Well - I went for another pastel session with Estelle Robinson today.  This picture is of my first effort to pastel my daughter, Alex.  Last week I had a go at one myself but I found it really tricky to find the right colours.  Not having done portraits before it's quite a challenge.  Anyway today Estelle thought that it was a base to work on.  After 3 hours it's definitely on the way.  Estelle is a great teacher - very patient and encouraging!!! Roll on the next session.

Lovely morning today!  Great results from a very talented group.  Amazing what can be achieved in 2 hours.  Only a few minutes in and everyone is hooked and they struggle to stop for coffee!  They're all off to buy materials to continue at home!

A lovely weekend creating this lovely glass lead window.  Definite issues with achieving the correct colour but eventually painted over the green with lemon yellow a couple of times.  Love it

Happy New Year to everyone.  As usual drank and ate far too much at Christmas and obviously going to continue in this vein until January 2.  

Another great needle felting workshop yesterday......the results are always amazing.  You don't need to be artistic to enjoy the process and everyone is thrilled with the final outcome.  No further needle felting workshops until Saturday 11 February.