First rocks/pebbles

Here are my first few designs, all CASE'd from those I've seen online...

 

 

The fun part is heading out for a walk and hiding them. Gets me out of the house for exercise and it can become a ickle bit addictive, going back and checking to see if anyone has found them ;)! 

OH thinks it's another fad... little does he know, and I think he is secretly a fan - found one of these went missing and he is totally enjoying being out and about and helping to hide them.

Painting rocks craze

What does a crafter do when she has made enough cards... can't go out anywhere other than a park and is running out of things to sketch?

Honestly, I really don't need another creative hobby do I!

 

I had bought some spray varnish to start painting rocks back in 2019, before I went to New Zealand - basically because I heard they were really into that sort of thing over there. This is the closest I could get to my travel related plans for now.

The boxes of rocks or pebbles above, were picked up in Oxshott in a park (sand pit apparently) and this is where the craze begins.

Check back to see how I get on - it's not actually that easy to paint on a rock/pebble it seems...

Fathers Day card making

With social distancing restrictions still in place it was Fathers day card making out in the street earlier this week with some of the neighbours kids - think they enjoyed it!?

Most went with the same design and I forgot to take a photo, but here's the original that I had used for the design, just imagine it said happy fathers day instead...

The other designs available included these - no one seems to like cars it seems!?

Sketching locally

Being in lockdown doesn't really permit a great deal of travel sketching... in fact I'm running out of photo's to sketch, after my recent attempt at travelling through sketches over on my travel blog.

After a bit of a community tidy up by the neighbours, the view was lovely and I couldn't resist a quick sketch...

Which led me to do a couple more, of peoples houses - one of which has made it into a frame and I'm told is now outside the toilet on the wall... sadly no photo's as I lost these when my phone broke, but here's the original sketch in my sketchbook, before the other half suggested it was too small to give to someone, so I re-redid it on a larger sheet:

Coasters from kitchen tiles

I've been meaning to use the leftover mosaic tiles from our kitchen refurb for some time... so with nothing else really possible right now, I utilised a couple of hours in the garage trying to ignore this new life called lock down!

It was a pretty messy job but we got there in the end ....