A happy sunny Sunday to you Cathy 🌞🪻I really enjoyed seeing the layers of your painting and hooray for the forget-me-nots! In our garden they are mingled with the bluebells which have wandered out onto the lawn… I’ve always had the urge to peek in the cracks of old tombs in the churchyard, when we were about ten I remember one of the boys in my class telling us all how he had seen a skeleton hand poking out! What a terrible thrill daring each other to look in!💀😳🖤
Thank you Nancy for your great comment - I am someone who looks for bones creeping out of gravestones and am disappointed by not seeing any! I am maybe in a minority there. Have a good week ahead
Good Morning Cathy. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your words this morning. How generous of you to show us your process, I love your work as you know, and always look forwards to how you work with the seasons. Forget me knots always remind me of my late grandmother, so a lovely flower. It would be nice to think the boys were checking the bread for E numbers, but what a great little tale. I think the vessels you make are gorgeous, and its almost like working with clay isnt it. That same satisfaction, without the firing drama. I too like to photograph things on my walks for later, but struggle with order so I am now popping things into files on the pc finally, so maybe theres hope for me yet. I still have many of your early poetry zines, thank you for including a poem today, it is beautiful and very timely. I adore green :) Wishing you a lovely creative week ahead in this glorious weather. Im debating weather to place a geranium or two out side, its like we are having our summer now in Wales, which we possibly are, lol. Much love and thanks as always for the joy and inspiration that you bring x
Thank you so much for your lovely, friendly comment Deborah, a pleasure always to hear from you! I am imagining you in your Welsh country home, always busy with so much to do. A full and giving life. Thank you for sharing re: forget-me-nots. Yes, the paper vessels are a good way to exercise my love of ‘pottering’ without the cost and energy of firing. I will always admire the work and chances potters take with their pots and am grateful for the short time I did have a kiln. Thank you for reading my writing, that means a lot. Enjoy your day, with thanks and love xx
Morning Cathy, another lovely Sunday morning read with your new paintings, the forget-me-nots, your green poem and the lads paying with cash "for the first time", such fun! I love your paper jugs, no firing, no glazing involved. I woke up to a very blue sky today, still cool, so have planted small pots of pansies and lettuce to have a bit of spring colour on our front steps. The only other patch of colour is the yellow colts foot.
Hello Nora, I hope your seedlings all pop up in next to no time - how lovely to have something hopeful to watch and wait for. Thanks always for reading and for your kind comment. Have a good week ahead x
HI Cathy, well, I bought small plants at the garden nursery as I was too impatient to wait for seeds to grow! I now have a bit of colour :) We are still cool at night so I have planted my other seeds indoors.
Ohhhh! Where to begin?! All of it such a joy to see and read. Thank you for sharing your process...and for including a bird. I have been so excited this week, as I FINALLY downloaded the Merlin bird app, and I'm like a giddy child with each bird sound it picks up, and it's teaching me which songs belong to which birds. We heard the Cuckoo yesterday and this morning 🙂
I so enjoyed your poem and the lads shopping for the first time with money and reading E numbers gave me hope...we'll done lads! 🙂
The Forget-Me-Nots are blooming here too, and it's been the best year I've seen for Cowslips and Oxlips.
I nearly forgot to mention the paper jugs...what elegant and pleasing shapes you create. Oh!...and the face peeping out! Isn't it delightfully eerie. Talk about a 'grave' discovery! (Sorry...couldn't resist 🙄) Did you see it before you took the photo, or afterwards? I often notice these things afterwards.
Hoping for a lovely week for you and your loved ones. xx
How lovely to read your responses to my post - how fortunate am I to have such thoughtful readers, thank you Helen. I have yet to hear a cuckoo and wonder if that will happen, this year….. I have spotted many faces amongst the gravestones and that one keeps changing! I was inspired to write a story, some months ago, about a dog that gets lost inside a grave but it is too creepy to share on a Sunday morning. Enjoy your spring flowers and thank you again - have a good week ahead and love to you and yours x
Beautiful spring painting Cathy, and your paper vessels truly inspire me! I keep trying out paper mache, but the mess and smell puts me off, so maybe just layers of paper and glue is what I need to try! Thank you for the spark🫶
Yes Jane, keeping it simple and adding layers at a time seems to work for me. I have experimented with various papier-mâché techniques over the years but keep returning to good old white glue, water and book paper
Your 3D paper bits and bobs always thrill me - the magic of their existence...(I remember the mantlepiece from Instagram a few years ago. Blew my mind!)
Also love the supermarket lads. Playing with coins...aww...
Thank you always Ursula - I think the face alters due to my point of view and the weather. Maybe I will have to photograph that stone over time and see what we can see. Have a good week x
Wow. Chock full of extra good stuff today. Loved seeing "your" church view and reading the lovely poem. I love papier Mache. Haven't made anything for a while but have done some sketching of projects that I want to do as Christmas ornaments. I was going to wait until July (Christmas in July is one of my favorite things) but I may get inspired to start sooner.
