Winged Horses & real horses

    Winged horse decorations by Benconservato on Etsy.

   I could happily have these flying around my house :)

You know me, these horsey themed Etsy items weren't going to get away with not being on my blog ;-)

How are you all? What have you been up to? Tell me, I miss you all and I miss drawing.

Time is short of late. Work, uni and horses eating up my time. This handsome chap has been taking up a lot of time. Then recently there has been another edition..My aunties Shire horse X has come to live with me as she is moving to Australia..It's good.My horse (below) is a bit of a problem, So it is great to have a steady neddy to ride safely.




Do leave a comment and tell me what you have been up to, I will be back soon with Artwork to share. I'm working on a couple of commissions that I will be able to show you soon.Speak soon!

Cheerio :)

Some beautiful things

Yellow teapot by My Haunted Attic

Raw amethyst  necklace by Still with you

These gift bags by My Cherry Tree

'Superman's song' by Nataly Dawn- 

Hi folks how are you? I've had a busy night making cards and gift tags for the market this weekend, Its all go here at the moment!  Nataly Dawn's youtube channel has been keeping me company while I make. You should  check it out, it's really good.

Night night all, speak soon :-)

Tuesdays favorites

From the top down:

Goldilocks and her 3 bears puppet set by kissmego

Girl warriors illustration - digital print by Kaye Blegvad
The Ripton Clutch with Detachable Shoulder Strap -By ShelterProtectsYou

Silver white tail deer antler ring by moon raven designs 

I'm really into items that remind me of the natural world and folk tales at the moment. Maybe it's the darker nights and winter drawing in? Either way here are some great items for you to view. 

Happy Tuesday!

Treasury - Winter Sparkles

I made a new treasury.... Winter Sparkles

I love everything here, I'd love that scarf by Etsy shop TheYarnKitchen. Or those bright pink mitts by RainbowMittens!

Happy sunday everyone, have a great day :-)

Quiet as a mouse...

So I have been of late, please excuse my absence. Life is hectic and I'm yet to figure out how blogging fits into the way things are at the moment... All will return to some sort of normal soon I am sure!  For now I want to share my favorite online things that I have come across lately..


Leililaloo on Etsy

'Funky Star' pillowcase


Babyjives on Etsy
Soft sailing boat nursery mobile


Owlcreekceramics on Etsy
Watery platter plate

I'd like to try recreating the abstract design seen on the owlcreekceramics plate. I really love it, it makes a change from the usual ceramic decoration.

I'll be back with more news, and hopefully some new artwork soon..Until then toodle pip folks! **

30th June

June lovely June...

you are almost gone
Tomorrow we will say hello to July and hopefully a month full of sunshine.

What are your plans for July?

Two of mine are:

To do some painting, I have restless images of paintings whirling round my brain, they really need to come out and I can't wait to begin work on them.

To cook different foods, I've fallen into the cycle of eating the same things and I really want to try some new healthy (and not so healthy, lavender shortbread anyone)?! foods.

All is busy here but good, and I hope to share more with you soon but for now here are some gems that caught my eye whilst browsing this evening.

This beautiful pressed pansy silver necklace by Garden22DesignStudio on Etsy

RunRunRun Dress by OneLOveBird on Etsy

Handmade silk butterfly/moth by BlueTeracotta at Etsy

Speak Soon **

Saturday!

Its saturday and its raining, the weather is bonkers lately isn't it? One minute you need your wellies and coat and the next your wishing you wore your flip flops..And its officially summer now isn't it? *Hello Summer*!



I came across the artist Ana Gonzalez on Etsy recently. She has the shop anaglez and I love so many of her paintings for the textures, colour and imagery. This one is particularly fitting for my day today. Arthur's been going crazy being indoors, the weathers been bad so he hasn't wanted to go out so instead he's bouncing off the walls attacking anything that moves (including me)!! He woke me up twice in the night which I was rather unimpressed by. Hmmph!


From here.

Also I have a loom update for you, it is now threaded and ready to go, I will do some practicing on it later and show you some photos. As you can imagine I've been exploring weaving online and I'm getting really excited about what I could make!

Right now I'm listening to this quite a bit, I had a big obsession with it when I first heard it last summer but now it's back in my head, maybe its all the talk of festivals..

 

Have a great day all :-)

Its Wednesday

Not Thursday

I woke up today convinced it was Thursday, and now I keep thinking 'its friday tomorrow'...It must of been one of those weeks!!

