Goodness me.

I'm going mad. Mad with rage. I've spent the whole of this week waiting for a replacement window for my broken-into car to arrive from a breakers yard and yesterday found out that the courier (Citylink, yes I'm naming and shaming) have lost it. It's just vanished between them collecting it and it getting to their depot. Just marvellous isn't it? All the while my car is sat out on the street with a poorly constructed perpex bodge-job to keep the snow out. If someone nicks my car the insurance won't cover it as it's not secure. The breakers yard won't send me a replacement or refund my money. Seriously, is it so hard for people just to do their freakin' jobs properly????? Grrr.

OK, rant over.

Old china

All this sitting about being on holiday is getting me a little bored so I'm going to get my teeth into my "homework" this coming week. We're continuing the Cockney Rhyming theme but I'm going to go off on a bit of a tangent which will allow me to draw pottery (I know, any excuse..). 

You see the genius lies in the expression "Me old china" meaning of course "My old china plate" = "Mate". So today we went to Emmaus, which I love, and I took lots of pictures of pottery to work from and give me ideas for china patterns. I will post how I get on with this, my plan is to make screen-prints and maybe emboss bits of them to add texture but we shall see...In the meantime I've just rediscovered watercolour and am LOVING using it! Oh yeah and I've been drawing old men in pubs too... it's been an interesting week.

Ribbon paintings

I've had a very nice evening painting these little things. There's nothing like having a plate covered in little pools of freshly mixed pastel colours and a tiny weeny paintbrush to apply them. That could possibly be one of my favourite things ever. I think I'm going to mount them on card and bung them on etsy. I am loving these bits of wood I bought the other day. Best £3.95 spent ever! AND we're off to London tomorrow to see some illustration exhibitions, hooraaaaaaay!