Not only is it a great resource, but he has some good tips on becoming accountable for your own development!
 One tip is to sketch once a day.....and post it on your blog! The idea being that you become more 'accountable' and it's a good way to see your progress. That's the selling point for me. I have so many books and I work across many of them concurrently, so it's hard to gauge progress accurately!

Now, as you can see, I'm not just a sketcher! Actually, I'm a scanner personality, which means I flit from one  technique and  medium to another...never perfecting, but not becoming bored or stale either, I hope!

 So, even though it's a little late for a New Years Resolution, let's consider this one.
 I vow to post my work/ play....no matter how awful, or ( hopefully) awesome it may be.

 Today. I pulled out a photo from a visit to Sydney. I LOVE the Queen Victoria Building. I can just imagine the 'fine folk'  that would have promenaded down those halls, peeking into the lavish shops with their scrumptious wares. The ladies, flapping their fans and the men, twirling their waxed moustaches! Ahhhhhhh!  I'm such an old fashioned girl at heart!

Bright girls

These colourful girls with their patterned hair popped up in my journal. They are a bit of fun and I love designing their hair and clothes!

Give away with Jodi Ohl

Don't miss out on this great opportunity to win a spot in a workshop with Jodi Ohl .
Jump on over Here to leave a comment and gain an entry.

New book

I've finished my first Book of Days journal. Perfectly timed to the 6 months mark, so now I have changed to a new, larger size book. There's lots more room to be creative, but it can also seem a little daunting to fill up the whole spread, though really great it you want to add a face! I'm liking what I've achieved so far...

Living Canvas workshop with Christy Tomlinson

This is on of the projects I completed in  my latest workshop with Christy. I had lots of fun putting colour on all those pages! I changed it up from the class sample so I have lots of different colour combos that can be viewed as you flick through and at the end I had lots of cute coloured hearts....now what to do with them...

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Bloglovin

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 I've discovered a new way to follow and be followed in Blogland.
 Bloglovin seems to be a neat way to keep yourself organised and make sure you don't miss out on any exciting events on the blogs you follow. I'll try it out and let you know what I think!