I've had a busy but good day. Lots of laughing and good stuff at work today. Today I got to:

Work on the vegetable garden
Sing songs
Help with numeracy
Help with literacy
eat yummy carrot cake
Work in the weaving workshop carding some wool
Be silly
Be serious
watch  a swimming lesson
See Cows & sheep & piglets..The piglets are incredibly cute,they play like puppies..Watching them makes me question my meat eating..(I was a vegetarian/vegan for 18 years of my life you see).
Spend time looking at flowers, today's favorite, giant purple poppies.

I did all this whilst working with some amazing children. I'm very grateful for my Wednesday (not Thursday)..

I also got to bring home a small loom! Watch this space! I can't wait to learn how to use it, tonight I finished tieing up the ends..I think I've gone wrong somewhere though..I seem to have 3 random strands of wool left over...I can't figure it out. Anyway its exciting!

I hope you are all well out there and your Wednesdays have been fun..What have you been up to??

Here are some nice things for today..Enjoy :-)



Rockin Robin teapot by SimpleCeramics on Etsy, I would LOVE to own this..Wouldn't you?

Beautiful! Snug.Songbirds Wooden Mobile by Snugstudio at Etsy

Shadow Puppets a mixed media painting by ScribbleMe at Etsy - Check out this store by artist Jamie Hudrlik. Brilliant work.

Night night ****

Tuesday's sparkly things

This is awesome



Circus print by ybryksenkova  at Etsy. Yelena Bryksenkova is an illustrator/artist from Russia who now lives and works in Baltimore USA.
www.yelenabryksenkova.com

And this too is also particularly good, both the song and the video:





'New Romantic' by Laura Marling..

ENJOY! ****

Treasuries!

I seem to be in a lot of treasuries these days (thank you) and they are all lovely and I would love the chance to share them with you more often. Today these two caught my eye and I especially wanted to share 'Ode to Needle Arts' by artsdomesticas as there is another of my fave artists/bloggers in there, Louise Taylor of the blog Crem-bru-la.Her work is on the bottom left 'Crafty - Original painting'.

Ode to Needle Arts


The next treasury I wanted to show you features my Diamonds and birds print which is for sale here in my Etsy shop.
This treasury is so beautiful don't you think?

Shades of green by ElnaDesigns










Yay for treasuries!  Right the sun is shining at last so I want to get out in it for a cuppa T before I take some photos of some new work for the shop. By the way did I tell you that my new printer arrived? So I can now print from home using archival paper and pigment inks? I am so excited! Although the quality of my prints has always been great (I have been getting things printed at the fine art printers Niche in Stokes Croft bristol). I  now have more control over how quickly I  can ship prints to people and the prospect of doing art markets is now a possibility.

Very exciting!   Right enjoy your mornings everyone!

:-)

Some of my Etsy favourites

Vintage caravan screenprint by Jane Foster
Woods of Wisteria Original painting by Carissa Page
Pooch in Pucci square blank card by StudioLegohead
Owl pillow in sage by Katedurkin

 
I also got a lovely supprise today when reading Kerry Layton's fabulous blog 'theseventytree' she has included my bicycle print in her selection of favorites from the web today. Thank you Kerry! You can check out Kerry's blog here.

Cheerio for now people! :-)

Packaging and a thank you

I sold two more prints yesterday on Etsy, two Singer sewing machine prints, one turquoise and one peach..Thank you so much to everyone who has encouraged and supported me with my blog/etsy shop/art making..I feel I have come a long way since I started this blog back at the end of 2009...Thanks..

I get so excited when I sell something and I absolutely love packaging up the prints to go off to their new homes..However sometimes I do worry a bit too much about things getting damaged in the post and maybe I over package..(bubble wrap envelope, 2 pieces of board, extra tape,that kind of thing)..! But that's because I want my prints to be in perfect condition when they arrive at their destination. I want the packaging to look pretty and I want whoever receives them to smile like I do when I receive a print in the post.....See I worry if they are over packaged then I worry if there under packaged ;-)

 I got some great stickers and packaging supplies from the Etsy shop the Packagery. They do the most lovely 'thank you' stickers and other bits and bobs. I love there shop design too, so stylish! I also recently got some postcards done from moo.com, (that's the sewing thread image you can see in the sleeve with the print).As always the quality of the postcards is gorgeous and I can't wait to get some more printed.

Did you see I have added another page to my blog?? Look above there is a tab that links to a page with a selection of my pattern designs. Very soon I will add another page showing some of my illustrations, it is sort of a little version of my website really which you can view at www.rebekahleighmarshall.com
I wanted to tell you that I recently changed my hosting site from squarespace to moonfruit.  Moonfruit was so much cheaper although not as slick as squarespace but still I don't really need a fancy pants singing dancing site do I?! Take a look and tell me what you think.

