A would be space man!

My granddaughter, yes the one who takes the sneaky photos of me was on stage last night, she had a little solo performance and here it is. She’s the one on the left on the front row.

Proud grandma share!

I said good bye to some of my angels ornaments today, they served me well and gave me lots of pleasure but I felt it was time to let them go. Now they can give some other people joy.  They are currently residing in the local hospice shop and I have a feeling that they won’t be long before they’re rehomed.

Just another way for me to thank the charity who gave so much help to my mum, at a time when it was really needed. I know they will be cherished because people who appreciate  angels are usually kind people 😇

I have, however kept a small selection of angels which I’ve had for many years. I would find it very hard to part with this little gathering . 😊

Hello my name is Seth and today I am at my grandma’s house because it is my first day in the school holidays. 🏫🥳🤩

I have a pet tortoise who is called Shelly and she is the best pet in the world 🌍🐢.

For my dinner I had a sandwich 🥪 with cheese in it and for my desert was chocolate fudge cake (with ice cream). This afternoon I was drawing ✍🏻 in one of my grandmas drawing book🎨 and I did a dot to dot. Also I did a master piece on my grandmas art 🖼 tablet. Hope you enjoyed my blog 😀😀😀.

Today I spent the day with my grandma 👵. We played a game called the game of life and Seth won! Then we went over to grandmas flat and I tidied the cupboard out, while Seth watched the tv 📺. We also did some drawing ✍🏻 and I had pizza 🍕 for my lunch and Seth had a sandwich 🥪, them some chocolate cake 🍰 and ice cream 🍦. I loved my day!👩‍🎨🐢❤️👵

By Ruby ❤️

 

It must have been 40 years since I had a bad cold, colds are not something that have ever troubled me until this week. I can’t stop sneezing 🤧 I’m constantly cleaning my iPad screen although I have to say spittle can be very artistic 😏

I decided to get up and drink lots, I’ve had about 3 litres so far of unsweetened Juice to dilute. I only drink bottled water now, a minimum 2 litres a day due to a recent diagnosis of liver fibrosis and now suspected polycythemia, I get my results hopefully next Monday when I see my haematologist.😊

I’m not fit to sit at my desk and do any painting today yet not sick enough to do nothing!  I have started following  a blog called Lucid Being-ash and admiring his art and site theme I decided to try changing mine again! ( check out his blog )

I know I’m always changing my site but finally, FINALLY I may have found the best theme to showcase my artwork. I’ve also found blogs that I had written and forgotten about so I’ve added them to my site. I have over 100 five little angels poems now most of which I’ve taken offline to get them ready to be put into a booklet for the local hospice 😇

It has passed a few hours , which is good and hopefully I will be able to get back painting in the next day or so.

Enjoy your day whatever you’re doing 😉

Well I’m 62 today 😄 and was very lucky to receive the perfect gifts for me. My favourite perfume from my husband John 🌹 and strangely two bracelets from my daughters who did not know that they were buying the same! Luckily they both chose a different charm yet both angel related! They know me well 😉

I’m very blessed. 😇

My two daughters and four grandchildren keep me balanced and happy.

My eldest daughter Catherine took me out for lunch today for a treat after visiting her grandma. We decided to have afternoon tea!

Far too much food,so much in fact we took a box away to my youngest daughters house so she had a share!

I decided to take all my acrylic paintings down from my lounge wall, it’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now, I have lots of digital paintings so why not! Gone are the days of having one painting on the wall for years.

When I took down all the acrylic paintings the wall was a mess with nail marks and pencil marks ( John the perfectionist) but not that perfect that he doesn’t wipe the pencil marks off 😉

I knew I had to bring out the apple white paint out to touch up the wall. I used one of my long-handled art brushes and as soon as I put it in my hand it felt wonderful. I didn’t realise how much I had missed holding a brush.

Shall I paint some sort of mural up here I asked John who after hammering four new nails in to my exact specification was not impressed. 🤷🏼‍♀️ So I just painted over the marks and let it dry before giving it another coat.

