Snow!!!

So its been snowing for the last couple days and I have been really excited because it is actually sticking to the ground! So that means that a snowman is definately in my near future.  Perhaps a snowball fight if I can convince Dixon to go outside some more but for the time being I just took some pictures of the snow falling.

 And there was loads of it!

 So Dixon didn't want to help make the snowman, but he did take pictures for me C:

 I have no idea why I didn't notice that his head was lopsided but he was lovely anyway, Dixon make his eyes out of potatos for me.

Also if you like penguins you should definately check out.

http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/EZPenguinCam.html

Its been a while

So its been a wee while, and I haven't really been up to too much just sort of doing nothing, I did finish my painting although that was some time ago. I haven't really been feelin like doin anything lately, might jsut be because winter is starting and its cold and rainy. Maybe I miss snow.  So thats mostly why I ahven't been up to much and I haven't really been taking pictures of anything
I really do fancy heading over to the library though, a good book would be amazing right now, but I might have to get a library card and I jsut have no money right now. So that would spoil everything going all the way up there and not being able to take out a book. My joyful wee walk up to the librar would be ruined by not being able to bring a book home with me. I am gonna look online to see if I can find out if I can in fact get a library card on the cheap or if its out of my reach. Tomorrow will be a more eventful day! Hopefully.
I am also gonna perhaps look at the charity shop I could probabyl get a dead cheap book from there.
Now I can't get my computer to read my memor card from my camera so I can't post a photo of my painting like I wanted to but perhaps next time.

Starting a new painting....

I am starting a new painting, well I started it yesterday but then left to go watch fireworks and drink a weee bit, and when I say a wee bit I mean so much that Dixon spewed a bunch and was covered in mud by the time we got home! The fireworks was a pretty swell time. Not as many people out as last year, but I think we got out there a lot later as well. But in the end it was a good time. Here's some of the firework action, I couldn't get a lot of pictures of fireworks cause I was using my phone again, I still haven't gotten batteries for my camera.

But this is the start of my painting its still covered in pencil, but I did do all of the drawing on it yesterday so I was pretty excited about that and I am really liking it so far although the watch does need a bit more work. I do like everything else especially the chickadee!

Off on a Walk Today

I have been asking Dixon for about a week now to go for a walk but everytime we get out of bed and ready and fed and everything it starts raining buckets down on us and we end up curling up to scary movies and comedy panel shows instead. It was so cold yesterday, that we had to bundle up soooo much just to get to the shops and buy some pasta! It was only two minutes away! And we were soaked! I fortunately wore two pairs of socks so my feet were toasty, but Dixon's didn't fare so well.

But onto today! It finally stayed dry and after two rounds off washing clothes and hanging them out we were off! since we always go down to the shore we decided to go up Clemiston Hill today and its a gorgeous wooded area; (Also my camera decided to die after taking two pictures, but I rememebr that my phone takes pretty good pictures if you aren't zoomed in so here they are)

Check out the quality on them!

Dixon told me ages ago about these bomb shelters from the war that were meant to be for the Queen apparently, if Scotland ever got bombed while she was stayin here! They go miles underground and are covered in grafitti and I forgot completely about them, but apparent;y they are just a short walk away from our house, I thought they were ages away, now we didn't ahve any lanterns or nothin to go into the shelters and since there are holes and all that business to fall into we stayed safely above ground. I did have a good look around though;

 

 I think it all looked pretty awesome from up there! We decided ( once dixon testd the safeness of the roof) That we would have a wee sammich (or sandwich if you don't speak Courtenay, which apparentely Dixon does not) up there before heading back around and home;

 I may or may not have been hungry still and tried to munch his face! He's not really that amused is he.
All in all though it turned out to be a great day! I do still need to work out how to make a nice layout or at least find one temporarily, but I am very picky.
Back to procrastinating about my drawing C:

Galashiels and Painting

So my friend Kaya has a shop in Galashiels called 119 Tattoo, and since we used to work together every now and then I come over so we can draw and have a chat, its nice for me cause I draw a lot more if she is tatttoing loads and if she isn't tattooin too much, she helps me with my drawings. Which I think is a pretty good deal!
I have a pretty crap time drawing hands sometimes so it was nice to have kaya helping me because she showed me a whole new way to look at it, and I think I am getting better!

Kaya did help me with a few but I think they all look much more graceful and feminine than all the other hands I have ever drawn combined.

I also painted a post card for my friend in Canada's birthday I drew it and painted it all in one wee night I was very proud of myself. I hope she likes it I am sure it is safe on here so she doesn't see it before she gets it, I don't think she has seen this blog just yet C:

Its a Deer!

So since Dixon has been working nights lately I have been sitting curled up by my computer watching all kinds of interesting programs from David Attenborough, to The Life of Edgar Allen Poe. Plus all the rubbish telly inbetween that I can drum up to help the time go by, but low and behold I got productive yesterday and did a painting!

 Now this is the first time that I have painted all of my lines so its a bit messy and I kinda screwed up my background, cause I kept stickin my hand in the red lines and then setting it on the page so I had to do something. I think I am going to make the red background a bit stronger and that should balance it out, hopefully. They are a bit darker than in the photo, but it is a photo so you can only ask for so much.

Its always nice when a bit of overtiredness turns into productivity. I also should have a tattoo update, but I didn't take a photo of it and now is a biiiit peely so perhaps next time.

The Zooo With Camille and Caryn

So I ahve so many pictures of the zoo with Camille and Caryn that I probably have more from then, then the rest of the trip here! but it was so muc  fun so I will do the whole trip on the next one. So this is me and my sisters on our way in the zoo! Its really us as some different parts of it but I thought it would be a good place to start.

Now I have been to the zoo about three or four times but this is the very first time I got to see the sea lions out of the water, normally the only photo I get of them is their nostrils just sticking out of the water but...

that day they were being fed and doing some little tricks! So that was awesome to see, we did miss the safari truck up the hill so we just decided to walk up the hill from there.

Along the way we saw these birdies,

And after that I was very very excited to see the new sun bears that had replaced the polar bear Mercedes who was moved further north so she could have a much larger sized area for herself, but since sun bears are the smallest bears in the world it looked a lot larger of an area for them

They also have the largest tounges of bears because they use it look for honey and all sorts....

The big cats were amazing as usual,most were hiding from a good photo but the leopard was havin a nice stroll right infront of us

and after many attempts at getting a good photo of him I succeded! He was very very cool.

the tigers were both taking a nap so we didn't bother him too much. And we wnt on all over the hills and saw the zebras Which are very close to my favorite animals, but were too far away for me to get a good picture of them perhaps next time.

The rhino was also uncooperative even though he was walking around so much but I managed to crop a pretty cool photo of him also going over to see the pygmy hippo which was Caryn's  favorite in Austrailia, so we were happy to see them go for a stroll, earlier they were jsut sunning themselves under their heat lamps.

And soo it was time for the penguin parade, so everyday at around 2:15 the zookeepers open the penguin arean and let a bunch of the penguins out for a stroll if they want to. That day the Gentu penguins decided to go for a stroll... 

They also have an awesome under water view of the penguins, and I am pretty sure Camille, Caryn, and I were more excited than all the little kids there put together.

 

That was a lot of what we had seen not all of it but this could be a mile long if I were to put every picture we took, but as you can see good fun C: