On the shelf...

I realise I've been very neglectful of late concerning my blog

But this is the reason why

Yesterday evening we went here to the West Coast Open Exhibition. The standard of work was incredible. The area we live in is enormous and  relatively unpopulated, even so there are ever so many creative people dotted about in this wonderful wilderness

me, working out the camera settings...!

One neighbour is a very fine painter

 another makes these very beautiful books

and there on their very own shelf, looking quite small, my contribution! My cards in boxes. It took me ages to work out the printing combined with the making of the boxes and our recycling bin is full to bursting with  'gone wrong' attempts! 

Some people have asked me  if they are for sale. And yes, the intention is they will be, once I have replenished my stock! No hard sell but if anyone is interested please drop me an email sometime and I can give details etc.

Keeping up to date..!

I'm ignoring my blog! I don't mean to. I can see I have a couple of new followers and I don't want them to give up and go away! But I have been busy. The weather continues to be nothing short of amazing! The autumn colours are vibrant and clear and colourful. We should be out in the hills, it's warm and sunny. Instead I'm indoors making cards and boxes. I should be clearing up the garden but I'm trawling through the internet looking at guillotines and card stock  and the bulk buying of envelopes!

not very much....

Roses brought in from the garden (sadly not ours!) to  escape the forecast gales. A walk in Culbin Forest  over on the east coast  with its amazingly colourful pine needled and sandy forest floor home to some very smelly black mushrooms. I keep looking at old buildings in and around where we live. This one looking out on lochbroom with its rusty worn  corrugated roof gives me a card idea! I'm still battling on with my project. And yes, I am hoping to sell them eventually. I just need a bigger printer and a guillotine and a card stock supplier. When I'm not drawing and thinking about all the other things (like housework and stuff I should be doing)  I'm hooked on knitting little cotton square dishcloths, I can actually knit these and watch television at the same time! A real getting older persons activity...!
And, I nearly forgot, on sunny days the bees hug the flowers as if their very lives depended on it, and I suppose they do. We've had a lot of bees this year and they've been very busy.

After the weekend

Out at Ardmair Bay this morning. Showers sun and rainbows. Walking at the weekend on Inverbroom Estate. The Colours and the light are lovely. Autumn at its very best.  And indoors I'm making boxes and cards. My new project! I've talked about it for ages, now I need to just get on and do it! I'm finding out about score pads and tools for perforating corners. Who would have thought making a simple box could involve such a learning curve?!  

Diabaig

Ollie and Anna came to stay and we went to a place called Diabaig. I've included the map so you'll know how to get here! A little piece of heaven. Single track to the end of the road that goes nowhere. It's beautiful. They went climbing and we went to meet them. Exquisite, I haven't words to describe how lovely this part of the world is. And if that isn't enough of a recommendation then here may entice you to pay a visit. We couldn't have everything it was closed on Monday when we went, but we're going back and then back again!