Growing...

...herbs in pots...

I painted these pots at my mums shop on my last trip home and she kindly brought them up with her for my surprise birthday visit. The herbs I planted at the beginning of the year were transferred outside and have either been eaten by giant slugs or just not made it!

...my little green monster...

who just wants to sit or stand (or a combination of the two) all the time! He's growing up so quickly...he learns something new every day...amazing!

Beauty in Unexpected Places

I just got back from a lovely spring walk around my little (well actually it's the biggest village in England, maybe even the world) village and it was so so surprising! We've lived here for almost 9 months now and yet there is so much more to it than I realised. The same thing happened in the summer when we decided to go wondering not expecting to find much, when we came across a lovely canal and a very pleasant afternoon it turned out to be! Today we headed towards the other side of the village and found ourselves immersed in many a beautiful, large and very old building, a wonderful church (to marry in maybe?!) and a lots of fields, streams and wildlife. We then headed to the pub for a pint of cider and local chat.

It really made me realise how beautiful so many places are if you just take the effort to go explore. The same thing happened to me when I first moved to Oxford and spent my time just getting the bus to and from work and never making the effort to see beyond that, which really was very foolish because Oxford it such a beautiful city. So from now on I'm going to make a conscious effort to go walk-a-bout whenever I get the chance (and as long as the weather permits!).

As for crafts I gave myself the morning off as it was so sunny and all but I did paint these lovelies last night....

They haven't been fired yet so still very pasty, but I'm really pleased with them I can't wait to see how they look!

Busy Bees

Indeed what a busy bee I was yesterday! Apart from all the boring things, going to the doctors, post office and food shopping, I also managed lots of creating!!

I am particularly proud of these....

I used glass beads for the sprinkles as a bit of an experiment and it worked! Horah!

I also painted some new ceramic magnets, this is them in their raw form, they still need to be glazed and fired...

I particularly like the cakes, for some reason I have an obsession with all things "afternoon tea" at the moment.

I think today will probably take the same route as yesterday, more polymer clay foodie things and then some painting. Although I think a trip to the library this morning might be in order.

So I did eventually make it out of the house to get my ceramics which include these lovelies..

The pendant is in my Etsy Store but the Espresso cup is a gift for my lovely man as he's been looking after me so well of late, and has had some really fab news this week.

I spent yesterday playing with polymer clay and producing these...

They glow in the dark don't you know!!

I cannot tell you how unbelievably excited I was when I discovered glow in the dark Fimo!

Last night I watched Team America and toasted marshmallows on the fire which was really quaint and cosy.
Tonight we have company and I'm making a proper Sunday style tea with cucumber sandwiches and much much cake! I'm so excited!

Right, I'm off update my Etsy and retake lots of pictures to freshen things up a bit.