Hello & happy Friday friends ~
I've been unexpectedly absent for a couple of weeks. Most would know of the earthquakes frequenting my homeland of New Zealand over recent years. Unfortunately this time someone very dear to me, and my family, died while evacuating her home. Jo-Anne left behind two beautiful (adult) daughters and a loving partner. It was a real blow and I've just been really sad.
Crafting is a great distraction when time allows, and so for the new sketch challenge Narelle has given us at
Just Add Ink this week I got out my Copics and coloured this
cute little Elf. How sweet is he?
I'm not entirely sure I got my light source right, but I enjoyed the colouring process so I guess that's the main thing, right? He's more vibrant in real life but I had to brighten my pic a bit so lost that in favour of less shadow. There's lots of shimmer on that subtle yellow background.
The design team have created some gorgeous cards this week so do pop over to
JAI and check them out. You can link your own creation up there too. Here's the sketch.
Well the countdown is on to Christmas, eeeeeek. We've been flat out with Gorgeous Kid's formal, the twins preschool concert, and just yesterday their daycare graduation....next week we have a preschool party, GK's awards presentation night and then his Year 10 graduation....it's all going on.
We did manage to get the tree up and decorated last night - whooop whooop that's kinda huge for me. I'm a bit bah humbug with all that stuff. The Mister will have to decorate the house (yes we live in a street that is frequented
A LOT at this time of year) next week as he's heading off camping with the kiddos this weekend - yay for me, I'm catching up with girlfriends, crafting, reading and generally just hanging out. Soooo looking forward to it.
I really will be back with my roomie gifts from On Stage last month and one or two other shares as well. Have an awesome weekend, and thanks for taking some time out of your day to visit me here.
Patrice x
