Friday pattern making...

monday morning

If you don't feel like you could jump over the moon this morning....just go back to bed.

Mondays aren't for everyone.

quiet weekend at home

time for a cuppa?

I don't drink tea.
Or coffee.
I never have.

I always thought I would start when I felt grown up enough.
I'm not quite there yet.

October 21

This was October. Well, October before I went on holiday. Nothing since then. My head is still in Crete.

yesterday

Yesterday was Halloween.

I wasn't feeling it this year. It's a bit pointless when you don't have small kids. I didn't trim the front door. I didn't buy pumpkins. And I only went to buy treats at the last minute. Of course all the special Halloween multipacks had sold out by then so I ended up buying a million packets of KitKat and Twix.

Anyway. As it happened it was chucking it down. And we went to my Mum and Dad's for Sunday dinner. So by the time we got home it was dark, cold and wet and we had zero TrickOrTreaters.

So if anyone fancies a KitKat....

day 12-16

F I N I S H E D!

That's Sally's #autumndraw21 done and dusted.

So now that Autumn's out of the way I'm on the final countdown to getting the hell out of here and heading straight back to summer. Get me to the sunshiney summeryness of a lovely Greek Island please. 

3.5 sleeps to go.... 

day 9-11

To summarise:

Sharon and Phil Squirrel had a wedding do.

Angela Beetle was loving Monday.

And Susan Moth was looking pretty perky despite spending all night banging her head on the bathroom window, trying to get inside.

day 7 and 8

Day 7 was Gavin Reindeer, panic knitting his Christmas sweater after seeing all the festive shizz in the shops.

And Day 8 is Cynthia Frog leaping into the weekend.

day 6

Today it's birds. These are normal birds on enormous toadstools. Or tiny weeny little birds on normal toadstools.

autumndraw21 day 5

This is Lydia bear wearing her new coat.

Inspired by my yoga teacher who treated herself to a very expensive new coat this week. She deserved it though. And it's stuffed with recycled duck feathers. So it's very warm. I might steal it when she's not looking 😏

day 3 and day 4

More illos from Sally's lil challenge... bugs and owl...

autumndraw21

So this month I was avoiding joining in with all the stuff that begins with # and ends in tober. It was a no to #inktober and #peptober and #facetober and #stoptober (is that one smoking? I don't smoke. So I suppose that was ruled out anyway)

I was planning on just an ordinary October where I moaned about the weather at the start of the month, showed off about my holiday in the middle and added some Halloween shit at the end. 

But then my good friend Sally Payne roped me into her October instagram challenge. I figured that as she called it #autumndraw21 and there's no tober in there that it would be ok. Saves me thinking what to draw anyway. Cheers Garth!

Days 1 and 2...

And the prompts if anyone wants to join in...

september 2021

Hello long forgotten little blog! I'm back for my monthly report. 

To be honest the grass isn't always greener over on the socials... I have less and less engagement on instagram these days. And I refuse to jump through hoops to beat the ever changing algorithm. Reels get on my bloody nerves. And do not start me off on people who share shitty tiktok videos. Maybe I'll come back here as my main posting place?

Anyway...here's what I was up to in September on the old instagram.... available to license if anyone fancies it... 

august 21

August was the month of the extreme staycation.

We went to the NorthiestNorth of the country on our WeeScottishRoadTrip. Then we went camping. In an actual tent. With No Electricity!

See instagram for the highlights.

See below for the full month in pattern form.

See below below for the patterns made into tins to keep all your shizz in.