Oh and you may of noticed the magazine in the photo? I bought Vogue for the first time in years, it has an article about Tracey Emin in it. I forgot how much I love her work..I also forgot how much I love Vogue but anyway..! Night night peeps! I hope I haven't rambled at you too much?!

Night **

Okay...I'm on the front page again!!

How lucky to be on the front page twice in one day!! This time it was my Peach Singer Sewing machine print.

And here is my Peach Singer print in my Etsy shop :-)

*YAY*

I made the front page of Etsy this morning!

Hey all I couldn't believe my eyes when I went to Etsy today, my new camera print the Zeiss Ikon Contessa was on the front page! It was surrounded by lots of other lovely items too, here is a screen shot:

I do love this print, you can view it here in my shop. Have a great day all!

Blue Terracotta

I recently came across the Etsy shop Blue terracotta, I marked it as a favorite..Well you would wouldn't you, just look at those items!Then Laura who owns Blue Teracotta happened to buy a print from me and I got to know her a little better. She has a beautiful blog which you can visit here,  and she mentioned my work recently too! I am very lucky, thank you laura!

Update** Laura made the most beautiful easter themed treasury yesterday that you can view here!

Flipflops, gardening, art..

Hi all, hows your week been? Are you enjoying this warmer weather and the lighter nights?  Tonight me and my man have eaten dinner outside (with a little wood fire), I also have just been wearing my flip flops this evening which has made me feel happy (again the log fire obviously helps but y'know...Summer is on its way)! I am still very busy with house stuff, we still need to paint the walls & ceilings and buy some bits but it's getting there. I have a few photos to show you of recent goings on, we have been doing lots of gardening getting everything tidy and planting and re planting things..Well when I say "we"... I actually just planted some bulbs made cups of tea and took photographs! Thankfully Ben's mum has been staying with us and helping which is really good as I'm sure i'd of dug up lots of lovely plants that are in their winter state thinking they were weeds..I really need to learn!

 Arthur here doing the very important job of guarding the biscuits!!

So all is well but I can't wait to get on with some art making, I have lots of ideas twirling round my head that need to come to life. Current obsessions are plants, horse silhouettes and pink and gray...I hope to start focusing on art towards the end of the week.

In the mean time here are some prints that I really really want for my walls...

A3 Big Drop (Fresh) by Kerry Layton of the Seventy tree blog

Pitcher print by Elizabeth Graeber on Etsy

Less talk more make print by hello jenuine on Etsy

Have a great day folks whatever your up too :-)

SPRING IS HERE!

Spring is officially here..Hurrah! :-)

I have been as quiet as a mouse of late I know, I am missing my art time but life is a bit busy at the moment. Roll on the easter holidays and time to create and explore all of your lovely blogs! Today I followed a link from Leililaloo's blog to this beautiful treasury and I came across this wonderful shop. I love Belinda Kemps ( Gretchenmist) paintings, just looking at them inspires me to create and go on adventures...What do you think?

I hope its sunny where you are, speak soon! **

Wed-nes-day

When I was a kid wednesday was my favourite day of the week because I liked how the word sounded when said really slow.....WED....NES...DAY...

Anyhhoo so it's Wednesday today..woohoo half way through the week, I wanted to share some lovely things made by lovely people with you.


This Polaroid camera piece made by Tami Cohen see more over at the Ah, Bliss blog. You can buy a similar piece, and some of her other great images at her Etsy shop. I love this image, it reminds me of the typewriter piece that she made, also brilliant...!


This Crochet covered coat hanger from Vesna of the My Cherry Tree blog. This and more delightful items are for sale at her Etsy shop. I wish all my coat hangers were like this!


This 'Funky Carousel' pillow made by Dana of the blog Leilaloo..You can buy this pillow and see more fab items at her Etsy shop here...Seriously if I could buy all the pillows I would! But that would be so unfair on everyone else, go view..!

Toodle pip...I hope all is well out there, have magnificent dreams and wake up with a sparkle :-)

These are a few of my favourite things..

I have been cheering up the dark winter nights by hunting for things that make life seem that little bit more sparkly on Etsy. Today my attention is on art..let me share some of my favorites with you...

Sailing back to my world by Leililaloo

Up to you by Shelbyhealey

Playin with fire by Milkylane


She held her memories close even as her future surrounded her by Thisisalliknow

Braided horse mane by Lisa Congdon

I hope you enjoyed, stay warm and cosy everyone!