Lone Pine Lodge

I am exhausted, the girls have got me back up after midnight 4 times this week. When I say the girls on three of those it was Kandi, she is too interested in finding out by smell who was walking in the field before her on our late night walk(9 ish) and then has to go to toilet 2 to 3 hours later. Last night it was men on a shoot up on one of the mountains, I had the window open and it was Kandi barking at the shots woke me, Saffron had already left the bedroom to hide in the stair well. Kandi stopped barking at my fist word and came and hid her head in my armpit. So I got up shut the window and took them downstairs where they sat as close to me as they could for about half an hour when they suddenly relaxed, wandered off and went to sleep. I assume that the hunt had stopped by then but I left it an other half hour before getting us all back to bed. The shoot was probably after a fox or foxes. WE still let our sheep roam free on the mountain moorlands. Any how back to the subject. Day 11 I did manage to do some thing artistic, It doesn't shoe up very well but it looks horible when it is autocolour enhanced.

Taken from this photo.

I present my version in pastel.


And after my late night last night I defaulted to more ear rings, I can do those in my sleep.
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I had a busy day yesterday. First I slept late and it was my morning to walk my dogs and Losyn . as I was dressing I had a call from a friend who needed help putting a room back in order after work was done. She has 3 broken vertebrae(osteoporosis) and muscle damage to her back too so can only do things very slowly she had spent most of last week moving some of her books back into her living room 3 at a time. So I walked the dogs came home had lunch packed my dogs into the car and between 2 pm and 8 pm managed to get her living room sorted under her direction. This did involve several coffee breaks some gossip and a dinner break, also some cat cuddling, dog petting and walking and ornament mending. As a result all I could offer was a night time photo of the garden.



Today was Beth's turn to walk the trio so I spent that time sketching a character from a classic children's novel. Have a guess and I will tell you in tomorrows post who he is.

I wanted to do this on my Teazle plant but the stems weren't strong enough. I have gathered together a selection of the necklaces and hung them from the ivy on my garden wall.


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I got some inspiration from tattooedraven 's latest creation, that beautiful bracelet she has just posted, and tried to make something similar my style of beading. I didn't have the materials to make it as long as hers but I think it could be called similar.

Two together today as they are linked. I went back to jewelry making and have made a necklace in the manner of Pandora bracelets (http://www.thejewelhut.co.uk/pandora.htm?gclid=CJ2PteiM66oCFUkf4QodWwNHOghere if you don't know what I mean.

This is yesterday's attempt, which I didn't like.
( and under here my re-build of yesterday's which I do like )

After the alarms and excursions of the last two days I haven't been much in the mood for art but I did get inspiration to get this far with some thing


It is the last remaining arch of a viaduct a long defunct railay from the west to the east side of the valley . The blank spaces are ivy covered tree trunks. If I feel more alive tomoorw I will paint.

Yesterday I made this necklace.


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This comes from the same book as yesterday. His hands and face look odd because I was trying to be clever and give him golden eyes but they were too large and blobby so as I was using ink and I couldn't paint over it with watercolour I painted his skin golden in stead.

I have had a very busy day today, doing every thing I should have done yesterday and every thing I had to do today, The base sketch for this was done between grocery shopping and lunch and the shading done when I got back home about an hour ago and I needed more time.

Two for the price of one agaiin. the first one is the one I'm happier with but I can't seem to get it to scan straight.


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