I dream of horses

I have horses on the mind at the moment, as that is the case it was fitting that I use a horse theme for a new Treasury, you can view it at Etsy by clicking here.

I have so many favorites in this treasury, I would happily have all of these things in my life! I have a feeling there may be a 'I dream of horses part 2' as well, there are just far too many beautiful equestrian themed creations out there!

I adore this painting by Pixie Campbell, you can visit her Etsy shop 'animama' here. I love so much at the Animama shop, it really is worth taking a peek. for example this white Coyote art print is just lovely!

 

Have a great friday all!

Devon, swaps and Etsy

Happy Thursday people!

I have been away for a few days, a few longer than expected actually. I went to Devon to see friends and family and it was a bit of a whirl wind tour but it was lovely. I am happy to be back though and am currently catching up with bits and bobs at home. I wanted to share these photos with you that I took whilst away in Devon, I guess you could say these show some of the reasons I love going back there..

 watching the deer in the grounds of the castle near my dads..

 Visiting friends who have amazing retro taste in furniture!

 and who pot plants in milk jugs..

and teapots..

 and have beautiful cats.... (She's sweeter than she looks)!

I also like visiting friends who live on farms, who take me to see tiny piglets..

and cuddling up with one of my mums cats, this is Otto, he's a Siamese cat and by far the cuddliest, sweetest cat ever. So I've had a great countryside filled few days and now I''m back in the city and looking forward to seeing what you've all been up to and getting on with some more art work myself.

One thing I have done since I've been home is to take some more pictures for my Etsy site and package up a print to send off to Tami of the 'Ah, Bliss' blog. I have done a swap with Tami and she is having my sewing machine print and I have been very lucky to receive one of her Typewriter prints, I love this typewriter print and can't wait to have it up on the wall in my new house!

I'm trying really hard to create more interesting photos for Etsy, what do you think? I hope I'm slowly getting there!

The fabulous Typewriter print sent to me by Tami of 'Ah,Bliss'.

Oh so lucky!

Hi everyone!

Two new paintings done on small box canvases with acrylic paint and felt tip. I really like these two, I personally prefer the colours of the orange and turquoise painting but the purple is sweet too. I was thinking the other day about horse shoes being a symbol for luck and I remembered that a stables I rode at used to have one on there mounting block to touch for luck before a ride out. I also got to thinking about the game 'Horseshoes' so I did some research and it's actually an official sport, you learn something new everyday! I found some information on it here.

So I imagine everyone is preparing for Halloween? I'm preparing my Crow costume at the moment, still need to make my wings though so I'd better get on it! Have a good Halloween weekend all :-)

New banner, an online revamp!

So I decided that my online places are in need of an update, I have changed my blog banner and also my Etsy banner. Even though they are not identical I think they still feel similar enough to work together in my head. I am also in the process of updating my Etsy shop and Flickr account, I have let them go lately as I have been  far to busy to give them any attention.

I also have new work to show you which I will do very soon...It feels good to have refresh of all these online places!


My new Etsy Shop banner!

I am a little sad to let go of the birds that have been on my banners for so long now, I did sneak the little yellow bird with 'socks' in to both banners though, I don't think I could lose the birds completely..that would be a step too far! ;-)

Treasury

I actually put this treasury together a while ago now (back in September)!! I am now in the process of tidying up loose ends  so I wanted to share my first Treasury with you.  I plan to do this regularly now as not only do I love searching Etsy for treasures I also love seeing other peoples treasury collections so I am hoping you will like to see mine! Here we are:

For the love of clay

Illustration Friday 'Racing'

Acrylic painting with beads and thread. I had a lot of fun with this one!

Is it finished yet?

Here it is, the painting that I just couldn't finish, the one I kept returning to and tweaking. I  finally figured it out a couple of days ago. The problem was that the horses mane was far to tidy looking (I realised after painting the piece in the previous post that I like my horses to have a scruffy appearance)! So I changed his mane, that was much better, but still one more thing needed changing...The colour, he just wasn't RED enough. So now I have a very red horse with a scruffy mane and I'm a happy painter. I hope you like this one. :-)