I made some patterns from the GreatCupboardClearout.
Then added them to some kitchen containers....
And then, of course, I had to add them to some baby outfits....
We have this massive corner cupboard in the kitchen with spinny-roundy shelves for food. In my dream kitchen I would have a cool walk-in larder with everything stored in a neat and tidy order. But I'm stuck with this. The spinny-roundy mechanism is clunky and results in spillages. And stuff always falls over round the back. I chuck stuff in it and close the door, and try to ignore the smell of spilled soy sauce on everything.
Anyway I decided to clean it out on Saturday.
It's practically empty now cos it turned out that most of the shit in there went off in 2022. Including THREE tins of butterbeans.
We don't even like bloody butterbeans.
We walked the dog through the woods yesterday.
We did not see any bears.
We did see the pub though. And we did sit in the beer garden for a bloody lovely Sunday roast.
Look, I know I sound bloody old and boring saying this, but....how the hellie can it be September already? Where has this year gone?!!
This is the barn owl who lives over the back moor. He's usually spotted at dusk so we don't see him in summer. But dusk is creeping ever earlier so we might spot him again soon.
I mean he's a lovely sight.
But I'd prefer to keep the 10pm daylight ta.
Our little monkey had a birthday yesterday. And horror of horrors he had to work!
The kid who was always on some exotic foreign holiday on his birthday, or in recent times had the bank holiday to shield him, had to actually do a full day's work!
I mean, he made it to 22 before he could no longer blag a free day off.... but still....poor Alf!
Well August has been flipping busy so far. Busy with work and busy with play.
Not so busy with personal work cos I haven't had a minute....
We're off to the horsey races tomorrow.
I'm not that fussed about horses. Or racing. But I'm excited to see everyone. Especially Tina and Kevin from the Isle of Man cos we don't see them nearly enough. And I'm looking forward to wearing the fancy frock and eating the nice food and drinking all the drinks.
I'll just ignore the horsey part.
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.
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...
I faffed about with my carbon paper sketches and made this...
...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 🤷🏼♀️
Let's not focus on the football.
Let's focus instead on the bloody fabulous weather we're having...and the garden...
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.
OMG it was hot today. I mean I like it hot... but 31 degrees with no aircon is HOT.
The dog was not impressed.
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.
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 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 😊
Yaaaayyyyyyy!
Yay it's the weekend.
Yay we're having a heatwave.
And yay I'm nearly at the end of this alphabet.
Also Y is for yak.
