Dolly's Dreamings

First Traveller's Notebook

I have finally completed my first - very basic - Traveller's Notebook of our trip last year.

The idea is that I will try and do one for our next trip as it happens but I thought I would do a dummy run of one as a practice.

The point of this one was to see if I could do really really quick sketches spending no more than 10 minutes per sketch as this is a way I can meld art and scrapping together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last part of the holiday was all Disney for 12 days so rather than do it daily I did a page for each park and then some general pages

 

 

 

 

I have learned a great deal from thee process. I have learned that I am not good at 10 minute sketches. I have learned not to draw horses, I have learned that my purple ink runs when wet, I have learned not to write so much and I have learned that I like this new project.

 

We will see how it goes when it is done in hotel rooms though!!! Obviously without photos. I am NOT taking a printed with me. The paints and brushes are enough.

 

Today I am thankful for

• a hobby where I can meld my hobbies together - kind of
• Autumn - I love Autumn so much - it has the best light and the best feel

 

 

And I found these on line and they were fascinating - no idea if they are true

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buses for Nigel

Today has been a lovely day - warm and sunny and one of those sort of free flow days that just evolves.

We headed out to perhaps pop to the bus rally in Boscombe. No definite plans but we took lunch!

We took a wrong turn and ended up headed for  Christchurch. There was a parking spot near the priory and so we headed there and caught most of the sung matins for Pentecost which was wonderful and very special. We were both glad that that happy little accident happened. 

 

We parked on the cliff top to have our lunch in the sunshine watching some sort of powerboat race in the bay which was interesting. Then we meandered to the bus rally which was small but interesting. Nigel loves his buses and we enjoyed a pleasant half hour. Nigel enjoyed the buses and I enjoyed the wildflowers in the hedgerows. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some were smaller than anticipated!

These are actallyEVC's that a local man made into buses - they were pretty fab. 

All in all a lovely day.

 

I came home and did a few more pages in my Fabulous Fall travel journal ... remember the sketches are deliberately basic!

 

 

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• a lovely Pentecost service
• days out
• simple pleasures
• biological washing liquid. Hopefully, most of the choc ice I ended up wearing will come out!!!

 

 

 

A new project

Dear me - a new month and I appear to have a new project.

I am slowing down on my scrapping after last month but have started a traveller's notebook/holiday journal.

 

When we go on our next trip I want to keep a sketch book random thoughts type journal. I love my painting but I am a terribly slow painter as I get bogged down in the details and spend ages on the really small stuff. I want to learn to do quick sketchy type sketches with no necessarily accurate details, sketchy lines and minimal colour. So the plan is to do that in my next holiday journal. The trouble is I know I will be rubbish at it so I need to have a dummy run. Consequently, I have bought a traveller's notebook and am doing a quick sketchy journal of our last trip - fabulous fall.

 

I might have made an error as I decided to use my lovely posh fountain pen for the journalling but that always has violet ink in it - so violet it is. Not sure I like it but I am committed now.

 

This is what I have made so far - and bear in mind the point of the sketches is to be - well sketchy - not perfect little paintings (I am finding it really hard and have challenged myself to spend no more than 10 minutes on any sketch from start to finish. )

 

 

 

 

I think I am enjoying it but it is early days.

 

And just in case you are missing the scrapping, here is a digital page I made today using Colour my World by Chunlin Designs

 

 

The kit is FREE - yes that's tight - FREE - as part of the new monthly mojo challenges over at PBP. You can find the mojo forum for June here and the thread for the FREE mini kit to play with HERE 

If you play along with the challenges (and there is a free template challenge and a free mystery box kit too) you can win yourself additional freebies. Go check it out - it is a lot of fun.

 

And because it would be rude not to have a paper page too - this is another of my May challenge pages.

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• my friend Barb - the miles may separate us but we keep in touch and she sent me a great article yesterday about crafting being therapy - it so is!
• A productive morning at work
• new challenges