Dolly's Dreamings: commissions

January 16, 2020

A bit of a day

No blog post yesterday as it was a bit of a day.

Regular readers will know I don't do well with workmen int he house and disruption and upheaval. Well, that was yesterday!

We have had an issue with our top landing floor for months and months and my nagging finally paid off and Nigel got someone in to fix it. It means we had to take up the carpet and underlay and then they had to saw the old floor out and replace it. The tongue and grove had failed and we had soft patches. It was noisy. It was messy. It is DONE! After months of being careful where we trod to avoid the soft patches we can now walk anywhere we like!!!
In the evening it was a speedway quiz so I was supporting Nigel with his quiz night - back to marking again. Well, I did have some experience over the years!

I do have new things to share though.

Digital first ... as always the images are clickable links

This si the new Berry Blends collection from Palvinka and Natali Designs

This is what I made

and this is Breathtaking by Simplette which I used for the mojo challenge using the free template from Heartstrings ScrapArt

and this was my page

and finally, for today some DT work for A Trip Down Memory Lane

I was sent some lovely new releases and one of the collections was Hey Crafty Girl by Simple Stories (It is on their web site for purchase now) and I couldn't resist making this to showcase my two paintings.

Today I am thankful for

a job completed with no disasters
a lovely painty day (will share the latest picture later)
my clever husband - I am so proud of him when he does these quizes. They are not your normal quiz but full-blown multimedia presentations and he is such a showman, such a presenter and I am just darned proud of him.

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January 14, 2020

Pet Portraits

I was thrilled last night that my latest pet portraits reached their new home and I had another delighted customer.

I do love doing the paintings and can lose myself for hours, but it is so stressful when you send them off and you hope that you have captured the essence of the beloved fur baby you have painted.

This was a gorgeous pair of labradors - a black and a golden and I was quite pleased with the finished piece. The dogs were facing each other so I include a picture of them 'hung' but bear in mind these are in their plastic packaging and so there is a lot of glare on the pictures.

I am so pleased she was thrilled.

We have a pretty major storm going through here today with 60 mph winds. we did go down to the sea to sit int he car and have our lunch watching the waves crash (including over the car at one point. Not often we have had seaweed debris on the car! I love the ocean and really don't think I could ever live far away from the ocean. Summer or winter, I love it, and when it is rough it is one of my favourite times of the year.

I have some new scrapping to share too

This is a page for the holiday album as it was taken at San Diego Zoo but also resonates very much with me currently. I have been so heartened by people throughout the country who are crafters rallying together and sewing, knitting and crocheting to make things for the animals who fell victim to the awful wildfires in Australia. There are thousands of people crafting to help and I have been crocheting things for them too.