A happy sunny Sunday to you Cathy 🌞🪻I really enjoyed seeing the layers of your painting and hooray for the forget-me-nots! In our garden they are mingled with the bluebells which have wandered out onto the lawn… I’ve always had the urge to peek in the cracks of old tombs in the churchyard, when we were about ten I remember one of the boys in my class telling us all how he had seen a skeleton hand poking out! What a terrible thrill daring each other to look in!💀😳🖤
Thank you Nancy for your great comment - I am someone who looks for bones creeping out of gravestones and am disappointed by not seeing any! I am maybe in a minority there. Have a good week ahead
Good Morning Cathy. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your words this morning. How generous of you to show us your process, I love your work as you know, and always look forwards to how you work with the seasons. Forget me knots always remind me of my late grandmother, so a lovely flower. It would be nice to think the boys were checking the bread for E numbers, but what a great little tale. I think the vessels you make are gorgeous, and its almost like working with clay isnt it. That same satisfaction, without the firing drama. I too like to photograph things on my walks for later, but struggle with order so I am now popping things into files on the pc finally, so maybe theres hope for me yet. I still have many of your early poetry zines, thank you for including a poem today, it is beautiful and very timely. I adore green :) Wishing you a lovely creative week ahead in this glorious weather. Im debating weather to place a geranium or two out side, its like we are having our summer now in Wales, which we possibly are, lol. Much love and thanks as always for the joy and inspiration that you bring x
Thank you so much for your lovely, friendly comment Deborah, a pleasure always to hear from you! I am imagining you in your Welsh country home, always busy with so much to do. A full and giving life. Thank you for sharing re: forget-me-nots. Yes, the paper vessels are a good way to exercise my love of ‘pottering’ without the cost and energy of firing. I will always admire the work and chances potters take with their pots and am grateful for the short time I did have a kiln. Thank you for reading my writing, that means a lot. Enjoy your day, with thanks and love xx
Morning Cathy, another lovely Sunday morning read with your new paintings, the forget-me-nots, your green poem and the lads paying with cash "for the first time", such fun! I love your paper jugs, no firing, no glazing involved. I woke up to a very blue sky today, still cool, so have planted small pots of pansies and lettuce to have a bit of spring colour on our front steps. The only other patch of colour is the yellow colts foot.
Hello Nora, I hope your seedlings all pop up in next to no time - how lovely to have something hopeful to watch and wait for. Thanks always for reading and for your kind comment. Have a good week ahead x
HI Cathy, well, I bought small plants at the garden nursery as I was too impatient to wait for seeds to grow! I now have a bit of colour :) We are still cool at night so I have planted my other seeds indoors.
Ohhhh! Where to begin?! All of it such a joy to see and read. Thank you for sharing your process...and for including a bird. I have been so excited this week, as I FINALLY downloaded the Merlin bird app, and I'm like a giddy child with each bird sound it picks up, and it's teaching me which songs belong to which birds. We heard the Cuckoo yesterday and this morning 🙂
I so enjoyed your poem and the lads shopping for the first time with money and reading E numbers gave me hope...we'll done lads! 🙂
The Forget-Me-Nots are blooming here too, and it's been the best year I've seen for Cowslips and Oxlips.
I nearly forgot to mention the paper jugs...what elegant and pleasing shapes you create. Oh!...and the face peeping out! Isn't it delightfully eerie. Talk about a 'grave' discovery! (Sorry...couldn't resist 🙄) Did you see it before you took the photo, or afterwards? I often notice these things afterwards.
Hoping for a lovely week for you and your loved ones. xx
How lovely to read your responses to my post - how fortunate am I to have such thoughtful readers, thank you Helen. I have yet to hear a cuckoo and wonder if that will happen, this year….. I have spotted many faces amongst the gravestones and that one keeps changing! I was inspired to write a story, some months ago, about a dog that gets lost inside a grave but it is too creepy to share on a Sunday morning. Enjoy your spring flowers and thank you again - have a good week ahead and love to you and yours x
Beautiful spring painting Cathy, and your paper vessels truly inspire me! I keep trying out paper mache, but the mess and smell puts me off, so maybe just layers of paper and glue is what I need to try! Thank you for the spark🫶
Yes Jane, keeping it simple and adding layers at a time seems to work for me. I have experimented with various papier-mâché techniques over the years but keep returning to good old white glue, water and book paper
Love the paper vessels!
Thank you Delia, I am enjoying the process
Your 3D paper bits and bobs always thrill me - the magic of their existence...(I remember the mantlepiece from Instagram a few years ago. Blew my mind!)
Also love the supermarket lads. Playing with coins...aww...
Thank you, Cathy!
Thank you Rebecca, I do enjoy working with objects on 3D and tactile materials - so glad other people like seeing them!
I love seeing your process! Thank you for sharing that. :) The face in the grave - I see it! Yikes!
Thank you Natasha I am grateful to know you enjoy seeing the process photos. I am not always good at stopping to snap a photo x
Beautiful as always. The sky you painted makes me so happy
Thank you and I am pleased to know
Oh my gosh.. the face in the grave Cathy!But how does it keep changing??
I loved Every word and image as usual in this beautiful post.. and echo the above writers!!
Thank you for your process in painting and talking about your beautiful jugs:)
Xx
Thank you always Ursula - I think the face alters due to my point of view and the weather. Maybe I will have to photograph that stone over time and see what we can see. Have a good week x
Wow. Chock full of extra good stuff today. Loved seeing "your" church view and reading the lovely poem. I love papier Mache. Haven't made anything for a while but have done some sketching of projects that I want to do as Christmas ornaments. I was going to wait until July (Christmas in July is one of my favorite things) but I may get inspired to start sooner.
Thanks so much Marilee, I appreciate your kind comments always
I very much enjoyed seeing your painting “appear” from the raw brush strokes, and I agree, the yellow flowers are perfect.
The young boys discovering physical money is sweet.💕
Thank you Sheila, very much appreciated and have a good week