Five for Silver, Six for Gold

I have decided to create a weekly feature of some of my favourite finds on Etsy and the Web. Hope you like my selections. L x

Knotted Line Necklace by Harborside Treasures Designs

Darling Buds of July by Fong's Studio

Weavers by GollyBard

Silver Garden Branch Bracelet by Lillyella

Green, Blue and Black Solid Resin Ring by BuyMyCrap

Iced Gems Set of 5 Recycled Felt Food Sculptures by britishcreamtea

Cut Copy and Create Giveaway

Just thought I would give a quick shout out to my fellow McEtsy team mate Cut Copy Create who is having a blog giveaway. Check her blog out and you are in for a chance to win a gorgeous photo or illustration. Good luck.

You say it's your birthday

Pink Sky In Morning II

This is a birthday dedication post to my co-worker Heather Lander who's birthday it is today...happy birthday Husky :O)
As it's her birthday I thought I would do a post dedicated to her artwork. As some of you know I work in a commercial art gallery based in both Glasgow and Edinburgh gallery. We both work in the Glasgow gallery and Heather shows her work in the galleries and does very well. My mum and dad commissioned a large double panel piece for their kitchen which I saw up for the first time this summer and it looks fantastic. Hope you enjoy looking at Heather's work and if you would like any further information you can visit her website or visit the gallery.

Heather is originally from Portland, Maine but has a settled in Glasgow since she attended Glasgow School of Art to study fine art (97-99). Her mother lived in Florida and takes a lot of inspiration from her garden and can you spot the Pelicans?

Zebra Jungle Seated

Pelican in Purple Light

Outline of Pelican

Which one is your favourite? I'm eyeing one up for our kitchen.

Oh Happy Days

Hello there. Long time no see. We got back from our Summer holiday on Sunday and I have just about recovered! I also have so many photos and stories to share with you I didn't know where to start.

We started our holiday with 10 days in France at Mum and Dad's and boy was it HOT. For a couple of days it got up to 32 degrees in the shade and we had to literally tie Grace down to a chair indoors as she wanted to play outside in the sweltering heat! She had the best holiday ever spending her time between the chickens, the dogs and the ducks. If you asked her what her favourite part of her time in France was it was collecting the chicken eggs, picking up the broody hen Cyrillina (mum and dad thought it was a male chicken and called it Cyril!) and walking the four Cocker Spaniels...total bliss for a four year old x

Fantastic feedback

I have just sent off my second order of gloves to Australia and have had my feedback from the the first pair, and as you can see from the photo below I think she's very happy with her order!

I'm having a Yart Sale!

I'm having a Yart Sale on my Etsy shop KnitTwits.... FREE worldwide shopping for all of my knitted goods from 10th til 14th June. Stop by and have a look. L x

Exciting Times

I've had a very exciting week of creativity and it's only Tuesday! It started off on Sunday night with a two hour mammoth session of chatting with fellow members of Etsy from around Scotland. We are reviving our Etsy group McEtsy with a fervent passion, so watch this space for our new adventures.

I have had my second glove commission order within the past month going to Australia, so I am desperately thinking of ways to promote my knitted wares to the good people of Oz....any ideas would be appreciated.
I have also posted some new items to my KnitTwits Etsy shop, my favourite being these cute pink chunky knit gloves with assorted buttons... cute as a button!

My lazy butt has also been motivated to pick up my paint brushes as I have two commission that have been hanging over my head since Christmas! I thought I would show you how I go about painting one of my paintings with Acrylic paint...
First of all I paint a monochromatic under painting with black, white and a brown (Raw Umber). This gives me my very darks and very lights and helps me plot where everything goes. This is the hardest part for me and the most frustrating...I just want to paint with the pretty colours! But the most valuable. I then do a wash of colour using different colours over different parts of the painting. Here I use the watered down colour straight out of the tube and nice bright colours. This acts as a another base to the paintings and makes sure I get some paint into all of the dips in the canvas. As it is watered down you can see the monochromatic under painting still. I love seeing some of these bright colours creep out when I put the next layer of paint on. These layers give the painting real depth and interest. I have just started adding the next layer of colour. As I have my under paintings it's almost like painting with numbers and is my favourite part. I love colour and will show you how I get on in the next few days.

Hope you all had a good weekend. Get up to anything nice? We went to have a nosy around the grounds of Glasgow University...i want to go back to Uni now! x