The wall looks so different now, this was it before. A riot of different colours.

This is it now…..

Much less colour…… but it goes well with the new rug, which is very colourful  😎

Whatever you’re doing, have a great day 🦊

I’ve decided that I need to step back from blogging and painting for a while. I will be back hopefully refreshed and raring to go.

Until we meet again, keep smiling, keep painting and keep writing.

Elaine x

Monday morning and it’s raining cats and dogs this morning.  ( It isn’t really that’s just a figure of speech) why that started is beyond me. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I mean how could it rain 🐈 🐈 &🐕🐕 perhaps it was described that way because all the cats and dogs went indoors when it rained. Anyway, answers on a postcard to interesting facts would be welcome.

I was awake very early yesterday morning because I had a painting idea. I actually started the painting at 6.30am.  Well, honest truth that painting must have changed itself a dozen times in the course of eight hours work, spaced out through the day!

It must have had ten coats of paint applied then I scraped it off. The board is ready to collapse but I am not giving up.

It started as abstract, then it went to planets. Just when I felt I was getting somewhere John my biggest critic…. sorry fan, said it looked like a Lego brick. 😳 Suddenly I could see what he meant, I had four planets almost in each corner of the painting 😬

I was so mad 😡 did he really need to say that. 😤 I went to bed thinking 🤔  but managed to sleep very well. This morning the first thing I did was go into the office come art room and take another look at it!  All I could focus on was a Lego brick! Then I turned the painting around on its end to see if it looked better ☺️🤓  Nope it was still a Lego brick.😳

I sat and looked at it for a while then took the painting to John and said…… What if I put another planet in the middle? He looked at me and I read his mind.  🎲 No it will then look like a dice 🎲 😫

I may have to perform a planet removal today which is a delicate operation, you can’t get it on the National Health in England and I can’t afford to go private but it needs to be done! 😏😔More later .

 

 

I have a little problem

which may seem meager to you

but for some reason my snow is not falling

And I can’t understand why that would be.

☃️

I’ve had a chat with the engineers online

they tell me that they can see

snow falling gently on my site

They say it’s clear to see

☃️

They said it could be technical

perhaps I’ve blocked some adds 🤔

but I can’t see the gentle snow falling

and it sure is bothering me

☃️

So come on, you tell me

can you see the snow?

don’t just sit there in silence

send me a message and let me know!

☃️

Have à loving and peaceful Christmas, Elaine x

 

Well its official, at three minutes after midnight I opened my cards and some presents and realised that life begins at 60 or should that be 40!  …. Or get this my eldest daughter Catherine says that 60 is the new 40 !

Confused, hmm me too. Do I feel any different? Nah. I am a little bit miffed that I have to wait another six years to draw my pension now that the pension age in England has changed from 60 to 66, but such is life.

Do you think I am writing different now, more moaning and whining maybe? It’s my age you know ! Just joking, honest.

Anyway I have had a great day, my birthday is going on for days and days 🙂 my youngest daughter Louise came to see me with Ruby and Seth (my grandchildren) and brought me some lovely gifts…. a lot of which are angel related because they know how much I love my angels. Tomorrow I am having lunch with them along with my mum and of course John.

I can’t believe it is the Chinese New year tonight, Chinese is my favourite food but due to my local takeaway being closed I have resorted to buying half a shredded duck with pancakes from the supermarket for this evening. Yummy, hopefully.

My eldest daughter face timed us online as she lives 50 miles away. Charlie had a trampoline party this morning then went out for lunch. I was then presented with an envelope  from Louise which had a card inside which read

To Mum,

On Saturday the 11th of February you are invited to spend an all expenses paid weekend away with your daughters in a 5 star cottage in The Yorkshire Dales So here’s to making many happy memories and to give you lots of new material to write about!

Lots of love,

Catherine and Louise.

My response was thank you very much, that will be lovely. It is sometimes difficult to have good chats with them with children running round, so I am sure we will have a great time. Please can I be 60 every week. ;-

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