Friday

I had visitors today! My husband and son came through. They brought some supplies and took home some unnecessary luggage. We had a good lunch -real food - in the courtyard cafe , a good 'catch up' and a few good laughs. They went off to explore the house and gardens and then we did meet up again for tea before they departed for home, leaving me feeling it would be good to join them.

The day was fine with good sunny spells and a gentle breeze. Possibly not as many visitors were in the grounds as last Friday but we did have another visit from the language school based near to Hull. A new set of youngsters including some from Spain and the Ukraine. Some popped in to see us and we also had one or two 'adult' visitors too!

Today I decided to follow an exercise suggested on the 'Find My Joy' free taster mini workshop. The exercise was one I had done before a few times but had forgotten about it. I used a large sheet of cartridge paper which I gessoed (watercolour paper was recommended) and using masking tape taped off a border and run a tape along the centre. Next I divided the rest into 6 or 4 squares depending on the size of the original paper. I managed to get 6. Now all you do is play across them all as if they were one whole piece, using paint, diffent tools with which to apply paint,  oil pastel, pencils etc, etc. The restrictions are that you  may use just 3 colours plus black and white, colour mix  and work for no more than 30 minutes. I had such fun, it was quite energising and I did two of these sheets!