balloon story

I was walking through the carpark in our local retail park yesterday when suddenly this bloke flew by me at a million miles an hour. I looked up to see that he was chasing a helium balloon that had escaped. His fingers were about 3mm away from the string when a sudden gust of wind sent it rocketing into space. 

I was waiting to get eye contact with this bloke so that I could express my deepest sympathy. We've all been there.

But he didn't look at me. He just bent over double and screeched from the top of his lungs, "FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!"

So that was nice.

He'll pay the extra £1.50 for a weight next time I imagine.

made a pattern...

...cos making patterns is fun.

 

getting carried away with carbon paper

I finished all my real work yesterday... so of course I decided to do some more carbon paper sketches. I can't get enough of that carbon paper choppery.

I went for a nautical vibe this time... 

faffery...

I faffed about with my carbon paper sketches and made this...

And now today it's a very grey day. My fault. Soz!

carbon paper sketching...

This is what I did whilst "watching" the World Cup final last night...

I stole the technique from Lada Chizhova on the gram. It involves chopping up carbon paper and scribbling on it. It was much more fun than the sodding World Cup. 

conversations with the dog...

...on repeat...every single walk...

Dog: stops for a sniff and a wee.. like every 20 meters.. on every single walk.

Me: FFS! 

Dog: just ignores me.

Like how does she even have any wee left in her 🤷🏼‍♀️

weather chat

Let's not focus on the football.

Let's focus instead on the bloody fabulous weather we're having...and the garden...

happy monday!

This week's plan so far:

Working on some jigsaw puzzles, getting 2 new tyres for my car, 2 yoga classes, at least one England match in the pub (🤞), my cars' MOT, a funeral and waving the youngest off to Austria for the week.

engerland!

Off to the pub to watch the England game. And it's 26 degrees. Happy weekend!

heatwave chat

OMG it was hot today. I mean I like it hot... but 31 degrees with no aircon is HOT.

The dog was not impressed.

hot!

I am happy to announce that the heatwave has returned to Yorkshire.

No complaining allowed.

keep going!

Faffing about drawing birds while Neil watches every single world cup match 😴

interesting dinosaur facts on a Saturday night...

Neil's been in the French Alps all week, riding his bike down some mountains.

He arrived back today. And the sodding World Cup has been back on the bloody telly ever since. 

So I drew this tonight.

new month...new colours...

I was on pinterest last week, getting stuff together for some client moodboards, and I kept seeing loads of my old stuff. 

So, totally inspired by my old self, I put together a little moody board of my own. All the little techniques I'd forgotten about will now be dragged back to life this month.

I also came up with new colours to welcome in July...

And put them all together...

 

what I learned from posting on instagram every day for 4 weeks....

I posted my alphabet on the gram every single day for 4 weeks.

I feel like at one point in time this was the advice for getting 'more views' or 'more likes' or 'more followers' ...or something?

But I can hereby confirm that it doesn't any more. None of the above.

Indeed the views were lower than a snake's belly. The likes were so low that I hid the county thing. And I lost more followers than I gained.

Luckily I didn't do it to feel popular with strangers on the interwebs. I did it cos my favourite thing is to draw my own stuff without a brief or any demands or deadlines or the need to be commercially viable. Or to "make it smile". I did it just for the funs.

It did highlight to me though that the instagram we loved is indeed dead. So I'm thinking I might have this blog as my main posty place again. I don't feel any stress if nobody sees it here. I never get likes or comments and I'm not sure whether anyone even sees it. So it feels like a much less desperate, shouty, salesy place. And I like that 😊